This Writing Traits activity, ‘Paragraphing’ encourages students to organise information into different categories (paragraphs).
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Adjectives’ encourages students to read and write sentences containing adjectives.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Adverbial Phrases’ encourages students to read and write sentences containing adverbial phrases.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Nouns’ encourages students to read, identify, and classify nouns used in a sentence.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Pronouns’ encourages students to identify and use pronouns in a sentence.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Verbs’ encourages students to identify the verb in a sentence.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Peer Tutor’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text and predict its outcome. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask questions and use their personal experience, along with clues provided in the story to guess subsequent details and write the end of the story in the …More
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Persuasive Writing’ encourages students to identify a problem and provide supporting evidence.
This graphic organiser, ‘Prairie Sandwich’ asks students to place sentences from the book Little House on the Prairie into sequential order.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Proofreading Writing’ encourages students to proofread a piece of text for spelling and punctuation errors.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Rabbit Run’, features a fable about a young rabbit who does not listen to his mother’s advice. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about vocabulary, making an inference, reasoning, conclusion, sequence, predicting outcome, and genre. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Rain, Rain, Come This Way!’ asks students to do an experiment that creates water droplets, then answer comprehension questions about the text. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in an informative and instructional text in order to ascertain …More
This understanding text activity, ‘Reading Between the Lines’ asks students to read between the lines. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and extrapolation of information.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Rhyming Words’ encourages students to identify and use rhyming words.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Secrets’, features a narrative text about two boys fascinated by a deserted house. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about setting, validity, cause and effect, making a judgment, detail, drawing a conclusion, character, fact/opinion, mood/tone, literary device, and genre. Answer sheet …More
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Sentence Structure: Problems & Solutions’ encourages students to identify a problem and suggest a solution.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Sentence Structures’ encourages students to write a paragraph using a variety of sentence structures.
This text type reference worksheet, ‘Short Stories’ explains to students the elements of short stories, such as the setting, plot and characters. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics, literary elements, text conventions and text organisation.
This writing text reference worksheet, ‘Similes and Metaphors’ provides students with an explanation of how to identify similes and metaphors. It gives students an easy way to tell similes and metaphors apart.
This writing text reference worksheet, ‘Similes and Metaphors’ provides students with an explanation of how to identify similes and metaphors. It gives students an easy way to tell similes and metaphors apart.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Simple and Compound Sentences’ encourages students to read and write simple and compound sentences.
This analysing text worksheet ‘So Many Things Worth Keeping’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a family holiday. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘So Many Things Worth Keeping’, features a narrative about a family’s visit to Colorado and their new appreciation for protecting the environment. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, making a judgment, detail, emotional reaction, paraphrasing, reasoning, sequence, comparison/contrast, cause …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘So You Want a Fish’, features a narrative text about some goldfish that grow surprisingly big and need to be transferred to a very large tank. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making an inference, sequence, figurative language, drawing a …More
This writing text reference worksheet, ‘Special Type’ explains to students why an author uses special type, such as italics, boldface and capital letters, for emphasis. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of different text conventions.
This writing text reference worksheet, Special Type’ provides students with an explanation as to why an author uses special type, such as italics, boldface and capital letters, for emphasis.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Spelling: Find the Mistakes’ encourages students to proofread text to find and correct spelling errors.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Staying Cool’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a very hot day. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to examine how a text is …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Steps to Becoming an Inventor’, features a procedural text about the process of inventing something. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, reasoning, making an inference, figurative language, questioning, and detail. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Supporting Sentences: Identifying Main Ideas’ encourages students to identify the main idea in a paragraph.
This reading activity, ‘Synonyms’ provides opportunities for practice with choosing synonyms to replace words within the paragraph.
This understanding text worksheet ‘The Baby-sitter’ supports students to predict the outcome of a narrative text about a girl who is baby-sitting during a scary storm. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask questions and use their personal experience, along with clues provided in the story to guess what will happen next and consider …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a poem. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in a literary text in order to ascertain the meaning and usage of individual words and phrases.
