This resource is an eleven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book A Curious Menagerie by Carin Berger. 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 collective noun activities and an information report writing task. Some of the worksheets in this resource are double-ups as they are available in colour and black and white versions. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Seed to Sky - Life in the Daintree 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, vocabulary activities (adjectives, prefixes and suffixes and compound words), an index and word definitions worksheet, two research tasks (one on cassowaries and one on the Daintree Rainforest) and a postcard writing activity. There is a double-up of one worksheet because it is provided in a version with colour pictures and also in a version with black and white pictures for teachers who 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 If Polar Bears Disappeared by Lily Williams. 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 is also a QR code activity that takes students to a video about melting Arctic ice. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Built to Last by Minh Le and Dan Santat. 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 (compound words, comparatives and superlatives, word detective and tense) and three worksheets with friendship activites. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book A Pair of Pears and an Orange 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 comprehension questions, vocabulary and writing tasks plus a fill-in puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

his resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Isabella’s Garden by Glenda Millard and Rebecca Cool. 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 plus a writing task and matching activities. 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 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 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 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 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 ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Wedge-tailed Eagle by Claire Saxby and Christina Booth. This resource contains eight worksheets / activities for students. 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. This book is part of the Nature Storybooks series. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the text Trucks by Wil Mara. This document contains six worksheets for students. This text is a National Geographic Kids Reader. The book we used was Level 1 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 trucks by completing activities that work with this text. There are comprehension questions, writing activities and a true or false facts task. Some of the activities in this resource may be suitable for teachers who are teaching students about trucks but do not have this particular book to use. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the text Planes by Amy Shields. This document contains six worksheets for students. This text is a National Geographic Kids Reader. The book we used was Level 1 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 planes by completing activities that work with this text. There are comprehension questions, writing activities and a true or false facts task. Some of the activities in this resource may be suitable for teachers who are teaching students about planes but do not have this particular book to use. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the text Trains by Amy Shields. This document contains six worksheets for students. This text is a National Geographic Kids Reader. The book we used was Level 1 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 trains by completing activities that work with this text. There are comprehension questions, writing activities and a true or false facts task. Some of the activities in this resource may be suitable for teachers who are teaching students about trains but do not have this particular book to use. 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 Catch Santa Claus by Alice Walstead and Andy Elkerton. 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 vocabulary activities (rhyming words, compound words and contractions), two drawing tasks and two other Christmas worksheets plus a synonym 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 text Here to There by Jennifer Szymanski. This document contains six worksheets for students. This text is a National Geographic Kids Reader. The book we used was Level 1 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 transport by completing activities that work with this text. There are comprehension questions, vocabulary activities (compound words and adjectives), matching tasks, a true or false facts worksheet and a writing activity. Some of the activities in this resource may be suitable for teachers who are teaching students about ttypes of transport but do not have this particular book to use. 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 Last Tree 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, vocabulary and writing tasks plus a decoding puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.