Snappy Reads - Getting Around

Snappy Reads - Getting Around focuses on the theme of transportation, offering students aged 9-10 years a rich collection of fiction and non-fiction texts exploring how people travel from place to place. Through a combination of short stories, reports, interviews, and explanations, this collection highlights a variety of transport modes including historical methods, futuristic designs, and sustainable travel. Developed for guided reading, these texts promote both literacy and broader understandings of movement and innovation in society. Like other Snappy Reads titles published by Learning Media, this set is designed to help children develop confidence in synthesising information across different formats and themes. It supports students in expanding their world knowledge, while encouraging engagement with current issues such as environmental impact and urban planning. This resource aligns with Australian curriculum goals related to geography, technology, and sustainability.

Educational Benefits:

• Builds understanding of global and local transport systems.
• Encourages critical thinking about the future of transportation.
• Enhances reading fluency through varied text structures.
• Supports vocabulary growth in STEM and geography.

Classroom Ideas:

• Create a timeline of transport innovations.
• Compare transportation in urban and rural settings.
• Design an eco-friendly vehicle and write a description of its use.
• Conduct a class survey on favourite travel modes and graph the results.

Safety & Information:

• Suitable for ages 9-10 years
• Dimensions: 210mm x 148mm
• High-quality, non-toxic printing and binding
• Lightweight format ideal for guided reading groups