tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44066366090478966812024-03-14T09:56:01.588-07:00Ripper Reading Resources - Rigorous Teaching Resources for Higher Order ThinkingKylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-60222895791278689822018-10-10T05:38:00.000-07:002018-10-10T05:38:41.902-07:00"The Heart of a Whale" by Anna Pignataro<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't often review books on my blog, but tonight I had the absolute pleasure of losing myself in the magical language and illustrations within <a href="http://annapignataro.com/hello/" target="_blank">Anna Pignataro</a>'s gorgeous new picture book, <i><a href="http://annapignataro.com/portfolio_page/the-heart-of-a-whale/" target="_blank">The heart of a whale</a></i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book is a useful addition for those studying oceans, whales, ocean environments, loneliness, hope and friendship. However, it is also one of those magical picture books that you just want to revisit and spend time with, as it touches you</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - a special dance between text and image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a wonderful mentor text for exploring language in use. Anna shares the song of the whale through the metaphor of music, with specific musical terms inciting imagery including scenes involving a sonata, symphony, orchestra, ballet and lullaby, as the whale continues "<i>warmly weaving a path of starlight</i>" through the ocean. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The language in this picture book appears simple, but is magical, for example, when the whale sighs, "<i>His sigh drifted away like a wish. A wish that the ocean carefully gathered and carried for him</i>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Figurative language can be foregrounded using this book as a mentor text, including the author's use of simile and personification. It would also be a wonderful choice for explicitly teaching visualising as a comprehension strategy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The water colour illustrations are divine, weaving together with the text to make this such a memorable read that will be enjoyed time and time again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a wonderful gift this book would be!</span><br />
<img class="nopin" src="http://honeybunchblogdesign2.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sgn1rr.png" />Kylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-18376370159192980972018-06-22T05:13:00.001-07:002018-06-22T16:45:59.997-07:00Teaching phonemic awareness and phonics - the hands-on way!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been having fun putting together some hands-on phonemic awareness and phonics sets for our classes. I started purchasing some mini objects and then sorted them into their major vowel sound groups - both short and long vowel sounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a work in progress, but I thought I would share progress along the way :). Approaches to the teaching of phonics are often contested, with teachers often having strong views about "the best way". My interest in putting together these hands-on kits, was to support oral language development and hands-on manipulation of real life (miniature) objects. I intend to link this with the exploration of examples of language in use through rich examples from children's literature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA) has published a paper,<span style="color: red;"> <a href="https://www.alea.edu.au/documents/item/943" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: red;">Phonics: its place in the literacy story</span></i></a></span> by Robyn Ewing (University of Sydney) and Marguerite Maher (Notre Dame University). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ALEA has also published a free resource for download, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.alea.edu.au/documents/item/773/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The place of phonics in learning to read and write</span></a> </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by Marie Emmitt, David Hornsby and Lorraine Wilson. You may also be interested in David Hornsby's response to the proposed Year 1 Phonics Test in relation to the <i>Australian Curriculum: English</i>. You can read that paper <a href="https://www.davidhornsby.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Aust-Curric-Yr-1-phonics-test.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are just some of the miniature objects that are sorted according to their major vowel sounds (e.g. short /a/, long a etc.). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a work in progress, so I will be posting updates, including my selected picture book titles for teaching the short and long vowel sounds. My list will include picture books by Aussie authors and recently published titles, including books that can be used for shared reading, with repeated readings focusing on the explicit teaching of phonics in context.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have a terrific week, everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Thinking-Creative-Co-Operative-Groups/dp/0170065553" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Adventures in Thinking</span></a>:</span> creative thinking & co-operative talk in small groups </i></span>by Joan Dalton was published in 1985. For a pre-service teacher in her final year of study, it was an influential text that was published to support the development of creative and critical thinking, problem-solving, questioning and co-operative learning groups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dalton (1985) ascribes the artwork throughout the book to eight-year-old Yuri </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chlebnikowski. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One page which has stuck with me for over thirty years is the introductory page to the section on creative thinking about disasters. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What struck me about this page, is that when I think of 'disasters', I think of fire, famine and flood, amongst others. The images on this page in the book, however, represent disasters in quite specific and different ways. I started thinking (which is the purpose of the book, to inspire thinking, and often we don't have the answers to our own questions and ponderings, which is one of the reasons why encouraging children to share their own thinking is so powerful)...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why did young Yuri, at eight years of age, represent 'disasters' with high-rise buildings, aircraft and parachutes? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's contextualise this...The book was published in 1985 by Thomas Nelson Australia, in South Melbourne, Victoria. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The events of September 11 were some twenty-six years later, after the book's date of publication. Australia had no history of events such as 9/11, so why did young Yuri, at eight years of age, represent 'Disasters' in this way? We certainly had a history in Australia of <b>natural disasters</b>, including fires, floods, cyclones, etc. but young Yuri's images depict man-made disasters, perhaps of imagined terrorist intent, and possibly pre-emptive of future world events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided to research where young Yuri may be now, thirty-two years later, as a forty-year-old man. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I imagined that 'Yuri Chlebnikowski' would not be a common name, so I commenced my search. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found one website that attributed a Yuri Chlebnikowski to </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.fractalpainting.com/efwseries.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">graphic design</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">work in relation to Nick Chlebnikowski's fractal paintings. Another, dated 2000, cited a 'Yuri Chlebnikowski' as an </span><a href="https://abr.business.gov.au/SearchByAbnHistory.aspx?SearchText=63389760617" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">artist and graphic designer</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. That would fit with the possible future of a young eight year old whose artworks were selected to be included in Joan Dalton's popular teacher professional development text.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found another website with the suggestion that Yuri could be the </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/full-bottle-in-chosen-fields-20090920-fwrz.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">son of Nick</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, a talented and well-known wine merchant, architect and artist from Melbourne, Victoria. There was also the suggestion on another website that Yuri may have been </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/east-doncaster/shops/nicks-wine-merchants" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Nick's grandson</span></a>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">now involved in running the family's liquor enterprise, </span><a href="https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/east-doncaster/shops/nicks-wine-merchants" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Nicks Wine Merchants</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, in Doncaster, Victoria. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether Yuri, is the son or grandson of Nick Chlebnikowski is unknown by me, however, what remains is the question of why Yuri represented disasters the way he did, as man-made constructions, in his illustrations as an eight-year-old Australian boy? Why didn't he represent 'disasters' as Australian natural disasters such as bushfires, floods, cyclones, droughts etc? Why did he choose to represent the concept of 'disasters' as involving aircraft and high-rise buildings? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Was the author of the book, Joan Dalton, aware of this visual construction of 'disasters' and did it align to the content within that chapter? Was young Yuri instructed or guided about what to draw on this title page to this section of the overall text?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The chapter on Disasters in the book, <i>Adventures in Thinking</i>, includes topics such as explosions, an escaped gorilla, equipment used in an emergency, fire at school, starving families, chaos at Melbourne airport, a disaster-proof home, bushfires, floods, cyclones, disease, war, drought, State Emergency Services, crime, a radiation leak at a city nuclear power station in the year 2000...but nothing suggesting a terror attack or planes flying into buildings as representations of disaster.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't have the answers, but the questions have been bubbling away now for over thirty years...and they probably still will...This is just one small example of the power of the visual text, over thirty years later!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I would love to hear from Joan or Yuri if they read this post :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have been following my blog for a while, you will know that I love text sets. That is, picture books or junior novels that come together, sometimes eclectically, that have similar themes or teachings. I have been putting this blog post together for some time, in my thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As literacy educators, we know it is important to encourage children to make text-to-text connections and creating text sets is one way to support students to do this. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The titles in the text set at the top of this post came together around a similar concept about Australian Aboriginal Identity in relation to skin colour and indigeneity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text sets combine multiple texts with different genre and text complexities to cater for students' interests and a wide range of abilities. Multiple text approaches can give voice to marginalised groups, through the different representations of similar issues. The collections of texts are sometimes referred to as Linked Text Sets (LTS). </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more on the power of text sets, see: </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwocufGO7kzN4UW5H2bMzQzPncP6rxoDlvBts3vsPdUMO-QUhIcNUmFaMwkfOe7cQA__ZhGfwbf911HXqUz1NkStTqeAoSq_VdlIVI39hvTegHKp_Aay33VCp2vV3CdByjvsIz8_3X7Q/s1600/black+fella+white+fella.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="321" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwocufGO7kzN4UW5H2bMzQzPncP6rxoDlvBts3vsPdUMO-QUhIcNUmFaMwkfOe7cQA__ZhGfwbf911HXqUz1NkStTqeAoSq_VdlIVI39hvTegHKp_Aay33VCp2vV3CdByjvsIz8_3X7Q/s320/black+fella+white+fella.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<b>Black Fella White Fella</b>" is a picture book by Neil Murray based on his iconic song lyrics for the song of the same title that he has performed with the <a href="http://www.neilmurray.com.au/wb_history.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Warumpi band</span></a>. View a video of the song made with the Papunya school <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvfHXs73VW0" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love this picture book, not only because I love the song (and secretly Neil Murray LOL - shhh!), but also because it is illustrated by children around Australia and carries s</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">uch an important message for the world! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Black Fella, White Fella" is such a popular picture book, that I had a little bit of trouble tracking it down. Perhaps it is going through a reprint? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A big shout out and thank you to Sally from the </span><a href="http://www.sallylawrence.com.au/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Sally Lawrence Education Consultancy</span> </a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who sourced a copy of the picture book for me at short notice and to Sarah from the North Coast Regional Indigenous Education Unit for sending it to me. You can read more about Sally's work </span><a href="http://www.sallylawrence.com.au/about-me/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Island Home</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> project </span><a href="http://www.sallylawrence.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/My-Island-Home-Artist-Biographies.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Island Home </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">project involved Neil Murray and others mentoring 19 emerging Indigenous artists for a week of songwriting and recording.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To deepen comprehension, students might compare and contrast the picture book and performance versions of the text, "Black Fella, White Fella" by Neil Murray. The lyrics could also be deconstructed for comprehension purposes using my <a href="https://eprints.usq.edu.au/26009/1/Meyer_RT_v63n6_PV.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Collaborative Reading Workshop</span></a> approach. You can read more about this approach in relation to song lyrics and social justice <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://eprints.usq.edu.au/26009/1/Meyer_RT_v63n6_PV.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Popular culture and song lyrics have long been seen as a 'way in' to supporting adolescent literacy development. To me, song lyrics are not only a 'way in' to literacy learning, but can also be a 'way in' to learning about culture, by 'reading the word and the world' (Freire & Macedo, 1987).</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Solid Rock</i> by <span style="background-color: white;">Shane Howard;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Took the Children Away</i> by Archie Roach;</span> and</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This series includes the titles pictured above (the iconic songs set) and "</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From Little Things, Big Things Grow</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" by Paul Kelly, as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read more about Neil Murray's work at the publisher's site</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.onedayhill.com.au/authors/neil-murray/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> or Neil Murray's blog </span><a href="http://www.neilmurray.com.au/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. You can also view the Warumpi band singing, "<i>My Island Home</i>" </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZEodxUx2ME" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a previous blog post, I share about <a href="http://australianteachers.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/australian-indigenous-perspectives-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Australian Indigenous Perspectives</span></a> and more about further these iconic song titles. You can read this post on the Australian Teachers' Collaborative blog <a href="http://australianteachers.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/australian-indigenous-perspectives-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, that's enough for one day :) I think this blog post is going to become part of a small series...If you made it this far, thanks so much for reading! As usual, if you have other ideas, I would love to read them - please share in the comments section below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Images reproduced from Magabala Books with permission. I was unable to contact One Day Hill publishers for permission to reproduce the image of Neil Murray with "My Island Home". Many attempts were made.</span>Kylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-55901394056277697562017-06-24T21:29:00.002-07:002017-06-28T05:13:27.100-07:00Refugee Week 2017: "With courage let us all combine"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I first began this post, I thought I would feature maybe one page of picture books that focus on the courage of refugees and their stories from around the world. What became clear, was that this is a very big issue that affects so many people worldwide, and I started asking how its importance could be addressed significantly in just one short week?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am going to keep this post brief, not to limit its importance, but rather to share links for further investigation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCSDPvgSNbjCEQjsPwgIpzWt_M_Pg8BxxeLEbel1dJeLq2gQZ-1otDL4qiUk7gq93k9bm6GqznGNCMhHHgCnqdgPvjrxt-Pwn7dfY85YYJFdhLJQDPrXXQ_Dm8fbKycIjBDRt0xpJPWA/s1600/cover+of+book.