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  • The game cover.

    The Game
    Cover image.

    by Louise Wallace

    Text

    Series: School Journal Level 3 September 2014

    Learning area: English, Health and Physical Education

    Curriculum level: 3

    Reading year level: 5

    Category: Fiction

    Topics: poem, cricket, sport

    In: School Journal Level 3 September 2014

    Publication date: September 2014

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  • Where are the fairies.

    Where Are the Fairies?
    Cover image.

    by Serie Barford

    illustrations by Leilani Isara

    Text

    Series: School Journal Level 2 September 2014

    Learning area: English

    Curriculum level: 2

    Reading year level: 4

    Category: Fiction

    Topics: fairies, ferries, confusion, poem

    In: School Journal Level 2 September 2014

    Publication date: September 2014

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  • Tortoise.

    Tortoise

    by Alan Bagnall

    illustrations by Fraser Williamson

    Book cover of JJ 48.
    Text

    Series: Junior Journal 48, Level 2, 2014

    Learning area: English

    Curriculum level: 2

    Reading year level: 3

    Category: Fiction

    Topics: tortoise, turtle, poetry, poem

    In: Junior Journal 48, Level 2, 2014

    Publication date: January 2014

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  • Embarrassment expert.

    The Embarrassment Expert
    SJ cover image.

    by Ashleigh Young

    illustration by Rachel Walker

    Text

    Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2014

    Learning area: Health and Physical Education

    Curriculum level: 4

    Reading year level: 7

    Category: Fiction

    Topics: embarrassment, poem, poetry, metaphor, simile

    In: School Journal Level 4 November 2014

    Publication date: November 2014

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  • Book cover.

    Not Your Normal Tent
    School Journal L3 Nov 2016

    A poem by James Brown, illustrated by Peter Campbell.

    Text

    Series: School Journal Level 3 November 2016

    Learning area: English

    Curriculum level: 3

    Reading year level: 6

    Topics: camping, found poems, humour, instructions, poetry, tents

    In: School Journal Level 3 November 2016

    Publication date: November 2016

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  • The squash club cover.

    The Squash Club
    L4 cover image march2012.

    by Hinemoana Baker 

    This poem reflects on her childhood memories of waiting for her father while he played squash. In short stanzas, she recalls the sights, feel, and smells of those times. 

    Tsm PDF

    Series: School Journal Level 4, March 2012

    Learning area: English

    Curriculum level: 2

    Reading year level: 8

    Category: Non-fiction

    Related titles: Listed in TSM

    Topics: Hinemoana Baker, poem, childhood memories, squash

    In: School Journal Level 4, March 2012

    Publication date: March 2012

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  • One black cat.

    One Black Cat

    by Rachel Collier

    illustrations by Rosalind Clark

    Journal40

    This light-hearted narrative poem tells the story of a cat attempting to catch a bird – and being outsmarted. It includes rhyme but this doesn’t follow a regular pattern. 

    Tsm PDF

    Series: Junior Journal 40, Level 2, 2010

    Learning area: Science

    Curriculum level: 2

    Category: Fiction

    Related titles: Listed in TSM

    Topics: narrative, poem, cat, bird, food chains, science

    In: Junior Journal 40, Level 2, 2010

    Publication date: January 2010

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  • Thunder.

    Thunder

    by Judy Raymond

    JJ44

    This dramatic poem uses personification to vividly convey sights and sounds of a thunderstorm. It shows the narrator, in a house, taking part in a two-way communication with the thunder, which is overhead. 

    Tsm PDF Audio

    Series: Junior Journal 44, Level 2, 2012

    Learning area: English

    Curriculum level: 2

    Category: Fiction

    Related titles: Listed in TSM

    Topics: dramatic, poem, sights, sounds, thunderstorm, thunder,

    In: Junior Journal 44, Level 2, 2012

    Publication date: January 2012

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  • Dawn service cover.

    Dawn Service
    School Journal L4 June 2014.

    by Ashleigh Young

    Text

    Series: School Journal Level 4 June 2014

    Learning area: Social Sciences

    Curriculum level: 4

    Reading year level: 7

    Category: Fiction

    Topics: Anzacs, memorial, grandfathers, poetry, pilots, poem

    In: School Journal Level 4 June 2014

    Publication date: June 2014

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  • Otautahi octopoem.

    Otautahi Octopoem
    SJ cover image.

    by Kerrin P. Sharpe

    illustrations by Fraser Williamson

    Text

    Series: School Journal Level 2 November 2014

    Learning area: English, Social Sciences

    Curriculum level: 2

    Reading year level: 4

    Category: Fiction

    Topics: Christchurch, garden, poetry, poem, ideas, spring

    In: School Journal Level 2 November 2014

    Publication date: November 2014

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