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PRIMARY GREAT READS
Booked
Kwame Alexander
Boomerang & bat Mark Greenwood
Deadly D & Justice Jones
Scott Prince & Dave Hartley
Diary of a minecraft
zombie Zack Zombie
Dungzilla
James Foley
Ella diaries-total TV
drama Meredith Costain
Jasper Zammit: soccer
legend Deborah Abela
Killer boots
Wendy Jenkins
On track
Kathryn Apel
Paper planes Steve Worland
Pierre the maze
detective: the search for the stolen maze stone
Hiro Kamigaki
Play the Game Nova Weetman
Star league:
Robot reboot HJ Harper
Ten
Shamini Flint
The astral legacies Gordon Volke
Timeless: Diego & the
rangers of the Vastlantic Armand Baltazar
Trackers
Patrick Carman
You choose: AFL: footy fever
George Ivanoff
You choose:
Trapped in the games grid
George Ivanoff
Wild born (spirit animals) Brandon Mull
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SUPERCHARGE YOUR SUMMER! Welcome to the SRC Primary Activity Booklet—created with SRC Superstars in mind.
Completing the activities in this booklet is just one way to participate in the 2017 Summer
Reading Club Game On program this year.
Be sure to join in the SRC action at your library and online!
At your library
Sign up for your own
library membership card.
Borrow books from the great reads
list.
Collect a reading log.
Ask your librarian for more
information about real life sporting
champions, games and technology.
Participate in the SRC activities at
your library to receive SRC themed
incentives and prizes.*
* Note: Programs, activities and incentives
delivered locally are provided at your library’s
discretion. Check with your librarian or
library’s ‘What’s On’ to find out what is on
offer for you at your library this summer!
Summer Reading Club online www.summerreadingclub.org.au/theclub Cross off the squares as you complete the
following online activities:
Register Upload a Picture Visit the Gallery
Meet our Bloggers
Bloggers
Visit Celebrity Corner
Have your say! Colour
Post a Book Rave Log your books
A note to parents and caregivers:
Children and young people are encouraged to get involved in summer reading activities online and at their local
libraries. The online activities are independent to the programs, activities and incentives that may be offered locally
at your public library. Registration in the online program or logging books through the SRC website does not enter
your child into library in-house competitions. Please talk to your local library staff for participation guidelines for local
library activities. For questions relating to online participation visit the SRC Website or contact the SRC Team at
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE A keen eye is key to noticing something is wrong. How good are your superstar senses?
A
B
Can you spot all 12 differences
between picture A and picture B?
Circle them as you find them.
Post your artwork online at www.summerreadingclub.org.au/theclub/your-postings/post-to-the-gallery
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A-MAZE-ING The Game is on! Help the timekeeper make it to the end of the maze
before time runs out!
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NOTE: This activity is not licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
This puzzle is © 2005-2017 by KrazyDad.com and included per KrazyDad.com reproduction guidelines.
KrazyDad Super Touch Mazes, Book 10, Maze #15 https://krazydad.com/mazes/sfiles/KD_Mazes_TF_v10.pdf
WORD SEARCH Can you find all 23 of the 2018 Commonwealth Games sports hidden below?
Artistic Gymnastics
Athletics
Badminton
Basketball
Beach Volleyball
Boxing
Diving
Hockey
Lawn Bowls
Mountain Bike Cycling
Netball
Para Powerlifting
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Road Cycling
Rugby Sevens
Shooting
Squash
Swimming
Table Tennis
Track Cycling
Triathlon
Weightlifting
Wrestling
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GAME ON Find a friend or two to battle it out in the grid.
Take turns adding a single horizontal or vertical line between
two unjoined adjacent dots. The player who completes the fourth
side of a 1×1 box earns one point and takes another turn.
(Record your win by placing your initial in the box). The game ends when
no more lines can be placed. Whoever forms the most boxes wins!
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Did you know this game, Dots and Boxes, was first published in the 19th century by Edouard Lucas, who called it la pipopiette.
For more information visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_and_Boxes What name do you know this game by?
ARROW MAZE Move from one square at a time to get from start to finish. You must move in the direction the
arrow is pointing. If the arrow points two ways then you can go in either direction.
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MAD LIBS Fill in the blanks using the word hints.
Then read aloud!
woke to find himself in an world. The snow was in the sky, and
the sky was beneath his feet. The —no other birds could survive
out here— past impossibly, their claws somehow above their bodies.
