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Digital Classroom

Explore Australia's history at the National Library's Digital Classroom, aligned with the Australian Curriculum. With over 10 million items, we support diverse learning styles, fostering inquiry-based learning for students to analyse sources and draw conclusions about the Australian story.
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Poster for movie Storm Boy

(1976), Every year has its special film - this year it's... [picture] : Storm Boy, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-133752089

Environment and animals

Topic

Authors have used the beauty, harshness and problems of our land to tell their stories, often basing their stories in familiar locations and using their reaction to a particular environment as the central theme.

English
Year 4
Literature and writing
Cover of book All Among the Fairies

Ethel Jackson Morris, All among the fairies, 1909, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-22387121

Imagination and fantasy

Topic

Authors and illustrators of children’s books bring imaginary and distorted worlds to life, creating works inhabited by curious creatures and magical beings. These works include fairy tales and fantasy books.

English
Year 4
Literature and writing
Front cover of 'The school magazine' with a drawing of a man in a hat riding a galloping horse through a gate at night.

New South Wales. Department of Education, The Warrumbungle Mare. (1 September 1949). In The School Magazine of Literature for Our Boys and Girls, Vol. 34, no. 7 (Part 4, Class 6), nla.gov.au/nla.obj-827990456

Adventure

Topic

The 19th century was the age of the English language boys’ adventure story.

English
Year 4
Literature and writing
A collage of green and purple plant matter, aluminium and perspex, lit from above by a warm, yellow internal light.

Jeannie Baker, Hidden Forest, Endpapers, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-971313378

The creative process

Topic

Writing and illustrating a children’s book involves many steps. Sometimes one person takes on both tasks, while at other times an author and an illustrator work together to bring a story to life.

English
Year 4
Literature and writing
Santa Claus presenting gift to family entering the room

Jane Jolly & Robert Ingpen, Tea and Sugar Christmas, 2014, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6420587

Picture books

Topic

Reading picture books is important in speech development, building literacy skills, helping children to use their imagination.

English
Year 3

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