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READING AUSTRALIA
Gregg Dreise. Gregg Dreise is a gifted artist, storyteller and musician, and he features the didgeridoo and guitar in his performances at schools, libraries and festivals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. He is the author and illustrator of Cunning Crow; Silly Birds EXTENDED: PLAYWRITING COMPETITION WITH URSULA DUBOSARSKY The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Competition closes 11.59pm (AEST) 9 May 2021; winners will be notified by 5pm (AEST) 28 May 2021. Two winners will receive: one copy of Ursula Dubosarsky’s Pierre’s Not There, signed by the author; one Booktopia voucher worth $75.00; and one virtual classroom visitYOUNG DARK EMU
CARPENTARIA
Carpentaria is an uncompromisingly ambitious tale of a town in crisis, and the tensions – escalating around the establishment of the mining site – between factions of its Indigenous population, and between the Indigenous people and the white folk of ‘Uptown’. Since 1770, when Captain James Cook claimed the east coast of the continentCURRICULUM SUMMARY
The Patchwork Bike General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Intercultural Understanding and Personal and Social Capability. This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English) Language Text structure and organisation Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts I OWN THE RACECOURSE! Patricia Wrightson. Patricia Wrightson, one of Australia’s most eminent writers for children and teenagers, was part of the vanguard that established our literature for children: not only in Australia but around the world.. She was born at Bangalow, near Lismore on the New South Wales north coast, in 1921 and grew up between the two world wars, developing a spiritual connection to theCLEVER CROW
Clever Crow comprises just fifteen sentences. It uses a range of sentence lengths and types (simple, compound, complex) throughout. Assist students to determine the sentence length variations in Clever Crow by having them create a column graph that depicts the length of each of the sentences. THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS The Natural Way of Things is fiction, but it draws quite explicitly on a number of recent and well-known incidents where women were publicly excoriated, shamed or even killed for their sexual transgressions. There’s the woman raped by a gang of men and left for dead on the cruise ship; the woman who accused a well-known CEO of sexual PAT TORRES - READING AUSTRALIA Pat Torres belongs to three Indigenous groups: the Jabirr Jabirr from the north of Broome, the Nyul Nyul from the Beagle Bay area and the Yawuru people from Broome. She is a writer, artist, illustrator, community worker, health worker, educator and administrator who holds a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education. Pat runs an 6 BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAYREADING AUSTRALIA
Gregg Dreise. Gregg Dreise is a gifted artist, storyteller and musician, and he features the didgeridoo and guitar in his performances at schools, libraries and festivals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. He is the author and illustrator of Cunning Crow; Silly Birds EXTENDED: PLAYWRITING COMPETITION WITH URSULA DUBOSARSKY The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Competition closes 11.59pm (AEST) 9 May 2021; winners will be notified by 5pm (AEST) 28 May 2021. Two winners will receive: one copy of Ursula Dubosarsky’s Pierre’s Not There, signed by the author; one Booktopia voucher worth $75.00; and one virtual classroom visitYOUNG DARK EMU
CARPENTARIA
Carpentaria is an uncompromisingly ambitious tale of a town in crisis, and the tensions – escalating around the establishment of the mining site – between factions of its Indigenous population, and between the Indigenous people and the white folk of ‘Uptown’. Since 1770, when Captain James Cook claimed the east coast of the continentCURRICULUM SUMMARY
The Patchwork Bike General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Intercultural Understanding and Personal and Social Capability. This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English) Language Text structure and organisation Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts I OWN THE RACECOURSE! Patricia Wrightson. Patricia Wrightson, one of Australia’s most eminent writers for children and teenagers, was part of the vanguard that established our literature for children: not only in Australia but around the world.. She was born at Bangalow, near Lismore on the New South Wales north coast, in 1921 and grew up between the two world wars, developing a spiritual connection to theCLEVER CROW
Clever Crow comprises just fifteen sentences. It uses a range of sentence lengths and types (simple, compound, complex) throughout. Assist students to determine the sentence length variations in Clever Crow by having them create a column graph that depicts the length of each of the sentences. THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS The Natural Way of Things is fiction, but it draws quite explicitly on a number of recent and well-known incidents where women were publicly excoriated, shamed or even killed for their sexual transgressions. There’s the woman raped by a gang of men and left for dead on the cruise ship; the woman who accused a well-known CEO of sexual PAT TORRES - READING AUSTRALIA Pat Torres belongs to three Indigenous groups: the Jabirr Jabirr from the north of Broome, the Nyul Nyul from the Beagle Bay area and the Yawuru people from Broome. She is a writer, artist, illustrator, community worker, health worker, educator and administrator who holds a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education. Pat runs an 6 BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAY SPECIAL SIGN-UP OFFER Subscribe to Reading Australia by 9 July 2021 for your chance to win one of five $50 Booktopia vouchers! Simply fill in your details below, answer the question (which Australian book would you most like to teach and why?) and submit the form to go in the running. Create your own user feedback survey OfferBOOK LISTS ARCHIVES
9th Dec 2020 Book Lists, News. This has been a record year for Reading Australia: not only did our community surpass 20,000 subscribers, but we also published 35 resources in the last 12 months (compared with 21 resources the year before). As our final news post for the year, we’ve gathered here all 35 resources – 15 for primary teachers A BRIDGE TO WISEMAN'S COVE A ‘full-blown’ hero’s journey story (e.g. The Lord of the Rings) has quite a complex structure. A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove may not contain all the ingredients of such a story. However, students may find some of the following elements in its structure: Begins in anordinary world.
