Description
Make the most of the 2026 CBCA Picture Book of the Year shortlist with this collection of six ready-to-teach grammar, literacy and writing lessons.
Designed around six outstanding shortlisted picture books, this bundle gives teachers a meaningful way to combine Book Week celebrations with explicit English teaching. Rather than using picture books simply as a springboard for activities, each lesson invites students to look closely at how authors and illustrators create meaning and then apply those techniques in their own reading, viewing and writing.
Across the six lessons, students explore a rich range of language and visual grammar concepts:
📚 Bob and Dob — Subordinating Conjunctions & Complex Sentences
Explore how conjunctions connect clauses and how changing a conjunction can change meaning.
🐸 The Frog’s First Song — Tense & Verb Processes
Investigate how verb choices position events in time before transforming a story into a recount.
👀 Dawn — Visual Grammar & Vectors
Discover how lines, movement and visual reading paths guide the viewer through an illustration.
🌿 Once I Was a Giant — Personification & Shot Distance
Explore how writers and illustrators bring objects to life and use visual perspective to influence the viewer.
🥦 Dear Broccoli — Attitude Language
Explore Affect, Judgement and Appreciation and discover how evaluative language can strengthen a persuasive stance.
✈️ Tiwi in Paris — Process Types
Move beyond “doing words” to explore Doing, Feeling, Thinking and Saying Processes and apply them to recount writing.
What’s included?
✔️ 6 complete, ready-to-teach lesson plans
✔️ Lessons based on the 2026 CBCA Picture Book of the Year shortlist
✔️ Explicit grammar and visual literacy teaching
✔️ Australian Curriculum: English Version 9 links
✔️ Interactive games and engaging classroom activities
✔️ Guided mentor-text analysis
✔️ Creative and purposeful writing tasks
✔️ Printable classroom resources and student scaffolds
✔️ Differentiation opportunities across primary year levels
Suitable for teachers and teacher librarians looking for high-quality, literature-rich Book Week learning that goes beyond costumes and craft activities.
Six picture books. Six powerful language and literacy investigations. One Book Week bundle.
Get the complete six-lesson bundle for just $16.
Find detailed descriptions of each lesson plan here:CBCA Book Week 2026 Lesson Plans
