InitiaLit–2 Storybook Lessons
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Curriculum links – Storybook Lessons
InitiaLit–2 content summary
Lesson structure
•• Session 1: Read the story
•• Session 2: Talk about the story
•• Session 3: Word work
•• Session 4: Beyond the book
Storybooks 1-17:
1. Willy the Wimp by Anthony
Browne
2. The Snail and the Whale by Julia
Donaldson
3. Pete the Sheep by Jackie French
4. The Lost Girl by Ambelin
Kwaymullina
5. The Stone Lion by Margaret Wild
6. Collecting Colour by Kylie
Dunstan
7. Chooks in Dinner Suits by Diane
Jackson Hill
8. Turtle’s Song by Alan Brown
9. The Story of Rosy Dock by
Jeannie Baker
10. Under the Southern Cross by
Frané Lessac
11. The Day the Crayons Came
Home by Drew Daywalt
12. Zoo by Anthony Browne
13. The True Story of the Three Little
Pigs! By Jon Scieszka
14. You and Me Murrawee by Kerri
Hashmi
15. Hist! (poem) by C.J. Dennis
16. George’s Marvellous Medicine
(novel) by Roald Dahl
17. The Twenty-Seventh Annual
Hippopotamus Race (novel) by
Morris Lurie
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InitiaLit–2 content description
Session 1: Read the story
•• Activate prior knowledge and make
predictions about what might
happen
•• Record and explain prediction
•• Explore unfamiliar vocabulary in text
•• Highlight language features, such as
alliteration and rhyming
•• Discuss themes in storybooks
and participate in think/pair/share
activities
Session 2: Talk about the story
•• Respond to literal and inferential
questions about the story, using full
sentences where possible
•• Make inferences about aspects of
the story, including vocabulary
•• Highlight language features, such as
use of onomatopoeia, similes
•• Summarise story orally
•• Review three target vocabulary
items
•• Sort vocabulary items into parts of
speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives
and adverbs)
Session 3: Word work
•• Focus in depth on vocabulary items,
as follows:
•• Say the word: Read, repeat and say
syllables
•• Define the word
•• Connect the word: synonyms,
antonyms, personal, text-to-text,
world connections
•• Write the word in a sentence
Session 4: Beyond the book
•• Identify and discuss the structure
of text
•• Identify and record the main ideas
and key parts of the text using
relevant template
•• Link to writing: plan, model and
write own text using planning
templates and following guidelines
for type of text
•• Develop world knowledge through
further activities for each storybook
ACARA code ACARA description NESA links
(All terms) Language (All terms)
ACELA1452 Expressing and developing ideas
(Year 1) Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), Outcomes
qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) English
Speaking and listening 1: EN1-1A
ACELA1462 Language for interaction Communicates with a range of people
Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things in informal and guided activities
demonstrating interaction skills and
ACELA1463 Text structure and organisation considers how own communication is
Understand that different types of text have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose adjusted in different situations
ACELA1464 Text structure and organisation Writing and representing 1: EN1-2A
Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms and antonyms Plans, composes and reviews a small
range of simple texts for a variety of
ACELA1468 Expressing and developing ideas purposes on familiar topics for known
Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: readers and viewers
common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives
Speaking and listening 2: EN1-6B
ACELA1470 Expressing and developing ideas Recognises a range of purposes and
Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious of vocabulary audiences for spoken language and
to suit audience and purpose recognises organisational patterns and
features of predictable spoken texts
ACELA1472 Phonics and word knowledge
Build morphemic word families using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes Writing and representing 2: EN1-7B
Identifies how language use in their own
Literature writing differs according to their purpose,
ACELT1589 Responding to literature audience and subject matter
Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts
Reading and viewing 2: EN1-8B
ACELT1590 Responding to literature Recognises that there are different
Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences kinds of texts when reading and viewing
and shows an awareness of purpose,
ACELT1591 Examining literature audience and subject matter
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways
Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary:
Literacy EN1-9B
ACELY1666 Interacting with others Uses basic grammatical features,
Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others’ ideas in discussions punctuation conventions and vocabulary
appropriate to the type of text when
ACELY1789 Interacting with others responding to and composing texts
Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner,
speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately Thinking imaginatively and creatively:
EN1-10C
ACELY1668 Interpreting, analysing, evaluating Thinks imaginatively and creatively about
Identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts familiar topics, ideas and texts when
responding to and composing texts
ACELY1670 Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge Expressing themselves: EN1-11D
of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures Responds to and composes a range of
texts about familiar aspects of the world
ACELY1671 Creating texts and their own experiences
Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for
familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
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Additional curriculum links – individual texts