MAHTAB'S STORY
Mahtab’s Story gives texture and context to the lives of thousands that have attempted to make it to Australia, and millions that have made the journey to seek refuge around the world. Chapter One begins sharply, opening with a two-word sentence: ‘MAHTAB ACHED.’. The capital letters lend aYOUNG DARK EMU
Responding to the text. Read the text Young Dark Emu, adjusting reading times to suit your group. Colour – Symbol – Image – Word. Use the chapter structure in Young Dark Emu as a framework for student responses to the text.Have students divide one page in their books into four squares, and at the end of each of the six chapters, have students complete a Colour – Symbol – Image THE COMPLETE STORIES A subtle and sensitive inclusion of Aboriginal connection to land shows how the political is ever-present in any personal experience that centres on a rural place in Australia. The Complete Stories gives an overview of a distinguished career but also shows how strong FLOOD - READING AUSTRALIA Inspired by the Queensland floods, Flood is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the honest eyes of a cattle dog that has been separated from his family. The floodwater mercilessly rips through the towns, and finally recedes, leaving a devastating widespread path of destruction. But from the ruins,courage
CONNECTING THROUGH LITERATURE By Jenni Connor Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia (EYLF) was distributed to early childhood education and care services in 2009. The EYLF is Australia’s first national curriculum statement for educators working with children from birth to age five. On December 8, 2010, the Australian Curriculum for Schools Phase 1 wasBANJO AND RUBY RED
Finish by having pairs join with another pair and share. (ACELY1650) (ENe-10C) Banjo and Ruby Red are friends in this story even though Ruby Red doesn’t always do what Banjo asks. Unpack this theme of friendship with the students. Put students in groups with a copy of the text so they can focus on the illustrations as well as the text. REMEMBER RONALD RYAN But he, too, can’t articulate what. That’s the paradox of the play. Remember Ronald Ryan is an exposé of the conservative society that allowed a brutal execution to go ahead. After Ryan’s death, the Australia of prison hangings ceased to be – the protests of 1967 leddirectly to
READING AUSTRALIA
Gregg Dreise. Gregg Dreise is a gifted artist, storyteller and musician, and he features the didgeridoo and guitar in his performances at schools, libraries and festivals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. He is the author and illustrator of Cunning Crow; Silly Birds A BRIDGE TO WISEMAN'S COVEWELCOME TO COUNTRY
These introductory activities are designed to acknowledge students’ prior knowledge and build students’ field of knowledge about the concepts of Aboriginal culture. Begin by focusing on the title of the book, Welcome to Country. Invite students to identify where they have heard this phrase before.YOUNG DARK EMU
JASPER JONES
Introduce the concept of context to students by alerting students to the White Australia Policy used by various Australian state governments from 1901 to 1973. Introducing Jasper Jones through context is a means of familiarising students with the prevailing attitudes and policies that were part of Australian cultural life inthe 1960s.