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="282" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCSDPvgSNbjCEQjsPwgIpzWt_M_Pg8BxxeLEbel1dJeLq2gQZ-1otDL4qiUk7gq93k9bm6GqznGNCMhHHgCnqdgPvjrxt-Pwn7dfY85YYJFdhLJQDPrXXQ_Dm8fbKycIjBDRt0xpJPWA/s320/cover+of+book.JPG" width="260" /></a><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/refugees/" target="_blank">Refugees</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/refugees/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/refugees-in-australia/" target="_blank"><b>Refugees in Australia</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://au</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.pinterest.com/kyjac/refugees-in-australia/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/australian-multiculturalism/" target="_blank"><b>Australian Multiculturalism</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/australian-multiculturalism/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/migrants/" target="_blank">Migrants</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/migrants/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/cultures/" target="_blank">Cultures</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/cultures/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/poverty/" target="_blank">Poverty</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/poverty/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/peace/" target="_blank"><b>Peace</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/peace/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also have some favourite resources that I use to study refugees, and one of them is the picture book, "<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/My-Two-Blankets/9780544432284" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">My Two Blankets</span></a>" by Irena Kobald, illustrated by Freya Blackwood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can read my <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/aussie-aussie-aussie-congratulations-to.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">previous blog post about this picture book</span></a>, with links to free downloads and resources <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/aussie-aussie-aussie-congratulations-to.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. Click on the image above to learn more about the resource I made to support the picture book, "<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/My-Two-Blankets/9780544432284" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">My Two Blankets</span></a>". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week, I will be giving away one copy of </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Australian-Multiculturalism-My-Two-Blankets-4H-reading-strategy-more-2102853" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">my resource for the picture book, "My Two Blankets"</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and also a copy of the picture book, "</span><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/My-Name-is-Not-Refugee-Kate-Milner/9781911370062" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">My Name is not Refugee</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" by Kate Milner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I actually ordered two copies of the picture book, "<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/My-Name-is-Not-Refugee/9781911370062" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">My Name is not Refugee</span></a>" (by mistake on different days, as only I can!), so I am happy to gift one copy to one of my followers. Both of these picture books have won awards in their own right, so I am happy to share them with you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have a terrific week everyone and happy school holidays to my teaching colleagues in Australia!</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">Please note that I am in no way affiliated with the authors, illustrators or book providers linked to in this post.</i>Kylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-50446166614449557502017-06-11T00:28:00.000-07:002018-02-24T19:02:42.779-08:00Mentor texts for letter writing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Letter writing is a terrific way to encourage children to write, particularly if they are writing for a real purpose and a real audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As part of modelled or collaborative writing, teachers could work with the students to compose letters to the Administration Team about issues of concern in the school grounds. </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Good-Bye-Curtis-Kevin-Henkes-Marisabin-Russo/9780688128272?ref=grid-view&qid=1497158533976&sr=1-1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="321" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNwMMPAFwtWbqenwipEXd9HAn8hiw2UxFTwz1qlGqEE90HGddzFH_sJAS32oheuP9Nz0MBY5kNZfIq7zCNfxXlQ0iG3htu07aGEzZ_X4w3gfSA1iLXwL5MmXFCwdqsMZqFjqA5KizscQ/s200/Goodbye+curtis.jpg" width="160" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I remember a few years ago, Prep students engaged in an enquiry into the dripping tap outside their classroom, including measuring how much water was lost over an hour and throughout a whole school day. They used the data gathered to collaboratively write a persuasive letter to the Principal about the problem, the seriousness of it in relation to the data they had gathered and what they thought should be done to fix the problem (with the Prep teacher scribing their draft ideas and final copy). It was a wonderful real-life, purposeful learning activity. Students are often more highly motivated and engaged in writing activities if they have a real purpose and audience for their writing tasks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other resources for letter writing in the early years, include:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Australia Post - <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://auspost.com.au/education/ourpost/students/postie-kate/letter-family.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">free letter writing resources</span></a> </span>including online interactive games and a template to make a replica Australia Post letter box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://teachingmama.org/post-office-dramatic-play/" target="_blank">Post Office Dramatic Play Ideas</a> </span>from Teaching Mama - with free printables, links to games, making a cardboard postbox, pretend play and more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.preschool-plan-it.com/post-office.html" target="_blank">Post Office Theme for Preschool</a> - includes picture book links, games, letter writing, construction, finger plays and more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/sheryljcooper/post-office-ideas/?lp=true" target="_blank">Pinterest ideas for Post Office play</a>, crafts, other dramatic play ideas and more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://picklebums.com/post-office-play-free-printable-play-set/" target="_blank">Free printable Post Office play set</a> </span>- free templates to download</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://growingbookbybook.com/post-office-play-round-up/" target="_blank">Over 15 Post Office Play ideas</a> </span>- includes links to picture books (not in my list above), art and craft activities, kindness postcards and links to plenty of other ideas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are plenty of games and educational activities from the <a href="http://www.educatall.com/page/340/Postal-services.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Educatall Team about Postal Services</span></a>, including Science, Social Studies, gross motor activities, games, writing tasks and many more, with free downloads!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other activities include ideas for a <a href="http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/postoffice/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Preschool Post Office theme</span></a>, <a href="https://au.pinterest.com/explore/letter-writing/?lp=true" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Pinterest Letter Writing</span> </a>pins and more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoLYICPFXhY" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">How to write a friendly letter</span></a> by Brianne Cronk on YouTube.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I just found this terrific post from This Picture Book Life about <a href="http://thispicturebooklife.com/picture-books-mail-guest-post-picture-book-club/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">picture books about mail</span></a>: http://thispicturebooklife.com/picture-books-mail-guest-post-picture-book-club/ </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiR-JGKNPZiXASRkq1NdQZ2NQ4YrZFYPbbE8emCSaIyXUV01-GmimIJa4dWCvrxSdawdsmIswuBf6sITAMlvAPam6aWdvnNwKXrGHOIfmWtMK_0PsRYlleOTZiNwxGPuCEHiNgC5NTMQ/s1600/ide-tom-cover-300x220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiR-JGKNPZiXASRkq1NdQZ2NQ4YrZFYPbbE8emCSaIyXUV01-GmimIJa4dWCvrxSdawdsmIswuBf6sITAMlvAPam6aWdvnNwKXrGHOIfmWtMK_0PsRYlleOTZiNwxGPuCEHiNgC5NTMQ/s1600/ide-tom-cover-300x220.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also found another recently published Australian title, "</span><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Tom-the-Outback-Mailman-Kristin-Weidenbach/9780733636363?ref=bd_ser_1_1" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Tom the Outback Mailman</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">", so this is a very popular topic (the mail) that is so useful as a stimulus for teaching letter writing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can view a <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2xpW7bsio" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">YouTube </span></a> </span>introduction to the<span style="color: red;"> </span>picture book <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2xpW7bsio" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The song, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3HihaBgb9k" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Mailman of the Outback </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">might be useful for contextualising the picture book. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvXm4-lTZck" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Book Trailer</span></a> </span> can be found <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvXm4-lTZck" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.scool.scholastic.com.au/schoolzone/toolkit/assets/pdfs/Tom_the_Outback_Mailman.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Free teacher notes</span></a> </span>for "Tom the Outback Mailman" are available from Scholastic. Read more about the title <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.kristinweidenbach.com/books/tom-the-outback-mailman/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span>and <a href="https://www.hachette.com.au/kristin-weidenbach/tom-the-outback-mailman" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. "Tom the Outback Mailman" was Winner of the CBCA 2013 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, so it is a terrific title to add to your collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This title is also useful for integrating Australian History and Geography (HASS) outcomes in the curriculum. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">YouTube clips to assist with contextualising include our very own Aussie legend, Tom Kruse:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztCONk8EOfE" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Birdsville Mailman dead at 96</span></a> (2:01) This is more a celebration of Tom Kruse's achievements than a sad story. The description of the clip states that he died at 96, but the clip states he was 93. This is a wonderful clip about Aussie identity and survival in the outback.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF__dd5aPOw" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Tom Kruse Tribute</span></a> (12:25) This is awesome :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wMmJcoJsgY" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Birdsville Track - Outback - Australia</span></a> </span>(4:55) 2012 images</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "lato"; font-size: 16px;">View a YouTube clip of a read aloud of the story, "I'm Australian Too" </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx1Y5UU9AG8" style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "lato"; font-size: 16px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #444444;">"I'm Australian Too" is steeped in themes of inclusivity which would make it a wonderful partner text with, "Whoever You Are", another story of inclusivity and acceptance by Mem Fox. The blurb of "Whoever You Are" reinforces the importance of the acceptance of individual differences: </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Access </span><a href="http://www.australiancurriculumlessons.com.au/2014/09/26/mem-fox-literature-study-unit-years-f123/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">free lesson plan</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> ideas for other Mem Fox titles </span><a href="http://www.australiancurriculumlessons.com.au/2014/09/26/mem-fox-literature-study-unit-years-f123/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Click on the red hyperlinks to find more resources and ideas about </span><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/australian-multiculturalism/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Australian Multiculturalism</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> and </span><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/refugees-in-australia/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Refugees in Australia</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://educateempower.blog/2017/03/21/im-australian-too-by-mem-fox-and-ronojoy-ghosh/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Teaching ideas for "I'm Australian Too"</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> can be found on the Educate. Empower. website.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This version is a terrific tale of <span style="color: blue;">courage</span>, <span style="color: blue;">persistence</span> and <span style="color: blue;">resilience</span>, which integrates maths (through the sequencing of events over time). It has such potential for STEM, with the opportunity for students to design other ways for the cow to jump over the moon. View a short book trailer by Ms Todd <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvE7vu6H9qw" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The illustrations by Laura Wood are hilarious and totally engaging as she captures the cow's persistence and resilience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I just love this picture book. It is the focus text for National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) on 24 May 2017. The idea is that all teachers and students across Australia share this picture story book at 11 am on 24 May. More information about NSS can be found <a href="https://www.alia.org.au/nss" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> and ideas for activities to use with the picture book can be found <a href="https://www.alia.org.au/sites/default/files/NSS%202017%20Activity%20Ideas%20final.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also found some other links to art and craft activities for "Hey Diddle Diddle" that might be useful during NSS 2017. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This<a href="http://www.science-sparks.com/2016/06/22/cow-jumped-moon/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">cow catapult activity</span></a> from Science Sparks would be great for integrating STEM.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AytI0XHg0zg" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">a clip of the author, Tony Wilson, reading the story with his son Jack</span></a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An <a href="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/94/8d/3c/948d3c9fb4ada3116959242ffa71248d.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">art and craft activity </span></a>using hand prints.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://oneperfectdayblog.net/2013/04/18/playful-storytelling-hey-diddle-diddle-popsicle-stick-puppets/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Finger puppets out of popsicle sticks</span></a> for retelling, from One Perfect Day.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/nursery-rhymes/hey-diddle-diddle" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Hey Diddle Diddle Nursery Rhyme Craft</span></a>, from All Kids Network.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A <a href="http://www.justkidslit.com/our-country-our-stories-reviews-activities/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">number wheel for counting the cow's attempts to jump the moon</span></a>, from Just Write for Kids (scroll down to find this title and the activity).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="https://www.cleverpatch.com.au/ideas/details/the-cow-tripped-over-the-moon-paper-plate" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">cow tripped over the moon paper plate activity</span></a>, from CleverPatch.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/pin/377880224974332191/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">cow jumping over the moon craft activity</span></a> </span>using a paper plate and handprint, from Top Teacher.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's happened to most of us...you plan wonderful Easter Art and Craft and picture book activities and then you find out that one or more students in your class does not celebrate Easter. What do you do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are four books featured in this post that have similar themes and include a hen, a chicken and a rabbit as main characters, and one of the picture books having a possum as the main character. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, there are two wonderful rhyming texts by Julia Donaldson that could be introduced into the curriculum whilst other students are engaged in Easter activities, and these two books include rabbits as main characters but they do not relate to Easter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are many different versions of "<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Henny-Penny/9780547902005" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Henny Penny</span></a>" and "<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Chicken-Little/9781742818474?ref=grid-view&qid=1491039668277&sr=1-7" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Chicken Little</span></a>". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In both "<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Henny-Penny/9780747581048" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Henny Penny</span></a>", and "<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Chicken-Little/9781742818474?ref=grid-view&qid=1491039668277&sr=1-7" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Chicken Little</span></a>", the main characters believe the sky is falling and they set off on a journey to tell the King. Both characters gather followers along the way and both characters escape the sly plans of a fox. Both texts are terrific for rhyming words based on animals' names and both main characters realise that the sky wasn't really falling by the end of the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">These two picture books feature a hen or a chicken as the main characters, but they have nothing to do with Easter. Therefore, to support inclusion, students could still be engaged in any hen/chicken art and craft activities that don't involve Easter eggs or Easter chickens</span></i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love the concluding statement in "Chicken Little" ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b style="background-color: white;">"She trotted off down the track, round the back of beyond, up the hill and past the black stump, until she bumped into..."</b><span style="background-color: white;"> and on the way home, the reverse:</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was reversed on the way home. If children had drawn story maps, they could follow them on the journey back home and rich discussions could occur over some of the Aussie terminology in the picture book e.g. Where is the 'back of beyond'? Where is 'the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">black<span style="background-color: white;"> stump'?</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Terrible-Plop-Ursul-Dubosarsky-Andrew-Joyner/9781405251365?ref=grid-view&qid=1491040908372&sr=1-4" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_2x-k-aRVFc6LJ8RL16coSM7B55QPs3IAvXgK3Krsfrckcpdo5SA-4zFzkiQ4rd1Z4t51IF7lI3rq2TQwlxVRk5cOr7ItQ00ForZVQmZ9CpYsr8JdTrWw_05-k53hLxprlZL-OllXg/s200/The+Terrible+Plop+cover.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Terrible-Plop-Ursul-Dubosarsky-Andrew-Joyner/9781405251365?ref=grid-view&qid=1491040908372&sr=1-4" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Terrible Plop</span></a>", created by Australian author </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ursula Dubosarsky and Australian illustrator, Andrew Joyner also fits into the text set above, with "the sky is falling" theme. This time, however, the imaginary fiend is an apple falling off a tree into the lake, making a terrible "Plop!" This terrifies and sends the other animals into hysteria, except a little rabbit. I'm not going to spoil the ending for you, but it makes another terrific addition to "the sky is falling" text set.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In "<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Rabbits-Nap-Juli-Donaldson-Axel-Scheffler/9781447273417?ref=pd_detail_2_sims_cat_bs_1" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Rabbit's Nap</span></a>" poor rabbit is trying to have a sleep, but everyone else is too noisy. Told through rhyme, the story lends itself so well to prediction, as children lift the flaps to find out who is being noisy and keeping rabbit awake. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again, both of these stories feature rabbits as the main characters, however, they are not related to Easter. Therefore, children who do not celebrate or study Easter, are able to participate in any rabbit Art and Craft activities, as long as they do not have modern Easter-related additions (e.g. eggs, baskets of eggs etc.).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I created a resource linking "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Blossom-Possum-Close-Reading-the-Four-Resources-Model-1667824" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Blossom Possum - </span></a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Blossom-Possum-Close-Reading-the-Four-Resources-Model-1667824" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Sky is Falling Down-Under</span></a><span style="color: #202020;">" by Gina Newton, to the Four Resources Model (Freebody & Luke, 1990) and strategies for close reading. Click on the red link above or the image below to find out more.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I would love to hear about any other strategies, ideas or resources you use to support those students you have when it is around Easter time and their family has requested that their child does not participate in Easter activities, for any number of reasons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When my son was little he just dug dinosaurs in a major way. Today I am going to review a new picture book published by <a href="https://www.magabala.com/childrens-picture-books.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Magabala Books</span></a> titled, "<a href="https://www.magabala.com/return-of-the-dinosaurs.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Return of the Dinosaurs</span></a>" by Bronwyn Houston. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am also going to link to <span style="background-color: white;"><b>dinosaur freebies</b></span> from some of my generous and talented friends in Australia and New Zealand and run a <span style="background-color: white;"><b>giveaway</b></span> for a couple of my own dinosaur picture book rhyming game resources and a free copy of the featured picture book for Australian readers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Quoting from the publisher</b>:</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"Return of the Dinosaurs presents an amusing and imaginative look at what life would be like for dinosaurs today if they reappeared at Broome's iconic landmarks."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This newly published picture book will be available in November 2016</b>. It captures images of the many dinosaurs, birds and marine life that roamed the Kimberley coastline (in the far north of Western Australia) more than 130 million years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The author/illustrator of the richly textured layers of artwork is Bronwyn Houston and she is descended from the Nyiyaparli and Yindjibarndi people in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The opening lines are:</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"A long time ago, dinosaurs lived around the Kimberley coast and their ancient footprints can still be found. Imagine if dinosaurs came back to visit Broome! What would they do?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a wonderful invitation for imagination and inquiry! Dinosaurs that appear in this witty and imaginative story include the: Brachiosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Megalosauropus, Broomensis, Parasaurolophus and Stegosaurus. It's amazing how many early readers can still pronounce some of these complex dinosaur names and recount many detailed facts! This picture book would be an interesting read aloud for students in the early years (dinosaur fanatics) or a terrific independent read for other students.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am going to revisit the picture book and share some of my favourite features:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The little additional speech captions from the dinosaurs featured in the stories add humour</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The picture book introduces key landmarks around Broome and the Kimberley region, for example, Cable Beach and natural phenomena such as the <a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiz7Lnkyd7PAhVP8WMKHXYBAgQQFggtMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kimberleytravel.com.au%2Fassets%2FPackages-2015%2FStaircase-to-the-Moon-2015.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEZDiPWXLFYIUMp12x6etyCvBsFfw&sig2=1RvTS09JV9ihdfed_qbCLQ&bvm=bv.135974163,d.cGc" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Golden Staircase</span></a> to the moon</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Text-to-text connections can be made to "Finding Nemo" with the caption, "Friend or Food"?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The end of the picture book features information about Broome dinosaurs with text features including maps and labels</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Free teaching notes for this newly published picture book are available to download <a href="https://www.magabala.com/media/wysiwyg/Teacher_Notes/Return_of_the_Dinosaurs_Teacher_Notes.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can read more about the dinosaur footprints in the far north of Western Australia <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-08/broome-dinosaur-tracks/5375528" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span>and view a clip from Catalyst about the Kimberley dinosaurs <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-08/broome-dinosaur-tracks/5375528" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are plenty of other clips if you do a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=australian+dinosaurs" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">YouTube search</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can read more about Australian dinosaurs </span><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/dinosaurs/meet_the_dinos/ozdino1.htm" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or </span><a href="http://australianmuseum.net.au/australian-dinosaurs" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Im-a-Hungry-Dinosaur-rhyming-words-games-and-more-2770400" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP8uDTZ1FBbJOxSCdkEDvMftl_23Ufd3Zgd71TWgCFsK6AibaWnlbGciYUS2pUEyzdIANTHWysn6bvEIhuyOTNJhP8vwgWQPedwrFrzFFAa0OMu5OHLtEHhqtEej1S2paUwGScFbP6wQ/s320/cover+of+resource.PNG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can read my previous blog post about "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Im-a-Hungry-Dinosaur-rhyming-words-games-and-more-2770400" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">I'm a Hungry Dinosaur</span></a>" and download a freebie <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/budburras-garden-im-hungry-dinosaur-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span>or you can preview my rhyming games resources for this title and also "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Im-a-Dirty-Dinosaur-rhyming-word-games-and-more-2770515" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">I'm a Dirty Dinosaur</span></a>" by clicking on the titles with the red hyperlinks or the images of the resources. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both titles are by Janeen Brian and these resources are included in my giveaway at the end of this blog post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dinosaur freebies </b>from my generous friends (feel free to share your own links in the comments section). To download the freebies click on either the hyperlink or the image, but please be kind enough to follow their TPT stores and leave ratings/feedback...good karma :) Unfortunately, the hyperlinks are not changing colour to red, so please either click on the titles below or on the images below to download these resources.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Shape-Bingo-identifying-2D-shapes-321687" target="_blank">Shape Bingo from Teaching Trove</a></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span> <span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dinosaur-Addition-and-Subtraction-Mats-1518512" target="_blank">Addition and Subtraction Mats from Jem's Bright Buttons</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you have any other favourite resources about dinosaurs, please post the links in the comments section below. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't forget to enter the giveaways :) There are three of them, including winning a free copy of the picture book reviewed in this blog post (for Australian readers) and one of my two dinosaur rhyming words games (open to everyone). Enter as many times as you like and make sure you scroll through to view all three giveaways :)</span><br />
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<img class="nopin" src="http://honeybunchblogdesign2.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sgn1rr.png" />Kylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-83015684896558641262016-10-10T18:33:00.001-07:002016-10-10T18:33:17.662-07:00A new resource for "Sugarplum and the Unicorn" by Julia Donaldson<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just love text sets and I just love Julia Donaldson's picture books, so when I came across "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sugarlump-and-the-Unicorn-by-Julia-Donaldson-Reading-comprehension-resources-2824633" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Sugarplum and the Unicorn</span></a>" I just could not wait to make a reading comprehension resource for it. You can preview that resource by clicking on the red hyperlink under the title, or <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sugarlump-and-the-Unicorn-by-Julia-Donaldson-Reading-comprehension-resources-2824633" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is a set of texts that would work well together as companion texts. My reading comprehension resource for "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Aaron-Blabey-Thelma-the-Unicorn-HOT-comprehension-resources-1868504" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Thelma the Unicorn</span></a>" by Aaron Blabey has been really popular and one of my best sellers. You can preview it <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Aaron-Blabey-Thelma-the-Unicorn-HOT-comprehension-resources-1868504" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All three picture books have similar themes of wishing to be something more than you are. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can view a book trailer for "Thelma the Unicorn" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkXRbBVZbrM" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. You can view the author, Aaron Blabey reading the book aloud <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkL5O17z52U" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. He is one of my favourite Australian picture book authors :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an overview of my reading comprehension resource for "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Aaron-Blabey-Thelma-the-Unicorn-HOT-comprehension-resources-1868504" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Thelma the Unicorn</span></a>".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other titles that might work well in this text set include:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5zU9ezystw" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great</span></a>" by Bob Shea</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRe76IRAvcs" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Bob is a Unicorn</span></a>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Uni the Unicorn" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMT9BfNPt-w" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">song based on the book</span></a>) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These picture books are terrific for helping children realise the importance of accepting yourself as you are, which is an important life skill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/I-Believe-Unicorns-Bob-Stanish/9781882664436" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">I Believe in Unicorns: Classroom Experiences for Activating Creative Thinking</span></a>" by Bob Stanish. Has anyone used this book to support creative and critical thinking?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you think of any other picture books that would fit into this text set? If so, please share in the comments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a great week everyone...</span><br />
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<img class="nopin" src="http://honeybunchblogdesign2.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sgn1rr.png" />Kylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-28665246202292931242016-09-05T19:25:00.001-07:002016-09-05T19:25:21.957-07:00"Budburra's Garden", "I'm a Hungry Dinosaur" and a freebie<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently I blogged about picture books that have been recently published that feature food. You can read that blog post <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/food-fabulous-food-picture-books-about_6.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. I will post a section of my review of "<a href="http://budburrabooks.com.au/budburras-garden.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Budburra's Garden</span></a>" for those who missed the previous post:</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Budburras-Garden-freebie-for-health-and-nutrition-2771259" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl1mgk9pV7L9cugUAu1SP2CWniiS-3T8QxVEceOHrJ8fZmFNN1gGNucCXfih7DBqUYSymLtwUPvkGH34lC9BBs1Ik_LT49lXQYc44OU2dYPwHwe-9k4EG5isCsFS77lE_tTj9fJyoxGA/s320/cover+of+resource.PNG" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #42210b; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 23.1px;"><i>What's terrific about this picture book is that it introduces children to different nutritious foods (fruit and vegetables) according to their colours. It is also terrific to use as a mentor text to reinforce learning about adjectives. It introduces students to traditional fruits and vegetables, but also traditional Australian Indigenous foods. The picture book includes information about the bush tucker found in "Budburra's Garden" at the back of the book and recipes to "Colour Yourself Healthy". I really think this is a powerful picture book with potential to be used on many levels.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another terrific title that would fit in with this text set is "I'm a Hungry Dinosaur" by Janeen Brian. It was a <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://cbca.org.au/notables-2016" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Notable picture book in the 2016 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Children's Book Week Awards</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: magenta;">The Magic
Hat…The Magic Hat… It moved like this… It moved like that!</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDNo0xYL72UFQPbF-MWz8kuMci8XsUxfJGdWXwwqsRcrt5S36hS04OxMsAizj8hUTgILYI2DQt_XY5xikhXX2fc6BHPFrsporMYJAHoa_wLhKNuSK_ZMXE61qOUH_RLAOAx9UsIL6Rfg/s1600/pic+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDNo0xYL72UFQPbF-MWz8kuMci8XsUxfJGdWXwwqsRcrt5S36hS04OxMsAizj8hUTgILYI2DQt_XY5xikhXX2fc6BHPFrsporMYJAHoa_wLhKNuSK_ZMXE61qOUH_RLAOAx9UsIL6Rfg/s320/pic+1.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I
opened my classroom curriculum box I was excited to see the Mem Fox classic
‘The Magic Hat’. I knew I didn’t want to
do the typical paper hat activity to accompany our Literacy lessons so I set to
work thinking of how I could challenge my Preppies to create some quality art. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a directed drawing lesson using pen and paint.
