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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Continuing the Story

    Encourage middle and upper primary students to plan and write a sequel to Blueback, focusing on narrative structure and conservation themes....

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Change the Plot

    This resource guides upper primary students in exploring Blueback by Tim Winton through imaginative β€˜what if’ scenarios. By brainstorming ch...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Chart the Plot

    This resource helps upper and middle primary students analyse the structure of Tim Winton's Blueback. By breaking down the story's key event...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Diving into Different Viewpoints

    Explore perspectives in Blueback with this worksheet for middle primary. Students analyse Abel’s encounter with a shark, answer scaffolded q...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Lessons from the Sea

    This engaging worksheet for middle primary focuses on connecting literature to personal experiences. Using Blueback by Tim Winton, students...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Diving Deep into Language

    This activity engages students in analysing Tim Winton’s use of figurative language in Blueback, focusing on how similes, metaphors, and ima...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Main Event Reel

    This activity helps students identify key events in Blueback, analyse their influence on the plot, and illustrate each moment. It encourages...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Story Map

    This graphic organiser supports students in exploring Tim Winton’s Blueback by identifying the main characters, setting, storyline, theme, a...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Character Study

    This worksheet explores characterisation in Blueback by Tim Winton. It includes text excerpts, questions with increasing difficulty, suggest...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Character Question Cards

    This resource helps upper primary students explore how Tim Winton uses language to portray characters in Blueback. Guided questions encourag...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Characters of the Bay

    This worksheet helps students analyse Blueback by Tim Winton, focusing on Dora, Abel, Costello, and Blueback. Students explore each characte...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Exploring Settings

    This worksheet helps middle primary students explore how settings influence mood and events in narratives. Using excerpts from Blueback, stu...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Blueback - Title Page and Teaching Notes

    This resource supports teaching Tim Winton’s Blueback and includes a visually engaging title page to introduce the unit and teaching notes....

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Types of Texts

    This engaging unit for lower primary students explores how language shapes preferences and text appreciation. Students compare text organisa...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Quiz

    This quiz helps upper primary students explore how language is used to appreciate texts, express preferences and understand different text t...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Text Feature Finders - Colour

    Encourage critical thinking with these vibrant magnifying glass templates! Teachers can print them on thick cards or let students cut them o...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Types of Texts -Presentation

    This engaging presentation for lower primary explores text types, comparing narratives, informative texts, poems and brochures. Students lea...

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    English Unit: Bare Assertions

    This unit plan helps students move beyond simple assertions by encouraging critical thinking, considering differing opinions, and evaluating...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Bare Assertions- Grading Rubric

    This rubric supports students in moving beyond simple assertions by evaluating how well they consider differing ideas, opinions, and authori...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Bare Assertion Assessment

    This assessment task evaluates students' ability to move beyond simple assertions by considering different ideas, opinions, and authoritativ...

  • Resource Year: 5

    Bare Assertions Quiz

    This 10-question quiz helps students learn to move beyond making bare assertions by considering differing ideas, opinions, and authoritative...

  • Resource Year: 5

    Strengthen the Sentence

    This versatile board game helps students strengthen sentences by using impersonal language, providing general support, and citing specific s...

  • Resource Year: 5

    Bare Assertions to Supported Opinions

    This activity helps students practise transforming bare assertions into supported opinions. It covers three key techniques: using the impers...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Bare Assertions Tic Tac Toe

    This interactive Tic Tac Toe worksheet helps students practise distinguishing between bare assertions and supported opinions. Perfect for gr...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Moving Beyond Bare Assertions

    This worksheet guides students in improving bare assertions by adding specific sources from reputable organisations. It encourages internet...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Tempering Assertions

    This worksheet guides students in recognising and using various types of support, such as the impersonal β€œit”, anonymous support, general so...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Spot the Support

    This worksheet helps students identify and use different types of support in arguments, including the impersonal β€œit”, general support, and...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Bare Assertions vs Supported Opinions

    This worksheet set prompts students to distinguish between bare assertions and supported opinions using categorisation and signal word ident...

  • Resource Year: 5

    Bare Assertions - Student Reference Card

    Equip your students with the skills to move beyond bare assertions by considering differing ideas, opinions, and authoritative sources. This...

  • Resource Year: 5

    How to Strengthen Arguments Display

    This series of posters helps students understand how to move beyond bare assertions by considering differing opinions and authoritative sour...

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