A group of children are playing in a tree. One child is still in the tree when he spots a brightly coloured snake sliding down the branches beside him. He calls out to his friends, who fetch an adult to help them to catch the snake.
Told in the first person by an elderly lady who goes into the bush looking for signs of witchetty grubs. When she finally finds the signs in the sand under a witchetty tree, she digs up the roots, and shares the grubs with the women and kids back home.
2 men go tracking and hunting for cattle on horseback in the hot, dusty Central Australian Desert. When they return to the Cattle Station yards a few days later with several young bulls, their enthusiastic children enjoy watching the process from behind the safety of the wooden rails.
The complete collection of all 18 level 1 titles from the 3 lively series, Inky Mouse & Friends, General Fiction and Nonfiction. Level 1 features words that are spelled regularly with the 42 letter sounds first taught in Jolly Phonics.
When eight-year-old Eleanor moves into the top half of a duplex with her family, she is not happy. In her old home, she had her own bedroom. Now she has to share one with her big sister. Eleanor decides she's going to move back to her real home--and asks her seven-year-old neighbor Owen to help. Illustrations.ions.
Owen is doing the same creative writing project for homeschooling that Eleanor is doing in public school! They have to write an interesting story about their lives. The problem is: their lives aren't that interesting. So Eleanor decides to fix the problem by doing exciting things--with not-so-great results. When they join a community martial arts ......
Grasping the meaning of a text enables K-8 students to appreciate its language and structure through close reading, which in turn leads to deeper comprehension. This book explains the relationship between comprehension and close reading and offers step-by-step guidelines for teaching both of these key elements of literacy. Reproducible lessons are ......
Sections: Fun with Words; Grammar; Comprehension; Art & Culture; Science
A group of four young boys, cousins, go on a barramundi fishing adventure early one morning, to be tested by a croc, a hungry eagle, the weather and – in some cases – a lack of fishing skills!
Sections: Fun with words; Grammar; Comprehension; Art & Culture; Science
Father Emu protectively sits on his eggs, and after they hatch he teaches the chicks how to find food, while being on the lookout for predators. One day a skilled hunter follows Father Emu’s tracks and no amount of speed or caution can protect him…