I promise that if you give this lesson a go, you will be amazed with the
results and be so proud of your clever, little artists. </span></div>
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you’ve read the book have a discussion around proportion. The wizard is giant size and the town looks
really small in comparison. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> you
plan out your artwork think about the amount of space the wizard will take up
and trace that space with your finger.
Now think about where the hill is going to go. Use your finger to trace
a line where the hill will be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now we’re ready to
start the drawing process. We start at his feet and work our way up to his hat.
Follow the order below, stopping to check that everyone is ready before you
start the next step.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Draw the bottom of his gown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Draw the sides of his gown up to his armpits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Now it gets a bit tricky… Draw his head and
beard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Ok time to join up his head and body. Draw his arms, hands and wand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Add his hat and some magic coming out of his
hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use COTTON
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Dot-paint his gown in a rainbow of colours. Use a dabbing or stamping technique for this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hat red and the wand yellow. Don’t
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here’s how
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1. Put about a teaspoon of
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artwork onto card to create a border. Go
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A3 PAPER<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vase of Flowers artwork that is sure to impress! All of the children followed the same
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks so much Sarah - your students should be so proud of their wonderful art work :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be emailing you a couple of resources from my TPT store that are based around "The Magic Hat" as a thank you :) <a href="http://oduct/The-Magic-Hat-Rhyming-words-games-and-more-2529226" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Magic Hat rhyming words games</span></a> and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hat-Snap-matching-game-2529180" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Hat Snap</span></a>. </span></div>
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Cow Tripped Over the Moon” by Tony Wilson and illustrated by Laura Wood which has been awarded an
Honours winner of the <a href="https://cbca.org.au/winners-2016" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Children’s BookCouncil of Australia 2016 Book of the Year</span></a> (Early
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This picture book is so entertaining and is an innovation on the traditional nursery rhyme, "The Cow Jumped Over the Moon."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have created a new resource to support this picture story book. You can preview it by clicking on <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Cow-Tripped-Over-the-Moon-reading-comprehension-activities-2755867" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">this link</span></a> or the image below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This picture book is hilarious and shares the various attempts the cow makes to jump over the moon. I have included my favourite 4H reading strategy and graphic organisers. The resource also includes 4 rhyming words games. The picture book also has amazing potential for teaching about time and the sequence of digital times (with the matching analogue times).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can view a preview of this new title at the author's website <a href="http://www.owendavey.com/Smart-about-Sharks" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I must admit, when it first arrived from the publisher, I didn't think this would be a title I would be interested in, but it is fascinating and I could not put it down. I have learnt so much!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is an excellent text for modelling informational text features including: Contents Page, Index, diagrams, captions, flowcharts and labels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I really love the play on words with some of the titles of the various sections, for example: "All Fins Considered", "Eat, Prey, Hunt", "A Bite to Eat", "Making a Meal of Things" and so forth. As an adult reader, this kept me amused and lightened the "mood" of an informational text.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharks are fish that don't have any bones.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharks are found in nearly every ocean on the planet.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharks are more than 200 million years older than dinosaurs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shark's nostrils are known as nares.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some shark species are as tiny as a pencil.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The shortfin mako shark is the fastest shark in the ocean.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The epaulette shark can walk out of water and hold its breath 60 times longer than a human.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some shark species can have over 100 pups in a litter.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some sharks give birth to live young, some lay eggs and some carry eggs within the mother's body.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The author also includes suggestions for protecting the environment and our marine life at the end of the book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Smart About Sharks" would make an excellent companion text for other shark titles. You can see my previous blog post about two recently published picture story books about sharks and resources to support them </span><a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/shark-week-vs-shark-fest-theres.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. You can also preview the resources </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sharks-Reading-comprehension-activities-for-two-picture-books-1945507" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All of these titles would be super if you participate in <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/shark-week-vs-shark-fest-theres.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Shark Week</span></a> </span>activities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can read my previous blog posts about <i>Monster Chef</i> <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/looking-for-something-fresh-for.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/monster-chef-by-nick-bland-terrific-as.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/This-Hungry-Dragon-rhyming-words-games-and-vocabulary-activities-2598988" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwn9aH_8hzLYx__glgfSTmlWs7n3luCUK21f7PBTXWsV5mx18fRCaCfTWqv6tMTqpoAIwulRI8mUui1XWfZ6cvus-HrMmwPpM_hhZc1Dp1vpjbf4IEbRBUwgXd2lTNbaWzvmAigB1iBQ/s320/This+Hungry+Dragon+cover+of+resource.PNG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://shop.scholastic.com.au/Product/8409847/This-Hungry-Dragon" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">This Hungry Dragon</span></a></i> is a newly published picture book from Scholastic. This new title would be an excellent companion text to the <i>There was an old lady who swallowed a</i>...and the <i>There was an old man who swallowed a</i>...series. The hungry dragon eats and eats until he is as big as a house and explodes. This is a wonderful rhyming text and is also fabulous as a mentor text for teaching adjectives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can preview the resource I made for this picture book <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/This-Hungry-Dragon-rhyming-words-games-and-vocabulary-activities-2598988" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> which includes rhyming words games based on the book and vocabulary activities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://budburrabooks.com.au/budburras-garden.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Budburra's Garden</span></a></i> is a lovely picture book written by the children at <a href="http://www.cherbourss.eq.edu.au/Books.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Cherbourg State School</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A summary of the storyline from the website states: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #42210b; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">I love the fact that this picture book was published in Cherbourg as I have a bit of a penchant for supporting the work of our Australian Indigenous picture book authors and illustrators, regardless of their age.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #42210b; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">What's terrific about this picture book is that it introduces children to different nutritious foods (fruit and vegetables) according to their colours. It is also terrific to use as a mentor text to reinforce learning about adjectives. It also introduces students to traditional fruits and vegetables, but also traditional Australian Indigenous foods. The picture book includes information about the bush tucker found in Budburra's Garden at the back of the book and recipes to "Colour Yourself Healthy". I really think this is a powerful picture book with potential to be used on many levels.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #42210b; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">I love </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008pwZ6wmys" target="_blank">Amy Krouse Rosenthal's</a> </span>previous titles <i>Spoon </i>and <i>Chopsticks</i> which are terrific companion texts to use with <i>Spork</i> by Kyo Maclear. You can read my previous blog post about these titles <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/cutlery-conformity-companion-texts-to.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. I love Amy Krouse Rosenthal's picture books as they take a real twist from different perspectives, so they are just terrific for critical literacy. The blurb for Little Pea states:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i><a href="http://www.vivianfrench.co.uk/index.php/books/olivers_vegetables/" target="_blank">Oliver's Vegetables</a></i> </span>and <i>Oliver's Fruit Salad</i> are lovely picture books that join this text set of companion texts of picture books that have similar themes and can be used together to consolidate learning. <i>Oliver's Vegetables</i> is a terrific companion text for <i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar </i>as it also reinforces learning the order of the days of the week. Read more on the author Vivian French's website <a href="http://www.vivianfrench.co.uk/index.php/books/olivers_vegetables/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. I must say I love growing my own veggies so this picture book really appealed to me and it is terrific for encouraging kids to try different nutritious foods.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Piranhas-Dont-Eat-Bananas-rhyming-words-games-and-bookmarks-2577415" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmqtZF6dpwcQ6F9ImpDysu0-NZJHmikNz6LFiwEqPkTfzocZBj-cB6C2wxalwhYPUFOJJ07rUJvijuXM0M-4RwA6cbRbxJMSFdN3pjuRORbScSBFl3JdZvVIttY5diq_J9wv4m1CWaw/s320/cover+of+piranhas+resource.PNG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://www.aaronblabeybooks.com/books/piranhas-dont-eat-bananas" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas</span></a></i> is another hilarious rhyming text by Aaron Babley. You can preview my rhyming words games resource to support this picture book <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Piranhas-Dont-Eat-Bananas-rhyming-words-games-and-bookmarks-2577415" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span>or by clicking on the image of the resource. You can view other resources I have made to support Aaron Babley's picture books <a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/aaron-blabey/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My resource for <i><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Aaron-Blabey-Thelma-the-Unicorn-HOT-comprehension-resources-1868504" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Thelma the Unicorn </span></a></i>has been particularly popular, probably because the picture book has such an important storyline about self-acceptance and self-belief. You can read about the awards this picture book has won <a href="http://www.aaronblabeybooks.com/books/thelma-unicorn" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas </i>has been shortlisted for the <a href="https://cbca.org.au/shortlist-2016" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">2016 Australian Children's Book Week Awards</span></a>!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Together the picture books reviewed in this post would form the basis of a fabulous unit of work about food and to encourage healthy nutrition choices.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Watch this space as my next blog post will include a freebie for <i>Budburra's Garden</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A big shout out and thank you for those of you who leave a comment on my blog posts, who follow my blog and who share my blog posts with their networks. It is very much appreciated.</span><br />