EXTENDED: PLAYWRITING COMPETITION WITH URSULA DUBOSARSKY The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Competition closes 11.59pm (AEST) 9 May 2021; winners will be notified by 5pm (AEST) 28 May 2021. Two winners will receive: one copy of Ursula Dubosarsky’s Pierre’s Not There, signed by the author; one Booktopia voucher worth $75.00; and one virtual classroom visit SORRY DAY - READING AUSTRALIA Examining text structure and organisation Genre. The teacher opens up a discussion about genre. In the Australian Curriculum: English, the term genre is used to mean ‘How texts are grouped depending on their social purpose (for example, to recount, to describe, to persuade, to narrate).’. Ask students to determine the genre of Sorry Day.It is historical fiction because the plot takes place FLOOD - READING AUSTRALIA Inspired by the Queensland floods, Flood is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the honest eyes of a cattle dog that has been separated from his family. The floodwater mercilessly rips through the towns, and finally recedes, leaving a devastating widespread path of destruction. But from the ruins,courage
BLUEBACK - READING AUSTRALIASEE MORE ON READINGAUSTRALIA.COM.AU UNPACKING VISUAL LITERACY FOR EARLY YEARS LEARNERS Activity 2. Some explicit teaching around visual literacy then occurs. Utilising the work of Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen (2006), Lorraine McDonald (2013), Painter, Martin and Unsworth (2013), Len Unsworth (2001) and a paper by Len and myself (2014) the teacher shows the children a number of images from picture books and discusses three meta-semiotic meanings: representational orREADING AUSTRALIA
Gregg Dreise. Gregg Dreise is a gifted artist, storyteller and musician, and he features the didgeridoo and guitar in his performances at schools, libraries and festivals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. He is the author and illustrator of Cunning Crow; Silly Birds A BRIDGE TO WISEMAN'S COVEWELCOME TO COUNTRY
These introductory activities are designed to acknowledge students’ prior knowledge and build students’ field of knowledge about the concepts of Aboriginal culture. Begin by focusing on the title of the book, Welcome to Country. Invite students to identify where they have heard this phrase before.YOUNG DARK EMU
JASPER JONES
Introduce the concept of context to students by alerting students to the White Australia Policy used by various Australian state governments from 1901 to 1973. Introducing Jasper Jones through context is a means of familiarising students with the prevailing attitudes and policies that were part of Australian cultural life inthe 1960s.
EXTENDED: PLAYWRITING COMPETITION WITH URSULA DUBOSARSKY The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Competition closes 11.59pm (AEST) 9 May 2021; winners will be notified by 5pm (AEST) 28 May 2021. Two winners will receive: one copy of Ursula Dubosarsky’s Pierre’s Not There, signed by the author; one Booktopia voucher worth $75.00; and one virtual classroom visit SORRY DAY - READING AUSTRALIA Examining text structure and organisation Genre. The teacher opens up a discussion about genre. In the Australian Curriculum: English, the term genre is used to mean ‘How texts are grouped depending on their social purpose (for example, to recount, to describe, to persuade, to narrate).’. Ask students to determine the genre of Sorry Day.It is historical fiction because the plot takes place FLOOD - READING AUSTRALIA Inspired by the Queensland floods, Flood is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the honest eyes of a cattle dog that has been separated from his family. The floodwater mercilessly rips through the towns, and finally recedes, leaving a devastating widespread path of destruction. But from the ruins,courage
BLUEBACK - READING AUSTRALIASEE MORE ON READINGAUSTRALIA.COM.AU UNPACKING VISUAL LITERACY FOR EARLY YEARS LEARNERS Activity 2. Some explicit teaching around visual literacy then occurs. Utilising the work of Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen (2006), Lorraine McDonald (2013), Painter, Martin and Unsworth (2013), Len Unsworth (2001) and a paper by Len and myself (2014) the teacher shows the children a number of images from picture books and discusses three meta-semiotic meanings: representational or SPECIAL SIGN-UP OFFER Subscribe to Reading Australia by 9 July 2021 for your chance to win one of five $50 Booktopia vouchers! Simply fill in your details below, answer the question (which Australian book would you most like to teach and why?) and submit the form to go in the running. Create your own user feedback survey OfferPRIMARY ARCHIVES
Amy and Louis are best friends. They live next door to each other. When they want to play they call to each other across the room, across the yard or across the fence using a special word Amy’s mother taught her – Coo-ee. The games they play are richly imaginative.They
WELCOME TO COUNTRY
These introductory activities are designed to acknowledge students’ prior knowledge and build students’ field of knowledge about the concepts of Aboriginal culture. Begin by focusing on the title of the book, Welcome to Country. Invite students to identify where they have heard this phrase before.STOLEN GIRL
