Tag: Anzac books

Anzac Day links for students

With Anzac Day approaching, here are links, trailers, worksheets and activities to help commemorate our veterans and war animals.

My YouTube channel has many clips, start here, book-trailers include Light Horse Boy and Lighthouse Girl, student’s trailers. Watch a Theatre 180 stage preview and song, and Destination WA Breaksea Island TV segment. You can see me reading The Last Light Horse high in the Snowy Mountains and hear reflective Covid Anzac Day thoughts at the Desert Mounted Corp Memorial. Or listen to a conversation about historical fiction with Elaine Forrestal.

Each book on my website has a dedicated page, with teaching activities, worksheets and story background information. Please also check out my blog. There are dozens of Anzac-linked posts. Try typing in book titles. For example, if you search In the Lamplight, you’ll find out about the wallaby and cockatoo living at Harefield Hospital during WWI. Or click the Anzac Category on blog sidebar to find Semaphore and Morse charts, interviews, Kokoda Track links to Photographs in the Mud, Purple Poppies, and the amazing 2015 The Giants street theatre event.

I hope these activities and links are helpful as we remember the courage and sacrifice of our veterans, their horses and animal mascots. Lest we forget.

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Anzac Resources for Teachers

Lesson planning takes time. Here are some Anzac-related links for teachers and librarians, including this clip; an Anzac Day reflection from Mt Clarence during Covid.

Each book in the WWI ‘Light’ series has teaching notes with worksheet activities created by Fremantle Press. Website links include these as well as reviews and images for Lighthouse Girl, Light Horse Boy, In the Lamplight, and The Last Light Horse.

If you’d like to know more about ‘Lighthouse Girl’ Faye Howe, click here. And information about warhorse Sandy can be found here.

For class printouts, follow these links:

My Blog posts cover various thematic, WWI, WWII, and Anzac topics. Posts share background details for each book, as well as my creative journeys. Try typing each title as well as keywords like; For Teachers, Anzacs, Historical Fiction, My Process, Light Horse, warhorse, lighthouse, WWI mascots, WWI nursing, Harefield, WWII.

You might also like to check out the clips on my YouTube channel. There are Book trailers for Light Horse Boy and Lighthouse Girl, links to the 2014 Albany commemorative events, and a clip with music by Simone Keane. This Destination WA interview with Dianne on Breaksea Island also shows details of the National Anzac Centre in Albany.

This reading from The Last Light Horse is taken in the Snowy Mountains the area that inspired Sandy’s story, while this clip shows Dianne and her dog Harry unwrapping their first copy of the book. Or Read ABC article about Sandy

Here’s another article about the books in the ‘Light’ series: Chauvel Foundation, and a series review. Plus a few more links to a range of Anzac stories: 17 best Anzac Day books for kids, Books on War, Great Books for Anzac Day, Readings.

Finally, if you live in Perth or Rockingham, here’s a sneak peek of Theatre 180‘s adaptation of the ‘Light’ series. I hope these links are helpful.