This book can be used to explore how rhyme & poetry can tell a narrative. This can also be used to analyse careful choice of vocabulary and how learners can create meaning in their own texts similarly.  

Read as a class and discuss the characters in the book. Play a game of 'hot-seat' to immerse learners in the story. In this game, students take turns at being a character from the text and answering questions like them, the other students have to think of and ask relevant questions to that character. This book is a resource to link cross-curriculum priorities. View the cross curriculum priority of Understanding Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Histories and Culture.

Use this book to explore rhyming & poetry, literary devices such as alliteration, and illustrations. Explore how purposeful illustrations can enhance learners texts' meanings and provide alternative perspectives. 

Use this book to explore how illustrations enhance texts. This book is a resource to link cross-curriculum priorities. View the cross curriculum priority of Understanding Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Histories and Culture.

Use this book to teach about Australian history and make connections between cross-curriculum priorities. View the cross curriculum priority of Understanding Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Histories and Culture.

Use this book to teach about authors gifts. A wonderful activity to make the connection between developing reading skills and writing skills together is to do an activity where learners use the first letter of their own name and create an alternate 'page' for the book.

Use these phonics books to support students learning to decode through Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander literature.

'The books are grouped in a developmental order based on the order of sounds introduced in the Jolly Phonics early literacy program'

Use these phonics books to support students learning to decode through Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander literature.

'The books are grouped in a developmental order based on the order of sounds introduced in the Jolly Phonics early literacy program'

Use these phonics books to support students learning to decode through Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander literature.

'The books are grouped in a developmental order based on the order of sounds introduced in the Jolly Phonics early literacy program'

Use these phonics books to support students learning to decode through Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander literature.

'The books are grouped in a developmental order based on the order of sounds introduced in the Jolly Phonics early literacy program'

Use these phonics books to support students learning to decode through Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander literature.

'The books are grouped in a developmental order based on the order of sounds introduced in the Jolly Phonics early literacy program'

Use this book to engage learners in book club. This book is a resource to link cross-curriculum priorities. View the cross curriculum priority of Understanding Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Histories and Culture.

Use this book to engage learners in book club. This book is a resource to link cross-curriculum priorities. View the cross curriculum priority of Understanding Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Histories and Culture.

Use this book to engage learners in book club. This book is a resource to link cross-curriculum priorities. View the cross curriculum priority of Understanding Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Histories and Culture.

Explore a plethora of word and literary devices through this book in class novel reading. 

Use this book to explore rhyming and creating meaning with texts. An activity for this book may be to encourage learners to write an extra page for the book- 'One of the pages for the book has been lost and it's your job to replace it with a new one! Write your own rhyme and create your own illustration following the theme of the book.'

Use these phonics books to support students learning to decode through Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander literature.

'The books are grouped in a developmental order based on the order of sounds introduced in the Jolly Phonics early literacy program'