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The Oak Tree Kids

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Book meta-data
  • Reading Box: Sapphire (Levels 29-30)
  • Year: Five
  • Fiction/Nonfiction: Fiction
  • Theme/Topic: Challenge, Conflict, Different views, Environment, Friends, Neighbourhood, Overcoming obstacles
  • Genre: Realistic fiction
  • Strategy/Skills: Making Predictions, Questioning, Recognising Bias and Prejudice, Sequencing
  • Page Count: 8
  • Reading Level: 29
  • Item Code: 220018
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  • Curriculum Codes: ACELA1479, ACELT1594, ACELT1596, ACELT1599, ACELT1600, ACELY1678, ACELY1679, ACELY1680, ACELA1489, ACELA1490, ACELT1602, ACELT1604, ACELT1605, ACELY1690, ACELY1691, ACELY1692
Reader Description

Terri and some of the local kids protest when they discover that the council is going to cut down the tree that has their tree house in it.

After you have completed the Reader

read the dialogue aloud with expression to convey the moods of the characters write a newspaper article explaining the events in the story list ways you can help to protect the environment of your neighbourhood and display your ideas on a poster.

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