YEAR 2 ENGLISH NARRATIVE RETELL | UNIT PLAN & RESOURCES Save time when planning! Take back those weekends and holidays! This resource includes 16 clear and concise written lesson plans which can be used with ANY text. Designed to be copy and pasted into term planners or for print and go use as daily plans. These are also perfect for substitutes if you’re feeling under the weather. Each lesson comes with associated frames, grammar or cloze activities if you do not feel like finding or publishing your own. An original fractured fairy-tale (Grumpty Dumpty) has also been included so you don’t need to go to the trouble of finding your own text, or if you need a quick and easy comparison text. This resource addresses the following Year 2 Australian curriculum outcomes: -AC9E2LA03 Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes. -AC9E2LA06 Understand that connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with 2 or more independent clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction. -AC9E2LA07 Understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups. -AC9E2LA08 Understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text. -AC9E2LE02 Identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences. -AC9E2LE03 Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways. This resource Includes: Achievement standard and unit plan outline. 16 clear and concise fully mapped lesson plans. Mind map/brainstorming task sheet. I’m narratively positive exit cloze. Grumpty Dumpty narrative large text Grumpty Dumpty narrative sequence (out of order). Grumpty Dumpty narrative sequence (ordered). Five finger retell method task sheet. Visual layer task sheet (introduction). Visual layer task sheet (complication). Visual layer task sheet (resolution). Visual layer task sheet (wrap up). Visual layer task sheet (characters). Visual layer task sheet (setting). Conjunctions class task. Conjunctions student task sheet. Noun group class task. Noun group class task examples. Noun group student task sheet. Character profile template. Verb class task. Verb student task sheet. Retell sentence starters (introduction). Complication identification task sheet. Retell sentence starters (complication). Resolution discussion task sheet. Retell sentence starters (resolution). Narrative response task sheet. Narrative retell cloze (part 1 & 2). Editing passage. Comparison task sheet (plot). Comparison task sheet (character). All resources are included! Links to the Australian Curriculum. Over 50+ slides!

Handwriting Practice | Australian Animals 64 beautifully illustrated Australian animal themed handwriting worksheets. Use these worksheets to introduce letters or for independent practice. Write & Rhyme - Incorporate rhyme into the teaching of handwriting using the write and rhyme portion of this resource. Suitable for use in early years reading groups. Handwriting Facts - Go cross-curricula with the handwriting facts for portion of this resource. Suitable for use to link with science units. Animals included: Ant (bull ant), Ant (honey ant), Black swan, Brolga, Cockatoo (gang-gang), Dingo, Emu, Echidna, Frill neck lizard, Groper (eastern blue), Hairy nosed wombat , Ibis, Jabiru, Koala, Kookaburra, Leadbeater possum, Leafy sea dragon, Mary river turtle, Magpie, Numbat, Olive python, Platypus, Quokka, Red kangaroo, Sugar glider, Tasmanian devil, Ulysses butterfly, Velvet gecko, Wedge tailed eagle, Xanthotis honeyeater, Yabby, Zebra finch.

HANDWRITING PRACTICE | A-Z AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS 64 beautifully illustrated Australian animal themed handwriting worksheets. Use these worksheets to introduce letters or for independent practice. Write & Rhyme - Incorporate rhyme into the teaching of handwriting using the write and rhyme portion of this resource. Suitable for use in early years reading groups. Handwriting Facts - Go cross-curricula with the handwriting facts for portion of this resource. Suitable for use to link with science units. Animals included: Ant (bull ant), Ant (honey ant), Black swan, Brolga, Cockatoo (gang-gang), Dingo, Emu, Echidna, Frill neck lizard, Groper (eastern blue), Hairy nosed wombat , Ibis, Jabiru, Koala, Kookaburra, Leadbeater possum, Leafy sea dragon, Mary river turtle, Magpie, Numbat, Olive python, Platypus, Quokka, Red kangaroo, Sugar glider, Tasmanian devil, Ulysses butterfly, Velvet gecko, Wedge tailed eagle, Xanthotis honeyeater, Yabby, Zebra finch.

COLOUR BY SIGHT WORD | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS X5 no prep sight word colour resources that can be used in a whole class, small group or reading centre setting. This resource includes 5 amazingly illustrated Australian animal images that students will love to colour. Each image has 3 differentiated levels of sight words to choose from to suit your students ability level.