'Jetty Jumping' is a captivating Summer story about childhood and letting go of fears.
This bundle includes activities to support this text, which allow students to discuss, comprehend, and make connections, while discovering that we can conquer our fears and grow in confidence through exploration.
Included in this pack:
*Drawing on personal experiences activity card where students write what they are afraid of and what they could do to overcome this fear.
*Research card where students discuss and research all the safe and unsafe aspects of jumping off jetty's.
*Verb card where students look at the descriptive verbs used in the text and expand on these by writing their own ways they and their friends move or jump.
*Senses card where students explore the 5 senses of the beach and draw or write in the circles provided.
*Comprehension activity card where students draw on their knowledge of the story and answer questions around Milla's fear.
*Descriptive Language activity card where students decipher the meaning of the language used in the story by drawing or writing their understanding.
*Mindful colouring activity where students can connect with the imagery in the story.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581)
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme (ACELT1585)
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660)
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons (ACELT1594)
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596)
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605)
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes (ACELT1611)