How characters and places connect
Discuss how characters and settings are connected in literature by First Nations Australian, other Australian and world authors and illustrators — how a place shapes what characters do and feel, and how characters belong to or change a place
Lesson
Set out your lesson
“How characters and places connect means practising the idea at the table with a short text or prompt and one clear check. We will demo once, then your child tries.”
Bring to the table
- A short prompt card or picture
- Timer or turn tokens (optional)
Extra for the adult
Worked example. “I think the character is brave because she knocked on the door.”
Optional challenge. For How characters and places connect, add one harder example after success.
What to notice. Keep one parent note: examples tried; results; support used. This session samples How characters and places connect, not mastery.
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Learning resources
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Library of Congress · Practice link — not the full lesson
The Gnat & the Bull
Before you open · source notes
Public-domain Aesop fable text from Read.gov. Use it to notice how characters and places connect. Not every poetry unit.
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Before you openAsk how the gnat’s action connects to the bull and where the moment happens.
Opening this link does not save learning or assess mastery.
Source, access and review notes
Public Library of Congress Read.gov Aesop page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt. The story text is public domain on this page. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. This is reading text, not an automatically marked comprehension quiz.
Library of Congress / Read.gov. “The Gnat & the Bull.” Public-domain text linked only; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute a separate edition.
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Check understanding
- Explain how Country and the characters are connected in a First Nations Australian picture book (e.g. 'Somebody's Land' by Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing and David Hardy)
- Describe how the setting affects what a character does in an Australian story (e.g. the rainforest in Jeannie Baker's 'Where the Forest Meets the Sea')
- Predict how a character from a world story would act if moved to a different setting, and give a reason
“When reading a story set in the Australian bush or by the sea, can your child explain how the place affects what the characters do or feel?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Reading Comprehension
- Age range
- Ages 7–8
Standards