This analysing text worksheet ‘A Paiute Princess’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. 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 …More
This predicting text worksheet ‘A Presidential Odyssey’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt. 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 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 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
This analysing text worksheet ‘Dolley Madison’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about this US first lady. 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Early Women Drivers Who Dared to Be Different’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the first women to drive from coast-to-coast across America. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Ellis Island’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about this historic place. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and to clarify their meaning, as well as draw conclusions and form opinions about the text as a whole in order …More
This Readers Theatre activity, “Ellis Island” encourages students to organize information into logical and sequential order. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Fair Laws for All!’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about US immigration laws. 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Honour Our Earliest People’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about creating a new public 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘John Muir’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the famous naturalist. 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 author’s purpose exemplar ‘Labor Day’ shows students how to identify the author’s purpose for writing this passage. It encourages students to look critically at the text in order to ascertain whether the author wrote it to inform, persuade, teach or entertain the reader.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Mount St Helen Volcanic Eruption’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about this disaster. 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 …More
In the text, ‘Moving West to Oregon’ fictional journal entries recount the journey of a settler family on their way to a new life. The entries include a copy of a letter. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This analysing text worksheet ‘National Parks’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the history of American national parks. 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Navajo Culture Offers a Code’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about American Indian marines 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 look …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Hurricane of 1900’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the deadliest hurricane in US history. 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Relocation of Japanese Americans’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the mistreatment-treatment of Japanese Americans during 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, …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The True Story of Sacajawea’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about an important American Indian woman. 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 …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘War Times’ shows students questions to ask and steps to follow to form decisions about a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose, then put this together with what they already know about a topic as well as …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Women Air Force Service Pilots’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the first women to fly in the US military. 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 …More
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