Resource Bundle - Piano Fingers - Comprehension Guide - Task Cards Stage 2/3

This is an independent resource bundle based on the Australian book “Piano Fingers” by Caroline Magerl.

Piano Fingers is the story of Bea, a little girl who grows up in a musical family, who is yet to find music of her own. Throughout the book, she is inspired to find her ‘piano fingers’.

This book was selected to be a mentor text to teach the Stage Two NESA Unit (4): Imagery, Symbol and Connotation. 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 comprehension guide. This guide focuses on a range of skills which are explicitly named, such as literal and inferential understanding, text-to-self connections, author purpose, cause and effect and much much more.

• 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.

• 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.

When used in conjunction with the book, this is at least one full week of literacy learning, covering reading, writing and speaking and listening.

This book, and the resources with it, would be suitable for a whole class read-aloud, or as a reading group text for Stages Two and Three.

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

Happy reading!