Every year, PETAA creates quality units of work on all primary-age books that are shortlisted for the prestigious Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards. These units are created by literacy experts, using evidence-based pedagogies and are designed with a busy classroom teacher in mind. They incorporate highlighted examples for close reading activities, as well as word recognition, phonic knowledge and spelling, plus a plethora of ways to use the book with your students for speaking, writing and creating. All activities are linked to the Australian Curriculum: English.
Two Wolves Tristan Bancks Years 5–7
The Cleo Stories: The Necklace and The Present
Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood Years 1–2 Unit
Bleakboy and Hunter Stand out in the Rain
Stephen Herrick Years 5–7 Unit
The Simple Things
Bill Condon and Beth Norling Years 3–4 Unit
Figgy in the World
Tamsan Janu Years 3–5 Unit
Withering-by-Sea
Judith Rossel Years 4–6 Unit
Pig the Pug
Aaron Blabey Years F–2 Unit
Scary Night
Lesley Gibbes and Stephen Michael King Years F–2 Unit
Go to Sleep, Jessie!
Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood Years F–2 Unit
Snail and Turtle are Friends
Stephen Michael King Years F–2 Unit
Noni the Pony goes to the Beach
Alison Lester Years F–2 Unit
A House of Her Own
Jenny Hughes and Jonathon Bentley Years F–2 Unit
The Duck and the Darklings
Stephen Michael King and Glenda Millard Years 4–5 Unit
My two Blankets
Freya Blackwood and Irina Kobald Years 2–3 Unit
Rivertime
Trace Balla Year 4 Unit
One Minute’s Silence
Michael Camilleri and David Metzenthen Years 5–6 Unit
The Stone Lion
Ritva Voutila and Margaret Wild Years 5–6 Unit
Fire
Bruce Whatley and Jackie French Years 4–5 Unit
A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land
Simon Banard Years 4–5 Unit
Mary's Australia: How Mary Mackillop Changed Australia
Pamela Freeman Years 5–6 Unit
Emu
Claire Saxby and Graham Byrne Years 2–3 Unit
Tea and Sugar Christmas
Jane Jolley and Robert Ingpen Years 3–4 Unit
Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia
Demet Divaroren and Amra Pajalic (eds) Allen & Unwin
Audacity: Stories of Heroic Australians in Wartime
Carlie Walker and Brett Hatherly Years 5–6 Unit
Are You Seeing Me?
Darren Groth Years 7–8 Unit
Nona & Me
Clare Atkins Black Inc
The Minnow
Diana Sweeney Text publishing
The Intruder
Christine Bongers Years 7–8 Unit
The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl
Melissa Keil Hardie Grant
The Protected
Claire Zorn UQP
The Lost Girl
Leanne Tobin and Ambelin Kwaymullina Years 1–3 Unit
One Minute's Silence
Little Dog and the Christmas Wish
Robin Cowcher and Corinne Fenton Years F–1 Unit
Meet Douglas Mawson
Snip Green and Mike Dumbleton Years 5–6 Unit
Kick with My Left Foot
Karen Briggs and Paul Seden Years F–2 Unit