As a class quickly revisit the structure of a narrative. Then discuss play scripts and how to adapt the text of Stolen Girl into a readers’ theatre script. Form four groups and give each group a section of the book. Group one: pages 1–6. Group two: pages 7–12. Group three: pages 13–20.CLEVER CROW
Clever Crow comprises just fifteen sentences. It uses a range of sentence lengths and types (simple, compound, complex) throughout. Assist students to determine the sentence length variations in Clever Crow by having them create a column graph that depicts the length of each of the sentences. WILFRID GORDON MCDONALD PARTRIDGE More Resources. YouTube reading of Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge.. Go to the Mem Fox website to find out more about the author, her books and her awards.. Find out about the illustrator, Julie Vivas and her books. Read an interview with Julie Vivas. Teaching activities and images from the book.. Reader’s Theatre adaption of the text.. Related titles (memory and friendship) REFUGEES - READING AUSTRALIA The picture book Refugees, by David Miller, explores the notion of habitat loss from the perspective of two ducks. This text provides a platform for teachers to explore the theme of habitat loss for animals and forced migration that occurs to people. Before beginning encourage students to find out about their local community resources.SHAKE A LEG
Connecting to prior knowledge. Shake a Leg is a fictional text that brings together a cultural celebration of food, dance and storytelling across cultures and generations. Prior to beginning the exploration of Shake a Leg talk about the importance of Acknowledgement of Country.If this is unfamiliar read the advice about constructing an Acknowledgement of Country here before beginning.ROMULUS, MY FATHER
Romulus Gaita was a Yugoslav-born blacksmith who, under trying circumstances, left his home for Germany, and there met and married Christine Dörr, a local woman from a middle-class background. In 1946 they had a child, Raimond, and in 1950 the family migrated on an assisted passage to Australia and settled in central Victoria. TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN Tomorrow, When the War Began is the first in a seven-part series. The novel ends with an epilogue from Ellie, getting her writing up-to-date and commenting on the characters’ potential future in Hell without Kevin and Corrie. Reflect on what could eventuate in the other sixnovels.
READING AUSTRALIA
Gregg Dreise. Gregg Dreise is a gifted artist, storyteller and musician, and he features the didgeridoo and guitar in his performances at schools, libraries and festivals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. He is the author and illustrator of Cunning Crow; Silly Birds EXTENDED: PLAYWRITING COMPETITION WITH URSULA DUBOSARSKY The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Competition closes 11.59pm (AEST) 9 May 2021; winners will be notified by 5pm (AEST) 28 May 2021. Two winners will receive: one copy of Ursula Dubosarsky’s Pierre’s Not There, signed by the author; one Booktopia voucher worth $75.00; and one virtual classroom visitYEAR 4 ARCHIVES
Daisy’s life story runs along the bottom of the pages: how she was born on a mission, schooled, introduced to Christianity, started writing and what she does now. The poems and illustrations on each page often relate to her life story. Useful as a reader for adultliteracy or
CLEVER CROW
Clever Crow comprises just fifteen sentences. It uses a range of sentence lengths and types (simple, compound, complex) throughout. Assist students to determine the sentence length variations in Clever Crow by having them create a column graph that depicts the length of each of the sentences.CURRICULUM SUMMARY
The Patchwork Bike General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Intercultural Understanding and Personal and Social Capability. This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English) Language Text structure and organisation Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts I OWN THE RACECOURSE! Patricia Wrightson. Patricia Wrightson, one of Australia’s most eminent writers for children and teenagers, was part of the vanguard that established our literature for children: not only in Australia but around the world.. She was born at Bangalow, near Lismore on the New South Wales north coast, in 1921 and grew up between the two world wars, developing a spiritual connection to theCARPENTARIA
Carpentaria is an uncompromisingly ambitious tale of a town in crisis, and the tensions – escalating around the establishment of the mining site – between factions of its Indigenous population, and between the Indigenous people and the white folk of ‘Uptown’. Since 1770, when Captain James Cook claimed the east coast of the continentCOOEE MITTIGAR
Cooee – a calling sound of the Gaawii whip bird, and copied by humans to identify one’s location or attract attention. It is used to say ‘hello’. Practise calling cooee to one another, best in a location for an echo. Note it is an Aboriginal word that is used inAustralian English.
THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS The Natural Way of Things is fiction, but it draws quite explicitly on a number of recent and well-known incidents where women were publicly excoriated, shamed or even killed for their sexual transgressions. There’s the woman raped by a gang of men and left for dead on the cruise ship; the woman who accused a well-known CEO of sexual PAT TORRES - READING AUSTRALIA Pat Torres belongs to three Indigenous groups: the Jabirr Jabirr from the north of Broome, the Nyul Nyul from the Beagle Bay area and the Yawuru people from Broome. She is a writer, artist, illustrator, community worker, health worker, educator and administrator who holds a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education. Pat runs anREADING AUSTRALIA
Gregg Dreise. Gregg Dreise is a gifted artist, storyteller and musician, and he features the didgeridoo and guitar in his performances at schools, libraries and festivals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. He is the author and illustrator of Cunning Crow; Silly Birds EXTENDED: PLAYWRITING COMPETITION WITH URSULA DUBOSARSKY The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Competition closes 11.59pm (AEST) 9 May 2021; winners will be notified by 5pm (AEST) 28 May 2021. Two winners will receive: one copy of Ursula Dubosarsky’s Pierre’s Not There, signed by the author; one Booktopia voucher worth $75.00; and one virtual classroom visitYEAR 4 ARCHIVES
Daisy’s life story runs along the bottom of the pages: how she was born on a mission, schooled, introduced to Christianity, started writing and what she does now. The poems and illustrations on each page often relate to her life story. Useful as a reader for adultliteracy or
CLEVER CROW
Clever Crow comprises just fifteen sentences. It uses a range of sentence lengths and types (simple, compound, complex) throughout. Assist students to determine the sentence length variations in Clever Crow by having them create a column graph that depicts the length of each of the sentences.CURRICULUM SUMMARY
The Patchwork Bike General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Intercultural Understanding and Personal and Social Capability. This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English) Language Text structure and organisation Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts I OWN THE RACECOURSE! Patricia Wrightson. Patricia Wrightson, one of Australia’s most eminent writers for children and teenagers, was part of the vanguard that established our literature for children: not only in Australia but around the world.. She was born at Bangalow, near Lismore on the New South Wales north coast, in 1921 and grew up between the two world wars, developing a spiritual connection to theCARPENTARIA
Carpentaria is an uncompromisingly ambitious tale of a town in crisis, and the tensions – escalating around the establishment of the mining site – between factions of its Indigenous population, and between the Indigenous people and the white folk of ‘Uptown’. Since 1770, when Captain James Cook claimed the east coast of the continentCOOEE MITTIGAR
Cooee – a calling sound of the Gaawii whip bird, and copied by humans to identify one’s location or attract attention. It is used to say ‘hello’. Practise calling cooee to one another, best in a location for an echo. Note it is an Aboriginal word that is used inAustralian English.
THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS The Natural Way of Things is fiction, but it draws quite explicitly on a number of recent and well-known incidents where women were publicly excoriated, shamed or even killed for their sexual transgressions. There’s the woman raped by a gang of men and left for dead on the cruise ship; the woman who accused a well-known CEO of sexual PAT TORRES - READING AUSTRALIA Pat Torres belongs to three Indigenous groups: the Jabirr Jabirr from the north of Broome, the Nyul Nyul from the Beagle Bay area and the Yawuru people from Broome. She is a writer, artist, illustrator, community worker, health worker, educator and administrator who holds a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education. Pat runs an WHO WON OUR PLAYWRITING COMPETITION? The results of our playwriting competition with the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) are in! Thank you to everyone who entered – we loved seeing how each of you expanded on the story of Pierre’s Not There!. All our entries came from Stage 3 students, so after careful deliberation with Ursula Dubosarsky herself, we came up with one winning and two highly commended SPECIAL SIGN-UP OFFER Subscribe to Reading Australia by 9 July 2021 for your chance to win one of five $50 Booktopia vouchers! Simply fill in your details below, answer the question (which Australian book would you most like to teach and why?) and submit the form to go in the running. Create your own user feedback survey Offer A GLASSHOUSE OF STARS GIVEAWAY TERMS AND CONDITIONS. By entering you’re agreeing to the terms and conditions: This is a game of skill. Chance plays no part in determining the winner. A BRIDGE TO WISEMAN'S COVE A ‘full-blown’ hero’s journey story (e.g. The Lord of the Rings) has quite a complex structure. A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove may not contain all the ingredients of such a story. However, students may find some of the following elements in its structure: Begins in anordinary world.
