Course: Support Worker Resources, Tile: 20: In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story

20: In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story

20: In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story

N.B. This book should only be used with children whose parents have a service-related injury, medical condition and/or mental health condition. Please pre-read the book before you read it with children.
- Sam's story: In sickness and in health (read-along printable version)
  
  This version will be fine for your own photocopier printing, however, a higher quality file is being used by the commercial printer.
- Link to the bookshop
  All eBooks, downloadable (printable) versions of the book, and educational materials are free. You can also order a commercial, professionally printed:
  A4 tough book (wire coil bound - slightly smaller than an A4),
  A5 tough book (wire coil bound - half the size of an A4),
  A3 Big Book paperback for teaching groups of children (wire coil bound - twice the size of A4), and
  hard card stock Educational Activities pack (looseleaf).
  You are not paying for author royalties, illustrators, graphic designers or technicians. You are paying for a commercial printery (Fuji Xerox Australia) to do on-demand printing, a commercial bookstore (UNE Life Campus Books) to process and pack the online order, Australia Post, a $2 donation to Legacy Australia, and $2-3 for the ECDP project to host their website and continue to provide revisions and updates to the materials, and new resources. The postage and handling is a $14 flat fee for as many books and teaching materials as you like via regular post (so, think about ordering with friends, your organisation, your early childhood service or school). Express Post and International Postage is calculated by weight. Once you click on the link, you can search for the books by typing 'Defence' into the search bar, or the name of the particular book you are after.
- Read-along versions
  Audio
- Audio read-along version of 'In sickness and in health'
- Zuo is the audio reader for this story. He was born and grew up in mainland China. He attended school in a regional town and then attended university in another city. He worked in China for a few years before coming to Australia. Zuo’s first language is Mandarin. You can learn to say ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ in Mandarin by listening to a recording of Zuo below.
- Learn to say 'hello' in Mandarin (你好 nǐ hǎo)
- Learn to say 'goodbye' in Mandarin (再见再见 zàijiàn)
- Video
- Video read-along version of 'In sickness and in health: Sam's story'
- Somayeh ba Akhlagh is the video reader for this story. She is from a regional city in the north-east of Iran. She was educated in school and university in Iran and then moved to Australia in 2007 for post-graduate study in early childhood education. Somayeh worked as an early childhood educator in Iran and NSW and worked with pre-service educators in TAFE and a university before joining the early childhood team at UNE. Somayeh's first language is Farsi which is the official language of Iran. You can learn how to say 'hello' and 'goodbye' in Farsi below.
- Learn to say 'hello' in Farsi (salam)
- Learn to say 'goodbye' in Farsi (khoda hafez)
- Time for music - bells used in this audio read-along
- Mapping activity - Sam's Story
- Educational Activities - In Sickness and in Health
- eBook version of 'In Sickness and in Health: Sam's story'
  
  N.B. The interactives DO NOT work on phones. They are for iPads, tablets, PCs and Macs.
  Before you use interactives with children, please make sure they:
  1. know the story really well (at least read the book 4 times)
  2. explore the interactives 5-10 pages at a time to deepen their understanding of specific ideas in the book.
  For more information on why this is important, please view this video.
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