Huge Resource Bundle - The Callers - Stage 2/3 Comprehension Guide -Task Cards

This is a huge 125-page resource bundle based on the amazing Australian book The Callers by Kiah Thomas.

In the enchanting world of Elipsom, where summoners possess the power to Call objects from other places, a young boy named Quin embarks on a journey that will change everything he knows about magic and himself. Quin has always dreamed of becoming a great summoner like his ancestors, but when his first Calling goes horribly wrong, he discovers a shocking secret: the objects they summon aren’t created from thin air—they’re stolen from other realms.

This book was selected to be a mentor text to teach the Stage Two NESA Unit (13): Characterisation. 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 chapter-by-chapter comprehension guide. The 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. All up, this is 70+ pages of independent comprehension work. The comprehension guide comes in the form of a workbook which can be printed and stapled for independent work.

• a comprehensive answer guide, perfect for assessment and feedback.

• 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.

• a 44-page vocabulary booster, highlighting words from the text. Students are required to analyse the words in content, find dictionary definitions and use these words in sentences of their own. There are two pages of vocabulary tasks for every chapter.

This is 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 Two or Three students.

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

Happy reading!