Robot Bird
Years 5-6
One-off Workshop
The wonder of nature meets the mechanised 21st Century in one of Story Factory’s most popular workshops. Watch your students take flight as they are immersed in an imaginative coming-of-age story that inspires them to pen the tale of meeting their own fantastical robot bird. Special guest writing techniques in the workshop include onomatopoeia, simile and narrative structure.
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Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607)
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELT1692).
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EN3-CWT-01
plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
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Once I was eating a jade green seaweed wrapped nigiri on the couch,
I went to take a bite and a piece of sashimi fell out.
I kicked them underneath and heard a shrill high-pitched trill beneath.
That’s when I saw it, Wicked Feather!
“WHAT are you doing under the couch?” I asked. To which it replied:
“I have beak as bright and vibrant as a bird of paradise”
But WHY are you under the couch?
“I have a crest as soft and silky as a velvet pillow.”
But WHY are you under the couch?
“I have wings with claws on the end shinier than a snake’s fangs.
I have been under the couch for 5 years!”
But WHY are you under the couch?
“I have been stealing all of your milk just to spoil it
AND IF I DON’T GET ENOUGH I WILL
BLOCK UP YOUR TOILET”
Olive, Grade 3, Wentworth Falls Public School, T2 2025
Available in Semester 1, 2026.
