Victorian Curriculum
Literature
Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships
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Talking About Books Prompts
A prompt for students to use when orally discussing books.
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Seven Sensational Story Starters PowerPoint
A 10 slide editable PowerPoint template of story starters to use in narrative writing.
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Novel Study - Chapter Summary Worksheet
A worksheet to help students reflect on their thoughts after reading a chapter in a class novel.
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Character Profile Flip Book - Upper Primary
Use this flip book template with your upper primary students when teaching about the features of literary characters.
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Novel Study - How Thinking Changes Worksheet
A worksheet allows students to examine how events in a novel can change the main character's thinking.
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Novel Study - Important Events Worksheet
A worksheet for students to explore how decision making in a story changes the course of the plot.
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Novel Study - Alternate Story Ending Worksheet
A worksheet which encourages students to write an alternate ending to a shared class story.
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Novel Study - Create a New Cover Worksheet
A worksheet which encourages students to create a new book cover for a shared class novel.
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Novel Study - Draw a Scene Worksheet
A worksheet which helps students explore important scenes from a class novel.
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Novel Study - Making Predictions Worksheet
A worksheet to assist students in making predictions before reading a novel.
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Novel Study - Points of View Worksheet
3 worksheets to help students analyse the points of view of opposing characters in a literary text.
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Novel Study - Character Map Worksheet
3 worksheets to assist with analysing characters in a class novel.
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Literature Study - Upper Primary - Task Cards
A set of 14 literature study task cards for upper primary students to use when analysing children's literature.
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Plan Your Own Adventure - Writing Template
Students use a template to help them plan stories with alternative pathways for their friends to read.
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Choose Your Own Destiny - Writing Template
Students use a template to help them write stories with alternative pathways for their friends to read.
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Ancient to Current - Orders of Comparison Poster
A poster displaying the orders of comparison for adjectives ancient to current.
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Big to Colossal - Orders of Comparison Poster
A poster displaying the orders of comparison for adjectives big to colossal.
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Sad to Distraught - Orders of Comparison Poster
A poster displaying the orders of comparison for adjectives sad to distraught.
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Not Any to All - Orders of Comparison Poster
A poster displaying the orders of comparison for adjectives not any to all.
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Good to Ecstatic - Orders of Comparison Poster
A poster displaying the orders of comparison for adjectives good to ecstatic.
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Introduction to Narrative Features PowerPoint - Year 3 and Year 4
A 23 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the features of narrative texts.
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Literature Task Cards
A set of 30 literature tasks to assist your students with examining and responding to literature.
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Literature Tasks PowerPoint
A 33 slide editable PowerPoint template of generic literature tasks.
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Show, Don’t Tell – Feelings Synonyms Poster Activity Pack
A set of 16 posters ready for your students to add synonyms to.
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Developing Characters Poster Pack - Show, Don't Tell Feelings
A set of 16 posters about developing and describing characters when writing stories.
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Narrative Writing Pack
A narrative writing teaching pack containing 9 worksheets and posters.
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Bring Your Characters To Life Poster
A poster to remind your students to add detail and description to their writing to bring their characters to life.
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Direct and Indirect Characterisation
A set of two posters explaining direct and indirect characterisation.
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Novel Study Activity Resource Pack
A comprehensive resource pack to use with your class when studying a class novel.
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Developing Narrative Writing Skills Unit Plan - Year 3 and Year 4
This English unit addresses the narrative text type, specifically how to plan and write an engaging story.
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Narrative Skills - Sensational Story Starters
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate exciting, attention-grabbing methods of starting a story.
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Narrative Features - Developing a Plot
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop a plot for a narrative which includes a setting, characters and a problem to be solved.