HUGE Resource Bundle - The Little Wave - Workbook- Teacher Guide Stages 2-3

This is a 80+ page resource bundle based on the Australian book The Little Wave by Pip Harry.

The Little Wave tells the story of Noah, Lottie and Jack, who discover much about themselves and the importance of true friendship when a Sydney school hosts a class visit from the country. While Noah is struggling with the behaviour of his best friend, Lottie is trying to deal with the loss of her mother and its impact on her family. Jack, meanwhile, is faced with significant obstacles of his own. The Little Wave is a beautiful verse novel that uncovers the true essence of friendship, courage and the value of new experiences.

This book was selected to be a mentor text to teach the Multi-Age NESA Unit (6): Perspective and Context. 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 37 page comprehension guide. The guide is organised into ‘chunks’ with two full pages for every section. 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. Each sections also contains a creative response task for fast finishers.

• a 20-page comprehensive answer guide for the student workbook. This is 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. 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 HUGE bonus printable informative assessment task, whereby students are required to brainstorm, plan, draft and compose an autobiography. This task is presented as a printable booklet, which can be used for assessment, classroom displays or student feedback.

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 Two or Stage 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!