In this worksheet, students match pictures of characters with rhyming words. This can be used on its own, or as a simpler alternative to ‘Gruffalo Rhymes’.
This resource is part of a larger Gruffalo unit, which focuses on retell skills, rhyming and personal responses to the story.
Explore the contribution of images and words to meaning in stories and informative texts
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness)
Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
Retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing
Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences
Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators
Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
Responds to and composes simple texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Identifies, blends, segments and manipulates phonological units in spoken words as a strategy for reading and creating texts
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts
Identify rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and some sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences
Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators
Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images