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

summerreadingclub@slq.qld.gov.au

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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COMPLETE THE PICTURE Using the picture as a guide, can you finish the picture below?

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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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