This reading comprehension activity, ‘After the Spill’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a shipwreck near Alaska.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Aliens in Lake Victoria’, asks students to answer comprehension questions about plants that are growing in Lake Victoria in Africa.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Aliens in Lake Victoria’, asks students answer comprehension questions on a text about Lake Victoria.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Alike and Different,’ helps students compare and contrast two things. It is aimed at helping students see a visual representation of common elements.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘All About Bats’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This content area reading activity, ‘All About Magnets’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to understand the nature of a summary.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘All About Oceans’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to comprehend and respond to new information found in text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘All Students Respond,’ helps reinforce students’ knowledge of the parts of a book. It can be used for just a few minutes each day to practice using parts of a textbook for locating information.
This figurative language worksheet ‘Alliteration and Personification’ supports students to understand and use these figures of speech. It is aimed at introducing students to the principles of imagery and provides examples and space for students to practise using alliteration and personification to help make their writing more interesting and engaging.
This graphic organiser, ‘Alphabet Boxes’ helps students to establish letter/sound correspondence as they think of items that begin with a particular sound and link the two together.
This graphic organiser, ‘Alphabet Boxes for Alphabet Books’ helps students to establish letter/sound correspondence as they link images that begin with a particular sound to letters of the alphabet.
This content area reading activity, ‘Amazing Mars’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to practise retelling a story in their own words.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Amazon Alert!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Amazon Alert!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Biography: Abraham Lincoln’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘American History: The American Revolution’ encourages students to organise events in a story into sequential order using a timeline. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Great Depression’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘World War 2’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘An Ancestor Potluck’ encourages students to relate elements of a story, including events, characters, conflicts and themes, to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This analysing text worksheet ‘An Environmental Quandary’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a woman’s aversion to mice. 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 activity, ‘An Even Grander Old Flag’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on the history of the American anthem flag.
This analysing text worksheet ‘An Uneasy Move’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about moving overseas. 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 quick reference chart ‘Analogies’ shows students how to use this figure of speech to improve their writing. It is aimed at introducing students to the principles of comparing two pairs that have the same relationships to help students make their writing more interesting and includes an exercise for students to practise forming analogies.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Analogies’ shows students how to use this figure of speech to improve their writing. It is aimed at introducing students to the principles of comparing two pairs that have the same relationships to help students make their writing more interesting and includes an exercise for students to practise forming analogies.
This graphic organiser, ‘Analysing a Character’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to explore how and why a character changes over time in a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘Analysing Point of View’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to explore the points of view of characters in a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘Analysing Sentences’ supports the teaching of reading by prompting students to explore a range of sentence structures.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Analysing the Author,’ helps students determine the purpose for writing. It has students record text information that reveals the author’s purpose for writing and then react to the information.
This graphic organiser, ‘And the Beat Goes On’ allows students to phrase a text rather than reading it word-by-word to better understand the meaning of the text.
This graphic organiser, ‘And the Beat Goes On for Wright Brothers’ asks students to practise reading a text in phrases that are read with fluency, rather than word-by-word, to better understand the meaning of the text.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Animal Acts’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about circus animals. 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 and to look critically at words in order …More
This content area reading activity, ‘Animal Designations’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to interpret charts and draw conclusions from them.
This content area reading activity, ‘Animal Racers’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to interpret charts and draw conclusions from them.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Another Star on the Flag’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Puerto Rico and the United States.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Antarctic Shipwreck!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a shipwreck in Antarctica.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Antarctic Shipwreck!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a shipwreck in Antarctica.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Anticipation Guide,’ can be used to create tension between students’ prior knowledge and what they will learn from reading the text. It is aimed at helping students set a purpose for learning and kindling their interest in the topic.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Anticipation Guides,’ helps students set a purpose for reading. It is aimed at activating students’ prior knowledge about a topic, helping them set a purpose for learning and kindling their interest in the topic.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Anticipation Guides,’ features a list of statements pertaining to a particular topic in a piece of text students are going to read. It is aimed at activating students’ prior knowledge about a topic, helping them set a purpose for learning, and kindling their interest in the topic.
This graphic organiser, ‘Are Advertisements for Me?’ helps students to analyse an advertisement to determine the impact on their emotions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Around the World in 20 Days’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about flying around the world in a hot air balloon.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Dramatic Definitions,’ helps students express the relationship between a word and its synonyms through art. It has students find the definition of an unknown word and then draw an illustration of the word interacting with other ideas, people, places or things.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Ask the Writer,’ has students engage in an independent dialogue with the text. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them write questions as they think of them and then decide whether or not they were answered in the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Asking Questions’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise the comprehension strategy of asking questions and searching for answers as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Asking Questions’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to ask and record their questions as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Asking Questions’ supports the teaching of reading and writing skills by providing students with a template for asking questions and locating information.
This graphic organiser, ‘Asking Questions to Infer’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to record questions and infer meaning as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Assonance Express’ helps students to recognise that vowels with the same pattern have the same sound.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Attacking the Appendix,’ teaches students about the purpose and features of an appendix. It has students select topics from the appendix of a nonfiction book that match their purpose for reading.
This graphic organiser, ‘Attribute Chart’ supports students to evaluate characters in a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘Attributes of Miss Rumphius’ supports students to evaluate characters in the story ‘Miss Rumphius’.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Author and Me Analysis,’ helps students understand that they read for a variety of purposes and authors write for a variety of purposes. It has students record important information as they are reading and make connections to their purpose for reading and the author’s purpose for writing.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Author on Trial,’ helps students understand that there are often different ways to look at a concept. It has students evaluate a text to determine whether the author created a balanced opinion.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Author’s Meaning,’ helps students interpret the author’s meaning. It has students discuss information from the text that is implied but not directly stated and write two clues they used to make that inference.
This quick reference chart ‘Author’s Meaning’ shows students the possible different meanings of a text without context. It encourages students to use their personal experience and clues from tone and expression to guess the meaning of a sentence with little or no context.
This quick reference chart ‘Author’s Meaning’ shows students the possible different meanings of a text without context. It encourages students to use their personal experience and clues from tone and expression to guess the meaning of a paragraph with little or no context.
This quick reference chart ‘Author’s Meaning’ shows students the possible different meanings of a text without context. It encourages students to use their personal experience and clues from tone and expression to guess the meaning of a paragraph with little or no context.
This kids news activity, Baby Superb Fairy-Wren Sings For Its Supper’ is about a species of Australian bird using unique calls to keep their babies safe.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Back to the Moon!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about rocket scientists researching the Moon.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Baffling the Enemy’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the role of Native American code-talkers in WWII. 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 …More
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