Blueprints Upper Primary A Unit 1: A World of Water

Water covers more than two-thirds of our planet. Read some of the stories, myths and legends that people around the world tell about water. Learn why water is important in different cultures and find out a few facts about our world of water too.

• 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.

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.