'Amira's Suitcase' is a beautiful story about a girl who cares for her growing seed and makes friendships along the way.
This activity pack includes activities to support this text, which allow students to predict, discuss, comprehend and make connections between the text and their own experiences. There are activities that explore wellbeing concepts of friendship, kindness and dreaming. There are various activities that can be adapted and cater for Pre- Year 6.
Included in this pack:
*Prediction activity where students use the images and text on the front cover to predict elements of the story.
*Friendship activity card where students look at the connection of the seeds growing to friendships growing.
*2 x Visual Literacy activities which allow students to make predictions and discuss the possible meanings and messages created in the illustrations.
*Kindness activity where students can reference kindness in the story and think about when they were kind to someone and how it made them feel.
*Dreams colouring sheet with space for student's to reflect on dreams they have had.
*Feelings activity card where students look at extracts from the story and make connections of when they had similar feelings.
*Your Suitcase activity where students can create their own growing garden in a suitcase and think about what they need to do to look after it.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581)
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme (ACELT1585)
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660)
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons (ACELT1594)
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596)
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605)
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes (ACELT1611)