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The Mrs Wishy-Washy Foundation English Unit is a complete five-lesson learning sequence for teaching characters, setting, problem, solution, event order, oral retelling and simple story language.

Students explore the features of stories and different ways a literary text can be shared. They sequence events with colour cards, use first, next, then and finally, retell through puppets and dramatic play, collect favourite-character data, create a mini-book, complete story maps and construct simple sentences.

Large visual prompts, teacher modelling, oral response, tracing, drawing, cutting and sorting support Foundation learners. Core tasks develop story mapping and sentence construction, while Change One Event invites students to adapt part of the story and share a new version.

The two-page A Muddy Morning assessment uses an original lamb-and-farmer scenario. It checks whether students can identify story elements, retell a picture sequence and create a different ending without relying on the familiar book context.

The resource includes a 59-page unit plan PDF, a 17-slide editable PowerPoint presentation, a 22-slide editable PowerPoint quiz, 16 matching red-answer pages and a five-level rubric. Colour activities suit classroom display, oral-language rotations and dramatic play. Worksheets, assessment pages and the rubric are black and white for practical printing.

The Mrs Wishy-Washy storybook and story text are not included. Teachers require lawful access to a copy for shared reading.

COMPLETE INCLUSION LIST

Teaching files
- 59-page unit plan PDF
- Editable 17-slide teaching presentation
- Editable 22-slide quiz
- Combined product preview PDF
- One-slide editable product-thumbnail PowerPoint

Displays
- Story Elements
- Retell in Order
- Ways to Share a Story

Story-form and sequencing activities
- Story Form Sort Mat and Cards
- Sequencing Cards — Sets 1 and 2
- Put the Events in Order Board
- Retelling Words Cards

Dramatic-play resources
- Farmyard Puppets
- Puppet Theatre Scenery
- Mrs Wishy-Washy, Cow, Pig and Duck headbands

Data and retelling activities
- Favourite Character Cards
- Favourite Character Survey
- Favourite Character Pictograph
- Forty Pictograph Tokens
- My Retelling Book — Pages 1 and 2

Worksheets
- Muddy Action Words
- Read, Trace and Draw — Cow, Pig and Duck
- Draw the Characters
- Story Map — Characters and Setting
- Story Map — Problem and Solution
- Beginning, Middle and End
- What Would You Say?
- Story Word Search
- Cut, Order and Paste Sequence Mat and Cards
- Build a Sentence — Cow, Pig, Duck, All Animals and Mrs Wishy-Washy
- Change One Event

Assessment and answers
- Assessment: A Muddy Morning — Page 1
- Assessment: Story Elements and a New Ending — Page 2
- Two matching assessment answer pages
- Mrs Wishy-Washy Unit Rubric
- 16 matching answer pages across the unit

LEARNING FOCUS
- Recognising characters, setting, problem and solution
- Identifying ways stories can be presented and shared
- Ordering events and using time words
- Retelling through oral language, pictures, drama and simple writing
- Reading and constructing Foundation-level sentences
- Developing story vocabulary
- Changing an event or ending
- Transferring comprehension skills to a new picture sequence

CLASSROOM USE
- Five-lesson whole-class unit
- Shared-reading follow-up
- Explicit teaching with the editable presentation
- Literacy rotations and small-group work
- Partner oral-retelling practice
- Puppet theatre and dramatic play
- Independent worksheets
- Assessment and evidence collection
- Display and revision materials

YEAR / SUBJECT / TOPIC
Foundation / Kindergarten English: literary texts, story elements, sequencing, oral retelling, sentence building and story adaptation.

CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT
Australian Curriculum v9: AC9EFLE03, AC9EFLE05
Australian Curriculum v8.4: ACELT1578, ACELT1785, ACELT1580, ACELT1831
Victorian Curriculum 2.0: VC2EFLE03, VC2EFLE05
NSW: ENE-UARL-01, ENE-OLC-01, ENE-RECOM-01, ENE-CWT-01
Western Australian Curriculum: WAPELIEX1, WAPELAT2, WAPELICR1
Common Core: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.8
United Kingdom: UK-KS1-Y1-ENG-R-C, UK-KS1-Y1-ENG-SPK, UK-KS1-Y1-ENG-W-C
New Zealand: NZ-Y0-ENG-R-C-TFG-1, NZ-Y1-ENG-R-C-TFG-1, NZ-Y0-ENG-R-C-TSSF-1, NZ-Y1-ENG-R-C-TSSF-1, NZ-Y0-ENG-R-C-SDC-1, NZ-Y1-ENG-R-C-SDC-1, NZ-Y0-ENG-OL-CII-VR-2, NZ-Y1-ENG-OL-CII-VR-2, NZ-Y0-ENG-OL-CII-TOR-1, NZ-Y1-ENG-OL-CII-TOR-1
TEKS: TEKS-ELAR-GK-7, TEKS-ELAR-GK-7A, TEKS-ELAR-GK-7B, TEKS-ELAR-GK-7C, TEKS-ELAR-GK-7D, TEKS-ELAR-GK-8, TEKS-ELAR-GK-8A, TEKS-ELAR-GK-8C, TEKS-ELAR-GK-9, TEKS-ELAR-GK-6C, TEKS-ELAR-GK-11A, TEKS-ELAR-GK-6D, TEKS-ELAR-GK-6E, TEKS-ELAR-GK-10A, TEKS-ELAR-GK-10C, TEKS-ELAR-GK-10E
Ontario: CAN-G1-LANG-C1.1, CAN-G1-LANG-C1.2, CAN-G1-LANG-D1.2, CAN-G1-LANG-D1.3, CAN-G1-LANG-D1.4, CAN-G1-LANG-D1.5, CAN-G1-LANG-D2.1, CAN-G1-LANG-D2.2, CAN-G1-LANG-D2.3, CAN-G1-LANG-D2.4, CAN-G1-LANG-D2.5, CAN-G1-LANG-D3.1, CAN-G1-LANG-D3.2, CAN-G1-LANG-D3.3, CAN-G1-LANG-B1.4, CAN-G1-LANG-D1.1, CAN-GK-LANG-OE10

FORMATS / COUNTS / ANSWER STATUS
- 59-page unit plan PDF
- 17-slide editable PowerPoint presentation
- 22-slide editable PowerPoint quiz
- 16 matching answer pages included within the unit plan
- Combined watermarked preview PDF
- Colour activity and display pages
- Black-and-white worksheet, assessment and rubric pages
- No physical product
- Storybook not included

TEACHER BENEFITS
- Provides a sequenced five-lesson teaching pathway
- Combines explicit teaching, oral language, dramatic play and independent work
- Offers support, core and extension options
- Includes reusable colour activity materials
- Includes assessment evidence and a progressive rubric
- Places meaningful answers directly after matching tasks
- Uses an original assessment story to check transfer of learning

DIGITAL PRODUCT AND LICENCE NOTES
This is a digital teaching product. No physical item is supplied. Purchase grants a single-classroom licence to the purchaser. Files may not be shared, resold, redistributed, posted publicly, uploaded to shared libraries or used to create competing products. Additional teachers or classrooms require additional licences. Mrs Wishy-Washy is not supplied; the purchaser must have lawful access to the storybook.