Teacher Notes and Activity Sheets!
Sometimes the best things in life are free, like these great teaching resources. Simply click on the image to download teaching notes and activity PDF.
G.O.A.T. Teacher Notes (Stage 1)
Lots of great class discussion and activity ideas. Create your own acrostic poem, plan a sausage sizzle with your class or find out what makes the animals in this book friends. These notes are created by Rae Caryle for Scholastic Australia.
Bin Chicken – Colouring Sheet (Stage 1)
Get colouring with our favourite bird! Click the image to download an activity sheet that celebrates the naughtiest of native birds, our very own Bin Chicken.
Are You My Bottom – Colouring Sheet (Stage 1)
This book is ridiculous. I don’t know what we were thinking. Kids LOVE it though, so they’ll love helping this little panda find his bottom with this colouring sheet.
Room on Our Rock – Teacher Notes (Stage 1/2/3)
Winner of the Charlotte Huck award, this backwards-forward book is perfect for talking about empathy and how we treat others. So many fantastic classroom applications in these notes. Click the image to download now.
Trilby Moffat Series – Teacher Notes (Stage 2/3)
Rich with adventure, history and imagination, the Trilby Moffat series are the perfect series to inspire young writers to create stories and characters of their own. Download these teacher notes created by Hachette Australia for ideas.
FROG SQUAD Teacher Notes (Stage 1/2)
These resources explore themes of the Natural World, Sustainability, Belonging, Humour. They focus on building media literacy through fun critical thinking exercises based around the unique formate of the book, complete with its froggy ad breaks!
Trilby Moffat Series – Activity Sheet (Stage 2/3)
Each chapter of the Trilby Moffat series begins with a crossword clue. This clever activity sheet uses all those story clues to create a mega crossword. Download by clicking on the book cover.
The Underdogs Podcast – Activity Sheets
Did you know there is a fantastic PODCAST about all the crimes that happen in the Underdogs? It’s made by Listnr and it’s pawsome! There are also some fantastic activity sheets created By Steph Smith at the Museum Of Democracy Australia that go along with the Podcast and get kids writing from the perspective of the investigator. These are terrific, check them all out. Click the image to download.