SCHOLASTIC AUSTRALIA ARCHIVES Speak Chinese, Fang Fang! Fang Fang was born in China, but she and her parents came to live in Australia when she was very Year: Foundation, Primary Author: Sally Rippin Publisher: Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia Published year: 2006 Teacher Resource BINDI - READING AUSTRALIA Consider what is shown on pages 14–18, 39–40, 44–45 and 49. Ask students to record what is in Bindi’s heart. This can be done in a reading response book or on a piece of paper by drawing a heart and then adding ideas and evidence around the heart. Direct quotes can be added in speech bubbles. FLOOD - READING AUSTRALIA Inspired by the Queensland floods, Flood is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the honest eyes of a cattle dog that has been separated from his family. The floodwater mercilessly rips through the towns, and finally recedes, leaving a devastating widespread path of destruction. But from the ruins,courage
MY GIRRAGUNDJI
And in the day you’ve got to watch yourself. It can be rough. Words come yelling at you that hurt. Alive with humour, My Girragundji is the vivid story of a boy growing up between two worlds. With the little green tree frog as a friend, the bullies at school don’t seem so big anymore. And Girragundji gives him the courage to face hisfears.
FAMILY ARCHIVES
Melina Marchetta’s stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl’s story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls’ school. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year sheBELONGING ARCHIVES
Melina Marchetta’s stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl’s story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls’ school. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year sheREADING AUSTRALIA
Gregg Dreise. Gregg Dreise is a gifted artist, storyteller and musician, and he features the didgeridoo and guitar in his performances at schools, libraries and festivals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. He is the author and illustrator of Cunning Crow; Silly BirdsTEACHERS' CORNER
Welcome to Teachers’ Corner! This is a curated space filled with articles, book lists, competitions, downloadable colouring pages, video content, activities and the latest book news. It is a collection of content created by the Reading Australia team and the very best material from our partners, including publishers, literary journals and other educational websites. It’s everythingYOUNG DARK EMU
THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS The Natural Way of Things is fiction, but it draws quite explicitly on a number of recent and well-known incidents where women were publicly excoriated, shamed or even killed for their sexual transgressions. There’s the woman raped by a gang of men and left for dead on the cruise ship; the woman who accused a well-known CEO of sexual FLOOD - READING AUSTRALIA Inspired by the Queensland floods, Flood is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the honest eyes of a cattle dog that has been separated from his family. The floodwater mercilessly rips through the towns, and finally recedes, leaving a devastating widespread path of destruction. But from the ruins,courage
I OWN THE RACECOURSE! Patricia Wrightson. Patricia Wrightson, one of Australia’s most eminent writers for children and teenagers, was part of the vanguard that established our literature for children: not only in Australia but around the world.. She was born at Bangalow, near Lismore on the New South Wales north coast, in 1921 and grew up between the two world wars, developing a spiritual connection to theTHE PATCHWORK BIKE
Connecting to prior knowledge Before Reading Before beginning, the teacher might like to prepare for the unit by reading about cultural understanding.Show students the cover of The Patchwork Bike and explain this book represents another culture.Turn the pages of the book, only showing the illustrations and ask:CURRICULUM SUMMARY
The Patchwork Bike General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Intercultural Understanding and Personal and Social Capability. This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English) Language Text structure and organisation Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts ASH ROAD - READING AUSTRALIASEE MORE ON READINGAUSTRALIA.COM.AU 6 BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAYREADING AUSTRALIA
Gregg Dreise. Gregg Dreise is a gifted artist, storyteller and musician, and he features the didgeridoo and guitar in his performances at schools, libraries and festivals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. He is the author and illustrator of Cunning Crow; Silly BirdsTEACHERS' CORNER
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THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS The Natural Way of Things is fiction, but it draws quite explicitly on a number of recent and well-known incidents where women were publicly excoriated, shamed or even killed for their sexual transgressions. There’s the woman raped by a gang of men and left for dead on the cruise ship; the woman who accused a well-known CEO of sexual FLOOD - READING AUSTRALIA Inspired by the Queensland floods, Flood is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the honest eyes of a cattle dog that has been separated from his family. The floodwater mercilessly rips through the towns, and finally recedes, leaving a devastating widespread path of destruction. But from the ruins,courage
I OWN THE RACECOURSE! Patricia Wrightson. Patricia Wrightson, one of Australia’s most eminent writers for children and teenagers, was part of the vanguard that established our literature for children: not only in Australia but around the world.. She was born at Bangalow, near Lismore on the New South Wales north coast, in 1921 and grew up between the two world wars, developing a spiritual connection to theTHE PATCHWORK BIKE