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<img class="nopin" src="http://honeybunchblogdesign2.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sgn1rr.png" />Kylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-53297872718140699402016-07-06T02:12:00.002-07:002016-07-06T02:14:00.050-07:00Food Fabulous Food - Picture books about food - newly published titles and some older favourites <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is with great excitement that I share with you some newly published picture books that feature food and good nutrition and would make excellent companion texts for titles like <i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i>. For those of you who know me well, you know I have a little addiction to picture books and need to emphasise that picture books can be used across all year levels, not just in the early years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can read my previous blog posts about <i>Monster Chef</i> <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/looking-for-something-fresh-for.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/monster-chef-by-nick-bland-terrific-as.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/This-Hungry-Dragon-rhyming-words-games-and-vocabulary-activities-2598988" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwn9aH_8hzLYx__glgfSTmlWs7n3luCUK21f7PBTXWsV5mx18fRCaCfTWqv6tMTqpoAIwulRI8mUui1XWfZ6cvus-HrMmwPpM_hhZc1Dp1vpjbf4IEbRBUwgXd2lTNbaWzvmAigB1iBQ/s320/This+Hungry+Dragon+cover+of+resource.PNG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://shop.scholastic.com.au/Product/8409847/This-Hungry-Dragon" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">This Hungry Dragon</span></a></i> is a newly published picture book from Scholastic. This new title would be an excellent companion text to the <i>There was an old lady who swallowed a</i>...and the <i>There was an old man who swallowed a</i>...series. The hungry dragon eats and eats until he is as big as a house and explodes. This is a wonderful rhyming text and is also fabulous as a mentor text for teaching adjectives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can preview the resource I made for this picture book <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/This-Hungry-Dragon-rhyming-words-games-and-vocabulary-activities-2598988" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> which includes rhyming words games based on the book and vocabulary activities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://budburrabooks.com.au/budburras-garden.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Budburra's Garden</span></a></i> is a lovely picture book written by the children at <a href="http://www.cherbourss.eq.edu.au/Books.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Cherbourg State School</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A summary of the storyline from the website states: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #42210b; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">I love the fact that this picture book was published in Cherbourg as I have a bit of a penchant for supporting the work of our Australian Indigenous picture book authors and illustrators, regardless of their age.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #42210b; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">What's terrific about this picture book is that it introduces children to different nutritious foods (fruit and vegetables) according to their colours. It is also terrific to use as a mentor text to reinforce learning about adjectives. It also introduces students to traditional fruits and vegetables, but also traditional Australian Indigenous foods. The picture book includes information about the bush tucker found in Budburra's Garden at the back of the book and recipes to "Colour Yourself Healthy". I really think this is a powerful picture book with potential to be used on many levels.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #42210b; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">I love </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008pwZ6wmys" target="_blank">Amy Krouse Rosenthal's</a> </span>previous titles <i>Spoon </i>and <i>Chopsticks</i> which are terrific companion texts to use with <i>Spork</i> by Kyo Maclear. You can read my previous blog post about these titles <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/cutlery-conformity-companion-texts-to.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. I love Amy Krouse Rosenthal's picture books as they take a real twist from different perspectives, so they are just terrific for critical literacy. The blurb for Little Pea states:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i><a href="http://www.vivianfrench.co.uk/index.php/books/olivers_vegetables/" target="_blank">Oliver's Vegetables</a></i> </span>and <i>Oliver's Fruit Salad</i> are lovely picture books that join this text set of companion texts of picture books that have similar themes and can be used together to consolidate learning. <i>Oliver's Vegetables</i> is a terrific companion text for <i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar </i>as it also reinforces learning the order of the days of the week. Read more on the author Vivian French's website <a href="http://www.vivianfrench.co.uk/index.php/books/olivers_vegetables/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. I must say I love growing my own veggies so this picture book really appealed to me and it is terrific for encouraging kids to try different nutritious foods.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Piranhas-Dont-Eat-Bananas-rhyming-words-games-and-bookmarks-2577415" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmqtZF6dpwcQ6F9ImpDysu0-NZJHmikNz6LFiwEqPkTfzocZBj-cB6C2wxalwhYPUFOJJ07rUJvijuXM0M-4RwA6cbRbxJMSFdN3pjuRORbScSBFl3JdZvVIttY5diq_J9wv4m1CWaw/s320/cover+of+piranhas+resource.PNG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://www.aaronblabeybooks.com/books/piranhas-dont-eat-bananas" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas</span></a></i> is another hilarious rhyming text by Aaron Babley. You can preview my rhyming words games resource to support this picture book <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Piranhas-Dont-Eat-Bananas-rhyming-words-games-and-bookmarks-2577415" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span>or by clicking on the image of the resource. You can view other resources I have made to support Aaron Babley's picture books <a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/aaron-blabey/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My resource for <i><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Aaron-Blabey-Thelma-the-Unicorn-HOT-comprehension-resources-1868504" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Thelma the Unicorn </span></a></i>has been particularly popular, probably because the picture book has such an important storyline about self-acceptance and self-belief. You can read about the awards this picture book has won <a href="http://www.aaronblabeybooks.com/books/thelma-unicorn" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas </i>has been shortlisted for the <a href="https://cbca.org.au/shortlist-2016" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">2016 Australian Children's Book Week Awards</span></a>!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Together the picture books reviewed in this post would form the basis of a fabulous unit of work about food and to encourage healthy nutrition choices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A big shout out and thank you for those of you who leave a comment on my blog posts, who follow my blog and who share my blog posts with their networks. It is very much appreciated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can read previous blog posts with an anti-bullying theme <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/i-am-bullyproof-music.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span>and <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/bullies-and-bullying.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span></div>
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Kylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-74555449360544029042016-06-24T21:38:00.004-07:002016-08-18T20:07:48.824-07:00"Steve Goes to Carnival" by Joshua Button & Robyn Wells - Rafflecopter Giveway of a copy of the picture book<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi there everyone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My last blog post was about this newly published picture book "Steve Goes to Carnival". You can read that blog post and more about the picture book <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/all-that-jazz-great-new-picture-book.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have decided to giveaway my copy of the picture book to one lucky reader. There are three ways to enter the Rafflecopter (see below). This picture book hasn't even been launched or released yet, so be one of the first in Australia to enjoy it :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Rafflecopter starts tomorrow 26 June and finishes on 3 July.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My last blog post was about this newly published picture book "Steve Goes to Carnival". You can read that blog post and more about the picture book <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/all-that-jazz-great-new-picture-book.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Rafflecopter starts tomorrow 26 June and finishes on 3 July.</span><br />
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<img class="nopin" src="http://honeybunchblogdesign2.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sgn1rr.png" />Kylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-8434075902041532232016-06-13T04:13:00.000-07:002016-06-16T20:38:53.753-07:00All that jazz - a great new picture book for Rio - "Steve Goes to Carnival"<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Herman-and-Rosie-reading-comprehension-activities-1776897" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg25pV4WB45odo0z46QCc7l17pOqjjSn5VH7m4ZtLimiNWmYBhnaSWNRV0KDGZDoV8vRG6MrKTJqAE5UYtWdLMElvjQHvjkx15R9c5b1fXHJltosgfuu8EnuxPzPRTths3tyt0mnBDg2Q/s320/heart.png" width="232" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the Olympics coming up, it is great to discover a new picture book that is set in Rio. This would be a terrific companion text for <i>Herman and Rosie</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can read my previous post about other books that set the context for Rio and <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/jazz-it-up-ideas-for-black-history.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">jazz here</span></a> and preview my resource for <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Herman-and-Rosie-reading-comprehension-activities-1776897" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><i>Herman and Rosie</i> here</span></a> or by clicking on the image on the right. Free teaching notes for <i>Herman and Rosie </i>are available <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/all-that-jazz-herman-and-rosie-freebies.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.magabala.com/coming-soon/steve-goes-to-carnival.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Steve Goes to Carnival</span></a></i> is a vibrant story<i> </i>set in Rio de Janeiro</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Steve is a gorilla who lives at a zoo in Rio. In the evenings, he listens to jazz </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on the radio with his friend, Antonio the zookeeper. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One night, Steve is feeling a little lonely and so he lifts the latch of his cage </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">door and goes off to search for Antonio. At the tram stop outside the zoo, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he finds a hat — the perfect disguise. Steve climbs aboard a tram and rides </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">down the hillside, past the favelas and into the city. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is carnival time in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rio! Fireworks explode in the sky and sequinned dancers shimmy along the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">avenue. ‘Feliz Carnaval’ cry the sambistas. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Steve follows the sounds of a saxophone and discovers his friend Antonio </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">playing in a quartet at the Blue Jaguar Jazz Club. When a beautiful dancer </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">steps on to the dance floor, Steve takes her by the hand. They twirl and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">twist to the music until suddenly, Steve’s hat falls off to reveal he is a gorilla!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Steve goes to Carnival</i> is a collaboration
between Joshua Button, a
young Indigenous artist from Broome
and his mentor, Robyn Wells.
