his resource is a nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Miss Lily’s Fabulous Pink Feather Boa by Margaret Wild and Kerry Argent. There are 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 and vocabulary activities 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 an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book The Internet is Like a Puddle by Shona Innes and Irisz Agoca. 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, language and vocabulary activities plus an fill-in puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. This book is an excellent resource to use when discussing internet safety with children. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Sleepy Places by Judy Hindley and Tor Freeman. 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 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.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Norton and the Bear by Gabriel Evans. 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 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 Little People, Big Dreams - Helen Keller by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Sam Rudd. 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 an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Mr Scruff by Simon James. 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 verbs, contractions and rhyming words) and writing activities 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 about the early exploration of the world to find spices, the important discoveries made by early Portuguese explorers, Bartolomeu Diaz and Vasco da Gama and how the Dutch managed to secure control of the Spice Islands. The first two pages contain the information of the story of the Spice Islands. There are also two activity pages included in this resource and an extra extension activity on Ferdinand Magellan. The last two pages of this resource are the answer sheets for the teacher. This activity was written to use with the Australian Curriculum History K-10 Syllabus. It is an excellent resource to help students understand why exploration of this part of the world eventually led to discoveries of Australia later on. This resource is very helpful if students are then going on to study other early explorers such as Dirk Hartog and Abel Tasman. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book No Return - Captain Scott’s Race to the Pole by Peter Gouldthorpe. This document contains eight 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 and vocabulary activities plus writing activities. 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 - Anna Pavlova by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Sue Downing. 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 an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Little People, Big Dreams - Terry Fox by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and T. Connor. 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 an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Hey Jack! - The Backyard Mystery by Sally Rippin and Stephanie Spartels. 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 synonyms 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 Too Many Cats by Maura Finn and Lucinda Gifford. 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, contractions and rhyming words) and a Venn diagram 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 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. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a PDF file of an Insect or Spider? sort where students have to sort out different types of insects or spiders and sort them into the two different groups. This resource is four pages long. The first page provides the table for students to glue the pictures into. The second page contains all of the insect and spider pictures (black and white) the students need to sort. The third page has the same insect and spider pictures but this time in colour. The last page is an answer sheet for the teacher. You can choose whether you would like to use the black and white pictures or the colour ones. We thought this would be helpful for teachers that don’t have access to a colour photocopier or may have limits on how much colour photocopying they can do. 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 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. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Back on Country 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 (compound words and contractions) and a drawing task. There are also two writing activities. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

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. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a 21 page PDF document with activities to do based on the book A is for Australia by Frane Lessac. This document contains 20 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 the letters E, F, H, I, O, V, X and Y which share a page. The activities are mostly writing activities. There are some pages which have comprehension questions. There are also a sorting activity for the ‘A’ page. There are research activities about Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Tasmanian tiger, the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme and camels in Australia. There is also a worksheet which requires students to visit the Taronga Zoo website for the ‘Z’ worksheet. This book is an excellent resource to use when teaching students about Australian natural and built landmarks. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Free by Sam Usher. 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 verbs) and a procedure writing task. There is also a making connections activity and a drawing activity too. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Found by Sam Usher. 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 (comparatives and superlatives, synonyms, compound words and sentence building) and a writing task. There is also a sequencing activity too. There is a double-up of one worksheet because the picture is provided in colour and there is also a version with a black and white picture for those teachers that may not wish to print in colour. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.