You can read a text only version or listen to an audio version read by an Aboriginal storyteller. How pigeons gave the waratah its red colour Read the Australian traditional stories, The Rainbow Snake and The Birth of the Butterfly in Bookclub . Each child chooses one of these traditional stories to retell orally to the class. Each child prepares material for a PowerPoint presentation of the story. They draw pictures and write captions and use these as a prompt as they retell the story aloud to their classmates.
Children choose an animal and write adjectives that describe it.
I am hoppy and big and red. Some call me a boomer. Discuss the meaning of the word colloquial with the children. Look in the Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary. You can search the Macquarie Dictionary for free online.