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Pip and Tim head off on a trip around Australia. These six books are a blog written by the Zan family about their many adventures. They are full of funny and engaging stories with lots of facts about the history and geography of Australia woven into the stories. They visit Ballarat, Great Ocean Road, Sydney, Rottenest Island, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park to name a few. The sixth book, The Long Way Home, has a map of Australia showing the route taken by the family.
As the books are written in the past tense, children are able to practise their knowledge of -ed endings.
Similes and idioms feature in these books - leaping like a lizard, loomed over us like giants, winding them up, hear a pin drop. The stories provide many opportunities to talk about words and enjoy language.
Morphology: words with these suffixes - tion (mention), sion (explosion), ous (monstrous).
Stage 7, Unit 5 books:
51. Where are Pip and Tim? - Ballarat, Victoria, written in the past tense so many words need an ed suffix.
52. An Enormous Day - The Great Ocean Road. Introduces the alternative phoneme /e/ as in bread, breakfast. Includes words with the suffix ure as in treasure.
53. Volcanoes, Big Things and Pelicans - Mount Gambier, South Australia. Practise in reading words with the suffixes tion, sion and ous.
54. World's Best - Adelaide, South Australia. Practise decoding with the Anangu language to read 'Uluru-Kata Tjuta' the grapheme u represents /oo/, tj represents /j/ and a represents /u/.
55. Big Numbers - Perth, Western Australia, alphabetic code knowledge, the grapheme o representing /u/ as in love, mother.
56. The Long Way Home - Sydney, New South Wales. More alphabetic code knowledge: ci representing /sh/ as in delicious and ph representing /f/ as in dolphin.
