Overview

  • Year Levels F–6
  • Curriculum ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
  • Subject Literacy
  • Resource Formats Print
  • Learning Focus First Nations, Geography, History, Shared reading, Guided reading

What it is

First Australians: Plenty Stories is a cross-curriculum series for middle and upper primary students that aims to help students broaden their horizons by learning about the world’s oldest continuous living cultures. The series supports:

  • curriculum across literacy, geography, history, or cultural classes
  • cultural understanding
  • awareness of significant issues faced by Indigenous Australians
  • engaging students with relevant content and texts.

How it helps

Learners

Engages students with relevant content: The First Australians: Plenty Stories series draws on a diverse range of sources, with content that tells the stories of significant issues that have faced and are still facing Australian Indigenous peoples.

Develops cultural understanding and awareness: Developed around three key themes: Our Places, Our Culture, and Our Voices, this series promotes cultural understanding across multiple subjects.

Supports learning with clearly structured texts: Texts in this series are clearly structured, including appropriate content and vocabulary, and are relevant for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

Educators

Supports teachers with extra resources: Teacher resources for this series include curriculum links for each state and territory, additional sources, activities, blackline masters and more.

Assists lesson planning: Each theme comes with key concepts, knowledge, skills, and values to help you guide learning, discussion, and activities.

Maximises student learning: Learning activities including prompts for group discussions help students to engage and get the most out of their time in the classroom.

What it includes

Discover the complete resources First Australians: Plenty Stories has to offer.

First Australian Plenty Stories

Student Books

The student books include resources for both middle and upper primary students. Structured with three connecting themes, these books include:

  • stories of significant issues facing Australian Indigenous peoples
  • clearly structured texts
  • relevant content and vocabulary for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students
  • lessons, activities and blackline masters for teachers.

First Australian Plenty Stories

Teacher Resource

The teacher resource texts for middle primary and upper and primary levels help facilitate confident teaching, with:

  • curriculum links for each state and territory
  • key concepts, knowledge, skills, values for each theme
  • background information about each text
  • guidance on where to go for additional research
  • learning and assessment activities
  • blackline masters.

First Australian Plenty Stories

Poster Pack

A poster pack is available for both middle primary and upper primary. There are ten posters in each pack, in each level, which have been developed to provide:

  • an introduction to each book and its themes
  • effective teaching tools and strategies for the whole series.
  • questions to promote group discussion
  • additional information for teachers.

Samples & downloads

  • First Australians Plenty Stories - Middle Primary Middle Primary Teacher Resource - sample pages Download PDF (566KB)
  • First Australians Plenty Stories - Middle Primary Celebrating Survival Day - sample pages Download PDF (2.7MB)
  • First Australians Plenty Stories Middle Primary Discovering Aboriginal Australia Sample Download PDF (6.7MB)
  • First Australians Plenty Stories - Middle Primary Fighting For Rights - sample pages Download PDF (6MB)
  • First Australians Plenty Stories - Middle Primary Indigenous Sporting Greats - sample pages Download PDF (4.6MB)
  • First Australians Plenty Stories - Middle Primary Kaisianas Journey To Torres Strait - sample pages Download PDF (4.8MB)
  • First Australians Plenty Stories - Middle Primary Keeping Language Alive - sample pages Download PDF (5.8MB)
  • First Australians Plenty Stories - Middle Primary Keeping Strong Through Art - sample pages Download PDF (2.9MB)
  • First Australians Plenty Stories - Middle Primary Special Objects - sample pages Download PDF (4.6MB)
  • First Australians Plenty Stories - Middle Primary The Travelling Yamani - sample pages Download PDF (2.8MB)

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