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Narrative Structure Just Enough!

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The Book

Just Enough!

Written & illustrated by Steven Huynh, published by Steven De GC

The narrative encourages students to take only what is needed (ACPPS006, ACPPS022 – Foundation to Year 2 Health and Physical Education), reinforcing fairness in sharing resources like classroom materials. It also explores the negative consequences of overuse by addressing the basic needs of animals—food, water, and shelter (ACSSU002 – Foundation Year Science) —demonstrating how overuse impacts wildlife and habitats. Highlighting environmental changes caused by resource depletion (ACSSU019 – Year 1 Science), fostering the awareness of sustainability. With its rich themes of sharing and environmental stewardship, this story inspires young learners to adopt mindful, responsible habits in their daily lives.

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Resource creator

Steven Huynh

Subject

English Language and Literacy,

Level

Foundation,

Learning Intentions

• Students learn to retell narrative texts in the proper sequence.

Successful Criteria

• Students can organise the events from Just Enough! in the proper sequence.

Curriculum Alignment

ACELT1580 8.4 (English Language and Literacy Foundation): Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images

• drawing, labelling and role playing representations of characters or events
• reciting rhymes with actions
• using digital technologies to retell events and recreate characters from favourite print and film texts

ACELY1646 8.4 (English Language and Literacy Foundation): Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations

• listening to, remembering and following simple instructions
• sequencing ideas in spoken texts, retelling well known stories, retelling stories with picture cues, retelling information using story maps
• listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question
• participating in informal situations, for example play-based experiences which involve the imaginative use of spoken language
• participating in class, group and pair discussions about shared experiences including shared texts
• asking and answering questions to clarify understanding

Instructions

Children will cut and arrange the clues in the correct order to create a coherent narrative structure.

If it is too difficult for them, teachers/parents may want to cut the clues in blocks, such as problem block, build-up block, and resolution block (you can use the answer sheet for that). Children then only need to match the clue blocks and the correct structure parts. This allows them to focus on identifying and matching the key components of the story without getting overwhelmed by more complex instructions.