InitiaLit-2 Storybook Title ACARA code ACARA description NESA links

1. Willy the Wimp Health and Physical Education Outcomes

Personal, Social and Community Health PDHPE
ACPPS015 Being healthy, safe and active Health, wellbeing and relationships: PD1-1
Describe their own strengths and achievements and those of others, and identify how these contribute to personal Describes the qualities and characteristics that make them similar and different to others
identities Health, wellbeing and relationships: PD1-10
ACPPS019 Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing Describes and practises interpersonal skills to promote inclusion to make themselves and
Describe ways to include others to make them feel they belong others feel they belong

2. The Snail and the Whale English English

Language Writing and representing 1: EN1-2A
ACELA1482 Expressing and developing ideas Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on
(Year 3) Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these familiar topics for known readers and viewers
processes are anchored in time through tense Thinking imaginatively and creatively: EN1-10C
Literature Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding
ACELT1593 Creating literature to and composing texts
Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts
ACELT1833 Creating literature Science and technology
Innovate on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot Living world: ST1-4LW-S
Describes observable features of living things and their environments
Science
Science understanding Creative Arts
ACSSU211 Biological sciences Visual arts
(Year 1) Living things live in different places where their needs are met Making: VAS1.1
ACSSU030 Biological sciences Makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things
Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves Making: VAS1.2
Uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements
The Arts
ACAVAM107 Visual arts
Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks

3. Pete the Sheep English English

Language Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary: EN1-9B
ACELA1452 Expressing and developing ideas Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to
(Year 1) Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states the type of text when responding to and composing texts
(verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
ACELA1471 Phonics and word knowledge History
Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words The past in the present: HT1-3
including some compound words Describes the effects of changing technology on people’s lives over time

HASS Creative Arts

Knowledge and understanding Music
ACHASSK046 History Listening: MUS1.4
How changing technology affected people’s lives (at home and in the ways they worked, travelled, communicated and Responds to a range of music, expressing likes and dislikes and the reasons for these
played in the past) choices

The Arts
ACAMUR083 Music
Respond to music and consider where and why people make music, starting with Australian music, including music of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

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InitiaLit-2 Storybook Title ACARA code ACARA description NESA links

4. The Lost Girl English English

Literature Expressing themselves: EN1-11D
ACELT1587 Literature and context Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their
Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created own experiences

HASS Geography
Knowledge and Understanding People and places: GE1-1
ACHASSK049 Geography Describes features of places and the connections people have with places
The ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples maintain special connections to particular Country/Place

5. The Stone Lion English English

Language Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary: EN2-9B
ACELA1482 Expressing and developing ideas Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation
(Year 3) Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and
processes are anchored in time through tense composing texts

6. Collecting Colour English English

Language Speaking and listening 2: EN1-6B
ACELA1460 Language variation and change Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises
Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts
features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background
Literature Expressing themselves: EN1-11D
ACELT1587 Literature and context Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their
Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created own experiences

HASS History
Knowledge and Understanding Present and past family life: HT1-1
ACHASSK049 Geography Communicates an understanding of change and continuity in family life using appropriate
The ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples maintain special connections to particular Country/Place historical terms