This analysing text worksheet ‘The BIG Switch’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about giant pet goldfish. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose and to recall specific details from the text, as well as draw conclusions …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Brand New Excelsior’, features an advertisement for a futuristic motor car. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about reasoning, making a judgment, drawing a conclusion, fact/opinion, detail, author’s purpose, genre, and categorising. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This text elements exemplar ‘The Frogs and the Well’ shows students how to identify the story’s central idea and supporting details. It is aimed at introducing students to the principles of deconstructing texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Giving Tree’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in a factual text in order to ascertain the meaning of individual words and phrases.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Indy 500’, features a narrative text about a boy watching the famous car race held each year in Indianapolis, Indiana. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about detail, fact/opinion, validity, vocabulary, reasoning, character, genre, and drawing a conclusion. Answer sheet …More
This worksheet, ‘The Irish Jubilee’ is a great resource that provides the lyrics to the traditional Irish song, ‘The Irish Jubilee’ so that students can sing along. As well as the completed lyrics, students are also given a copy of the lyrics with blanks for them to use their imaginations to fill out their own …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Killer Storm’, features an informational text about a storm that devastated Galveston, Texas, in 1900. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, cause and effect, detail, mood/tone, drawing a conclusion, fact/opinion, drawing a conclusion, and reasoning. Answer …More
This extrapolation of information worksheet ‘The King’s Apples’ supports students to use various strategies to understand the explicit and implicit meaning of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify the directly stated meaning of the text as well as the lesson learned from the story to come up with it’s non-directly …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Making of a Hero’, features a narrative about classmates who learn about teamwork when their teachers introduce a problem-solving approach to selecting players. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about figurative language, validity, fact/opinion, detail, cause and effect, drawing a …More
This meaning in text reference worksheet, ‘The Meaning of Words’ is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at words in order to make an educated guess at their meaning in context.
This text elements exemplar ‘The Miser and His Gold’ shows students how to identify the story’s central idea and supporting details. It is aimed at introducing students to the principles of deconstructing texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘The Most Dangerous Beast’, features a light-hearted poem about diseases spread by animals, such as Mad Cow Disease, West Nile Disease, Monkeypox, and Lyme Disease. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about interpretive language, author’s purpose, drawing a conclusion, and making a …More
This extrapolation of information exemplar ‘The Skating Accident’ shows students how to find the implicit and explicit meaning of a narrative text. It encourages students to ask questions to find the directly stated meaning of the story, then to find the deeper, not-directly stated meaning of the story.
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Storm that Claimed Our House’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Thrill of the Catch’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about fishing in the Galapagos Islands. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and clarify their meaning, to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning …More
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Theme: Describing an Alien’ supports students in learning to organise ideas and consider word choice in their writing.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Transitional Words’ encourages students to identify and use transitional words in sentences.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using Alliteration’ encourages students to write a sentence using alliteration.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using Assonance’ encourages students to read and identify words in a sentence that have the same vowel sounds.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using Capital Letters’ encourages students to read, identify, and explain why certain words need to be capitalised.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using Full Stops, Question Marks and Exclamation Marks’ encourages students to use the appropriate punctuation mark at the end of a sentence.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using Singular and Plural Verbs’ encourages students to read and write sentences with subject-verb agreement.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Vocabulary: Interesting Words’ encourages students to identify and choose words in their writing that evoke visual imagery.
This predicting text exemplar ‘Walking to School, Going to the Fair’ shows students how to predict the outcome of two narratives. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask questions and use their personal experience, along with clues provided in each story to guess what will happen next.
This understanding text reference worksheet, ‘What Is the Main Idea?’ explains to students about the central idea or theme and supporting details. It is aimed at introducing students to the principals of deconstructing texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose.
This understanding text activity, ‘What Is the Theme and Central Idea?’ explains to students about themes and central ideas. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics.
This understanding text activity, ‘What Is the Theme?’ explains to students about the theme of a passage. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics.
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