Shower Power by Bernard Beckett is a humorous and engaging short story that follows Sadie and her family as a light-hearted competition turns everyday shower routines into a lesson about sustainability, compromise, and relationships. Through sharp dialogue, relatable family dynamics, and playful tension, the text explores environmental responsibility in a way that feels accessible and authentic for upper primary readers.

Blending humour with an environmental message, the story encourages students to think critically about personal habits, carbon footprints, and how small choices can contribute to positive change, while enjoying a narrative driven by character, voice, and pacing. 

 

This pack contains a range of structured literacy activities including

• Spelling rules ck / dge / drop the e / y as a consonant or vowel
• Sounds of -ed
• Exploring parts of language - adverbs, adjectives, nouns, verbs etc
• Doubling or not when adding -ing, -ed
• Floss rules
• Compound words
• Identifying and naming suffixes
• Identifying and naming prefixes
• Vowel teams
• Root words
• Controlling 'r'
• Diagraphs
• Schwa words
• Ghost diagraphs
• -oo- and -oo- / -au and -ow / 
• Hard and soft c and g
• Common subordinating conjunctions
• And much more!!

 

Curriculum Phase: Phase 2

Year Level: Year 6

English: reading for meaning, analysing character motivation and relationships, understanding humour and author’s craft, inferring themes and messages, summarising, and supporting ideas with evidence from the text

Science: sustainability, environmental responsibility, carbon footprint, water and energy use
Mathematics and Statistics: measurement of time, tallying, comparing data, interpreting results
Social Sciences: personal and collective action, values and decision-making, impact of everyday choices on families, communities, and the environment

Text type: Fiction, realistic narrative, humorous short story

 

Key words include: carbon footprint, character development, climate action, competition, critical thinking, dialogue, energy use, environment, environmental responsibility, environmentalism, family, family relationships, humour, maths, maths integration, measurement of time, narrative text, personal responsibility, realistic fiction, relationships, sustainability, tallying data, water conservation