TEACHERS NOTES

Kids Who Did

Kids Who Did (2019) is a fully revised and updated version of Tough Stuff (1999) . Tough Stuff remains on every state’s Premier’s Reading Challenge List and is used in the Indigenous Literacy programs but should be replaced with Kids who Did.

Kids Who Did is an ideal text for encouraging reluctant readers and is particularly useful text for ESL students from upper primary through all levels of secondary. Every story is self-contained and of a length that allows the student to encompass the information in a modest amount of time. Each of the forty stories has enough depth to be enjoyed by mature readers as well as younger students and the stories have applications in SOSE as well as English. The children featured in the stories are from countries around the world.

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Teachers' Notes - Kids Who Did

LINKED RESOURCES

There are many videos of Gitanjali Rao on the internet talking about her work in science but this is Kirsty’s favourite

Behind The Book: Kids Who Did

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India Dark, The Four Seasons of Lucy McKenzie, The Lilliputians, Vulture’s Gate, Zarconi’s Magic Flying Fish, Bridie’s Fire, Becoming Billy Dare, A Prayer for Blue Delaney, The Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong, Walking Home with Marie-Claire, Children of the Wind Series, Strangers on Country, Kids Who Did, Topsy-turvy World, A Penny to Remember, The Red Camel, The Clever Cats Book Club, When Billy was a Dog, Eat the Sky

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