Young Dark Emu MEGA BUNDLE - Shared Reading - Student Workbook - Reading Groups

This is a HUGE (100+page) mega-bindle of resources to support the teaching of the text Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe in the classroom.

Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe re-examines Australia's Indigenous history, revealing advanced agricultural practices and intricate societies. When aligned with the Australian Curriculum (as this unit it), the book fosters cultural awareness and critical thinking, challenging students to reconsider pre-conceptions and appreciate the diversity of Indigenous perspectives.

This bundle of resources includes:

* a chapter-by-chapter student workbook/comprehension guide. Questions target both literal and inferential levels, as well as additional comprehension strategies such as cause and effect, author purpose, language devices and more. This workbook is perfect for integration both into whole-class or small-group learning.

* a comprehensive answer guide for assessment purposes and providing feedback.

* a detailed vocabulary booster based on each chapter of the book, designed to enrich student word banks and language use, in context.

* a comprehensive shared reading unit of work, presented in a slideshow. This unit takes the structure of the "book a week" model, whereby students focus on one specific goal every day: an introduction to the text, comprehension, a factual background to the text, author purpose and visual literacy. All learning intentions and success criteria are included.

* a full-colour background to the text, examining European perceptions of First Nations Australians before and after 1788.

* a printable biography of the author Bruce Pascoe which can be used as an separate and independent reading passage.

* ten full-colour literacy centre task cards, including persuasive, informative and imaginative writing prompts, designed to be completely independent and low-prep. Literacy tasks allow you to work with reading groups while students are engaged with engaging tasks with a high degree of student choice.

* all associated printables.

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* Please note: this resource is a much-elaborated and updated version of an original resource found in my store. Both versions are available. I found myself using this text a lot in my classroom and wanted a wider range of resources to support it. The original version is available if you are looking for a shorter duration for learning.

Happy reading!