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CB2-COM-SUM-IMG-ML--National Simultaneous Storytime - WOOP Goals-L2

CB2-COM-CON-IMG-ML--National Simultaneous Storytime - Winning and Losing-L4

CB2-COM-CON-IMG-KR--National Simultaneous Storytime - Ordinal Numbers-L2

CB2-COM-CON-IMG-KR--National Simultaneous Storytime - Encouraging Others-L1

National Simultaneous Story time - The Speedy Sloth Medal Craft

Medal Craft

Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts.

Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences.

Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences.

Identify and describe emotional responses people may experience in different situations.

Identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences



Discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences



Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters



Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning



Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose



Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect



Encouraging Others

National Simultaneous Storytime - Encouraging Others

Discuss how authors create characters using language and images

Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts

Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences

National Simultaneous Storytime - handprint craft

Handprint Craft

Handprint Sloth Craft

Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences.

Compare, order and make correspondences between collections, initially to 20, and explain reasoning.


Ordinal Numbers

National Simultaneous Storytime - Ordinal Numbers

National Simultaneous Storytime - Mindset, Mind set, mindset posters, growth mindset, growth mindset posters, growth mindset cards, mindset cards

Growth Mindset Posters

National Simultaneous Storytime - Winning and Losing

Become a Speedy Sloth character with these awesome headbands. 

National Simultaneous Storytime - headbands craft

Speedy Sloth Headbands

Character Headbands 

Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school.

Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs).

Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts.

Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)



Recognise and develop awareness of vocabulary used in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school



CB2-BOOK-FNF-IMG-Annie--Build a Poem with The Speedy Sloth-square

Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure



Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts



Build a Poem

National Simultaneous Storytime - Build a Poem

Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school

Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others.

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view.

Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts.

Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts. 

Identify aspects of literary texts that represent details or information about historical, social and cultural contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors



Describe the effects of text structures and language features in literary texts when responding to and sharing opinions



Discuss connections between personal experiences and character experiences in literary texts and share personal preferences



CB2-COM-CON-IMG-ML--National Simultaneous Storytime - Growth Mindset-L1

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts

National Simultaneous Storytime - Growth Mindset

Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view

Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others

WOOP Goals

National Simultaneous Storytime - WOOP Goals

Engage your students in a fun and hands-on activity that allows them to showcase their understanding of sloths' structural adaptations. There are lots of ways students can be creative such as creating dioramas, paper mache sloths, cardboard roll sloths, claymation stories, and more. Within our resource, you and your students have the flexibility to choose from three potential craft options to demonstrate their creativity and present their knowledge. 

Sloth Outlines

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features.

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts.

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources.

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts.

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources



Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas



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



Use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features



CB2-VOC-TL-IMG-ML--National Simultaneous Storytime - Sloth Adaptations-L3

Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

Sloth Adaptations

National Simultaneous Storytime - Sloth Adaptations

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue.

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining.

Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors.

Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice

Create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices



Examine the use of literary devices and deliberate word play in literary texts, including poetry, to shape meaning



Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts



CB2-BOOK-FNF-DOC-Annie--Question Poems with The Speedy Sloth-square

Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language

Question Poem

National Simultaneous Storytime - Question Poem

Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining

Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts

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