2023 CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers description
Roles for scene 1: Jimmy- Indiana (Can wear my wig) Mum-Maddie Scene 1: Dropping jam toast: Jimmy: Mum! Mum! Come look at this. I finished my project for school! Mum: It looks great Jimmy, but please can you have breakfast before you go to school and show your teacher! Jimmy: Ok… Can I have […]
Being Jimmy Baxter Script for Key Scenes Read More »
The group brainstormed options for creative responses. There was the suggestion to create the graffiti that Huda and Akeal did in the book. The students then remembered using an app to create digital graffiti style artworks so nominated to use this to create the CRIMANIMALS tag that Huda and Akeal wrote on the side of
Huda Was Here Digital Graffiti Read More »
Lucija’s Creative Response for Scar Town. Lucija painted a picture depicting the main topic of the story. St Mary’s College, Adelaide
Lucija’s painted response to Scar Town. Read More »
We worked with fabulous local illustrator Lucia Masciullio who inspired us to experiment with different materials to create a response to one of the titles. Charlotte -. I loved being involved in the team group and having an excuse to stay up late reading! Mayah – Shadow judging was an enjoyable, easy commitment to participate
Scar Town is a shocking book and is a thrilling read from the very beginning. It is a book that flies with the tension soaring behind it! The book itself is action and adventure as well as thriller and obviously horror! As crazy as it sounds, it is heavily focused on mystery and would be a
Our group spent 1 month reading and discussing the various texts we read. We then discussed our favourite reads and used that discussion to lead us into our creative response. We recreated the cover art of Huda was Here which we put on display in the main office for families to observe. This thursday we
Wendouree Primary School: Huda Was Here Read More »
Stage 2 and 3 listened to the first few chapters of each of the Younger Readers shortlisted titles, along with the criteria judges are assessing, to complete their shadow judging journals. This display grew from snippets of student responses each week with each book read. The books remained on display for students to read during
Stage 2 and 3: Snippet of thoughts Read More »
Our Shadow Judges created an artwork based on the cover of Huda Was Here which incorporated elements from all the shortlisted books
Read It Maylands Shadow Judges Read More »
The Read It Maylands Shadow Judges are members of our Write It group and are aged 9-10 years.
Read It Maylands Shadow Judges Read More »
My written response to Being Jimmy Baxter by Aarya V.
Shadow Judging Book Review by Aarya V. Mercedes College Read More »
Our Shadow Judging groups were tasked with selecting their favourite novel from the younger reader list and creating a book trailer.
Scar Town by PLC Sydney Read More »
Our Shadow Judging groups were tasked with selecting their favourite novel from the younger reader list and creating a book trailer.
The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart by PLC Sydney Read More »
