Australian Animal Book Review Templates

Creative Book Report Display 📖

Have your students create an amazing book review display using these cute Australian animal templates. Students can choose one of four animals included in the resource:

• quokka
• possum
• koala
• kangaroo.

Ideally, have students review a book by an Australian author or illustrator. These templates are a great way to celebrate the Book Week 2022 theme ‘Dreaming with eyes open…’

Differentiated Book Review Templates

Provide students with one of the two template options below. 

Option 1

• Rate the book out of 5 stars.
• Describe what happens in the book.
• Draw a picture of something that happens in the book.

Option 2

• Characters
• Setting
• Summary
• What is your opinion of this book?
• Who would you recommend this book to?
• Rate the book out of 5 stars.

✂️ Give Them the (Safety) Scissors

This template makes for a bonus cutting skills activity, depending on your students’ ages and abilities. 

With adult supervision, cutting skills help students work multiple muscle groups and their brains, plus:

• strengthen finger and hand muscles
• build dexterity and fine motor skills
• improve hand-eye coordination
• develop focus and attention.

And all of these skills are necessary to use a pencil and a fork; button a shirt and tie shoes; write, type and swipe.

Scissor skills are brain and muscle skills! 

While you’re here, check out more activities and teaching resources that fill your lesson plans and students’ brains:

teaching resource Australian Animals Mindfulness Bookmarks Let these cute Australian animals keep track of your page with these mindfulness colouring bookmarks. teaching resource Decorative Reading Glasses Template Spruce up your next reading session with these fun reading glasses that students can cut and assemble. teaching resource Punctuation in a Pouch A fun marsupial-themed classroom display to help your students correct sentence punctuation.