Joshua is descended from the
Walmajarri people of the East
Kimberley in Western Australia. Robyn has a degree in Fine Arts and has lived in the Kimberley for
many years. She is passionate about enabling young people to express
themselves through language and art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">View images from the picture book <a href="https://www.magabala.com/media/wysiwyg/Press_Releases/Steve_goes_to_Carnival_media_release.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> and on the publisher, <a href="https://www.magabala.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Magabala Books</span></a>' home page <a href="https://www.magabala.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Research the animals in the zoo that are named in the story (e.g. jaguars, elephants, howler monkeys, sloths, anteaters, lions)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Explore the actions (verbs/processes) of the animals in the story (e.g. pace, stretch, hoot, chatter, whoop, holler, lick, wend, trumpet..)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Match the 'action words' (verbs/processes) to each of the animals</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sequence the events in the story</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Discuss fiction and non-fiction texts</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Explore personification (e.g. "the old yellow tram shudders")</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Investigate noun groups and adjectives (e.g. the anteater's "long, sticky tongue" a "wide-brimmed hat")</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Discuss alliteration (e.g. "sloths sway slowly", "twist and twirl")</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Match the actions/sounds of the instruments to the nouns (e.g. the "piano tinkles", the "double bass pounds", the "saxophone wails", the "singer hums and trills")</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Explore the language specific to the setting of Brazil (e.g. sambistas, 'Feliz Carnaval', Entra Senhor, saxofonista, Rio de Janeiro, favelas, fireworks, sequins, feather headresses...)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Locate Brazil and Rio de Janeiro on a world map</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can download your free copy at my TPT store <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Steve-Goes-to-Carnival-and-Herman-and-Rosie-freebie-2591258" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>, or by clicking on the image below. <b>Please leave feedback if you do download this freebie</b>. <b>Please also share this post with your networks</b> - sharing is caring!</span></div>
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<img class="nopin" src="http://honeybunchblogdesign2.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sgn1rr.png" />Kylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-10278000108164155322016-05-02T16:41:00.000-07:002016-05-02T17:16:56.422-07:00Fabulous new picture books and resources for Mothers' Day 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you would like to check out my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ripper-Reading-Resources" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">new reading comprehension resources</span></a> for these <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ripper-Reading-Resources" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Mother's Day picture books</span></a> (which I think are awesome, by the way), click on the image above or <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ripper-Reading-Resources" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a> and select "sort by" and "most recent" in the drop down menu under the "My Products" tab. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have discounted all of these new resources for a limited time. You can save even more with the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ripper-Reading-Resources" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">TPT</span></a> <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ripper-Reading-Resources" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">storewide sale</span></a> at the moment too :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have pinned lots of <a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/mothers-day/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">ideas for Mother's Day</span></a> picture books, crafts, activities etc. <a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/mothers-day/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can read my <a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/mothers-day/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">reviews of recently published picture books for Mother's Day </span></a>and my mission to find alternative representations of mothers in picture books <a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/mothers-day/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am loving these new picture books for <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/mothers-day/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Mothers' Day</span></a> </span>this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who doesn't love Nick Bland? Published in 2015, <a href="https://shop.scholastic.com.au/Product/8358082/Some-Mums" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Some Mums</span></a> is a joyful celebration of mothers and their individuality. (They are actually my own words even though they sound like they come off a Hallmark card!!) <i>Some Mums</i> is a terrific mentor text for studying adjectives to describe qualities and characteristics of mothers and also for rhyming words. The illustrations are gorgeous and support visual literacy, adding meaning to the text. This lends itself so well to the children describing the qualities and characteristics that make their own mums unique and special. <a href="http://lamontbooks.com.au/media/35821/april-2015-ec-some-mums.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Free teaching notes</span></a> for <i>Some Mums </i>are available <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://lamontbooks.com.au/media/35821/april-2015-ec-some-mums.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a> </span><span style="color: magenta;">and Reading Time provides a synopsis of the book</span><span style="color: magenta;"> <a href="http://readingtime.com.au/some-mums/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Some mums are graceful and some mums are tough. <br />Each mum has her own way of being a mum and they are all delightful! <br />Another instant classic from Nick Bland!"'</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I just love Bruce Whatley's illustrations. My Mum's the Best, published in 2015 and written by Rosie Smith is another celebration of what makes mums special. Bruce Whatley's illustrations are gorgeous and add to the text about that special bond between mums and their young. You can read a review of <a href="http://www.mybookcorner.com.au/listings/892-my-mums-the-best" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">My Mum's the Best</span></a> on My Book Corner <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://www.mybookcorner.com.au/listings/892-my-mums-the-best" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a> </span>or at Kids' Book Review<span style="color: magenta;"> <a href="http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2011/05/review-my-mums-best.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ou can read a review of the book from Reading Time (the Children's Book Council) </span><a href="http://readingtime.com.au/dear-mum-i-love-you/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, or by clicking on the image below. I am really liking this title as a picture book that has a lot of curriculum potential as a learning resource in schools. Each double page spread features a different animal mother and baby and a letter written for their mum. The illustrations by Simon Williams are just gorgeous. I love the way the letter from the chameleon is written in a range of changing colours - very clever and lends itself so well to inferring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With regard to teaching potential, I am loving <a href="https://katrinagermein.com/2015/04/20/my-mum-says-the-strangest-things/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">My Mum Says the Strangest Things</span></a> by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KatrinaGermein" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Katrina Germein</span></a>, illustrated by Tom Jellett and published by Black Dog Books (2016). This is such a fantastic picture book for teaching idioms and those sayings that all of our mums have that have become classics over the years. Oh look, the <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/KatrinaGermein" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">author has a Facebook Page</span></a> </span>- I'll just hop over and "like" that. All the authors and illustrators in this blog post probably have FB and twitter etc...If you know their links, please share in the comments below as I really do need to expand my groupie circles :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Okay, back to <a href="http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/My-Mum-Says-Strangest-Things-Katrina-Germein-Tom-Jellett-Illustrated-by/9781925126310" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">My Mum Says the Strangest Things</span> </a>which has so many teachable opportunities...The son shares some of his mother's sayings (idioms) which leaves the reader pondering about their literal meanings. Students could reflect on the unique sayings their own mothers have.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2014/05/interview-author-katrina-germein-my-mum.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Kids Book Review</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"> </span>interviews the author </span><a href="http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2014/05/interview-author-katrina-germein-my-mum.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. That is such a good blog by the way - kindred spirits :) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Free teaching notes for </span><a href="http://lamontbooks.com.au/media/14549/My-Mum-Says-the-Strangest-TN.pdf" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">My Mum Says the Strangest Things</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> are available </span><a href="http://lamontbooks.com.au/media/14549/My-Mum-Says-the-Strangest-TN.pdf" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. You can also read an interview with the author <a href="http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2014/05/interview-author-katrina-germein-my-mum.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a> or view a video preview on the author's website <a href="https://katrinagermein.com/2015/04/20/my-mum-says-the-strangest-things/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<a href="https://world-shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/My-Mum-Is-a-Supermum-9781407147758" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPDDm-ZkF0PvCYLg2QIOpKiXhg-H419QSUDV8eCt1jIpSdYxMbJJvQEB6sq-JDk-0yQ0gX3wiOptzAjQ6FCyPNKIIskssBdL8rSDeUOSB9XHqvDgc46jWgx22yTqs_YNSM9ScYTIQbA/s200/My+mum+is+a+supermum.PNG" width="180" /></a><a href="https://world-shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/My-Mum-Is-a-Supermum-9781407147758" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><a href="https://shop.scholastic.com.au/Product/8413951/Supermum"><span style="color: magenta;">Supermum</span></a> </span>and <a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/My-Mum-is-Supermum-Angela-McAllister/9781407147758"><span style="color: magenta;">My Mum is a Supermum</span></a> (also published in 2016) would make terrific companion texts for Mother's Day in the classroom. A time-release vimeo of <i>Supermum</i> is available <a href="https://vimeo.com/161128796"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a> that shows how the cover illustration was created. This would be useful within the visual arts and design technology curriculum areas. <a href="http://all%20this%20pink%2C%20was%20making%20me%20think...i%20was%20looking%20for%20an%20%22out-of-the-box%22%20picture%20book%20where%20mums%20are%20represented%20in%20different%20ways%2C%20other%20than%20through%20pink%20backgrounds%2C%20images%20and%20cleaning/cooking%20stereotypes."><span style="color: magenta;">My Mum has X-Ray vision</span></a> would be an excellent companion text with <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="https://world-shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/My-Mum-Is-a-Supermum-9781407147758"><span style="color: magenta;">My Mum is a Supermum</span></a> </span>as they have similar themes. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scholastic's blurb about <a href="https://shop.scholastic.com.au/Product/8413951/Supermum" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Supermum</span></a> reads:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">I imagine there will be plenty of blog posts in the lead up to Mother's Day with links to crafts, so I will cut to the chase and just share the link to <a href="https://au.pinterest.com/kyjac/mothers-day/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">my pinterest board for Mother's Day</span></a> where I have pinned plenty of ideas for home and school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On that train of thought, I am liking the sound of this new picture book by Emily Gravett (click on the image) about the perils of overzealous neatness and being too tidy :) You can never be too careful, I say!</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Hippie-Grandmother-Reeve-Lindbergh/dp/0763606715/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=31Z4E06XT8L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR132%2C160_&refRID=167X1FA25FXRNH2B8395" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oLOl93MzZTgMwxre2cn28gAJrpQRE6c-XsVsixhfxGcelE5dZTz1DfWxpEVfbDb1cE8X_H4nBKc09Knmsd3KGs6hNLCu0fXWte4-_DLYYi2sGA7qrZd03n5mmvGFie9OY3JT5qwU1w/s320/My+Hippie+Grandmother.PNG" width="261" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was looking for a picture book that was about real mums who aren't all pink, pretty and perfect :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then I found it...<a href="https://www.blogger.com/I%20was%20looking%20for%20a%20picture%20book%20that%20was%20about%20real%20mums%20who%20aren't%20all%20pink,%20pretty%20and%20perfect%20:)" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">My Hippie Grandmother</span></a> - I wonder if there is one about mums? I also wonder if there is a version about mothers who are addicted to picture books or have a picture book obsession? I am loving this description of the book on Amazon (and yes I bought it and I wasn't disappointed):</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"<b>Who says grandmothers have to wear tidy buns and be relegated to rocking chairs? In lilting rhyme and sunny psychedelic colors, Reeve Lindbergh and Abby Carter introduce the most vibrant, tie-dyed grandmother ever to dance her way across a picture book - together with her cat named Woodstock, her guitar-strumming boyfriend, her organic garden, and her very proud granddaughter. Flower power forever!</b>"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am suddenly feeling the need to do some composting, or companion gardening, or picking up those African drums or red uke I bought a couple of years ago and haven't learnt to play yet :) <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kellys-Classroom" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Kelly</span></a>, if you are reading this, you are way ahead of me in the uke department :)</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt5nUMianu-dOkIwTe-tDkrOEQbF7BtAq7tEw-YdfZHPrIOeroID58n8eGPkVZX-tiIP_cGRnIJSk7TSHiTDL7oYA2DYHiW4gFiCgsRciM5Xlvi9OTTY5KfLDTmCB-MlR-im_KkuycdA/s1600/Our+granny.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt5nUMianu-dOkIwTe-tDkrOEQbF7BtAq7tEw-YdfZHPrIOeroID58n8eGPkVZX-tiIP_cGRnIJSk7TSHiTDL7oYA2DYHiW4gFiCgsRciM5Xlvi9OTTY5KfLDTmCB-MlR-im_KkuycdA/s200/Our+granny.PNG" width="165" /></a><a href="http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2012/02/review-gangsta-granny.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimM3ND7ljQA_WhaOpfcqyTH21nnPpudVcSGO6nZMJawbN-YuxkkYh8mBax4gs7Vn_hZ-KxMG7l0xNX2tSNw0aTMA2rAg_pK7_W_3gVi-gfkWQlT3x6eTlhyphenhyphencIzFuL9rQZ5FV5xJCKjSg/s320/Gangsta+granny.PNG" width="207" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now for older kids...this is way beyond the pink factor :) Grannies are mums too and for younger children, <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Our-Granny-Margaret-Wild-Julie-Vivas/9780395883952?ref=grid-view" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Our Granny</span></a> is a classic. <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Our-Granny-Margaret-Wild-Julie-Vivas/9780395883952?ref=grid-view" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Our Granny</span></a> is another picture book that is a terrific mentor text for teaching adjectives to describe grannies, to value difference and the illustrations are devine (as well as very funny!). </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2012/02/review-gangsta-granny.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Gansta Granny</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> sounds like a fun read for children aged 10+</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. You can read a review of it by Kids' Book Review </span><a href="http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2012/02/review-gangsta-granny.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. It is written by David Walliams who is part of the <i>Little Britain</i> comedy team. The review states that this book, "</span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">has its thoughtful moments, with some interesting insights into parental expectations, the generation gap and the very special bond that can exist between grandparents and their grandchildren.