Just Enough!’s Reading Comprehension

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

Year 1, Year 2,

Learning Intentions

• Students learn to identify and extract key information from the text to deepen their comprehension.
• Students learn to relate elements of the text to their own lives.

Successful Criteria

• Children can demonstrate their understanding of the text by illustrating key information.
• Children can connect the text to their own experiences.

Curriculum Alignment

ACELY1660 8.4 (English Language and Literacy Year 1): Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

• using elements in books and screen texts, for example illustrations, diagrams, sound and movement, to support reading
• making connections between the text and students’ own experiences, and between information in print and images
• finding key information in a text
• making inferences about characters’ feelings and motives
• building knowledge about the topic of the text and learning new vocabulary before and during reading
• making predictions from the cover, from illustrations and at points in the text before reading on
• retelling the events or key information in the text orally, in writing and/or through digital or arts media

ACELY1670 8.4 (English Language and Literacy Year 2): Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures

• making connections between the text and students’ own experiences and experiences with other texts, comparing authors’ differing point of view on a topic
• making connections between information in print and images
• building on and using prior knowledge and vocabulary
• making valid inferences using information in a text and students’ own prior knowledge
• predicting, asking and answering questions as they read, and summarising and reviewing meaning