Perfect to accompany your Integrated Year 4 Australian Curriculum English & History unit. Great for use in Literacy Rotations. Historical illustrations and journal images from the First Fleet are used in this resource.

Contains 35 pages of resources!

• PDF file format provided

• Historical recounts of Banbury Jack, Reverend Richard Johnson, Child Convict (unnamed), Captain James Cook, An Aboriginal Elder (10 pages)

• Reading Comprehension Worksheets (10 pages)

• Cloze Activity Worksheets (5 pages)

• Vocabulary Study Worksheets (5 pages)

+ BONUS Word Searches added! (5 pages)

✎Please note I am an Australian seller and unless otherwise stated the product uses Australian English. This should not affect the use of this product in other countries. ✎

Australian Curriculum Links:

English v 8.4

• Year 4 - Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692)
• Year 5 - Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703)

English v 9.0

• Year 4 - Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts (AC9E4LY05)
• Year 5 - Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas (AC9E5LY05)

History v 8.4

• Year 4 - Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their experiences following arrival (ACHASSK085)
• Year 5 - The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) and how the environment changed (ACHASSK107)

History v 9.0

• Year 4 - the causes of the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788 (AC9HS4K02)
• Year 5 - the impact of the development of British colonies in Australia on the lives of First Nations Australians, the colonists and convicts, and on the natural environment (AC9HS5K02)

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