This Blueback unit provides engaging lessons for Years 3-6, aligned with curriculum codes, focusing on characters, settings, themes, and lan...
This unit is based around the text, Dreaming Soldiers. The text presents a variety of themes that have been addressed throughout the unit’s...
In this unit, students are introduced to fables as a literary genre, where they learn to read for the moral lesson, in both ancient and mode...
This presentation has been created to be used alongside the reading of ‘Dreaming Soldiers’ by Catherine Bauer. The presentation includes co...
This Rowan of Rin presentation was created with summaries, questions and activities for every chapter. It was designed to be a part of our...
This Presentation introduces your students to the structure of the hero’s story, in a simplified version of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. You...
This presentation is an introduction to the Shel Silverstein book ‘The Giving Tree’, and examines that text as a fable, with multiple lesson...
This presentation is the perfect way to introduce your students to fables. It goes through what makes up a fable, how it differs from other...
This reflective resource invites students in Years 3-6 to consolidate their understanding of symbolism and visual storytelling. Designed to...
These differentiated worksheets explore how colour impacts meaning, mood and symbolism in storytelling. Aligned to Leila and the Blue Fox an...
This worksheet guides students to explore the symbolic meaning of animals in literature and film. Students analyse the role of the fox in Le...
This worksheet supports students in Years 3-6 to explore how imagery is used in written and visual texts. Using Leila and the Blue Fox and M...
This worksheet helps students analyse visual storytelling in the short film Migrants. Through structured observation, symbolism identificati...
These comprehensive 5-point rubrics evaluate key elements of the Blueback-inspired short story and storyboard, including setting, character...
This resource tasks students with creating a storyboard inspired by Blueback by Tim Winton. It guides them to develop a simple narrative set...
This resource engages students in writing a short story set in the world of Blueback. With structured planning prompts, students create a na...
This resource provides a series of engaging task cards based on Tim Winton’s Blueback. It encourages students to explore themes such as the...
This resource helps upper and middle primary students analyse the structure of Tim Winton's Blueback. By breaking down the story's key event...
This activity helps students identify key events in Blueback, analyse their influence on the plot, and illustrate each moment. It encourages...
This graphic organiser supports students in exploring Tim Winton’s Blueback by identifying the main characters, setting, storyline, theme, a...
This resource supports teaching Tim Winton’s Blueback and includes a visually engaging title page to introduce the unit and teaching notes....
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...
