Who Sank the Boat Foundation English Unit

Please note: This is a companion resource for Who Sank the Boat?. The picture book is not included and should be read or viewed separately before using the activities.

Teach literary story features, sequencing, retelling and adaptation through a complete five-lesson Foundation English unit. Students identify characters, setting, beginning, middle, ending, cause and effect, sequence words and adaptation through explicit teaching, games, role-play, oral rehearsal and emergent writing.

The unit includes substantial colour sequence and role-play materials, three coherent worksheet packs with 12 student pages, matching red-answer pages, an original two-page assessment and a five-level rubric.

What's Included

• 46-page unit plan PDF
• 13-slide editable teaching presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• Who Sank the Boat? Story Parts display and Retell a Story reference cards
• Four-page Boat Story Sequence game
• Six-page Retell Role-Play Pack with character headbands, puppets and theatre mat
• Favourite Character Vote and Talk activity
• Change the Boat Story mini-book
• Boat Sentence Builder
• Three worksheet packs with 12 student practice pages
• Eight matching worksheet answer pages
• Two-page The Wobbly Wagon assessment with two model-answer pages
• Who Sank the Boat Foundation five-level rubric
• 81-page combined protected preview

Learning Focus

• Recognise a literary story and identify characteristic features.
• Identify characters, setting and main events.
• Distinguish beginning, middle and ending.
• Sequence events and explain simple cause and effect.
• Retell with First, Next, Then and Finally.
• Speak from a character's perspective.
• Retell through talk, play, performance, images or emergent writing.
• Adapt a familiar story by changing a character, vehicle or ending.
• Read, trace and build simple topic sentences.

Classroom Use

Use the presentation after a class read-aloud. Model story features and event order, then use the sequence cards for whole-class or pair practice. Rehearse retelling with headbands and puppets before moving into the mini-book, sentence builder and worksheet packs. Finish with the editable quiz and The Wobbly Wagon assessment. The sequence suits approximately five lessons.

Product Details

• Year level: Foundation
• Subject: English
• Topic: Literary story features, picture-book study, sequencing, retelling, adaptation and sentence building
• Formats: PDF and editable PowerPoint PPTX
• Counts: 46-page unit plan, 13 presentation slides and 22 quiz slides
• Answers: Eight worksheet answer pages and two assessment model-answer pages included
• Book inclusion: The companion picture book is not included

Teacher Benefits

• A complete pathway from read-aloud modelling to assessment.
• Oral, acted, drawn and emergent-writing response options.
• Substantial colour sequence and role-play materials.
• A purposeful adaptation task aligned to creating literature.
• Editable presentation and quiz files.
• Print-conscious practice, assessment and rubric pages.

Digital Product and Terms

This is a digital product; no physical item will be shipped. The companion picture book is not included. The original purchaser may use the files with their own students. Files must not be resold, redistributed or posted publicly.