Inspired by the text Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker, this pack contains reading comprehension sheets using the QAR (Question and Response) reading strategy to walk students through the text. Vocabulary cards assist students to explore keywords and craft sheets help students explore visual comprehension. Comes with a story retell slider to assist younger students to retell the story.
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In this easy to use pack you will find:
- Rainforest poster
- Sequence the story sheet
- Vocabulary Cards
- Colouring pages with cut and paste elements
- Venn Diagram (Rainforest then and now in the story)
- Rainforest Senses Sheet
- Butterfly senses vocab sheets
- Sea Senses Sheet
- 10 QAR Reading Comprehension Sheets levelled from easy to hard
- Story Slider Retell Activity
PLEASE NOTE: the text from the book/whole book as a download is NOT included in this pack due to copyright restrictions. You can purchase the book from any good bookshop or your school library will have a copy. This download is an accompaniment to the book, you will need to have read or currently be reading this book with your students before starting these activities.
Where the Forest Meets the Sea Literacy Activities
File Info
PDF 42 pages
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