Resources for Integrated Reading and Writing Unit:

Patterns
(Note: Underlined = links to online resources. Use digital copy to use links.)

Sequence

Resources

Other references

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by

Eric Carle (there are many editions
and reprints of this book ; any of
these is fine)
Days of the week written on card
Chart showing the alphabet in
upper and lower case
Individual cards of upper and
lower case letters of the alphabet
Paper or small whiteboards and
markers for all students

A life Cycle App1 for iPhones

The Childrens Butterfly Site2
The Butterfly Site3
Lifecycle of the Monarch butterfly video4 on YouTube
The making of The Very Hungry Caterpillar narrated
by Eric Carle5 on YouTube
Life cycle diagrams6 on the Springboard Magazine
website

Informative and imaginative texts on the theme of

butterflies, caterpillars and insects. For example:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by

Eric Carle
Factual texts about butterflies and
insects
Play dough
Digital camera

Bugs & Minibeasts by Barbara Taylor, Jen

Green and John Farndon
Minibeasts by Gerald Legg
The Crunching Munching Caterpillar by
Sheridan Cain and Jack Tickle
From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Anita Ganeri
From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Sally Morgan
How the Butterflies Came to Be by John Carr
Butterfly by Lisa Magloff
Macmillan Science Kids reader series

Informative and imaginative texts on the theme of

animals. For example:

For All Creatures by Glenda

Millard and Rebecca Cool
Alphabet hunt worksheet7
Alphabet hunt solutions
worksheet8 9
Alphabet cards

Swimmers and Thieves & Rascals by Alison

Ballance
I Love You, Little Monkey by Alan Durant and
Katharine McEwen
Zen Tails series by Peter Whitfield and Nancy
Bevington
Tigers Story by Harriet Blackford and Manya
Stojic
How Living Things Grow series by Anita
Ganeri, Heinemann
Giving Thanks by Jonathan London
P is for Pakistan by Shazia Razzak

For All Creatures by Glenda

Millard and Rebecca Cool
Animal Colours by Beth Fielding

The Australian Geographic10 website

Taronga Zoo, Sydney11 website
The Australian Museum12, Sydney website
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by

Eric Carle
For All Creatures by Glenda
Millard and Rebecca Cool
Animal Colours by Beth Fielding
Digital camera
Pattern and shape hunt
worksheet13
Informative and imaginative texts on the theme of
spiders. For example:

KWL chart14
Informative texts on the theme of
spiders
Red, blue and green card for
making colour coded sentences

One Hungry Spider by Jeannie

Baker
Digit and number word cards159
Sentence building worksheet169
Sentence writing worksheet179

One Hungry Spider by Jeannie

Baker
Blank caterpillar cloze worksheet20
Caterpillar cloze worksheet with
initial sounds supplied21
Caterpillar cloze worksheet with
missing words supplied22

Incy Wincy Spider by Kate Toms

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An Australian 1, 2, 3 of Animals
by Bronwyn Bancroft
Digit and number word cards

The Big Bug Book: Discover the amazing

world of beetles, bugs, butterflies, moths,
insects and spiders by Barbara Taylor, Dr Jen
Green and John Farndon
Spiders and Other Arachnids by Ron Thomas
Fact File: Spiders & insects by Michael
Cermak
From Egg to Spider by Anita Ganeri
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Incy Wincy Spider by Kate Toms
Spinners & Weavers by Alison Ballance

The Spiders & other arachnids18 page at the Australian

Museum, Sydney website
The Australian spiders19 page on the Australian Reptile
Park website
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YouTube clip of Incy Wincy Spider23

Incy Wincy Spider by Keith Chapman and Jack Tickle
Indigenous themed informative and imaginative texts.
For example:

Why I Love Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft

What We Count, Then And Now

published by Indij Readers
11

12

A Home for Bilby by Joanne Crawford and

Grace Fielding
Enora and the Black Crane by Arone
Raymond Meeks
An Aboriginal Story series compiled by
Pamela Lofts
Growing up at Uluru by Stan Breeden
Art + Soul: A personal journey into the world
of Aboriginal art by Hetti Perkins
Aboriginal Art & Culture by Jane Bingham
Caring for Country by Trish Albert

Indij Readers24 website

Indigenous Australia25 website

Examples of modern and

traditional art making methods
illustrated on cards

Article on Australian Indigenous art26 on the

Australian Government website

Creative Cowboy films27 website

The Dust Echoes28 section of the ABC website