This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Sticks and Stones by 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 comprehension questions, vocabulary activities (contractions and a word detective sheet), a making connections task and a poster designing activity plus an antonym puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Emu by Claire Saxby and Graham Byrne. There are six worksheets / activities for students in this resource. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the text. There are some comprehension questions, index and vocabulary activities but most of the worksheets focus on using this book to teach students how to write information reports. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper. 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 a drawing task plus an antonym puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the text Planets by Elizabeth Carney. This document contains six worksheets for students. This text is a National Geographic Kids Reader. The book we used was Level 2 however we understand that some levels differ depending on the country where the text is published. The activities allow the students to reinforce their understanding of planets by completing activities that work with this text. There are comprehension questions and writing activities plus a true or false task and a glossary task. Some of the activities in this resource may be suitable for teachers who are teaching students about planets but do not have this particular book to use. 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 - Leo Messi by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Florencia Gavilan. 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 seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book The Utterly Otterleys by Mairi Hedderwick. 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 and vocabulary activities (compound words, dictionary work, adverbs, prefixes and suffixes, adjectives and synonyms). Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a six page PDF document with activities to do based on the book What’s Your Story? by Rose Giannone and Bern Emmerichs. 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, plus an interview activity and a QR code research activity which could be used with ipads / tablets. These activities are designed to work with a unit on the First Fleet. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Awesome Emu by Gregg Dreise. 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 actitivies (comparatives and superlatives, adverbs and synonyms) plus reflection questions and a worksheet labelling Australian birds. There is a double-up of one worksheet. On one version the pictures are in colour and the other version has black and white pictures for those teachers that do not wish to print in colour. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a three page PDF document about the problems faced by the First Fleet when they landed in Sydney and started a settlement. This activity involves students cutting out and gluing pieces of information into a cause and effect table. The first page provides the table with only the causes of the settlement problems listed. The second page is an answer sheet for the teacher and the third sheet has sets of the information needed by the students to fill in the effects part of the table. This worksheet could be used as a research activity or consolidation activity after studying the First Fleet. 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 nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Dry to Dry - The Seasons of Kakadu by Pamela Freeman and Liz Anelli. This document contains eight 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 language activities in this resource. There is also an index activity and a writing task. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book The Hidden Hat by Phil Cummings and Jennifer Goldsmith. 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 actitivies (compound words, adverbs and dictionary work) plus reflection questions, a Y-chart task and a worksheet about the Australian slouch hat. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall. This document contains four 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 (word detective and tense) plus a writing task. There are also scavenger hunt questions based on the illustrations in the book. This book has been shortlisted for the 2024 CBCA Picture Book of the Year. There is a double-up of one of the activities. It is the scavenger hunt questions and it is because of spelling differences (colour / color). This is provided for our US customers. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Saltie Mumma by Sandra Kendell. There are six worksheets / activities for students in this resource. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the text. There are comprehension questions, vocabulary and writing activities plus a poster designing 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 Tupaia, Isaac and Cook: The Search for ‘The Great South Land’ by Mark Wilson. This document contains seven worksheets / activities for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are two pages of comprehension questions, a research activity and writing tasks. There is also a QR code activity that takes students to a video titled Endeavour History. This book is an excellent resource to use if studying Captain Cook or learning about the early mapping of Australia. It is an extremely well-written book which shines a light on the contribution of Tupaia to the success of the Endeavour voyage. 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 Ben and Gracie’s Art Adventure by Mark Wilson. 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 and vocabulary and grammar activities. There is also a research activity on Frederick McCubbin and a writing activity. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Yahoo Creek - An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle. 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 is a pre-reading activity, a word definition task, visual literacy questions and several writing activities. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a 15 page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Our Country: Where History Happened by Mark Greenwood and Frane Lessac. This document contains 13 worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There is one activity for each historical event mentioned in the book, with the exception of the Myall Creek pages and the bombing of Darwin page. The Gold Rush and Eureka Stockade pages share one worksheet. The activities are mostly writing activities, with one QR code activity that takes students to a video and some activities may require students to do further research in order to understand the events in more detail. This book is an excellent resource to use to when teaching students about Australian history. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a six page PDF document about Simpson and his donkey. The first and second pages are the story of Jack Simpson’s life and experience at Gallipoli. There are also three activity pages included in this resource. One page is a Y-chart on Jack’s experience at Gallipoli, another is a timeline activity about Jack’s life and the last activity is a research task about a recipient of the Victoria Cross. The last page of this resource is the answer sheet for the timeline activity. There is a book by Mark Greenwood and Frane Lessac titled Simpson and his Donkey. Although these worksheets are not written specifically for the book they would be excellent to use as a follow-on activity to learn a bit more about Simpson and his 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 an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Billie B Brown - The Honey Bees by Sally Rippin. 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 vocabulary task (compound words) and writing tasks based on bees, friendships and ways to look after the planet. There is a double-up of one worksheet. It is provided with a colour picture on one sheet and a black and white picture on the other for those teachers that may not want 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 Secrets of the Seasons by Heidi Cooper Smith. 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 tasks (adjectives and a better words than activity) and writing / drawing tasks. There is one worksheet which is doubled-up. There is one version with colour pictures and another with the pictures in black and white for teachers that may not want to print in colour. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.