This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Spiro by Anna McGregor. 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 worksheets (adjectives and a vocabulary search), a drawing activity, two 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 Cubby Hunting by Coral Vass and Nicky Johnston. 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, vocabulary activities (compound words and adjectives), a making connections task, a map drawing activity and a synonym puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell. 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, vocabulary activities (adjectives and compound words), a Venn diagram activity, an interviewing task and a synonym puzzle. A teacher answer sheet is provided for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book The Super Speedy Sloth by Rebecca Young and 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 (rhyming words, word detective and compound words), a making connections activity, a writing task and an antonym puzzle. A teacher answer sheet is provided for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a six page PDF document of worksheets and activities for students to complete based on the book The Good, the Bad and the Silly - Stories of our Past by John Dickson. This document contains five 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 research activities. There is also a QR code activity which takes students to a video about the history of voting. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a four page PDF document containing 2 designs to be used for title pages for a unit on The First Fleet. The first two pages of this file contains title pages which were designed to be placed underneath the student’s workbook page and traced to create a title page for the unit. This activity is helpful in developing design skills and still allows for students to be creative with choice of colour for their title page. The second two pages of the document are a repeat of the first two but with the headings unfilled so that if you would prefer you could just photocopy the title page for your students and get them to colour it in, then glue it into their workbooks. The title pages are suitable for A4 workbooks but of course can easily be reduced or enlarged on the photocopier to suit the size of other workbooks. This document 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 six page PDF document with activities to do based on the book William Bligh - A Stormy Story of Tempestuous Times by Michael Sedunary. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are some comprehension questions, a timeline sequencing activity and reflection activities based on the events in Bligh’s life. These activities are designed to work with a unit on the First Fleet or the early colony of New South Wales. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book M is for Mutiny! by John Dickson and Bern Emmerichs. 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 research activities plus a QR code activity which takes students to a video about titled Mabo Legacy. This book is an excellent resource to use if studying the early explorers of Australia, the First Fleet or early colonies and also Indigenous / Aboriginal studies. It has a little bit of history on many topics and can be used as a jumping off point for further research or discussion. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Somebody’s Land by Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing and David Hardy. 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, vocabulary activities and writing tasks. There is also a QR code activity that takes students to a video titled Bush Food. This text is a good resource to use when studying First Contacts or early explorers of Australia. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document of worksheets and activities for students to complete based on the book The Startling Story of Lachlan Macquarie: Founding Father or Failure? by Michael Sedunary and Bern Emmerichs. There are seven worksheet for students. The worksheets include comprehension questions, writing activities and reflection activities. This book is an excellent resource to use for a unit on the First Fleet / Early Colonies of Australia. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book There’s a Tiger on the Train by Mariesa Dulak and Rebecca Cobb. 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, vocabulary activities (rhyming words, adjectives and compound words), a writing task and an antonym puzzle. A teacher answer sheet is provided for the puzzle. There is a double-upof one worksheet as it it provided with a colour picture on one version and a black and white picture on the other for teachers who may not want to print in colour. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book How to Move a Zoo by Kate Simpson and Owen Swan. 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 (adjectives and contractions), a Venn diagram worksheet, a writing activity, a research task on Taronga Zoo and a synonym puzzle. A teacher answer sheet is provided for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a 10 page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Lost - Uncover Vanishing Wonders by Jess McGeachin. This document contains 8 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 about dinosaurs, a questioning task, an activity about photos from Shackleton’s Endurance expedition, four writing worksheets and a fact recalling sheet about thylacines. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Little People, Big Dreams - Stan Lee by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana Albero. 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, a sequencing task and research activity plus a fill-in puzzle. The first six pages of this resource are for student use and the last page is a teacher answer page for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a five page PDF document about olden day toys in an old-fashioned nursery. The five pages feature five different photos of toys in an olden day nursery. Students need to write the toys they can see in the photo around the box and draw arrows to where they are. This activity could also be done as a whole class / large group on an interactive whiteboard. This activity is great for discussions about how toys have changed and supports History units such as Then and Now, The Way We Were and Past and Present Family Life. 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 three page PDF document about changes in technology around the home over the past 200 years. The first page features 15 pictures of olden-day machines / equipment. Students need to cut out these pictures and glue them into the table on the second page based on which part of the house these items would have been found in. The third page is an answer page for the teacher. This activity is great for discussions about how life has changed and supports History units such as Then and Now and The Way We Were. 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 four page PDF file with an activity where students have to sort out toys from the past and present into a Venn diagram. The first page provides the Venn diagram for students to glue the pictures into. The second page contains all of the toy pictures the students need to sort and the third page is an answer sheet for the teacher. The last page is an extension activity which is a blank Venn diagram where students can list any other toys that they can think of from the past or present. Please bear in mind that the teacher answer sheet is just a guide. There are many schools that have hopscotch grids painted in the playground and every now and then marbles make a comeback etc. A Lego set is also shown in the ‘present’ even though Lego started in 1932. We have chosen a robotic "Mindstorms’ set to represent Lego so have therefore placed the picture in ‘present’. The teacher answer sheet is just a guide but the answers many vary from school to school, or even classroom to classroom. This activity leads to some good discussion point about the placement of toys in the Venn diagram. Students can also discuss why the toys they sorted into ‘past’ are no longer used by most children. This resource could also be used as an assessment activity. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Big Cat by Jess Racklyeft. 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, vocabulary activities (adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, compound words and tense) and a writing task. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Ingenious Insects by Sarah Allen. 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, adjectives and word building), a matching task and two writing worksheets. There is a double-up of one worksheet which is the matching activity. This is because the pictures are provided in colour versions and also in black and white versions for teachers that may not wish to print in colour. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Big Rain Coming by Katrina Germein and Bronwyn Bancroft. 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 and visual literacy questions grammar and vocabulary activities plus a synonym puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.