</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: 22.05px;">"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The author, Peter Carnavas, is a teacher (albeit retired, I think, working full-time as an author/illustrator). Wouldn't it be bizarre if he read my blog?! I don't think many people read my blog anyway, so it's just an extended conversation with myself really :) I wonder why he would write a picture book about a single mum and her child when he's married with kids? Hmm...I guess other children's authors write about animals and they are not animals! Ha ha ha - you should see the images on <a href="https://petercarnavas.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Peter's blog home page</span></a> - they remind me a bit of Mr McGee. Oh goodness, now I am a bit embarrassed - look at <a href="https://petercarnavas.com/books-3/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">all these picture books he has authored</span></a>...I have so many of them in my collection! I wonder if he would do a guest post on my blog? Watch this space :) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh dear, I have stepped into dangerous, "interrogating texts" type territory here with this review of <a href="http://awfullibrarybooks.net/mommy-needs-to-get-pretty/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">My Beautiful Mommy</span></a>. This is not the alternative, representative example I was thinking of when I was searching for picture books that represent mothers in different ways in children's literature. My goodness, do we really need to expose little children to these adult concepts (i.e. plastic surgery and self-image)? This reminds me of a levelled reader we removed years ago that was about a married couple who were separated and when the children went to visit Daddy it was all about Mummy breaking her diet and how many donuts Mummy ate! There were parent complaints and the book was removed from the guided reading and home reading collections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mylittlebookcase.com.au/books/book-list-picture-books-about-mums/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">My Little Bookcase</span></a> shares reviews of other picture books about mums for Mother's Day <a href="http://www.mylittlebookcase.com.au/books/book-list-picture-books-about-mums/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>. <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://www.mybookcorner.com.au/articles/606-best-mothers-day-books.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">My Book Corner</span></a> </span>also reviews picture books for Mothers' Day <a href="http://www.mybookcorner.com.au/articles/606-best-mothers-day-books.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The lyrics to a Mother's Day song called </span><a href="http://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/9f/8f/my-mum-lyrics-524534.pdf" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">My Mum</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> can be found </span><a href="http://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/9f/8f/my-mum-lyrics-524534.pdf" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the way, if you read this far and are wondering <span style="color: magenta;">what </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;">Kylie's pink rating is </span>- it's my original pink, cheesiness, stereotype analysis/reflection on how mothers are positioned or represented in titles to do with Mothers' Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are so many wonderful choices to make Mothers' Day this year really special - and representative of difference - a celebration of all mums wherever they are and whatever they do! I would be really interested in reading about picture books that represent mothers from different cultural backgrounds in authentic contexts. If you know of any, please leave a comment below with the title/s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before you go, check out the 2016 CBCA notables book lists <a href="http://readingtime.com.au/announcing-2016-cbca-book-year-notables/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you love picture books as much as I do, you may consider joining <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1708651659419511/" target="_blank">our new FB page</a>: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1708651659419511/" target="_blank">Picturebook Fanatics</a></span>. We don't have many members yet as it was only created about a week ago, but it really is a support group for those of us who love picture books, sharing new titles and ideas to use them in the classroom. Come and join the fun and help get the group active and happening :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have a good week everyone!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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Kylie Meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257545055615342314noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406636609047896681.post-43072688033389324602016-04-24T19:49:00.002-07:002016-04-24T22:02:26.268-07:00Mud crabs, mangroves and memories<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reading the newly published picture book, <a href="https://www.magabala.com/childrens-picture-books/crabbing-with-dad.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Crabbing with Dad</span></a> brought back so many lovely memories for me of growing up in Far North Queensland and fishing with my brother on the beach...well, he fished and I carried the bucket. Memories of the cast net, the yabby pump, pippies, mangroves and mud crabs :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reading this picture book also brought memories of my very favourite poem studied in high school in Cairns, <a href="http://allpoetry.com/The-Crabs" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">"The Crabs" by Brian Vrepont</span></a>. I still vividly remember the lines in that poem and the sense of futility of the human condition in comparison to the simplicity of the existence of the crabs. Disappointing that there are a couple of typos in the version hyperlinked here, but nonetheless, I remember it well...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.magabala.com/childrens-picture-books/crabbing-with-dad.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Crabbing with Dad</span></a> is written and illustrated by Darwin-based author and illustrator, Paul Seden who is descended from the Wuthathi and Muralag people of North Queensland. This is the first children's picture book that he has both written and illustrated. It is published by <a href="https://www.magabala.com/home" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Magabala Books</span></a>, Australia's oldest independent Indigenous publishing company, based in Broome, in the far north of Western Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love so many of the <a href="https://www.magabala.com/childrens-picture-books.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">picture books published by Magabala Books</span></a> and have blogged<span style="color: red;"> </span>about some of them before. You can read these other posts using the "search this blog" link on the right hand side or by clicking <a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/incorporating-indigenous-australian.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. Free teachers' notes for many of the picture books published by Magabala Books are available <a href="https://www.magabala.com/resources" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.magabala.com/childrens-picture-books/crabbing-with-dad.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Crabbing with Dad</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> tells the story of Mahli and Sam who go out crabbing with Dad in their boat to their secret spot in the creek. They set their crab pots and wait patiently until they pull up an angry crab and then more crabs and their Dad teaches them how to handle the crabs so they don't get nipped. Interestingly, nowhere in the text does it mention that the girl's name is Mahli (I found that out on the publisher's blurb about the book). The story is told through the eyes of Mahli, the narrator.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This would be a terrific mentor text for writing personal recounts and retellings and also for children to write about their favourite activities with their own fathers (making it a great choice of text and activity for Father's Day).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Some teaching ideas for <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.magabala.com/childrens-picture-books/crabbing-with-dad.html" target="_blank">Crabbing with Dad</a></span></u></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Writing a <b>narrative recount/retell </b>of a personal experience </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Australian Curriculum: English</i> Year 2 Achievement Standard: </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Students create texts, drawing on their own experiences, their imagination and information they have learnt]</i></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Exploring figurative language and literary devices </b>e.g. alliteration, <a href="http://www.literarydevices.com/consonance/" target="_blank">consonance</a>, <a href="http://www.literarydevices.com/assonance/" target="_blank">assonance</a> and <a href="http://www.literarydevices.com/sibilance/" target="_blank">sibilance</a> - for example, from the text: "</span><i><span style="background-color: white;">Th</span><span style="background-color: lime;">e</span><span style="background-color: white;"> f</span><span style="background-color: cyan;">i</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">sh</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: cyan;">i</span><span style="background-color: white;">n the cr</span><span style="background-color: lime;">eek</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">SH</span><span style="background-color: cyan;">I</span><span style="background-color: white;">MMY and S</span><span style="background-color: magenta;">PL</span><span style="background-color: white;">A</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">SH</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and </span><span style="background-color: magenta;">pl</span><span style="background-color: white;">ay hide and s</span><span style="background-color: lime;">eek</span></i><span style="background-color: white;">." </span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Examining subject specific vocabulary and phrases</b> - e.g. longbums, shellfish, mangroves, fishing, tide, hunting, nippers, crab pots, untangle, crabbing, life jackets, mates, mud crabbing, sink the pots, glide to our secret spot, turn of the tide. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Investigating adjectives and noun groups</b> e.g. slimy fish bait, secret spot. Students could expand sentences from within the text by using noun groups </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Australian Curriculum: English</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Year 2 <u>Strand</u>: <i>Language</i>; <u>Sub-strand</u>: <i>Expressing and developing ideas</i>: ...</span><a class="glossary-term-link ajax-lightbox" href="http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/glossary/popup?a=E&t=noun" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(118, 118, 118); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="Display the glossary entry for noun"><span style="color: black;">noun</span></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"> groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: 21px;"><a class="code ajax-lightbox" href="http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/curriculum/contentdescription/ACELA1468" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="View additional details of ACELA1468">(ACELA1468)</a>; </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit </span><a class="glossary-term-link ajax-lightbox" href="http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/glossary/popup?a=E&t=audience" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(118, 118, 118); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="Display the glossary entry for audience"><span style="color: black;">audience</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;"> and purpose </span><span style="color: black;"><a class="code ajax-lightbox" href="http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/curriculum/contentdescription/ACELA1470" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="View additional details of ACELA1470">(ACELA1470)</a> ]</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Questioning, inferring and justifying with evidence from the text:</b> What's the difference between <i>fishing</i> and <i>hunting</i>? What does '<i>turn of the tide</i>' mean? What does the sign mean in the illustration that shows Dad's mates fishing? What are <i>longbums</i>? What do the children do while they are waiting up the creek? Why do the children have to wait in the boat up the creek, away from the crab pots? What are mud crabs and where do they live? Which parts of Australia can they be found in? Why do you think the first mud crab was angry? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;"><i style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Australian Curriculum: English</i><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"> Year 2 <u>Strand</u>: <i>Literacy</i>; <u>Sub-strand</u>: <i>Interpreting, analysing, evaluating</i>: </span>Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a class="glossary-term-link ajax-lightbox" href="http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/glossary/popup?a=E&t=context" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(118, 118, 118); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="Display the glossary entry for context">context</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">, language and </span><a class="glossary-term-link ajax-lightbox" href="http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/glossary/popup?a=E&t=visual+features" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(118, 118, 118); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="Display the glossary entry for visual features">visual features</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;"> and print and </span><a class="glossary-term-link ajax-lightbox" href="http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/glossary/popup?a=E&t=multimodal+text" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(118, 118, 118); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="Display the glossary entry for multimodal text">multimodal text</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;"> structures </span><a class="code ajax-lightbox" href="http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/curriculum/contentdescription/ACELY1670" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="View additional details of ACELY1670">(ACELY1670)</a>]</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In preparing for this blog post, I did quite a few Internet searches and was really surprised by how few picture books or resources for children there are about mud crabs. <b><i>If you know of any, please share the links in the comments below this post</i></b>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It seems that hermit crabs are madly popular in primary schools, but other crabs have a very lean dance card. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will share some of the ideas I did find. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<a href="https://www.magabala.com/childrens-picture-books/claws-eyes-flippers-deadly-reads-for-deadly-readers-saltwater-series.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4JaDoHmFT-LRatvwtZrL1qGi-36SgnyOUMiFr8nvjZRyUPNo6qNqjqAH764BR259TddT2fI-xz6_z9UJkQlVIfhCWenX1n44DwF5n518-pPUa7Y4_SQcLccje8-bqnYf11j6t3vcK0g/s320/Claws%252C+eyes%252C+flippers+cover.PNG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you have been following my blog for some time, you will know that I love using multiple text sources, text sets or companion texts to support students to make inter-textual connections (text-to-text connections and intertextuality).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Magabala Books publishes a series called, <a href="https://www.magabala.com/media/wysiwyg/pdf/Deadly_Reads_Teachers_Notes.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Deadly Reads for Deadly Readers</span></a> and within this series I found the text, <a href="https://www.magabala.com/childrens-picture-books/claws-eyes-flippers-deadly-reads-for-deadly-readers-saltwater-series.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Claws, Eyes, Flippers</span></a>, which was shortlisted for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2f2f2f; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the <i>2013 Speech Pathology of Australia Book of the Year Awards (Indigenous Children category). </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Has anyone seen or used this series before? I hadn't heard of it, so I decided to find out more. In the blurb for the book, the publisher's website states:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2f2f2f; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"Do crabs have claws or flippers? One of the first of four books in a series of levelled readers.The series has been carefully designed to provide young Indigenous and non-Indigenous children with engaging, enjoyable and meaningful experiences with print that will support their reading skills and their desire to read."</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2f2f2f;">Free teacher notes are available</span> <a href="https://www.magabala.com/media/wysiwyg/pdf/Deadly_Reads_Teachers_Notes.