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If Bees Disappeared by Lily Williams - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book If Bees Disappeared by Lily Williams. 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 writing activities. There is also a cause and effect activity and a design a poster task.
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Giant Pandas by Gail Gibbons - 7 Worksheets
This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Giant Pandas by Gail Gibbons. There are seven worksheets included in this resource.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the text. There are comprehension questions and vocabulary activities (adjectives and adverbs). There is also a pre-reading activity and three writing tasks.
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Dingo by Claire Saxby - Worksheets and Information Report Activities
This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Dingo by Claire Saxby and Tannya Harricks. The resource contains nine worksheets.
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.
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Ice Bear by Nicola Davies - 9 Worksheets - Polar Bears
This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Ice Bear by Nicola Davies and Gary Blythe. The resource contains nine worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the text. There are some comprehension questions, an index task and a compound words activitiy and the other worksheets focus on using this book to teach students how to write information reports.
This book is part of the Nature Storybooks series.
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Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies and James Croft - 8 Worksheets
This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies and James Croft.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the text. There are comprehension questions, index and vocabulary activities. There is also an information report writing activity and an activity where students need to identify different types of sharks.
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Big Red Kangaroo by Claire Saxby - Worksheets and Information Report Activities
This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Big Red Kangaroo by Claire Saxby and Graham Byrne. There are six 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.
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Kind by Jess McGeachin - 6 Worksheets - A Call to Care for Every Creature
This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Kind - A Call to Care for Every Creature by Jess McGeachin. 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, rhyming words and a vocabulary search) and writing / sorting activities plus a worksheet where students design a poster.
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.
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Giraffes by Laura Marsh - National Geographic Kids Reader
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the text Giraffes by Laura Marsh. 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 giraffes 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 giraffes but do not have this particular book to use.
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Find Out About... Animal Homes by Martin Jenkins - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Find Out About… Animal Homes by Martin Jenkins and Jane McGuinness. 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 writing activities which relate to the animals mentioned in the book.
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Find Out About... Animal Babies by Martin Jenkins - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Find Out About… Animal Babies by Martin Jenkins and Jane McGuinness. 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 activities which relate to the animals mentioned in the book.
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Song of the White Ibis by Phillip Gwynne - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Song of the White Ibis by Phillip Gwynne and Liz Anelli. 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 (dictionary work, tense and true or false) and writing task plus a poster designing task.
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Swoop by Nicole Godwin - 6 Worksheets - Magpies
This resource is a nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Swoop by Nicole Godwin and Susannah Crispe. 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 verbs and tense) and writing activities plus an antonym puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle.
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Ladybugs by Gail Gibbons - 6 Worksheets - Ladybirds
This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Ladybugs by Gail Gibbons. 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 writing and drawing activities.
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Ella and the Useless Day by Meg McKinlay - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Ella and the Useless Day by Meg McKinlay and Karen Blair. 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 verbs, adverbs and compound words) and writing activities.
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Australian Animals Information Worksheets - 30 Different Animals
This resource is a 31 page PDF file of information worksheets for students learning about the animals of Australia.
There are 30 pages of well-known Australian animals plus 1 blank worksheet which could be used for any other Australian animal that you would like to include. The animals included are:
echidna
kangaroo
emu
kookaburra
platypus
funnel-web spider
cockatoo
bilby
galah
saltwater crocodile
koala
blue-tongue lizard
goanna
rainbow lorikeet
numbat
blue-ringed octopus
quoll
frilled-neck lizard
tiger snake
redback spider
ringtail possum
sugar glider
long-necked turtle
tawny frogmouth
bearded dragon
thorny devil
leadbeater’s possum
wedge-tail eagle
leafy seadragon
helmeted honeyeater
Each sheet has the same formatting and asks students to record information about what the animal eats, where it lives, what it has covering its body and how it moves. Each sheet also asks students to colour in their animal and label the different parts of its body.
These sheets are quite simple and would be best used with Kindergarten and Stage 1 students.
These sheets look great displayed around the classroom when finished.
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Endangered Australian Animals Research Activity Sheets - 14 Different Animals
This resource is a 15 page PDF document with a research activity on 14 different endangered Australian animals.
The animals included are a mix of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish.
The teacher just has to print off the sheets and give one to each student / group in the class. Each sheet asks for similar information so all students are doing a similar research activity. Students can then research the particular animal they were given and record their information on their worksheet. The sheets look great displayed in the classroom when finished.
There is a blank sheet so teachers can get students to research another endangered animal if needed.
This activity was written to use with the new Australian Curriculum History K-10 Syllabus.
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A is for Australian Reefs by Frane Lessac - 21 Worksheets
This resource is a 22 page PDF document with activities to do based on the book A is for Australian Reefs by Frane Lessac. This document contains 21 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 alphabetical page mentioned in the book, with the exception of I & J (Irukandji and Jellyfish) which share an activity and also the letters K, Q, V, X, Y and Z which also share a page.
The activities are mostly writing activities. There are some pages which have comprehension questions. There are also adjectives activities for the eels and dolphin pages. There is a research page for molluscs and a drawing activity at the end of the resource.
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If Animals Disappeared Bundle - Lily Williams - Bees Sharks Tigers Elephants Polar Bears
This resource is a book bundle with activities to do based on the following books from the If Animals Disappeared Series:
If Bees Disappeared by Lily Williams
If Polar Bears Disappeared by Lily Williams
If Tigers Disappeared by Lily Williams
If Elephants Disappeared by Lily Williams
If Sharks Disappeared by Lily Williams
All of these resources are available in our store to be purchased individually but purchasing them together in this bundle is a significant saving.
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Little People, Big Dreams Trailblazers Book Bundle by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
This resource is a book bundle with activities to do based on the following picture books by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara:
Little People, Big Dreams - Amelia Earhart
Little People, Big Dreams - Ernest Shackleton
Little People, Big Dreams - Steve Jobs
Little People, Big Dreams - Corazon Aquino
Little People, Big Dreams - Maria Montessori
Little People, Big Dreams - Helen Keller
Little People, Big Dreams - Neil Armstrong
Little People, Big Dreams - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Little People, Big Dreams - Florence Nightingale
Little People, Big Dreams - Tenzing Norgay
All of these resources are available in our store to be purchased individually but purchasing them together in this bundle is a significant saving.
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Mark Wilson Book Bundle #2 - Worksheets for 10 Picture Books - Author Study
This resource is a book bundle with activities to do based on the following picture books by Mark Wilson:
Eureka! A Story of the Goldfields
Tupaia, Isaac and Cook: The Search for ‘The Great South Land’
Ben and Gracie’s Art Adventure
Inside the World of Tom Roberts
Rachel’s War - The Story of a Australian WW1 Nurse
Journey of the Sea Turtle
Flapper, VC
The Horse Soldier
The Rats of Tobruk
Migaloo
All of these resources are available in our store to be purchased individually but purchasing them together in this bundle is a significant saving.
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