How to Catch a Star Book Study (F–2)

Turn How to Catch a Star into a rich week of Foundation–Year 2 English learning. Students identify the character’s goal, sequence key events, track changing feelings, explain the problem and resolution, and use picture clues such as gaze, body position, distance and empty space to infer mood and message.

The lesson sequence combines explicit teaching, oral language, hands-on sequencing, collaborative game play, differentiated written response and independent transfer. Foundation students work through large pictures, choices and drawing. Year 1 students use sentence stems and short explanations. Year 2 students reason from evidence, explain how a goal drives the story and plan a simple persistence narrative.

The original picture book is not included and must be obtained separately.

What’s Included

• 37-page printable unit plan PDF
• 15-slide editable teaching presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz with question-and-answer pairs
• Dreams, Feelings and Persistence classroom display
• Six-card Star Path story sequence and matching mat
• Keep Trying Star Trail board game and 12 prompt cards
• Differentiated visual-literacy, feelings, wishes, problem-and-resolution and story-planning worksheets
• Independent Foundation–Year 1 and Year 2 persistence assessments with answers
• Five-column, six-criterion rubric

Learning Focus

• Identify a character’s goal and why it matters
• Sequence important events and connect attempts, problems and resolution
• Describe and explain changing feelings
• Infer mood and message from visual clues
• Build action and feeling vocabulary
• Apply persistence ideas to a new scenario
• Plan and create a simple personal response or story

Classroom Use

Use the editable presentation for whole-class teaching and modelling, followed by the sequence cards and Star Trail game for collaborative practice. Select the Foundation, Year 1 or Year 2 pages for guided groups, rotations or independent work. Fresh block-tower and kite scenarios support independent transfer assessment, with achievement recorded on the included rubric.

Formats, Answers and Licence

The digital resource includes 74 total pages and slides: 37 printable unit-plan pages, 15 teaching slides and 22 quiz slides. Teacher answer pages are included for fixed and suggested responses; open-ended personal responses are intentionally not prescribed.

This is a digital download; no physical item will be shipped. Purchase permits use by the purchasing teacher in their own classroom or household under Sukindi Learning’s licence terms. Files must not be redistributed, resold or posted publicly.