Julia Donaldson Author Study & Book Units | Foundation–Year 2 English Bundle

Build a rich Foundation–Year 2 English program around Julia Donaldson's storytelling with four complete, complementary units. Students explore characters, settings, problems and solutions, sequence and retelling, rhyme, story messages, tension, comparison, descriptive language and original narrative writing.

The collection includes a differentiated Foundation–Year 2 The Gruffalo study, a Foundation–Year 1 Room on the Broom companion, a distinct Foundation-focused Gruffalo unit, and a flexible Foundation–Year 2 Julia Donaldson author study. The two Gruffalo resources are separate units with different teaching sequences, activities and assessments, giving teachers a choice of focused Foundation work or deeper cross-year differentiation.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• 4 printable unit-plan PDFs with 107 pages in total
• 4 editable teaching presentations with 61 slides in total
• 4 editable quiz decks with 88 slides and 40 question-and-answer pairs in total
• 256 instructional pages and slides across the collection
• Story Detective and Story Explorer classroom displays
• Character and message sorting, story-feature cards, sequencing cards and retell materials
• Deep Dark Story Trail, Story Path, Rhyme Through the Wood and Roll a Remarkable Tale activities/games
• Differentiated Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 reading-response, comprehension, rhyme, sentence and narrative-writing worksheets
• 4 assessment sequences with matching answer support
• 4 five-level marking rubrics

LEARNING FOCUS

• identify and compare characters, settings, problems and solutions
• sequence, retell and summarise important events
• infer character traits, feelings, story messages and tension using evidence
• recognise and create rhyme and discuss repetition and author craft
• compare characters, stories and author techniques
• build simple sentences and use precise descriptive language
• plan and compose original narratives

CLASSROOM USE

Teach the resources as a flexible four-week author-study sequence, use the book companions separately, or combine selected activities for whole-class lessons, guided groups, literacy rotations, intervention, extension and assessment. Each included unit remains a complete, distinct resource.

CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9EFLE01; AC9EFLE02; AC9EFLE03; AC9EFLE04; AC9EFLE05; AC9EFLY05; AC9EFLY06; AC9E1LE01; AC9E2LE01

Australian Curriculum v8.4: ACELT1575; ACELT1577; ACELT1783; ACELT1578; ACELT1785; ACELT1579; ACELT1580; ACELT1831; ACELY1650; ACELY1652; ACELY1654; ACELY1651; ACELT1581; ACELT1587

Victorian Curriculum 2.0: VC2EFLE01; VC2EFLE02; VC2EFLE03; VC2EFLE04; VC2EFLE05; VC2EFLY12; VC2EFLY14; VC2E1LE01; VC2E2LE01

NSW English K–10: ENE-OLC-01; ENE-UARL-01; ENE-PHOAW-01; ENE-RECOM-01; ENE-CWT-01; ENE-SPELL-01; ENE-VOCAB-01; ENE-HANDW-01; EN1-OLC-01; EN1-UARL-01

Western Australian Curriculum: WAPELICO1; WAPELIEN1; WAPELIEX1; WAPELAT2; WAPELIEX2; WAPELICR1; WAPELYA3; WAPELYC1; WAPELYC4; WA1ELICO1; WA2ELICO1

The structured product curriculum fields also accumulate every exact same-unit mapping supplied for New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Common Core, TEKS and Ontario. Codes are retained as separate values by curriculum and are sourced only from the four included units' Website Listing files.

FORMAT, ANSWERS AND BOOKS

Digital bundle containing four printable PDF unit plans and eight editable Microsoft PowerPoint teaching and quiz decks. Answer pages, quiz answer slides and four rubrics are included. The original trade books are not included; teachers need legally obtained copies for the book-companion units.

INDEPENDENCE AND LICENCE

These independently created companion resources are not affiliated with the author, illustrator or publishers. No copied book text or character artwork is supplied. Purchase permits use by one teacher with their own classes. Files must not be resold, redistributed, uploaded publicly or shared outside that licence.