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Trucker

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Book meta-data
  • Reading Box: Bronze (Levels 31)
  • Year: Six
  • Fiction/Nonfiction: Fiction
  • Theme/Topic: Character education, Family, Personal change
  • Genre: Realistic fiction
  • Strategy/Skills: Exploring text structure, Summarising, Monitoring for meaning
  • Page Count: 32
  • Reading Level: 31
  • Item Code: 200433
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  • Curriculum Codes: ACELT1617, ACELY1712, ACELY1713
Reader Description

Jack's Birthday is going great until Steve, his mum's boyfriend, shows up - "He can't seem to get it through his head that I don't want to have anything to do with him." But when Jack spends the day with a trucker and an emergency situation develops, Jack begins to see Steve in a different light.

After you have completed the Reader

Jack loves trucks, and he spends his birthday with a trucker. Big trucks have an important role to play in transporting goods from place to place. Choose three other vehicles that are used to transport goods. Draw each vehicle. List the kinds of goods it might transport.

Support Materials

Blackline Master

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Lesson Plan

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Printable Reader

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Discussion Cards

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