This unit invites students in Years 3-6 to explore how imagery, symbolism and connotation shape meaning in stories. Using Leila and the Blue...
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 unit is an in-depth look at the Dr. Seuss story ‘The Sneetches’, which includes an analysis of Dr. Seuss’ style, and well as the themes...
This presentation explores how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions....
In this presentation, students are asked to think about the larger ethical and philosophical questions that come out of ‘The Sneetches’....
The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Suggested Answers booklet offers sample responses for all key activities across the unit. These includ...
This scaffolded worksheet helps Years 3-6 students identify and interpret symbols in visual and written texts, focusing on Leila and the Blu...
These differentiated rubrics support summative assessment of narrative, analytical, or visual interpretation tasks in the unit. Each rubric...
This worksheet guides students through the process of creating a symbolic visual storyboard for a new scene inspired by Leila and the Blue F...
This Years 3-6 worksheet guides students to identify and interpret symbolic elements in the short film Migrants. Through visual analysis, me...
This five-week narrative unit explores Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths, engaging students in reading, analysing, and writing humorous stori...
The Suggested Answers booklet provides clear sample responses for all core activities in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It offer...
The Extension Task Cards provide engaging enrichment activities for the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. Each card offers a creative c...
These paragraph planners support students to structure clear, engaging paragraphs in prank narratives. They guide sentence order, voice, and...
This reflection sheet guides students to identify strengths and areas for growth in their writing, provide constructive feedback to peers, a...
The assessment rubric provides a 5-point scale for evaluating students’ summative tasks in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It cov...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
This worksheet helps students practice improving their stories by experimenting with different words and dialogue inspired by the Humour Hac...
This partner checklist supports peer feedback by prompting students to look for clarity, humour, and areas to improve in each other’s storie...
These tip sheets explain age-appropriate humour techniques to help students identify, discuss, and use them in their writing. Each chart sho...
This editing checklist helps students revise their prank stories for clarity, pacing, and humour. It guides them to self-assess sentence flo...
This worksheet guides students to explore how changing the narrator’s point of view can shift humour and meaning. Students practise rewritin...
This tip sheet guides students through the typical Just Tricking! story format. It breaks down the narrative structure into three clear part...
These scaffolded narrative planners helps students organise prank stories in the Just Tricking! style. It guides them to plan a clear orient...
This worksheet helps students explore the main character’s traits in Just Tricking!, compare motivations and choices, and write a diary entr...
This worksheet helps students identify and analyse different humour techniques in a Just Tricking!-style passage, rewrite it to increase its...
This worksheet helps students identify and understand different types of humour used in Just Tricking!. Students practise rewriting a passag...
This worksheet guides students to plan and write their own short prank story, following Andy Griffiths’ Just Tricking! style — using clear n...
This worksheet helps students practise rewriting a prank scene from Just Tricking! in a completely different style. It teaches them to spot...
