"Inspired by the beautiful picture book Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker, this comprehensive literacy companion helps Foundation to Year 3 students explore the story through reading comprehension, vocabulary, inferencing, writing and hands-on rainforest investigations.
This updated resource now includes 5 detailed lesson plans and many new literacy and inquiry activities to help teachers easily teach comprehension, vocabulary, rainforest habitats and visual literacy.
Students will explore the story using the QAR (Question and Response) strategy, practise inferencing, examine repeated text, and investigate the real rainforest setting of the Daintree Rainforest in Australia.
The activities support students in Years 1–3 and work well for whole-class lessons, literacy rotations, small groups, or independent work.
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What’s Included
Lesson Planning
- 5 detailed literacy lesson plans linked to the book
- Learning intention and success criteria included in each lesson
Reading Comprehension
- 10 QAR reading comprehension worksheets (ranging from easier to more challenging questions)
- Sequence the story activity
- Story retell slider for younger students
- Exploring repeated text in the story activity
Vocabulary & Language
- Rainforest vocabulary cards
- Sentence cut-and-paste activity
- Write the sentence worksheet with answer sheet
- Rainforest senses activities
- Butterfly senses vocabulary sheet
- Sea senses worksheet
Inferencing & Comprehension
- Inferencing worksheets exploring character thinking
- Character profile chart
- Compare character thinking activities
Writing Activities
- Creative rainforest writing task
Visual Literacy & Art
- Collage activity sheet inspired by the illustrator’s style
- Colouring pages with cut-and-paste elements
Rainforest Inquiry Activities
- Fact sheet about author Jeannie Baker
- Information sheet about the Daintree Rainforest
- Tropical rainforest posters
- Australian rainforest plants and animals photographs
- Rainforest habitat cut-and-paste colouring activity
- Rainforest diorama activity
Graphic Organisers
- Venn diagram comparing the rainforest past and present in the story
Classroom Display
- Rainforest poster
What teachers say:
"Quick and easy activity for my students. They loved adding the characters."
"This was an amazing literacy activity, very useful, accurate and relevant. My students were so engaged and loved these activities. Was so helpful and relevant. I highly recommend this activity."
"I liked the variety of activities available in this resource."
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Where the Forest Meets the Sea Literacy Activities and Lessons | K to 3
File Info
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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
