The Lost Thing - Shaun Tan - Worksheets and presentation

Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing is an excellent book for the secondary or upper-primary classroom, exploring ideas of alienation, belonging and individuality. This set of resources is a valuable aid in deconstructing the text, especially for a high-school audience.

This set of resources includes:

• A general worksheet (4 pages) with a range of comprehension and analysis questions on ideas, symbols and visual representation in the book. One of these pages is a close study of The Lost Thing’s new home (the sideways page in the book)
• A worksheet on themes in the book (2 pages)
• A presentation on how Tan has appropriated a famous Australian painting for one of his images, with questions and activities to compare the two images

Both worksheets are included in Word and pdf formats to ensure compatibility.

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While you’re here, why not check out these other resources on picture books for older readers?

• The Rabbits (Shaun Tan and John Marsden)
• The Red Tree (Shaun Tan)
• The Arrival (Shaun Tan)
• Cicada (Shaun Tan)
• Eric (Shaun Tan)
• The Island (Armin Greder)
• Australia to Z (Armin Greder)
• Woolvs in the Sitee (Margaret Wild and Anne Spudvilas)
• Girl on Wire (Lucy Estela and Elise Hurst)
• Flight (Nadia Wheatley and Armin Greder)