The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...
This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...
This pack of 32 Fiction Task Cards is designed to deepen students’ comprehension, analysis, and reflection when responding to fiction texts....
This comprehensive unit helps students examine characters’ settings and plot in texts. The unit contains a presentation, student reference c...
Use this check-in to assess student understanding of the ways in which authors make stories engaging by the way they develop character, sett...
This 10-question quiz makes a wonderful whole class warmup, review or formative assessment tool to gauge students’ level of understanding ab...
Have students use this spinner activity to practice asking and answering questions about how authors make stories engaging through their dev...
Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Use these to help your students identify the story plot when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
In this activity, students are asked to: Identify the language authors use to create vivid descriptions of settings. Describe and...
Use this activity to help students describe and discuss how authors make the reader care about the decisions of characters and their consequ...
This activity is a great way to encourage discussions about characters in the class stories and novels your class is exploring. A discuss...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in writing and examining characters in reading. This worksheet provi...
These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with reference to remind them about...
This presentation explores how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions....
This unit is based around the text, Dreaming Soldiers. The text presents a variety of themes that have been addressed throughout the unit’s...
This worksheet encourages students to write a postcard home to their families, depicting experiences of war they have learnt about during th...
This worksheet encourages students to make connections by finding links between what they read, to self, other texts and the world during th...
This worksheet can be used as an end of book study or book review activity where students can demonstrate their understanding of the text. T...
This worksheet has been created as part of our Dreaming Soldiers (Catherine Bauer) text unit plan. Students complete the find a word based o...
This worksheet has been created as part of our Dreaming Soldiers (Catherine Bauer) text unit plan. Students are encouraged to research infor...
This worksheet has been created as part of our Dreaming Soldiers (Catherine Bauer) text unit plan. Students create an acrostic poem for ‘Fo...
This worksheet is a handy comprehension task when learning about First Nations Australians in Service. This can be used in conjunction wit...
This worksheet has been designed as a figurative language activity. The worksheet encourages students to choose the most appropriate word to...
This worksheet has been designed as a figurative language activity. The worksheet encourages students to match each subject to the human fea...
This worksheet has been designed as a spelling activity, alongside reading the text, Dreaming Soldiers by Catherine Bauer. The activity en...
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