Year 6 Seeing the world through my eyes

Suggested literature

Kirli Saunders’ Bindi

Becky Westbrook and Jet James’ Evie and the Bushfire

Thelma Catterwell’s Sebastian lives in a hat

Joanne Crawford’s A Home for Bilby and Bilby and the Bushfire

Gregg Driese’s Kookoo the kookaburra

Mem Fox’s Possum magic, Wombat divine and Koala Lu

Jacquie French’s Diary of a Wombat and Fire

Leigh Hobbs’ Mr Chicken all over Australia

Sheena Knowles’ Edward the Emu

Ambelin Kwaymullina’s The crow and the waterhole

Pat Lowe and Jimmy Pike’s Yinti’s Desert dog

Gladys and Jill Milroy’s The Dingo’s Tree

Colin Thiele’s Pannikin, Pinta and Pinquo

K Marcia Vaughan’s Wombat Stew

Jenny Wagner’s The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek

Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks’ The Dream of the Thylacine

Favel Parrett's Wandi

Zooming in to see

Students rarely zoom in when they write. They miss the details that bring things to life, such as the veins on a leaf, a ladybug walking across a flower or the lines in a rock that tell the story of the earth's history. Australian writer Kate Grenville said when I interviewed her that students need to be taught to really see before they can appreciate the beauty of a landscape. Use the power point of images to challenge students to describe what they see and even imagine if they were as a small as an insect what it would look like.