Celebrate one of the most memorable characters from Colin Thiele’s classic with the Storm Boy Mr Percival Worksheets. This resource gives students the opportunity to reflect deeply on the life of Mr Percival, the pelican, while developing key narrative and comprehension skills.

The main task is for students to create a timeline of Mr Percival’s life, but with a twist - it must be written from the pelican’s own perspective. By writing in the first person, learners practise empathy, creative thinking, and voice, while also recalling important events from the story. Each stage of the timeline is supported by illustrations that students draw to visually represent the milestones of Mr Percival’s life.

This resource encourages students to move beyond basic recall into imaginative response, combining text evidence with personal interpretation. It makes an ideal follow-up to class reading or discussion, and the completed timelines can be displayed as part of a Storm Boy-themed classroom showcase.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Recall and sequence key events from Storm Boy
• ✅ Write creatively from a character’s perspective
• ✅ Develop narrative voice and empathy for characters
• ✅ Strengthen comprehension by connecting events to character experiences
• ✅ Combine written responses with illustrations for multimodal learning

What’s Included:

• Worksheet templates for creating a timeline of Mr Percival’s life
• Prompts for writing from Mr Percival’s perspective
• Space for student illustrations alongside each timeline event
• Clear layout to support sequencing and creativity

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheets
• Pencils, pens, and colouring tools
• Copies of Storm Boy for text reference

How to Use:

1. Read or revisit passages of Storm Boy that describe Mr Percival’s life and adventures.
2. Discuss key moments in his journey with the class.
3. Students record these events on their worksheet in the form of a timeline, writing from Mr Percival’s perspective.
4. Encourage learners to add illustrations to accompany each entry, showing how they visualise the events.
5. Display completed timelines or use them to spark class discussion about characterisation.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use as a follow-up comprehension task after reading key chapters
• 💡 Pair with a writing mini-lesson on perspective and point of view
• 💡 Display finished timelines as part of a Storm Boy classroom gallery
• 💡 Encourage oral presentations where students narrate Mr Percival’s life in character
• 💡 Use as assessment evidence for comprehension and creative writing

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Model one entry on the board to demonstrate writing from the pelican’s perspective
• 💛 Encourage students to include emotional responses as well as factual events
• 💛 Provide sentence starters for learners who need extra support with creative writing
• 💛 Extend advanced learners by asking them to compare Mr Percival’s perspective with Storm Boy’s

This resource is part of our Storm Boy Book Package.

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