HUGE Resource Bundle - Azaria: A True History - Student Workbook Stage 3

This is a 50+ page resource bundle based on the huge book Azaria: A True History by Maree Coote.

Azaria: A True History is a hybrid imaginative/informative text which explains the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain in an appropriate and gentle way, which also explains the media storm surrounding Lindy Chamberlain and her trial by court and by media.

This book was selected to be a mentor text to teach the Stage Three NESA Unit (16): Theme. The resources are designed both to provoke deep thinking about the text, but also to be completely independent. The only prep you need to do is printing or uploading to google classroom or a similar platform.

This bundle of resources consists of:

• a 4 page comprehension guide. This guide focuses on a range of skills, such as literal and inferential understanding, text-to-self connections, author purpose, cause and effect and much much more.

• a set of ten full-colour literacy centre task cards based on the text. These include a range of Creative and Practical Arts integrated tasks, as well as informative, imaginative and persuasive writing prompts. Task cards are given both in PDF and PowerPoint formats.

• all associated printables linked to the task cards, which can be used for a range of literature. These are a set of high-interest, high-choice worksheets.

• a formal persuasive writing assessment which comes in the form of a booklet. The booklet consists of a persuasive writing prompt (whereby student choose their own opinion to support), a planning guide and success criteria.

• an 18-page factual background slideshow, explaining the real-life events surrounding the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain, the dingo as a predator and the media storm which surrounding Lindy and her family.

This resource provides weeks of learning, covering reading, writing and speaking and listening.

This book would be suitable for a whole class read-aloud, or as a reading group text for Stage Three or Stage Four students.

I have many other literature-based resources in my store (most of them Australian) so feel free to check them out.

Happy reading!