The Trouble with Grizzle
Fantasy
The Trouble with Grizzle is a free, NAPLAN-aligned fantasy writing resource for Australian primary students. It includes a story starter, complication, tiered vocabulary and scaffolds mapped to the Australian Curriculum (AC9).
Deep in the heart of the enchanted forest sat Grizzle, the most mischievous creature ever known. With his sharp grin and twinkling orange eyes, he planned his next prank. Yesterday, he had turned all the river water into jelly, and the day before that, he had swapped the fairy queen’s crown with a pancake! Now, he had something even bigger in mind. But what Grizzle didn’t know was that someone was planning a trick of their own...
The complication
- Grizzle’s prank goes horribly wrong, and now he must fix the mess before the forest creatures get too angry.
- A mysterious creature arrives, claiming to be an even bigger trickster than Grizzle.
- Grizzle’s magic starts acting strangely—his tricks are no longer working as planned!
What's in the full resource
- Complications
- Brainstorming Prompts
- Vocabulary Support
- Sentence Starters
- Dialogue Prompts
- Writing Challenges
- Sentence Variety
- Creative Twists
- Writing Checklist
- Reflective Questions
- Collaborative Writing Ideas
- Printable teacher and student PDFs
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