Reading Comprehension
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This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Preparator’ asks students to answer questions about Amy Davidson, an American preparator. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.

Editing and Revising
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This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Scientific Experiment ‘ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.

Content Area Reading
No. of pages: 5

This content area reading activity, ‘A Toothpaste That Repairs Cavities’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to recognise prefixes and suffixes and to understand the nature of a summary.

Text Type and Structure
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This text type and structure exemplar ‘Chicken Feathers’ helps students to identify the structure and genre of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the sample text, identifying whether this story is an example of the narrative or everyday genre.

South African History
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This history article, ‘Christiaan Barnard’ features the South African surgeon who was the first person in the world to perform a human heart transplant. It provides factual information about Christiaan Barnard and heart transplants, along with a glossary of unfamiliar words and terms from the text. It is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical …More

Birds
No. of pages: 1

This article, ‘All About Birds: How Do Birds Fly?’, explains how birds fly. It provides factual information and includes colourful and engaging illustrations.

Writing Traits
No. of pages: 5

This Writing Traits activity ‘Clustering’ encourages students to gather ideas and thoughts about a topic.

Writing Prompt
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This writing prompt, ‘In the Name of Science’ helps students to write about whether they are for or against animal testing. It encourages students to think about animal rights and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.

Irish History
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This history article, ‘John Tyndall’ features the Irish physicist who explained why the sky is blue, the greenhouse effect, invented the fire-fighter’s respirator and proved light could be bent, which paved the way for fibre optics. It provides factual information about the life of John Tyndall and his achievements, along with a glossary of unfamiliar …More

Environmental Science
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This environmental science worksheet, ‘Make a Windmill’ supports students to follow the instructions to make their own windmill. It supports an understanding of science in daily life.

Content Area Reading
No. of pages: 9

This content area reading activity, ‘Making Dull Pennies Shine’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to follow the procedural steps of an experiment.

Content Area Reading
No. of pages: 7

This content area reading activity, ‘No Bones about It’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to learn about and practise predicting when reading.

Writing Traits
No. of pages: 5

This Writing Traits activity ‘Organisational Outlines’ encourages students to use outlines to organise ideas for the body of their composition.

Content Area Reading
No. of pages: 2

This graphic organiser, ‘Past, Present, & Future’ helps students to arrange events related to time including what might occur in the future.

Content Area Reading
No. of pages: 3

This graphic organiser, ‘Picture Perfect Sounds’ provides students with a visual tool to identify items that produce sounds through vibrations.

Content Area Reading
No. of pages: 5

This content area reading activity, ‘The Eyes Have It’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to recognise the use of lists as a reading device.

Conservation and the Environment
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This maths activity uses real-world data to engage students in discussions and observations about the importance of pollination in food production in Australia. The activity begins with some question prompts for teachers to engage students’ existing knowledge about pollination and how bees contribute to pollination. Students are then provided with a table listing crops and …More

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