"ANZAC Biscuits" - HOT reading comprehension activities

This resource is designed to support the reading comprehension of the picture book, "ANZAC Biscuits" by Phil Cummings. A copy of the picture book is required to make best use this resource. The tasks included support higher order thinking and depth of comprehension of the text.

This resource uses Australian spelling, as it is using an Australian picture book with concepts about Australia's involvement in the war, making it appropriate for use during ANZAC Day studies.

The 40 pages in this resource include:

• Word Work – vocabulary development: definitions, inferring and synonyms
• Sensory language – Y charts
• Making connections
• Character traits – using text evidence
• Student-generated questioning
• Story mapping
• Summarising parallel storylines
• Analysing figurative language in the story
• Matching adjectives and nouns
• Interactive notebook activity - summarising
• Exploring verbs and nouns in cooking
• Close reading activities – Investigating the history of ANZAC biscuits
• ANZAC writing papers
• ANZAC bookmarks

You may be interested in my bundle for reading comprehension using the picture book "ANZAC Ted " - over 70 pages ! Preview the "Anzac Ted" bundle here. You may also be interested in my ANZAC Day bundle based on three picture books involving dogs in World War 1. Read about this resource and view a video preview of it here.

The three picture books in that bundle are:

• "The ANZAC Puppy" by Peter Miller
• "The Red Poppy" by David Hill
• "Caesar the ANZAC Dog" by Patricia Stroud

This bundle can be viewed or purchased here.

All resources are for personal/classroom use only and are not to be distributed further. Multiple licenses are now available at TpT for a discounted price. No sharing of this resource is permitted through email, photocopying, internet groups/blogs, offline groups, school district or regional websites/servers, discussion lists, school websites/servers, or personal websites.

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