The were thick up the top and at the bottom. ’s
head was pounding like a . His felt and hot.
It wasn't until he tried to move that he realised the truth. He had been up by his
ankles. When he craned his neck to peer at the rough rope, he recognised the knots, tied by
feminine hands. , he thought. I should have seen this coming.
He opened his to for help, but then he thought better of it.
might still be nearby, and she didn't yet know he was . He might
still get the drop on her. She had left his hands . Kindness, or foolishness? It didn't
matter. He checked the holster on his hip. His was gone. His ?
Gone. His emergency ? Gone. But she had left him with one weapon.
His . Grunting like a , he folded his body at the hips, grabbed his
ankles, and started on the rope. It tasted , like
and suddenly he realised why. It was his own . probably thought
that was . Finally, the last strands of the rope .
barely had time to cover his before he hit the like a sack of
. He to his feet, dusted the snow off his
and looked around at the forest. He saw no-one—yet the forest seemed to look
back. ‘Alright, ’ he muttered. ‘Game on.’
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Name one (boy) adjective
adjective noun (bird)
verb
noun adjective Name one
noun noun adjective
verb
adjective Name two (girl)
noun verb
Name two adjective
adjective
noun noun
noun
noun noun
adjective adjective noun
noun Name two
adjective verb Name one
noun
noun
noun
verb noun
adjective
Name two
Now that you’ve completed this Mad Lib, head over to the Summer Reading Club website to read Jack Heath’s original What Happens Next
story starter. Enter the online competition by submitting your original ending to Jack’s story and go into the draw to win a Jack Heath
inspired prize pack. Go to: http://www.summerreadingclub.org.au/theclub/competitions/what-happens-next-jack-heath/
Adjective: describes something (purple, slimy, neat)
Noun: person, place or thing (mum, house, whale)
Verb: an action (run, jumped, skipping)
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CROSSWORD Use the clues and titles from the Primary Great Reads List to solve the crossword puzzle.
The list is available for download from the Summer Reading Club website.
Go to: http://www.summerreadingclub.org.au/theclub/primary/great-reads/
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Across
1. Nick Hall lives and breathes soccer. But when
he’s sidelined by an injury, his word-loving
father takes the opportunity to try to instill a
love of reading into his reluctant son.
3. This book series is written by Dave Hartley and
NRL legend ___________?
7. Arcade games star or prisoner in a digital
world!
Name the author of this You Choose title?
9. In this story by ______________, the accidental
‘gift’ of a pair of killer boots makes thirteen-
year-old Greg Lukin’s footy dreams even
better.
10. Who knew that there was such a thing as an
international paper plane making competition?
This book was also recently made into a movie.
Down
2. ___________________ co-wrote this soccer series
with Johnny Warren.
4. From the creators of Jandamarra, this is the
remarkable story of the real first eleven.
5. This title explores sibling rivalry, sporting
excellence and self-doubt. Will Toby and
Shaun get on track before Sports Day?
6. In the 21st century landscape of bits and
bytes, everyone leaves a digital footprint…
even the most advanced cyber criminals–and
that’s where the T__________ come in.
8. In this Internet-linked adventure series, aliens
will exterminate the human race unless the
seven artefacts that make up the A_________
L_________ are returned.
ANAGRAM UNSCRAMBLE An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
Can you decipher the following Summer Reading Club calls to action?
1. A Crusher Peg Emu Um Sorry
2. GO A MEN
3. Teach She Bop Missile
4. A Coin Twig isn’t on
5. Salt me glossy
6. Dragon be to
What words or strategies would you use to get your team moving?
Brainstorm a team cheer or club song below:
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SOLUTIONS
Spot the difference p2
1. Whiskers
2. Pocket badge
3. Visor
4. Symbol colours
5. Colours in inner ring reversed
6. Shoe treads
7. Buckle strap
8. Glove colour
9. Pocket badge
10. Tail
A-maze-ing p4
Wordsearch p5
Anagram Unscramble p11
Arrow Maze p8 Crossword p10.
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1. Supercharge your summer
2. GAME ON
3. Chase the impossible
4. Swing into action
5. All systems go
6. Get on board
Take your completed Book Rave to your local library or share online, by scanning and uploading it to
www.summerreadingclub.org.au/theclub/your-postings/post-to-the-gallery
State Library of Queensland 2017
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