The Boy in the Dress – David Walliams Novel Study with Resources This novel study is based on the book: The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 12 lessons, with activities/resources included to print to align with the chapters. Extension and fast finisher activities are also available. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts – such as building vocabulary, predicting, recount, chronological recount, different perspectives and comprehension. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. The resource is: 30 pages long 20 activities included Unit plan that breaks the novel down into 12 lessons 12 lessons with guiding questions, learning intentions, success criteria and resources that align to each lesson PDF format. I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoy this unit of work.

VCE Vocational Major - Literacy for Personal Use This resource is a full unit of work for Unit 1, Area of study 1 - Literacy for personal use. This resource includes a teacher’s unit planner with the unit broken down into 5 lessons per week for 9 weeks. There is a PowerPoint included that has all lesson content included - it’s as easy as projecting it to your class and reading off the screen! All student worksheets, workbooks, task sheets and planning documents are also included. I have also developed a simplified version of the VCAA rubric so you can choose which rubric is appropriate for you. This is a fully inclusive unit, which includes links to all required texts so that you can print or share digitally with your students. The assessment task is a folio which comprises of 3 folio pieces: a reflective journal, a research task and a poster. Each task is scheduled in the unit plan, with appropriate content teaching and due dates. **What’s included? ** A 125-slide PPT that includes ALL teaching content required for the entire unit A 5-page teacher unit plan that has all lessons summarised and links to all required texts A 21-page student reflective journal with 16 tasks included, required texts and tables of pertinent information for each content area for students to refer back to (Folio task 1) A student assessment task information sheet (Folio task 2) A student research task planning/unpacking sheet and information report planning document (Folio task 2) A rubric for the unit All documents in both Doc and PDF formats for ease of digital use or printing Copyright You are permitted to use this resource in your classroom/s or group/s only. You are not permitted to share this resource with colleagues, on social media or upload to a school/educational setting shared drive. Please respect my work by not sharing the actual resource. Instead, please share the link for your colleagues to purchase their own licence. I have made this resource very affordable to support you. This resource is ready for you to teach! I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoy this unit of work.

This novel study is based on the book: Robodog by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 14 lessons, with activities relevant to each lesson/chapters. There are 24 activities included to align with the chapters, with extension and fast finishers activities available also. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts - such as building vocabulary, predicting, recount, chronological recount and different perspectives. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. The resource is 34 pages long and in PDF format. I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoys this unit of work.

This novel study is based on the book: Spaceboy by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 13 lessons, with activities relevant to each lesson/chapters. There are 27 activities included to align with the chapters, with extension and fast finishers activities available also. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts - such as building vocabulary, predicting, recount, chronological recount and different perspectives. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. The resource is 37 pages long and in PDF format. I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoys this unit of work.

Rental Housing Theme Unit The theme of the unit is rental housing - this covers all aspects of renting a property, from what is required prior to renting a property, legalities, financial responsibilities, tenants’ rights and responsibilities, the different forms an applicant/tenant needs to know about, organisations that support tenants/people looking for housing, and searching for and applying for a rental property. The unit them moves into the current housing crisis in Victoria (and Australia) as well as exploring homelessness. This VCAL Literacy bundle covers all 8 learning outcomes for Foundation and Intermediate levels. There are many opportunities to cover the oracy learning outcomes throughout the unit as well. There is an assessable task per learning outcome included, with rubrics, graphic organisers and a PowerPoint to teach the skills needed to complete each task. Included in the unit: Reading and writing tasks for practical purposes, knowledge, self-expression and public debate Rubrics for all tasks Teaching notes and links to curriculum Exemplars to annotate PowerPoint slides that cover the explicit teaching of each skill The teaching notes document is 44 pages long, which includes all curriculum links, tasks, graphic organisers and exemplars needed (provided in both PDF and Word formats for editing). The student notes documents have been split into each curriculum area and numbered for ease of printing/disseminating or uploading to your online platform for students (provided in both PDF and Word formats for editing). The PowerPoint is 68 slides and includes all learning outcomes and teaching slides for you and your students. This unit should take approximately a whole term to teach, but the timeframe is dependent on your SWL requirements and your individual cohort’s needs. This bundle is a huge time saver for you and is sure to engage your students with the housing theme linked to a real-life topic students will be interested in and want to invest effort into.

This is a writing task for VCAL Literacy - public debate. The writing task includes two exemplars for analysing and annotating, as well as planning sheets and other graphic organisers. Included is: PDF document for dissemination to students PDF document for teachers with the task, curriculum links, exemplars and graphic organisers PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task Rubric I hope you and your students find this unit engaging.

This is a reading and writing task for VCAL Literacy - public debate. The reading task includes links to a public newspaper article and a persuasive text. Students read both articles and answer comprehension questions aligned to the VCAL Literacy curriculum. A writing task is also included. There are two exemplars included for analysing and annotating, as well as planning sheets and other graphic organisers. Included is: PDF documents for dissemination to students PDF document for teachers with the task, curriculum links, articles to read, exemplars and graphic organisers PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task Rubrics for both tasks I hope you and your students find this unit engaging.

This is a reading task for VCAL Literacy - reading for public debate. The task includes links to a public newspaper article and a persuasive text. Students read both articles and answer comprehension questions aligned to the VCAL Literacy curriculum. Included is: PDF document for dissemination to students PDF document for teachers with the task, curriculum links, articles to read and graphic organisers PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task I hope you and your students find this unit engaging.

The layers of the atmosphere flip book is great manipulative for hands-on learning. Students cut around the rectangle, then cut along the red lines to create flaps. The long edge is glued into their workbook and they fold the flaps up to write their information under the relevant headings. Hands-on learning improves engagement and information retention, so I hope that your learners enjoy this activity.

