Be inspired by Reading Australia Resources for teachers, by teachers
Have you discovered Reading Australia? It’s a hub of freely-available resources to help you explore Australian stories in the classroom, from Foundation to Senior Secondary.
Discover: 100 insightful essays 150 online resources plus video interviews, colouring competitions & recommended booklists readingaustralia.com.au Foundation – Year 7 Teaching Resources FOUNDATION Our Village in the Sky Loyal Creatures All Through the Year Janeen Brian Morris Gleitzman Jane Godwin & Anna Walker The Rainbow Serpent My Girragundji Banjo and Ruby Red Dick Roughsey Meme McDonald & Boori Monty Pryor Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood The Treasure Box Ned Kelly and the Green Sash Big Rain Coming Margaret Wild & Freya Blackwood Mark Greenwood & Frane Lessac Katrina Germein & Bronwyn Bancroft Where the Forest Meets the Sea The Red Tree Crocodile Beat Jeannie Baker Shaun Tan Gail Jorgensen & Patricia Mullins YEAR 3 Seven Little Australians Don’t Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen Ethel Turner Narelle Oliver Are We There Yet? Alison Lester The Silver Donkey Isabella’s Garden Sonya Hartnett Glenda Millard & Rebecca Cool Do Not Go Around the Edges Daisy Utemorrah & Pat Torres The Lizard Gang YEAR 6 Kirra Somerville & Grace Fielding Five Times Dizzy Alfred’s War Nadia Wheatley One Dragon’s Dream Rachel Bin Salleh & Samantha Fry Peter Pavey The Great Bear Ash Road Libby Gleeson & Armin Greder Scaly-tailed Possum and Echidna Ivan Southall The Little Refugee Cathy Goonack, Katrina Goonack, Marlene Dot and the Kangaroo Anh Do Goonack & Myron Goonack Ethel Charlotte Pedley My Place Speak Chinese, Fang Fang! Fog a Dox Nadia Wheatley & Donna Rawlins Sally Rippin Bruce Pascoe The Terrible Plop Once There Was a Boy Dub Leffler I Own the Racecourse! Ursula Dubosarsky & Andrew Joyner Patricia Wrightson Who Sank the Boat? Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon One Arm Point Remote Community School Little Brother Pamela Allen Allan Baillie Pearl Verses the World YEAR 1 Sally Murphy My Girragundji Meme McDonald & Boori Monty Pryor Amy & Louis The Peasant Prince Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood Li Cunxin & Anne Spudvilas Once Morris Gleitzman The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek The Treasure Box Jenny Wagner & Ron Brooks Margaret Wild & Freya Blackwood Refugees David Miller Come Down, Cat! The Two Bullies Sonya Hartnett & Lucia Masciullo Junko Morimoto The Red Tree The Eleventh Hour Shaun Tan Graeme Base YEAR 4 Seven Little Australians Flood Do Not Go Around the Edges Ethel Turner Daisy Utemorrah & Pat Torres Jackie French & Bruce Whatley The Silver Donkey Milli, Jack and the Dancing Cat Five Times Dizzy Sonya Hartnett Nadia Wheatley Stephen Michael King Storm Boy New Year Surprise! The Great Bear Colin Thiele Christopher Cheng Libby Gleeson & Armin Greder Taronga Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat Victor Kelleher Aaron Blabey Jenny Wagner & Ron Brooks Tjarany Roughtail Two Mates Mrs Whitlam Gracie Greene, Lucille Gill & Joe Tramacchi Melanie Prewett & Maggie Prewett Bruce Pascoe Way Home Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge My Place Libby Hathorn & Gregory Rogers Mem Fox & Julie Vivas Nadia Wheatley & Donna Rawlins William Bligh The Peasant Prince Yirruwa Yirrilikenuma-Iangwa/ Michael Sedunary When We Go Walkabout Li Cunxin & Anne Spudvilas Rhoda Dugururru Lalara & Alfred Lalara Shake A Leg YEAR 7 Boori Monty Pryor YEAR 2 Just Macbeth! Stolen Girl Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton The Big Book of Old Tom Trina Saffioti & Norma MacDonald Leigh Hobbs The Lost Thing Shaun Tan Flood YEAR 5 Jackie French & Bruce Whatley Dot and the Kangaroo Mahtab’s Story How to Heal a Broken Wing Ethel Charlotte Pedley Libby Gleeson Bob Graham Free Diving Playing Beatie Bow Mad Magpie Lorrae Coffin & Bronwyn Houston Ruth Park Greg Dreise The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert Reg Saunders: An Indigenous Hero Mrs White and the Red Desert Jukuna Mona Chuguna, Pat Lowe & Hugh Dolan & Adrian Threlfall Josie Wowolla Boyle & Maggie Prewett Mervyn Street Ubby’s Underdogs: Mulga Bill’s Bicycle I Own the Racecourse! the Legend of the Phoenix Dragon A. B. Paterson, Deborah & Kilmeny Niland Patricia Wrightson Brenton E. McKenna My Two Blankets Little Brother Vampyre Irena Kobald & Freya Blackwood Allan Baillie Margaret Wild & Andrew Yeo Year 8 – Year 12 Teaching Resources YEAR 8 Slessor: Selected Poems The Slap A Fortunate Life Kenneth Slessor Christos Tsiolkas A. B. Facey Sometimes Gladness Sometimes Gladness Don’t Call Me Ishmael Bruce Dawe Bruce Dawe Michael Gerard Bauer Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Stasiland Evil Genius Ray Lawler Anna Funder Catherine Jinks The Tall Man Summer of the Seventeenth Doll The Lost Thing Chloe Hooper Ray Lawler Shaun Tan Tell Me I’m Here Anne Deveson Swallow the Air Mirror Tara June Winch Jeannie Baker Tracks Robyn Davidson True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey YEAR 9 While The Billy Boils By the River Henry Lawson The White Earth Steven Herrick Zac & Mia Andrew McGahan The Divine Wind A. J. Betts Wright: Collected Poems Garry Disher Judith Wright YEAR 11 Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence A Mother’s Disgrace YEAR 12 Doris Pilkington Robert Dessaix A Mother’s Disgrace Fox The Boat Robert Dessaix Margaret Wild & Ron Brooks Nam Le The Boat The Gathering Blackrock Nam Le Isobelle Carmody Nick Enright Cloudstreet Looking for Alibrandi Bush Studies Tim Winton Melina Marchetta Barbara Baynton Collected Stories The One Day of the Year Café Scheherazade Janette Turner Hospital Alan Seymour Arnold Zable Don’t Take Your Love to Town Carry Me Down Sometimes Gladness Ruby Langford Ginibi Bruce Dawe M. J. Hyland Faith Singer Strange Objects The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Rosie Scott Gary Crew Thomas Keneally The Female Eunuch YEAR 10 The Children’s Bach Helen Garner Germaine Greer The 7 Stages of Grieving The Floating World Wesley Enoch & Deborah Mailman Collected Stories Janette Turner Hospital John Romeril The Arrival For the Term of His Natural Life Shaun Tan The Complete Stories David Malouf Marcus Clarke Away Michael Gow Dimboola Harwood: Collected Poems 1943–1995 Jack Hibberd Gwen Harwood The Boat Nam Le Dobson: Collected Hope: Selected Poetry & Prose Rosemary Dobson A. D. Hope Bran Nue Dae Jimmy Chi Five Bells Hotel Sorrento Gail Jones Hannie Rayson Death Sentence Don Watson The Female Eunuch Journey to the Stone Country Germaine Greer Alex Miller It’s Raining in Mango Thea Astley The Floating World Miss Peabody’s Inheritance John Romeril Elizabeth Jolley The Jerilderie Letter Ned Kelly For the Term of His Natural Life My Brilliant Career Marcus Clarke Legendary Tales of the Miles Franklin Australian Aborigines Grace The Narrow Road to the Deep North David Unaipon Robert Drewe Richard Flanagan Lilian’s Story The Harp in the South The Natural Way of Things Kate Grenville Ruth Park Charlotte Wood The Messenger Here on Earth No Sugar Markus Zusak Tim Flannery Jack Davis The One Day of the Year Hotel Sorrento Sometimes Gladness Alan Seymour Hannie Rayson Bruce Dawe Radiance Miss Peabody’s Inheritance Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Louis Nowra Elizabeth Jolley Ray Lawler The Red Shoe Murray: Collected Poems That Deadman Dance Ursula Dubosarsky Les Murray Kim Scott Remember Ronald Ryan Nine Parts of Desire Tirra Lirra by the River Barry Dickins Geraldine Brooks Jessica Anderson The Removalists Romulus, My Father Truth David Williamson Raimond Gaita Peter Temple Bringing Australian Here’s what stories into the classroom teachers told us We know teachers love to ignite the fire in their students by “ Inspiring and supportive tapping into the most-loved, most-exciting and most-moving materials for teachers which stories they can find. engage learners in quality literature that will help them Reading Australia has been created just for teachers, with online resources understand the big ideas written by teachers to help you explore a wealth of Australian stories for all ages – from Foundation to Senior Secondary. and issues in life.” Christine T At www.readingaustralia.com.au you will discover: Department of Education • More than 150 resources mapped to the Australian Curriculum, which include classroom activities, discussion questions, printable worksheets, “ It’s a one-stop shop for and example assessment tasks. lesson ideas that can be • 100 fascinating essays from highly-acclaimed Australian writers, academics used for all year levels and and literary critics, such as Germaine Greer, Malcolm Knox and Alice Pung. they are linked to ACARA!” • Video and podcast interviews with some of Australia’s best-loved writers Sharni T, Primary Teacher and illustrators, created in partnership with ABC Splash and The Garret. South Australia • Useful links to academic research, publications and AustLit Trails, which are curated collections of information about selected books. • The Teachers’ Corner, a curated space filled with articles, book lists, competitions, downloadable colouring pages, video content, activities and the latest book news. Visit the website and register to receive our monthly e-newsletter packed with freely-available resources, podcasts, blogs and other useful information.
New secondary resources on the way! Selected in consultation with English and literacy educators, these stories relate to the current cross-curriculum themes.
New teacher resources will be published for each • Selected poems (HSC) Oodgeroo Noonuccal of the following books throughout the year: • Tomorrow When the War Began John Marsden • Jasper Jones Craig Silvey • The ABC Book of Australian Poetry Libby Hathorn and • Past the Shallows Favel Parrett Cassandra Allen • Vertigo Amanda Lohrey • The Deep: Here Be Dragons Tom Taylor and James Brouwer • The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead • Midnite Randolph Stow • Dark Roots Cate Kennedy
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