Muuruun Series
Author: Mervyn Bishop & Alwyn Evans
Format: 6 x book
ISBN: KIT00090
Publisher: Curriculum Corporation 1995
Audience: Student resource
Price: $43.55
The Muuruun Series offers something special and is suitable for:
- beginner readers
- ESL students
- the library
- as a basis for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies.
This series of six books is illustrated with lively colour photographs of Aboriginal children and Torres Strait Islander children engaged in everyday life in their communities - urban, rural and remote.
The titles include:
- A Big Day
- Guess What!
- The Secret
- What Do You Play?
- Let's Rap!
- Let's Rap! Big Book.
Each title is also available in a shrinkwrapped set of six.
Ms Catherine Rooney
This series is a great collection of stories for beginner readers. As the teachers guide says, these books are about things children do in their communities. Colourful photographs show children cooking, dancing and playing. `A Big Day` is a story about a group looking for bush tucker. This would be an unfamiliar experience to many non-Indigenous Australians and a good source of new and interesting vocabulary.
The series introduces beginning readers to a variety of text types including recount, narrative and procedural. They would make excellent texts for guided reading sessions to introduce textual features and develop reading strategies.
The teacher book introduces literacy theory and links outcomes to a curriculum profile of Australian schools.
It details relevant text information for each reading book and gives extensive guidance on teaching and learning strategies. The Teacher Book also includes a variety of activities including worksheets and links with curriculum areas.
*Reproduced with permission.
