Category: Classroom ideas

Celebrate our unique WA stories this Book Week with outfits that don’t need a full costume department. This year, go local with easy ideas inspired by West Aussie books and creators. Adventure with Cristy Burne Cristy Burne’s adventure series calls for raincoats, outdoor wear and tools like binoculars or a torch! Blast into Space with […]

Colour Me is a children’s picture book that uses the rainbow as a metaphor for our diversity and uniqueness. Ezekiel Kwaymullina and Moira Court use screen prints and evocative prose to deliver a strong message of diversity and inclusion. The Colour Me colouring-in activity sheet encourages individuality, creativity and self-awareness. For more teaching activities, download […]

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'Colour Me Activity'

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Get the classroom thinking creatively, and help Quokka find a friend, with this free teaching activity. Working together or solo, kids can brainstorm the animals that a quokka would encounter on the beach and draw a friend for them.

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'Draw a Friend for Quokka'

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Old Bertie by Perrella and Osborn is set in a dystopian society where all aspects of life are strictly controlled. In this new teaching activity, students can create their own dystopian society and the main character who lives in it, to help students connect world-building and character. Explore our free teaching notes for more classroom […]

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'Two Old Bertie activity sheets'

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‘I am a Noongar girl and I live by the sea. This is wardan country. It’s a special place for me.’ I Call the Ocean Wardan is a new picture book by Ebony Froome, and illustrated by Dellas Bennell and Korrine Bennell-Yarran. A young Noongar girl reflects on her favourite things about wardan (the ocean […]

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'How Is Wardan Special to You?'

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Relics from a legendary lost island, or just an elaborate hoax? Whatever the truth is behind the mysterious and legendary crystal skulls featured in The Crystal Skulls by Mark Greenwood, this is a chance for curious students to unleash their imagination. In the first free activity sheet, students can give their skull a name, some […]

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'Invent a new crystal skull and investigate another ancient wonder activities'

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Bring geography to life with a treasure hunt! In this free activity inspired by The Unlucky Pirate by Mark Greenwood, students will design their own treasure map to a legendary hidden treasure. Don’t forget to draw landmarks and fill in the map legend! Then, after researching flags and their meanings, design your own pirate flag […]

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'Treasure Island and Pirate Flag Activities'

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Join popular Palyku author Helen Milroy as she explores and celebrates the creatures you can see at the beach. From pretty starfish to puffed-up blowfish, this fun and educational early reader picture book is filled with brightly illustrated beach buddies. In this new activity sheet, your young reader can colour in each buddy and write […]

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'Who's your beach buddy?'

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Get to know our worl barna in this free teaching activity sheet! Worl Barna is the third book in a collection of board books by Jayden Boundry and Tyrown Waigana, all about our majestic, native sky creatures. Perfect for little readers, this activity invites them to colour in some winged friends, learn their names in […]

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'Do you know your worl barna?'

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One Day Soon is a new verse novel by Cristy Burne, a powerful and moving insight into a boy’s emotional journey through the diagnosis and loss of an uncle to motor neurone disease, compounded by his father and family’s own 50% risk of inheriting the causative gene. Alex learns to appreciate the smaller, special moments […]

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'Practise writing in free verse'

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This creative literacy activity doubles as an art project! Inspired by interactive poems in the poetry collection for children, If I Could Eat the Stars, this activity sheet invites students to play with words, build descriptive vocabulary and turn their writing into a poem shaped like an animal. Download the activity sheet and let students […]

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'Write your own shape poem'

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A new way to share Milly Meelyu with your little readers (and to learn alongside them!) Milly Meelyu is a new picture book by Dr Holly Bradley, translated into Badimia by Darryl Fogarty, lovingly illustrated by Corinne Fogarty and filled with themes of family, home and caring for Country. To help you bring the book […]

Learn to fear less, one small step at a time. Enjoy this storytime with Kelly Canby as she reads her new picture book, Fearless. Bea Ware is afraid of everything – from shadows to ladders to trampolines, she is in a constant state of anxiety and trepidation. Her friend, Annie Venture, seems completely carefree, skipping […]

These school holidays, practise fearing less in both big and small ways. In Kelly Canby’s new picture book, Fearless, Bea Ware is afraid of everything – from shadows to ladders to trampolines, she is in a constant state of anxiety and trepidation. Her friend, Annie Venture, seems completely carefree, skipping through life without a single […]

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'Try One New Thing Challenge'

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In Annie and Maeve Are Definitely Not Friends by Olivia Muscat, Maeve loves using her fancy-pants dictionary to look up words. In this activity sheet for ages 12+, students solve the clues and then search for words. For more teaching ideas, why not try: Download our free teaching notes for more ideas on how to […]

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'Annie and Maeve Word Search'

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Rather than focusing on loud or dramatic acts of bravery, Fearless by Kelly Canby explores quieter, everyday moments of courage, such as trying something new or facing uncertainty. In this new, free teaching activity, students can reflect on two things that they fear, and two ways that they can become less fearful of them. Just […]

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'What can I fear less?'

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Bring the special anniversary edition of In Flanders Fields by Norman Jorgensen and Brian Harrison-Lever to life with a hands-on activity that explores how soldiers stayed safe in the trenches. Students will use two empty milk cartons and two small mirrors to create their own periscopes and understand how they work. With free teaching notes […]

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'Make Your Own Periscope Activity'

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Bring the new edition of Lighthouse Girl by Dianne Wolfer (illustrated by Brian Simmonds) to life with a hands-on activity inspired by the way people once communicated across distances: semaphore. In this free activity, students will make their own pair of flags, learn the semaphore alphabet and use it to send messages to a partner. […]

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'Semaphoric Alphabet - Lighthouse Girl Activity'

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In the picture book Catalpa by Mike Lefroy and Joy Lefroy, a daring rescue mission is set in motion to free a group of Irish political prisoners from Fremantle Prison. Enter the high seas of the 1870s and learn the meaning behind words like ‘scrimshaw’, ‘gaol’ and ‘whaleboat’. Where does each word connect to the […]

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'Find the Words - Catalpa Activity Sheet'

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Combine literacy with fine motor skills in this engaging maze activity sheet! In Milly Meelyu by Holly Bradley, Darryl Fogarty and Corinne Fogarty, Milly Meelyu and her family search for a new home while avoiding the threat of predators. In this free, printable maze, young students will help Milly Meelyu navigate the journey towards a […]

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'Help Milly Meelyu Find a New Home'

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Dive into Noongar language learning with this engaging matching activity based on Kep Barna by Jayden Boundry and Tyrown Waigana. Students match the water creatures with their Noongar names, discovering traditional language and bringing this vibrant board book to life. You can also download a free classroom poster featuring several kep barna and boodja barna […]

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'Match the Kep Barna'

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Bring reflection and cultural awareness into the classroom with a teaching activity inspired by the new edition of My Country by Ezekiel Kwaymullina and Sally Morgan. In the activity sheet What do you do in your country?, invite youngsters to reflect on their culture unique to their country, while encouraging empathy and awareness of others.

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'What do you do in your country?'

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Looking for a rich springboard into text types and visual literacy? A New World Rises: Tales of a LEGO® Future is loaded with engaging and interactive text types that invite students to explore how writers shape meaning across different formats. Author Cristy Burne, who wrote the text for A New World Rises based on the […]

A foal is born at midnight, on the homestead side of the river. Coal black. Star ablaze. Moonlight in her eyes … Let imaginations run wild with this new activity sheet based on Midnight by Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac. Midnight is a unique-looking horse, and students are invited to create their own horse by […]

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'Design your horse'

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