HUGE Resource Bundle - Sonam and the Silence - Comp Guide - Task Cards Stage 2/3

This is an independent resource bundle based on the Australian book “Sonam and the Silence” by Eddie Ayres.

Sonam and the Silence is a beautiful, inspiring story, set in Afghanistan. It tells the story of Sonam, a little girl who loves music and finds music everywhere - in a country where music is banned.

This book was selected to be a mentor text to teach the Stage Two NESA Unit (4): Imagery, Symbol and Connotation. The resources are designed both to provoke deep thinking about the text, but also to be completely independent. The only prep you need to do is printing or uploading to google classroom or a similar platform.

This bundle of resources consists of:

• a comprehension guide. This guide focuses on a range of skills which are explicitly named, such as literal and inferential understanding, text-to-self connections, author purpose, cause and effect and much much more.

• a set of ten full-colour literacy centre task cards based on the text. These include a range of Creative and Practical Arts integrated tasks, as well as informative, imaginative and persuasive writing prompts.

• all associated printables linked to the task cards, which can be used for a range of literature. These are a set of high-interest, high-choice worksheets.

• a vocabulary booster, designed both to explicitly teach new words found in the text, and also to teach students to decode the meaning of new words based on context.

• a comprehensive slideshow background to the text about Afghanistan. This is designed to provide prior knowledge and includes topics such as history, geography and art.

When used in conjunction with the book, this is at least one full week of literacy learning, covering reading, writing and speaking and listening.

This book would be suitable for a whole class read-aloud, or as a reading group text for Stages Two and Three.

I have many other literature-based resources in my store (most of them Australian) so feel free to check them out.

Happy reading!