Connecting to prior knowledge Before Reading Before beginning, the teacher might like to prepare for the unit by reading about cultural understanding.Show students the cover of The Patchwork Bike and explain this book represents another culture.Turn the pages of the book, only showing the illustrations and ask:CURRICULUM SUMMARY
The Patchwork Bike General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Intercultural Understanding and Personal and Social Capability. This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English) Language Text structure and organisation Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts ASH ROAD - READING AUSTRALIASEE MORE ON READINGAUSTRALIA.COM.AU 6 BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAY WHO WON OUR PLAYWRITING COMPETITION? The results of our playwriting competition with the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) are in! Thank you to everyone who entered – we loved seeing how each of you expanded on the story of Pierre’s Not There!. All our entries came from Stage 3 students, so after careful deliberation with Ursula Dubosarsky herself, we came up with one winning and two highly commended A GLASSHOUSE OF STARS GIVEAWAY TERMS AND CONDITIONS. By entering you’re agreeing to the terms and conditions: This is a game of skill. Chance plays no part in determining the winner. COMPETITIONS ARCHIVES 24th Sep 2020 Competitions. Thank you to everyone who entered our National Reconciliation Week colouring competition – there were over 850 entries, so it was fiercely competitive! The Reading Australia team had a hard time choosing the final winners, but weYEAR 4 ARCHIVES
Daisy’s life story runs along the bottom of the pages: how she was born on a mission, schooled, introduced to Christianity, started writing and what she does now. The poems and illustrations on each page often relate to her life story. Useful as a reader for adultliteracy or
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Melina Marchetta’s stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl’s story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls’ school. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year sheSTOLEN GIRL
As a class quickly revisit the structure of a narrative. Then discuss play scripts and how to adapt the text of Stolen Girl into a readers’ theatre script. Form four groups and give each group a section of the book. Group one: pages 1–6. Group two: pages 7–12. Group three: pages 13–20.CARPENTARIA
Carpentaria is an uncompromisingly ambitious tale of a town in crisis, and the tensions – escalating around the establishment of the mining site – between factions of its Indigenous population, and between the Indigenous people and the white folk of ‘Uptown’. Since 1770, when Captain James Cook claimed the east coast of the continent THE ONE DAY OF THE YEAR Publisher's synopsis. Undoubtedly one of Australia’s favourite plays, The One Day of the Year explores the universal theme of father–son conflict against the background of the beery haze and the heady, nostalgic sentimentality of Anzac Day.It is a play to make us question a standard institution – Anzac Day, the sacred cow among Australian annual celebrations – but it is the likeabilityCURRICULUM SUMMARY
Banjo and Ruby Red General Capabilities evident throughout this unit include Literacy, Numeracy, Information and Communication Technology, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding and Critical and Creative Thinking. This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Foundation (English). Links to other DOT AND THE KANGAROO Ethel Charlotte Pedley. Ethel Charlotte Pedley (1859–1898) was born in London and died in Darlinghurst, Sydney. The family migrated to Australia in about 1873. Although an accomplished and active musician, she is known for writing her only book, the Australian classic Dot and the Kangaroo.It is thought that visits to her brother’s farm near Walgett gave her a love and understanding of theREADING AUSTRALIA
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The heartwarming story of Lilian Singer, who starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family and ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare for a living. From Booker-shortlisted author Kate Grenville. This is the story of LilianSinger, born
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FLOOD - READING AUSTRALIA Inspired by the Queensland floods, Flood is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the honest eyes of a cattle dog that has been separated from his family. The floodwater mercilessly rips through the towns, and finally recedes, leaving a devastating widespread path of destruction. But from the ruins,courage
I OWN THE RACECOURSE! Patricia Wrightson. Patricia Wrightson, one of Australia’s most eminent writers for children and teenagers, was part of the vanguard that established our literature for children: not only in Australia but around the world.. She was born at Bangalow, near Lismore on the New South Wales north coast, in 1921 and grew up between the two world wars, developing a spiritual connection to theCURRICULUM SUMMARY
The Patchwork Bike General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Intercultural Understanding and Personal and Social Capability. This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English) Language Text structure and organisation Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple textsTHE PATCHWORK BIKE
Connecting to prior knowledge Before Reading Before beginning, the teacher might like to prepare for the unit by reading about cultural understanding.Show students the cover of The Patchwork Bike and explain this book represents another culture.Turn the pages of the book, only showing the illustrations and ask:MOTHER I'M ROOTED
‘Sheila Rowbotham has written that the political expression of personal experience lies within the domain of novels and poetry. Seldom has this principle been made more apparent than in the anthology Mother, I’m Rooted. It becomes more and more clear witheach