Science Geography
Science understanding People and places: GE1-1
ACSSU031 Chemical sciences Describes features of places and the connections people have with places
Different materials can be combined for a particular purpose
Science and technology
Science as a Human Endeavour Material world: ST1-2DP-T
ACSHE035 Use and influence of science Uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need for opportunity
People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things Material world: ST1-6MW-S
Identifies that materials can be changed or combined
The Arts Material world: ST1-7MW-T
ACAVAM106 Visual arts Describes how the properties of materials determine their use
Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering
ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists Creative Arts
Visual arts
Making: VAS1.1
Makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things
Making: VAS1.2
Uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements
Appreciating: VAS1.3
Realises what artists do, who they are and what they make
Appreciating: VAS1.4
Begins to interpret the meaning of artworks, acknowledging the roles of artist and audience

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7. Chooks in Dinner Suits English Science and technology

Language Material world: ST1-2DP-T
ACELA1479 Text structure and organisation Uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
(Year 3) Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts Living world: ST1-4LW-S
Describes observable features of living things and their environments
Science
Science as a Human Endeavour
ACSHE035 Use and influence of science
People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things

8. Turtle’s Song English Science and technology

Language Living world: ST1-4LW-S
ACELA1479 Text structure and organisation Describes observable features of living things and their environments
(Year 3) Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts
ACELA1482 Expressing and developing ideas Creative Arts
(Year 3) Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these Visual arts
processes are anchored in time through tense. Making: VAS1.1
Makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things
Science Making: VAS1.2
Science Understanding Uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements
ACSSU030 Biological sciences
Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves
Science as a Human Endeavour
ACSHE035 Use and influence of science
People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things

The Arts
ACAVAM107 Visual arts
Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks

9. The Story of Rosy Dock HASS Science and technology

Knowledge and Understanding Living world: ST1-4LW-S
ACHASSK032 Geography Describes observable features of living things and their environments
The weather and seasons of places and the ways in which different cultural groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples, describe them Geography
Features of places: GE1-1
Science Describes features of places and the connections people have with places
Science as a Human Endeavour Features of places: GE1-2
ACSHE035 Use and influence of science Identifies ways in which people interact with and care for places
People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things
Creative Arts
The Arts Visual arts
ACAVAM107 Visual arts Making: VAS1.1
Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks Makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things
Making: VAS1.2
Uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements
Appreciating: VAS1.4
Begins to interpret the meaning of artworks, acknowledging the roles of artist and audience

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10. Under the Southern Cross HASS History

Knowledge and Understanding The past in the present: HT1-2
ACHASSK045 History Identifies and describes significant people, events, places and sites in the local community
The importance today of a historical site of cultural or spiritual significance in the local area, and why it should be over time
preserved
ACHASSK048 Geography Geography
The idea that places are parts of Earth’s surface that have been named by people, and how places can be defined at a People and places: GE1-1
variety of scales Describes features of places and the connections people have with places
ACHASSK049 Geography Features of places: GE1-2
The ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples maintain special connections to particular Country/Place Identifies ways in which people interact with and care for places
ACHASSK050 Geography
The connections of people in Australia to people in other places in Australia and across the world Science and technology
ACHASSK051 Geography Earth and space: ST1-10ES-S
The influence of purpose, distance and accessibility on the frequency with which people visit places Recognises observable changes occurring in the sky and on the land and identifies Earth’s
resources
Science
Science understanding
ACSSU019 Earth and space sciences
(Year 1) Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape
ACSSU048 Earth and space sciences
(Year 3) Earth’s rotation on its axis causes regular changes, including night and day

11. The Day the Crayons Came English English

Home Literature Thinking imaginatively and creatively: EN1-10C
ACELT1833 Creating literature Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding
Innovate on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot to and composing texts
Language
ACELA1477 Language for interaction Science and technology
(Year 3) Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful Material world: ST1-6MW-S
ACELA1484 Expressing and developing ideas Identifies that materials can be changed or combined
(Year 3) Learning extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs

