Students explore the book's resolution, where the physical artwork merges their worlds, and learn to write compound sentences with the conjunction 'but' to highlight contrasting actions or emotions before creating their final story narrative.

Students focus on the collaborative drawing of the fantasy world where the grandfather is a Thai warrior and the boy is a wizard, and learn to combine ideas into simple compound sentences using the conjunction 'and'.

Students identify how the boy and his grandfather use drawing to communicate when spoken words fail, focusing on capital letters, full stops, and basic speech bubble text to describe characters' feelings.

Students explore the cultural food scene in the book, focusing on the differences in what the boy and grandfather eat, and learn to use simple relating verbs (is, was) and action verbs to create a descriptive culinary narrative.

Students analyze the visual greeting between the boy and grandfather (the Wai bow) and learn to replace simple nouns with personal pronouns (he, she, we, it) before writing descriptive sentences about characters.

Students synthesize their learning across the unit to draft, edit, and publish a short text with illustrations that celebrates a connection built over a shared activity.

Students analyze action and sensing verbs that depict feelings and connection, applying them to describe how characters express themselves when drawing.

Focusing on the colorful fantasy battle scene, students learn to use exclamation marks, question marks, and simple dialogue punctuation to add impact to their narratives.

Students examine how art bridges the gap between characters, focusing on prepositions and prepositional phrases to specify where and when actions occur.

In this lesson, students explore the silent barrier between the grandson and grandfather, understand non-verbal cues, and use expanded noun groups to describe characters and settings.

Synthesise all learned elements (noun groups, action verbs, punctuation) to create descriptive sentences about Mallee Sky. Scaffolded with sentence starters and word cards.

Focus on capital letters and full stops in simple sentences about the Mallee environment. Students act as 'Punctuation Patrol' to correct and write clear sentences.