This Writing Traits activity, ‘Descriptive Language’ encourages students to identify and use descriptive language in a sentence.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Descriptive Writing’ encourages students to write a sentence using descriptive words.
This kids news activity, ‘Different Toys For Girls And Boys?’ reports on gender stereotyping in the marketing of toys.
This kids news activity, ‘Director James Cameron Goes To Earth’s Deepest Point’ is about Cameron’s solo dive, in a submarine, to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
This kids news activity, ‘Does Ancient Antarctic Lake Hold Secrets To Life In Outer Space?’ is about the discovery of a lake buried under the ice, that may hold clues to life on other planets .
This kids news activity, ‘Eating Like They Do In The Mediterranean Is Good For Your Heart’ reports on research suggesting a link between a Mediterranean diet and heart health.
This kids news activity, ‘ Egyptian Leader Backs Off On Strict Controls’ reports on the Arab Spring protests in Egypt and the leader Mohamed Morsi.
This kids news activity, ‘England’s Future Monarch Born In 2013’ reports on the media and public interest in the lead up to the birth of a new royal baby.
This kids news activity, ‘EU Donates Peace Prize Money To Children Affected By War’ is about the Nobel Peace Prize 2012, and the decision to give the funds to organisations helping children in war zones.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Evaluating Texts’ supports language development by encouraging students to evaluate different kinds of texts. Students will evaluate language features and author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Evaluating Texts’ supports language development by encouraging students to evaluate different kinds of texts. Students will evaluate text structure, language features and author purpose.
This written language activity, ‘Expanding Descriptions: Adding Nouns and Adjectives’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding descriptions by adding nouns and adjectives. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how adding nouns and adjectives makes a description more interesting and informative.
This written language activity, ‘Expanding Ideas with Verbs’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding ideas by using verbs and verb groups. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how changing a verb to a more interesting or explicit verb group can make their writing more expressive.
This Assessment Item, ‘Explanation Checklist’ can be used by students to self-assess their writing of explanations.
This graphic organiser, ‘Explanation Plan’ supports the teaching of writing by giving students a template for planning the features of an explanation.
This writing organiser ‘Explanations’ supports students to plan for writing a text that explains ‘how’ or ‘why’.
This writing organiser ‘Explanations’ supports students to plan for writing a text that explains ‘how’ or ‘why’.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Expository Writing’ encourages students to identify and write factual statements.
This writing text exemplar ‘Expository Writing Prompts’ shows students how to approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details and examples.
This quick reference chart ‘Expository Writing Prompts’ shows students how to best approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details and examples.
This written language activity, ‘Extending Sentences: Adding Phrases’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise adding words to make extended sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of adding phrases.
This written language activity, ‘Extending Sentences: Adding Subordinate Clauses’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise adding words to make extended sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of adding subordinate clauses.
This written language activity, ‘Extending Simple Sentences’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise adding words to make extended sentences. The focus is simple sentences.
This kids news activity, ‘Extreme Skydiver Breaks World Records With Dive From Near Space’ is about Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking high-altitude jump and his other daring feats.
This writing organiser ‘Fables’ supports students plan to plan for writing or retelling a fable.
This graphic organiser, ‘Family Memory Makers’ supports students in identifying the main idea from their family picture books.
This graphic organiser, ‘Family Puzzle Pieces’ supports students in developing their writing skills and structuring complete sentences about their families.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Feeling and Tone in Writing’ encourages students to identify a positive or negative feeling and tone in a paragraph.
This graphic organiser, ‘Finding the Treasure Step-by-Step’ asks students to record the sequence of steps for finding a treasure.
This kids news activity, ‘First Human Colony Planned For Mars’ reports on an international project to establish a human settlement on Mars.
This kids news activity, ‘Four Year Old Becomes Mayor Of Small Town’ is about a child selected to be mayor of a small US community.
This graphic organiser, ‘Friendly Letter’ helps students to prepare a friendly letter. It encourages students to think about a greeting and a closing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Friendly Letter Outline’ helps students to prepare a friendly letter. It encourages students to think about a greeting and a closing.
This writing organiser ‘Graphics’ supports students to plan for the graphics that will support their writing.
This writing organiser ‘Graphics’ supports students to plan for making diagrams to support their writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Greetings to All’ supports students in developing their writing skills by brainstorming greetings and closings for friendly letter writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Greetings to My Secret Pal’ supports students in developing their writing skills by brainstorming greetings and closings for their secret pal letters.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Guidebook to Dogs’, features instructions for students to write a guidebook to dogs and includes visual prompts of the key commands and training topics to help students work out what they want to say. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Answer sheet provided with …More
This kids news activity, ‘Hadfield Brings Space Life Down To Earth’ is about how technology and social media enable an astronaut to communicate from space.
This kids news activity, ‘How Reading The News Helped Craig Kielburger Change The World’ is about how a 12-year-old activist from Canada was inspired to start an international charity for children.
This worksheet ‘How to Write a Paragraph’ helps students succeed in paragraph writing. It encourages students to think about five helpful steps to ensure writing success.
This worksheet ‘How to Write an Essay’ provides students with helpful hints about how to write an essay. It encourages students to follow these hints to ensure writing success.
This kids news activity, ‘IBM Produces World’s Smallest Movie – Made Of Atoms’ is about a stop-motion film created on an atomic level.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Clustering’ encourages students to gather ideas and thoughts about a topic.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Clustering’ encourages students to generate, select, and organise ideas for a writing task.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Clustering’ encourages students to generate ideas with brainstorm clusters.
This graphic organiser, ‘Identifying a Chain of Events’ supports the teaching of reading and writing in science or other subjects by prompting students to identify events and their effects as they read and write.
This kids news activity, ‘Ikea Criticised For Airbrushing Women From Its Saudi Arabia Catalogue’ is about an incident where women were airbrushed from Ikea’s Saudi catalogue and the Swedish company’s apologetic response.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Imagery: Using Similes’ encourages students to use a simile in descriptive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘In a Nutshell’ provides students with the opportunity to evaluate their own writing and identify areas for improvement.
This graphic organiser, ‘In the Mail’ provides the opportunity for students to practise writing short letters and addresses.
This graphic organiser, ‘In the Mail to My Pen Pal’ provides the opportunity for students to practise writing short letters and addresses to their pen pals.
This written language activity, ‘Innovating on a Text’ supports language development by encouraging students to explore the structural and language features associated with different text types and purposes. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of text types such as narratives, comedies, tragedies and mysteries.
This writing organiser ‘Interviews’ supports students to plan for an interview as they gather information for writing.
This writing organiser ‘Interviews’ supports students to plan for an interview as they gather information for writing.
This kids news activity, ‘Introducing Ukes To Youths’ is about a Canadian program introducing school students to music through learning the ukulele .
This kids news activity, ‘Japanese Mom Builds Adorable Art Around Sleeping Infant’ is about a mother who photographed her baby in imagined dream scenes.
This writing organiser ‘Journals’ supports students to plan for keeping a journal for recording events and observations.
This graphic organiser, ‘Labelled Diagram’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for creating labelled diagrams.
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