60 + pages of activities to accompany Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker for the 2024 National Simultaneous Storytime!

This activity pack is designed to be used for National Simultaneous Storytime 2024 as well as close study of the text, any time!

What’s included?

– Before and After reading prompts

– differentiated reading passages – All About Bowerbirds

– KWL chart

– Scavenger Hunt activity

– mathematics tallying and graphing

– literacy task cards/choice board

– title page (for use as a booklet)

– differentiated reading comprehension including response to text and factual (3 levels of difficulty)

– differentiated cloze passages (3 levels of difficulty)

– differentiated verbs worksheets (3 levels of difficulty)

– writing tasks and templates including five senses and recount writing

– story map

– differentiated phonics worksheets for the ‘ir’ phoneme (3 levels of difficulty)

– detailed grammar worksheets for ‘-ing’ suffix

– sorting natural vs. man-made materials

– bowerbird fact file template

– find-a-word

This resource really packs a punch with a variety of differentiated learning tasks to suit all learners in your classroom! The level of differentiation makes this suitable for years 2 – 6 (Australia).There are enough worksheets and activities to last a week or two! Perfect to incorporate into your English teaching and literacy or reading groups.

63 pages including answer sheets!

Australian spelling has been used throughout the resource.