The Advanced Ant Farm
Fantasy
The Advanced Ant Farm 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).
My name is Oliver, and I was one of the most curious kids you could ever meet. Ever since I was little, I loved learning about nature, and my favorite hobby was collecting bugs. I spent hours watching ants in their colonies, observing how they worked together. One day, I got the idea to build my very own ant farm. But when I set it up, something strange began to happen. As the ants dug, they created tunnels and chambers that I’d never seen before. Over time, my little ant farm started to look more like a city! Skyscrapers, roads, flying machines — it was a whole bustling metropolis, all built by ants! The more I watched, the more amazed I became. These ants weren’t just regular ants. They were advanced. I couldn’t believe my eyes. How could this be possible?
The complication
- The Ants Start Communicating: Oliver hears strange sounds coming from the farm at night — the ants appear to be talking. What could they be saying?
- A New Arrival: A strange new ant, larger and more intelligent than the rest, appears in the colony. Does this mean the ants are evolving?
- A Mysterious Light: One day, the ants build a glowing structure, and a beam of light shoots out. Could they be trying to communicate with something beyond Oliver’s world?
What's in the full resource
- Complications
- Brainstorming Prompts
- Vocabulary Support
- Sentence Starters
- Dialogue Prompts
- Writing Challenges
- Sentence Variety Examples
- Creative Twists
- Writing Checklist
- Reflective Questions
- Collaborative Writing Ideas
- Printable teacher and student PDFs
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