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Guided reading
- In Days Gone By - Reading Rigby Australian History, Levels 4 - 10
- Titles:
- By Horse and Buggy
- Our First Town
- A Road For Everyone
- The Wreck of the Quetta
- Smithy
- Saddlebags to Satellites
- Eureka Stockade
- Concepts: change, development, technology, growth, time span,
explorers
- Focus: people, places, events, transport, communication
- Questions:
- What happened?
- When did it take place?
- Who was involved?
- Why was it important?
- What effect does it have on people today?
- Activities:
- Read aloud books on:
- famous Australians -
- historical fiction -
- biography -
- past eras -
- Research - Use the above and other texts
- Build timelines
- Trace history of Australia through Australian literature
- The Devil Stone. H Francis
- A Swag of Stories. L Garfield
- The Green Wind. L Gleeson
- Enora and the black crane. A Meeks
- Playing Beatie Bow. Ruth Park
- Dick Roughsey books
- A Saddle at Bontharambo. H Samuel
- Lillypilly Hill. E Spence
- Midnite. Randolph Stow
- Storm Boy. C Thiele
- My Place. N Wheatley
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Shared Reading
- Ashton Scholastic History of Australia, Clark, Hooper & Ferrier:
Bound for Botany Bay p. 24-26
- Australia and New Zealand Enclyclopedia - First Fleet
- The Story of Australia, H. Blanche: The Voyage Out of the First
Australian Settlers p.17-24
- School Magazine V N The Convict Boys of Old Sydney, Beverley
Earnshaw
- History of Australia, Clark, Hooper & Ferrier: Finding the
Fourth Side p. 18-23
- James Cook 1770-1970 (Untitled booklet)
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Comprehension
- Story of Australia V 1 Discovery, Tim Cattell
- Skillbuilders Reading Comprehension Level B. Aylward.
- Captain Cook's journal p. 40
- A painful fall (Midnite) p.56
- Boy in a storm (Storm Boy) p. 58
- Explorers of Australia, S & R Coupe
- The Unknown South Land
- Portuguese and Spanish Explorers
- Early Dutch and English Explorers
- The Wreck of the Batavia
- Abel Tasman
- James Cook
- Kangaroo Creek Gang Present From the Past
- Video and activities booklet
- Captain James Cook
- Navigation
- The Birthday Present
- Building the Endeavour Replica
- Not So Fresh
- Word Sleuth
- Comprehension Checkpoints, Book 3, Norman & Fletcher
- The First Fleet and Early Sydney, Leyden Resource Book
- Skillbuilders Reading Comprehension Level C. Aylward
- Our continent p. 28
- Australia's flag p. 62
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Close
- Close in on Themes Book 1, H Fletcher p. 1-6
- Dirk Hartog
- Abel Tasman
- William Dampier
- James Cook,
- The discovery of Australia
- Word Search
- Close in on Themes Book 1, H Fletcher p. 7-17
- The beginning
- The First Fleet
- The First Settlement
- Problems of the first settlement
- Convicts: Transported to Australia
- Convicts: Set to work
- First Fleet Wordsearch
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Research
- Communities, David Mahony, Indigenous Australians p 44-55
- Communities, David Mahony, Settler Communities p 56-76
- Australian History John & Anna Tilbrook (BLM Macmillan Resource
Library)
- Our Great Land Leanne Roles & Lynn Lockett (Australian history
BLM)
- Aboard Endeavour: Cook's Voyage 1768-1771, Bruce Stannard
- Map History of Australia, Wynd & Wood
- Heritage Maths Richard & Hilaire Lyon
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Music
- Australian History in Song: Bound For Botany Bay. Edwards &
Baker
- Djipana
- Farewell to Old England Forever
- Bound For Botany Bay
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Videos
- Kangaroo Creek Gang Present From the Past Video and activities
booklet
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Excursions
- Old Sydney Town
- The Rocks
- NSW Art Gallery
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Computers
- Explorers database
- Notorious Ned
- First Fleet database
- Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego,
- Kids Pix
- Clarisworks
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