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Picture Book Companion Literacy Bundle | Comprehension Retell Writing Activities
Build reading comprehension and critical thinking with these engaging picture book companion literacy units. This bundle includes activities for Where the Forest Meets the Sea, I'm Australian Too, The Very Hungry Bear by Nick Bland and Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins.
 
Each pack includes QAR reading comprehension, vocabulary activities, story sequencing, retell activities, inferencing tasks, writing activities, craft tasks, masks for oral storytelling and small-world printables. Perfect for Kindergarten to Year 3 literacy lessons, guided reading groups, literacy centres and whole-class book studies.
 
This bundle includes the following packs:
 
I'm Australian Too by Mem Fox Activity Pack
Inside this pack you will find:
  • 4 structured lesson plans exploring Australian identity, belonging and culture using I’m Australian Too
  • 10 reading comprehension worksheets plus 10 sentence cut and paste literacy activities
  • Writing tasks, including a thong wall display activity, About Me sheet and blank writing templates
  • Creative activities with 8 student thong colouring templates and 10 Australian-themed colouring pages
  • Mapping and family heritage activities, including maps and family tree worksheets
  • Advance Australia Fair activities with lyric explanations, vocabulary support and reflection tasks
 
Where the Forest Meets the Sea Literacy Activities
In this easy-to-use pack you will find:
  • 5 detailed literacy lesson plans
  • QAR reading comprehension worksheets (10 sheets)
  • Story sequence activity
  • Story retell slider activity
  • Vocabulary cards
  • Sentence cut and paste activity
  • Write the sentence worksheet with answer sheet
  • Character profile chart
  • Inferencing activities
  • Writing task
  • Exploring repeated text activity
  • Rainforest senses worksheets
  • Butterfly senses vocabulary sheet
  • Sea senses worksheet
  • Rainforest poster
  • Tropical rainforest posters
  • Author fact sheet (Jeannie Baker)
  • Daintree Rainforest fact sheet
  • Australian rainforest plants and animals photographs
  • Venn diagram (rainforest past and present)
  • Colouring pages with cut and paste elements
  • Collage art activity sheet
  • Rainforest habitat cut and paste colouring activity
  • Rainforest diorama activity
 
The Very Hungry Bear by Nick Bland Story Retell Activities
Inside this easy-to-use pack you will find:
  • 5 structured literacy lessons
  • Story retell resources – puppets, masks, sequencing cards, story slider and story maps
  • Tuff tray and small world setup ideas
  • Writing activities – cut and paste sentences, book review, draw and write tasks
  • Grammar and vocabulary activities – nouns, verbs, adjectives, rhyming and word sorts
  • Reading comprehension worksheets with answer sheets
  • Author information sheet and teacher assessment checklist
  • Colour and black-and-white printing options
 
Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins Story Retell Activities
Inside this easy-to-use pack you will find:
  • Comprehensive Rosie’s Walk picture book study with hands-on retell, sequencing and comprehension activities
  • Includes 4 structured lesson plans, teacher assessment tools and author study Grammar and literacy activities covering prepositions, nouns, verbs, adjectives and sentence building
  • Dramatic play and storytelling resources, including puppets, masks, crafts, sequencing and small world play
  • Reading response, writing tasks, comprehension worksheets and story mapping templates
  • Home–school connection mini retell book with parent support instructions

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  • ACARA Alignment

    Foundation Year English

    Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes (ACELA1430)

    Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, for example directionality (ACELA1433)

    Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786)

    Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (ACELT1575)

    Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators (ACELT1577)

    Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783)

    Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (ACELT1578)

    Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (ACELT1580)

    Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650 

     

    Foundation Year HASS

    Reflect on learning to propose how to care for places and sites that are important or significant (ACHASSI009)

    Draw simple conclusions based on discussions, observations and information displayed in pictures and texts and on maps (ACHASSI008)

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