This is a writing lesson that includes a video link to a YouTube writing prompt. There is a task sheet included to hand out to students, or to digitally disseminate if you are teaching online. There is also a comic strip template included for students who would like to write a comic strip. The document is in Word document format for you to edit expectations to meet your class’ needs as well as a PDF version. Please note that it was created using a Macbook, so if you are viewing the Word document using a PC the formating may change. The formatting will be fixed if you use the PDF version.

This novel study is based on the book: Megamonster by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 12 lessons, with activities relevant to each lesson/chapter. There are 23 activities included to align with the chapters, with extension and fast finishers activities available also. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts - such as building vocabulary, predicting, recount, different perspectives and making connections. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. This unit study is compatible with remote / online learning. The resource is 33 pages long and in PDF format. I sincerely hope that your class enjoys this unit of work.

This novel study is based on the book: The Midnight Gang by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 14 lessons, with activities relevant to each lesson/chapters. There are 27 activities included to align with the chapters, with extension and fast finishers activities available also. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts - such as building vocabulary, predicting, recount, chronological recount, different perspectives and making connections. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. The resource is 41 pages long and in PDF format. I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoys this unit of work.

This novel study is based on the book: Awful Auntie by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 15 lessons, with activities relevant to each lesson/chapters. There are 34 activities included to align with the chapters, with extension and fast finishers activities available also. I have also included 12 bonus activities too! Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts - such as building vocabulary, predicting, recount, chronological recount, different perspectives and making connections. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. The resource is 65 pages long and in PDF format. I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoys this unit of work.

This STEAM challenge asks students to design a paper chair that will hold a small stuffed animal. It is sure to get your students thinking about engineering and design concepts to build a chair that can support a weight! Included in the unit: STEAM project resource for the teacher and one for the students Teaching notes PowerPoint slides that cover the explicit teaching of the foundational design and engineering knowledge required to complete the task All documents in both PDF and Word formats for editing / distance learning requirements The teaching notes document is 7 pages long (provided in both PDF and Word formats for editing). The student notes document is 4 pages long (provided in both PDF and Word formats for editing). The Word version can be used for distance learning for students to type directly into the document for easy submission to the teacher. The PowerPoint is 24 slides and includes learning outcomes and teaching slides for you and your students. This challenge uses very minimal resources and is suitable for distance learning models, however you may need to modify the task slightly to remove the group task component so it is an individual task. It is fully achievable as an individual task. I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoy this STEAM challenge!

This VCAL Literacy bundle covers all 8 learning outcomes for Foundation and Intermediate levels. There are many opportunities to cover the oracy learning outcomes throughout the unit as well. There is an assessable task per learning outcome included, with rubrics, graphic organisers and a PowerPoint to teach the skills needed to complete each task. Included in the unit: STEM project for engagement and to set the theme of the unit. Reading and writing tasks for practical purposes, knowledge, self-expression and public debate Rubrics for all tasks Teaching notes and links to curriculum PowerPoint slides that cover the explicit teaching of each skill, with applied learning links to the skills in workplaces Choices of tasks and texts in some learning outcomes to support student agency The teaching notes document is 43 pages long, includes all curriculum links, tasks and graphic organisers needed (provided in both PDF and Word formats for editing). The student notes document is 36 pages long and is ready for printing or uploading to your online platform for students (provided in both PDF and Word formats for editing). The PowerPoint is 82 slides and includes all learning outcomes and teaching slides for you and your students. This unit should take approximately a whole term to teach, but the timeframe is dependent on your SWL requirements and your individual cohort’s needs. This bundle is a huge time saver for you and is sure to engage your students with the STEM elements embedded into it!

This novel study is based on the book: Code Name Bananas by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 17 lessons, with activities relevant to each lesson/chapters. There are 31 activities included to align with the chapters, with extension and fast finishers activities available also. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts - such as building vocabulary, predicting, recount, chronological recount, different perspectives and making connections. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. The resource is 42 pages long and in PDF format. I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoys this unit of work.

This novel study is based on the book: Grandpa’s Great Escape by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 17 lessons, with activities relevant to each lesson/chapter. There are 32 activities included to align with the chapters, with extension and fast finishers activities available also. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts - such as building vocabulary, predicting, recount, chronological recount, different perspectives and making connections. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. The resource is 40 pages long and in PDF format. I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoys this unit of work.

This unit is based on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. The unit explores the moral and ethical issues and implications of social media and their role in society. This unit has 5 tasks included. All tasks are interactive notebook tasks to engage creativity and critical thinking to encourage students to think more deeply about the ethical implications of the role social media plays in their lives and society in general.

This is a writing task for VCAL Literacy - reading for knowledge. Task uses timelines as the theme for reading for knowledge. Students explore the purpose of timelines and look at two different books with timelines in them to explore the different ways authors can depict timelines and events. Two book titles and authors are included in the planning. If your school or public library doesn’t carry these, you can alternate these for any books with timelines that suits your class’ interests. Included is: Word document for dissemination to students (suitable for distance learning) Word document for teachers with the task, curriculum links and all graphic organisers / templates for printing PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task I hope you and your students find this unit engaging, practice skills for analysing information to ascertain important information relevant to their interests. Please feel free to change the books to a topic relevant to you and your students’ interests.

This is a writing task for VCAL Literacy - writing for knowledge. Task uses timelines as the theme for writing for knowledge. Students explore the purpose of timelines and the use planning and drafting to create a timeline of a significant person in their lives. Included is: Word document for dissemination to students (suitable for distance learning) Word document for teachers with the task, curriculum links and all graphic organisers / templates for printing PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task I hope you and your students find this unit engaging, practice skills for getting their message across using multimodal literacies and increase vocabulary, punctuation and grammar skills.