This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Stay for Dinner by Sandhya Parappukkaran and Michelle Pereira. This document contains seven worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, vocabulary activities (compound words and word building), a survey task, a food opinion worksheet plus a recalling facts activity and a poster designing worksheet. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Fly Guy Presents: Bats by Tedd Arnold. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There is a page of comprehension questions, two vocabulary worksheets (comparatives and superlatives and a vocabulary search), a question answering task, an adjectives and description writing activity and an interesting facts worksheet. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a 15 page PDF document with a research activity on 14 different endangered Australian animals. The animals included are a mix of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish. The teacher just has to print off the sheets and give one to each student / group in the class. Each sheet asks for similar information so all students are doing a similar research activity. Students can then research the particular animal they were given and record their information on their worksheet. The sheets look great displayed in the classroom when finished. There is a blank sheet so teachers can get students to research another endangered animal if needed. This activity was written to use with the new Australian Curriculum History K-10 Syllabus. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book At Christmas, You Get What You Get and You Don’t Get Upset by Heath McKenzie. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are vocabulary activities (compound words, contractions and comparatives and superlatives), a Christmas presents task and two writing worksheets. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Dharma the Christmas Llama by Matt Cosgrove. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are vocabulary activities (rhyming words, compound words, adjectives, contractions and antonyms), a small Christmassy things task and a writing worksheet. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book A Very Mercy Christmas by Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions and vocabulary activities (compound words and suffixes), a sequencing task, a carols activity and a writing worksheet. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Gardens Are for Growing by Chelsea Tornetto and Hsulynn Pang. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are vocabulary activities (rhyming words, compound words and adjectives), two writing activities and an antonym puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Fly Guy Presents: Snakes by Tedd Arnold. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There is a page of comprehension questions, a worksheet about compound words, a senses comparison task, an information report writing activity, a true or false activity and a fact recording sheet. Included also are double-ups of two of the worksheets with colour pictures instead. This is for teachers who may wish to print in colour. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book An Odd Dog Christmas by Rob Biddulph. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are vocabulary activities (rhyming words, contractions and compound words), a writing task, a drawing activity and a Christmassy things worksheet. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Roadworks by Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are vocabulary activities and writing tasks plus an antonym puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Wheels by Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are vocabulary activities and writing tasks plus a fill-in puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a 31 page PDF file of information worksheets for students learning about the animals of Australia. There are 30 pages of well-known Australian animals plus 1 blank worksheet which could be used for any other Australian animal that you would like to include. The animals included are: echidna kangaroo emu kookaburra platypus funnel-web spider cockatoo bilby galah saltwater crocodile koala blue-tongue lizard goanna rainbow lorikeet numbat blue-ringed octopus quoll frilled-neck lizard tiger snake redback spider ringtail possum sugar glider long-necked turtle tawny frogmouth bearded dragon thorny devil leadbeater’s possum wedge-tail eagle leafy seadragon helmeted honeyeater Each sheet has the same formatting and asks students to record information about what the animal eats, where it lives, what it has covering its body and how it moves. Each sheet also asks students to colour in their animal and label the different parts of its body. These sheets are quite simple and would be best used with Kindergarten and Stage 1 students. These sheets look great displayed around the classroom when finished. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a three page PDF document on the Australian state and territory animal emblems. The activity provides students with the opportunity to match the animal emblems to the appropriate state or territory. The activity is provided as a colour worksheet and also as a black and white worksheet. There is a teacher answer sheet included as well. These activities would also be appropriate to be used as an assessment activity at the conclusion of a unit of work. This activity was written to support the new Australian Curriculum History K-10 Syllabus. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a PDF file of a transport activity where students have to colour in pictures of different types of land transport and cut out and fold the page to make a concertina-style book. This resource is one page long. The students colour in the pictures first then they cut out and fold to create the book. There are instructions given at the top of the page. Each page of the book has a picture and information about a different type of land transport. This activity is a fun way for students to learn about different types of transport. At the end of the day students can take home their book and read it to their parents. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a PDF file of a three different Australian animal memory games. This resource is three pages long. Each game will need to be photocopied twice to play. The first game is based on Australian animals and features 20 different pictures (40 cards in total when made up). The second game is based on Australian animals and features 16 different pictures (32 cards in total when made up). The third game is based on Australian birds and features 12 different pictures (24 cards in total when made up). This resource is great to use when differentiating in your classroom because the games have different numbers of cards to match up. It is easy to cater for students with more learning needs and also to extend your brighter students. You could even combine all three games for a real challenge. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document featuring 4 puzzles for students about Australian animals and birds. These puzzles are a fun way of reinforcing learning. There are 4 different puzzles and 4 answer sheets for teachers. The puzzles would be great to use as an activity to reinforce learning or as a fun homework task. They could even be used as motivational activities for students to work on if they complete other work quickly. The puzzles are: Easy Threesy Puzzle - Students have to solve clues, all of which are nine letter words. These words are solved by putting together three letter combinations to solve the puzzle. Hourglass Puzzle - Students enter the answers to eight clues into an hourglass-shaped puzzle. Missing Colours Puzzle - Students fill in the missing colours in the names of Australian animals and birds. Fill-In Puzzle - Using words that relate to Australian animals and birds, students fill in the puzzle sheet so that all of the words fit. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a PDF file of an Australian animals activity where students have to sort out different types of Australian animals into groups based on what they are covered in: feathers, fur or scales. This resource is three pages long. The first page provides the table for students to glue the pictures into. The second page contains all of the Australian animal pictures the students need to sort and the third page is an answer sheet for the teacher. This resource could also be used as an assessment activity. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a PDF file of an Australian animals activity where students have to sort out different types of Australian mammals into placentals, marsupials and monotremes. This resource is three pages long. The first page provides the table for students to glue the pictures into. The second page contains all of the Australian animal pictures the students need to sort and the third page is an answer sheet for the teacher. This resource could also be used as an assessment activity. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a PDF file of a transport activity where students have to sort out different types of transport based on what purpose the transport has. This resource is three pages long. The first page provides the table for students to glue the pictures into. The second page contains all of the transport pictures the students need to sort and the third page is an answer sheet for the teacher. Please note that and teacher answers are only a guide as some transport types fit into more than one category. This activity provides for good discussion in class when students are asked to justify why they placed a certain transport type in a particular category. This resource could also be used as an assessment activity. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.