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #2f2f2f;">. The teaching notes, written by Trish Bremner, have links to the Australian Curriculum across several curriculum areas. The English notes include book sharing, modelled reading, shared reading, guided reading, repeated reading and independent reading ideas. They introduce teachers to the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.magabala.com/media/wysiwyg/pdf/Deadly_Reads_Teachers_Notes.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">GRREaD strategy</span> </a>for repeated readings of the text. If you haven't heard of the GRREaD approach before, it is worthwhile reading the teaching notes as a comprehensive explanation is included.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/-Wanybi--Muying-I--Vilimindji-Magati-Ke-Rak-Naning-People/9781741310528?ref=grid-view" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirLwj3htVwgL4SRxu2jmfsOSaHoyPLam25XVDo0slpwrPzgBodqGEy3Q17l5fRI_MM91fi0QDyp7afNeO1nBq49MSuonMSRfspsMgMdisMnyI8ShM_hH1IlVSfRGA9dG4ChUX_jK5xMQ/s200/The+mud+crba+Batchelor+Institute.PNG" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I found this other picture book, published in 2006 by the Batchelor Institute in the Northern Territory through the <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/-Wanybi--Muying-I--Vilimindji-Magati-Ke-Rak-Naning-People/9781741310528?ref=grid-view" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Book Depository</span></a>, however I do not have a copy so cannot review it. The description of the book states that the book is: </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;"><i>"The story of the mud crab, the magpie goose and the pied cormorant who meet together to dance a corroboree. They all dance until they are exhausted when the magpie goose man and his family decide to become birds, the pied cormorant and his family decide to grow feathers and swim in fresh water and the crab man grows a shell."</i></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd21PPqretbEE29WpwyhNzYG0FZiMEEwYL-3UOheFkfXEELwS2Vf48UWNVfOr14un6DPrGW2PecWB1jzEqprhMwfIpr9TDX5fK6aVD3fSoeAlC5b6EJEVZX7PRiMMcp9_6ueoibzrksw/s1600/Pet+crabs+Indji+readers.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd21PPqretbEE29WpwyhNzYG0FZiMEEwYL-3UOheFkfXEELwS2Vf48UWNVfOr14un6DPrGW2PecWB1jzEqprhMwfIpr9TDX5fK6aVD3fSoeAlC5b6EJEVZX7PRiMMcp9_6ueoibzrksw/s200/Pet+crabs+Indji+readers.PNG" width="140" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333;">I also found the title, </span><a href="http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Pet-Crabs-Leslie-A-Simon-Margaret-Cossey/9780975686034" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Pet Crabs</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> published in the series of Indji readers (<i>for little fullas, for big fullas, Series 2</i>). The blurb states:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"An old Koori lad tricks some 'gungies' (police) about his seafood hunting practices, highlighting laws about Native Title fishing rights."</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Information about the </span><a href="http://www.network-ed.com.au/primary/indigenous/indij-readers" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Indji readers</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> can be found </span><a href="http://indijreaders.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Indij-2014-Brochure.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I love Bruce Whatley's illustrations and especially those in his picture books, <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/The-Ugliest-Dog-in-the-World-Bruce-Whatley/9780207174278?ref=grid-view" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Ugliest Dog in the World</span></a> and <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/That-Magnetic-Dog-Bruce-Whatley/9780207184208?ref=grid-view" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">That Magnetic Dog</span></a>. They are just terrific for teaching visual literacy. <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Looking-for-Crabs-Bruce-Whatley/9780207177712?ref=grid-view" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Looking for Crabs</span></a> by Bruce Whatley is sure not to disappoint and I cannot wait for my copy to arrive in the post. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can read about Bruce Whatley and his works </span><a href="http://www.thelitcentre.org.au/author/bruce-whatley" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The description of "<i>Looking for Crabs</i>" states:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">When you are on holidays and it's too cold to swim, what can you do? You can look for crabs! But search carefully, they are very hard to find. *Shortlisted, Young Adults Best Book Awards (YABBA) (VIC), 1994 and 1995 Ages 3+"</span></i></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mybookcorner.com.au/listings/404-our-world-bardi-jaawi-life-at-ardiyooloon.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">O<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ur World: Bardi Jaawi: Life at Ardiyooloon</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is written by the children of One Arm Point Community School. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Ardiyooloon is home to the Bardi-Jaawi people at the top of the Dampier Peninsula, 200km north of Broome in the north-west of Western Australia. In this book, readers f</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ollow the children as they go 'Camping at Gooda', and learn how to make mens' spears, how to dig for mud crabs, how to find fresh water and how to make damper. It sounds like it could be a useful mentor text for procedural writing.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO197ZCcJceR6Sr7d34yXTmbIPNShNJ7ztNfDVFHunzGVc078YLMQAy3UW6UWrJ6I9KqYESKy2DV2o-mLPotHZcLIOYNlBqq1iPteWuazXy53zQT1Jz54B1iT4gxErE1BPKWQjFiHYOA/s1600/spearing+crabs.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO197ZCcJceR6Sr7d34yXTmbIPNShNJ7ztNfDVFHunzGVc078YLMQAy3UW6UWrJ6I9KqYESKy2DV2o-mLPotHZcLIOYNlBqq1iPteWuazXy53zQT1Jz54B1iT4gxErE1BPKWQjFiHYOA/s200/spearing+crabs.PNG" width="200" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I found the picture book, "<i>Spearing Crabs</i>" published in 2013 by Black Ink Press on <a href="http://www.booktopia.com.au/spearing-crabs-brent-wolmby/prod9781863340533.html?source=pla&gclid=Cj0KEQjw0dy4BRCuuL_e5MeqmNABEiQAq8iNI9Rxm5N9ebutyG8fLOTIGI6EDH-4ASjvNjF_Zm4s7bsaAuoM8P8HAQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Booktopia</span></a>. The description states:</span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Written and illustrated by youngsters, these small books tell some stories that are far-fetched and others very down-to-earth. They all share a lively Indigenous sensibility and sense of humour. With bright, spontaneous illustrations they will be enjoyed by other primary and even secondary students. They might even make books seem relevant and their short texts will be enjoyable for reluctant readers."</span></span></i><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexkcsxa_Tc3chxXTpBxqOrc04zR1FB8zGYq9LQsLT0QEn_Awk0dU3rsHmMikXkLQXtwnulQVqYvRTbzzK4J5PaTIjWYFEgWW_UvpcKi8_tHzc7yytJMh4E9RY4cTkWCb67lvvThYXdg/s1600/Joshua+and+The+Two+Crabs.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexkcsxa_Tc3chxXTpBxqOrc04zR1FB8zGYq9LQsLT0QEn_Awk0dU3rsHmMikXkLQXtwnulQVqYvRTbzzK4J5PaTIjWYFEgWW_UvpcKi8_tHzc7yytJMh4E9RY4cTkWCb67lvvThYXdg/s200/Joshua+and+The+Two+Crabs.PNG" width="200" /></a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana"; line-height: 17px;">I also found another picture book published by Magabala Books, "<a href="https://www.magabala.com/joshua-and-the-two-crabs.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Joshua and the Two Crabs</span></a><span style="color: #53565a;">". The description states:</span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBxZVhu4wkTC05pRa-ZJwGs_v7QQI6pf8f3EC0bUYtycy1EY01jSjHux9QgcC2zO9vpvbm_HV93Jy_wN2QBQRJPaH60g-97DyAunzwZe1ekKC-ivCp1zBpHZLGIxp6aplxa-xI0ZNnA/s1600/zombie+crabs+cover+better.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBxZVhu4wkTC05pRa-ZJwGs_v7QQI6pf8f3EC0bUYtycy1EY01jSjHux9QgcC2zO9vpvbm_HV93Jy_wN2QBQRJPaH60g-97DyAunzwZe1ekKC-ivCp1zBpHZLGIxp6aplxa-xI0ZNnA/s200/zombie+crabs+cover+better.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="196" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><i>"Joshua Button is a young Indigenous author with a keen interest in the saltwater country he has grown up in. His observations of his family’s fishing trip to Crab Creek give us a unique opportunity to see this adventure through his eyes. Joshua’s illustrations evoke the beauty of Crab Creek—a tidal creek that lies in the mangroves of Roebuck Bay near Broome in Australia’s north west."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">I didn't know about Zombie Crabs until I started reading for this blog post. I am sure children would be highly motivated to read and learn about this phenomenon. This is the blurb from </span><a href="http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Zombie-Crabs-Science-Animals-Jolene-Alessi/9781482428384" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Fishpond</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> for this non-fiction children's book published in 2015: </span><br />
<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"A parasite exists that can make a male crab believe its a female crab. It forces the crab it infects to care for parasite eggs and even help release the larvae into the ocean to infect other crabs! These zombie crabs are never aware that they are infected nor do they harm the parasite."</span></i><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr-pHZnTF8ka0JsZaYT12oe6dPSiaybvtCW3IQmInl6ReaLVnsFgLbwjrjOb9UkQvLjj8r05A9wjKytVTULWI2MdAq3pj8HrADTxO_3USnDrd_X3d-dQArrdD9fZJ1V7F7Hl6RQX11lA/s1600/catching+blueys.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr-pHZnTF8ka0JsZaYT12oe6dPSiaybvtCW3IQmInl6ReaLVnsFgLbwjrjOb9UkQvLjj8r05A9wjKytVTULWI2MdAq3pj8HrADTxO_3USnDrd_X3d-dQArrdD9fZJ1V7F7Hl6RQX11lA/s200/catching+blueys.PNG" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wonder if there are zombie crabs in Australia?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not about mud crabs, but "<a href="http://budburrabooks.com.au/catching-blueys.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Catching Blueys</span></a>" looks like an interesting title written and illustrated in Cherbourg and published by <a href="http://www.budburrabooks.com.au/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Budburra Books</span></a>. The description reads:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #42210b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"Brave Mim knows the best way to catch blueys! Robyn shares her special family story about catching crawfish with her sister at the waterhole."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, what all of this hunting around the Internet about mud crabs has reinforced to me, is that </span><a href="https://www.magabala.com/childrens-picture-books/crabbing-with-dad.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">"Crabbing with Dad" by Paul Seden</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is a </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">wonderful and welcome addition</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to a very sparsely published topic for kids - mud crabs and crabbing in Australia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Just for fun, for an Art activity, I love this </span><a href="http://craftsbyamanda.com/paper-plate-sea-crab/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">paper plate crab</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> on the </span><i style="background-color: white;">Crafts by Amanda</i><span style="background-color: white;"> website. Another idea for a "crab" hat was found on pinterest </span><a href="https://au.pinterest.com/pin/456130268490408653/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">. Ideas for Indigenous resource activities are provided by the Queensland State Library </span><a href="http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/202952/ATSI_Resources_-_Childrens_Activity_Booklet_by_Tania_Schafer_2.pdf" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More information about mud crabs can be found at these websites:</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.fishingworld.com.au/news/fish-facts-mud-crabs" target="_blank">Fish Facts: Mud Crabs</a></span><br />
<a href="http://www.australiantropicalfoods.com/index.php/australian-seafood/mud-crab/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Australian Tropical Foods: Mud Crabs</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.australiantropicalfoods.com/index.php/australian-seafood/mud-crab/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cape York Travel Guide: Mud Crabbing</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please leave a comment if you know of any other picture books about mud crabs and crabbing in Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you love picture books as much as I do, you may be interested in joining our new Facebook group, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1708651659419511/?ref=bookmarks" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Picturebook Fanatics</span></a> - a support group for sharing ideas and picture book titles for people who are obsessed with picture books, like me :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please make sure you are following my blog, because I can feel a resource coming on... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have a terrific week everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am so excited about my new ANZAC Day resource based on "ANZAC Biscuits" by Phil Cummings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The resource is 40 pages and includes:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.003px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202020;">This new resource is so "hot off the press" that I haven't even had time to do a preview overview of it. I wanted to post about it because ANZAC Day is on 25 April here in Australia (next Monday). You can check it out by clicking </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ANZAC-Biscuits-by-Phil-Cummings-reading-comprehension-activities-2508853" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #202020;"> or on the image below.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 16.003px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made this resource as I just love this picture book and I couldn't find any other teaching resources that use this fabulous picture book. "ANZAC Biscuits" is suitable for the early years for a read aloud. It was only when I was making up the resource, which I intended to initially be for the early years, that I realised the potential this picture book has, with what appears to be such a simple story, for exploring some higher order literary devices, such as parallel storylines and figurative language.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.003px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202020;">I have created two other resources for ANZAC Day based on picture books. One is a bundle for three picture books that feature dogs during the First World War. You can read about this bundle and view previews of the resources that accompany the three picture books in my blog post </span><a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/fresh-ideas-for-anzac-day.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #202020;">. See the YouTube video preview of this resource </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWVG6ORY28M" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #202020;">. View the resource on TPT </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ANZAC-Day-bundle-reading-comprehension-activities-for-3-picture-books-1818885" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #202020;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202020;">The other resource is a mega big resource of 70 pages based on "ANZAC Ted". You can read about my ANZAC Ted resource </span><a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/anzac-ted-and-other-ideas-for-anzac-day.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #202020;"> and </span><a href="http://ripperresources.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/hot-off-press-anzac-ted-comprehension.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #202020;">. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;"><span style="color: #202020;">See the YouTube </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0UkpbsRfmE" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">video preview</span></a><span style="color: #202020;"> of this </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;">resource<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0UkpbsRfmE" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: red;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;"> V</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;"><span style="color: #202020;">iew the resource on TPT </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ANZAC-Day-ANZAC-Ted-bundle-70-pages-reading-comprehension-and-HOT-2491966" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #202020;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;"><span style="color: #202020;">Check out </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ripper-Reading-Resources" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">my TPT store to download two freebies</span> </a><span style="color: #202020;">for ANZAC Day, including ANZAC bookmarks and an outline of ANZAC Ted that can be used for a class display.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;"><span style="color: #202020;">I would love to hear what other Aussies or kiwis do in their classrooms for ANZAC Day. Did you know that the origin of the ANZAC biscuit is contested? Read more in my "ANZAC biscuits" resource in the close reading activities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have a terrific week everyone !</span><br />
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