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Welcome to Teachers’ Corner! This is a curated space filled with articles, book lists, competitions, downloadable colouring pages, video content, activities and the latest book news. It is a collection of content created by the Reading Australia team and the very best material from our partners, including publishers, literary journals and other educational websites. It’s everything THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS About the essay author. ANNE SUMMERS is a journalist and author whose eight books include the classic Damned Whores and God’s Police, first published in 1975 and reissued in a revised and updated edition in 2016.Her most recent book is The Misogyny Factor (New South, 2013).. Essay reviewers. Reading Australia would like to thank all those who assisted in reviewing the essays.LILIAN'S STORY
The heartwarming story of Lilian Singer, who starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family and ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare for a living. From Booker-shortlisted author Kate Grenville. This is the story of LilianSinger, born
YOUNG DARK EMU
FLOOD - READING AUSTRALIA Inspired by the Queensland floods, Flood is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the honest eyes of a cattle dog that has been separated from his family. The floodwater mercilessly rips through the towns, and finally recedes, leaving a devastating widespread path of destruction. But from the ruins,courage
I OWN THE RACECOURSE! Patricia Wrightson. Patricia Wrightson, one of Australia’s most eminent writers for children and teenagers, was part of the vanguard that established our literature for children: not only in Australia but around the world.. She was born at Bangalow, near Lismore on the New South Wales north coast, in 1921 and grew up between the two world wars, developing a spiritual connection to theCURRICULUM SUMMARY
The Patchwork Bike General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Intercultural Understanding and Personal and Social Capability. This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English) Language Text structure and organisation Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple textsTHE PATCHWORK BIKE
Connecting to prior knowledge Before Reading Before beginning, the teacher might like to prepare for the unit by reading about cultural understanding.Show students the cover of The Patchwork Bike and explain this book represents another culture.Turn the pages of the book, only showing the illustrations and ask:MOTHER I'M ROOTED
‘Sheila Rowbotham has written that the political expression of personal experience lies within the domain of novels and poetry. Seldom has this principle been made more apparent than in the anthology Mother, I’m Rooted. It becomes more and more clear witheach
WHO WON OUR PLAYWRITING COMPETITION? The results of our playwriting competition with the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) are in! Thank you to everyone who entered – we loved seeing how each of you expanded on the story of Pierre’s Not There!. All our entries came from Stage 3 students, so after careful deliberation with Ursula Dubosarsky herself, we came up with one winning and two highly commendedTHE PATCHWORK BIKE
Connecting to prior knowledge Before Reading Before beginning, the teacher might like to prepare for the unit by reading about cultural understanding.Show students the cover of The Patchwork Bike and explain this book represents another culture.Turn the pages of the book, only showing the illustrations and ask: A GLASSHOUSE OF STARS GIVEAWAY TERMS AND CONDITIONS. By entering you’re agreeing to the terms and conditions: This is a game of skill. Chance plays no part in determining the winner.YEAR 4 ARCHIVES
Daisy’s life story runs along the bottom of the pages: how she was born on a mission, schooled, introduced to Christianity, started writing and what she does now. The poems and illustrations on each page often relate to her life story. Useful as a reader for adultliteracy or
REMEMBERING LIONSVILLE Connecting to prior knowledge. Before beginning, teachers may like to read Magabala Books’ introduction to teaching Indigenous content, which provides background information about using First Nations texts in the classroom. Remembering Lionsville recounts stories from a family spanning decades and incorporating major events such as World Wars, the Depression and gold mining. DOT AND THE KANGAROO Ethel Charlotte Pedley. Ethel Charlotte Pedley (1859–1898) was born in London and died in Darlinghurst, Sydney. The family migrated to Australia in about 1873. Although an accomplished and active musician, she is known for writing her only book, the Australian classic Dot and the Kangaroo.It is thought that visits to her brother’s farm near Walgett gave her a love and understanding of theCURRICULUM SUMMARY
Banjo and Ruby Red General Capabilities evident throughout this unit include Literacy, Numeracy, Information and Communication Technology, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding and Critical and Creative Thinking. This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Foundation (English). Links to otherCARPENTARIA
About the essay author. Meera Atkinson is a Sydney-based writer, poet and scholar. Her writing has appeared in over sixty publications, including Griffith Review, Salon.com, Meanjin, Best Australian Stories 2007 and Best Australian Poems 2010.She has a PhD on the transgenerational transmission and poetics of trauma from the Writing and Society Research Centre at the Western Sydney UniversityBELONGING ARCHIVES
Melina Marchetta’s stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl’s story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls’ school. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year sheFAMILY ARCHIVES
Melina Marchetta’s stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl’s story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls’ school. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year sheMenu
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