Teacher Notes: Slow Down, Mabel!

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Optimise class time with recommendations for before, during and after reading.

Key themes

• Emotional regulation: noticing body clues, pausing, breathing and choosing kinder actions
• Friendship and inclusion: making space for others and taking turns when friends move at different speeds
• Western Australian content: local animals and plants woven in to for easy classroom connection
• Read-aloud appeal: rhythmic, repeated language that invites participation from young listeners

Curriculum connections

• EYLF / Foundation: supports social-emotional development, self-regulation, relationships and belonging
• Australian Curriculum – Health and Physical Education (F–2): recognising and managing emotions, and practising strategies that support wellbeing
• Australian Curriculum – English (F–2): discussing characters’ feelings and actions, engaging with rhyme and read-aloud text