Blueprints Upper Primary A Unit 1: Danger on the Snowy

Dennis and his family have come to Australia so his dad can work on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. But Dennis is miserable. He misses his old life back in England. Will he ever get used to this strange new place? Will he ever feel at home again?

• Provides a comprehensive series where literacy skills are developed sequentially through explicit teaching.
• Emphasises reading for learning and poses issues that affect children today.
• Provides a scaffold for children to understand and investigate those issues.
• Connects student learning to the real world and encourages them to contemplate what's happening in their daily lives.
• Integrated enquiry units support an enquiry-based learning approach.

Blueprints is a series that provides a variety of graded texts to meet the different learning levels within your classroom.

With a colourful and eye-catching design, students are provided with a firm scaffold of learning experiences to support discovery learning, and the development of higher order thinking skills.

The streamlined approach teaches literacy along with other learning areas, one unit per term. The fiction and non-fiction topic books explore concepts introduced in the Big Ideas Book in greater depth. Interactive activities on the CD within each unit extend learning beyond the texts.