Science
Science as human endeavour
ACSHE034 Nature and development of science
Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events
Science inquiry skills
ACSIS038 Planning and conducting
Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions

12. Zoo The Arts Creative Arts

Drama Drama
ACADRM027 Explore role and dramatic action in dramatic play, improvisation and process drama Making: DRAS1.1
ACADRM028 Use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and establish role and situation Takes on roles in drama to explore familiar and imagined situations
Making: DRAS1.2
Conveys story, depicts events and expresses feelings by using the elements of drama and
the expressive skills of movement and voice

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13. The True Story of the Three English English

Little Pigs! Language Reading and viewing 1: EN1-4A
ACELA1469 Expressing and developing ideas Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and
Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words
Literature Creative Arts
ACELT1592 Examining literature Visual arts
Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs Making: VAS1.1
Makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things
The Arts Making: VAS1.2
ACAVAM107 Visual arts Uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements
Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks

14. You and Me Murrawee HASS History

Inquiry and Skills The past in the present: HT1-3
ACHASSI039 Analysing Describes the effects of changing technology on people’s lives over time
Compare objects from the past with those from the present and consider how places have changed over time
Knowledge and Understanding Geography
ACHASSK046 History People and places: GE1-1
How changing technology affected people’s lives (at home and in the ways they worked, travelled, communicated and Describes features of places and the connections people have with places
played in the past)
ACHASSK049 Geography
The ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples maintain special connections to particular Country/Place

Science
Science inquiry skills
ACSIS038 Planning and conducting
Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions

15. Hist! (poem) English English

Literature Expressing themselves: EN1-11D
ACELT1592 Examining literature Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their
Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs own experiences
ACELT1600 Examining literature
Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, Creative Arts
including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose Visual arts
Making: VAS1.2
The Arts Uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements
ACAVAM106 Visual arts
Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering Drama
ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Making: DRAS1.1
Takes on roles in drama to explore familiar and imagined situations
Drama Making: DRAS1.2
ACADRM028 Use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and establish role and situation Conveys story, depicts events and expresses feelings by using the elements of drama and
ACADRM029 Present drama that communicates ideas, including stories from their community, to an audience the expressive skills of movement and voice
Performing: DRAS1.3
Interacts collaboratively to communicate the action of the drama with others

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16. George’s Marvellous Medicine English English

(novel) Language Expressing themselves: EN1-11D
ACELA1466 Text structure and organisation Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their
Know some features of text organisation including page and screen layouts, alphabetical order, and different types of own experiences
diagrams, for example timelines
Literature Science and technology
ACELT1592 Examining literature Material world: ST1-6MW-S
Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs Identifies that materials can be changed or combined

Science Creative Arts

Science Understanding Visual arts
ACSSU031 Chemical sciences Making: VAS1.2
Different materials can be combined for a particular purpose Uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements

The Arts Drama

ACADRM029 Drama Making: DRAS1.2
Present drama that communicates ideas, including stories from their community, to an audience Conveys story, depicts events and expresses feelings by using the elements of drama and
the expressive skills of movement and voice

17. The Twenty-Seventh Annual English PDHPE

African Hippopotamus Race Language Movement skills and performance: PD1-4
(novel) ACELA1466 Text structure and organisation Performs movement skills in a variety of sequences and situations
Know some features of text organisation including page and screen layouts, alphabetical order, and different types of
diagrams, for example timelines Geography
ACELA1480 Text structure and organisation Features of places: GE1-3
(Year 3) Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal Communicates geographical information and uses geographical tools for inquiry
missing letters
Creative Arts
Health and Physical Education Drama
ACPMP025 Movement and physical activity Making: DRAS1.1
Moving our body Takes on roles in drama to explore familiar and imagined situations
Perform fundamental movement skills in a variety of movement sequences and situations

HASS
Knowledge and understanding
ACHASSK047 Geography
The way the world is represented in geographic divisions and the location of Australia in relation to these divisions

The Arts
ACADRM027 Drama
Explore role and dramatic action in dramatic play, improvisation and process drama

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