This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Words’ helps students to build vocabulary as they learn the meaning of words and determine how each word relates to other words.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Words for Science Vocabulary’ helps students build science vocabulary by analysing the meaning of words.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Celebrate Diversity’ encourages students to relate story events, conflicts and themes to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Chain of Words’ helps students to learn the meaning of new vocabulary words by creating definitions that use only two words.
This written language activity, ‘Cohesive Links’ supports language development by encouraging students to explore the ways cohesion is maintained in texts, for example, by omitting or replacing words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of the use of general words, repetition, synonyms and antonyms as ways of creating cohesion.
This kids news activity, ‘First Human Colony Planned For Mars’ reports on an international project to establish a human settlement on Mars.
This vocabulary activity, ‘In Other Words’ supports language development by encouraging students to recognise that language contains words with similar meanings. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of synonyms through a fun matching activity.
This vocabulary activity, ‘In Other Words’ supports language development by encouraging students to recognise that language contains words with similar meanings. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of synonyms through a fun matching game, such as Snap.
This worksheet, ‘Personal Thesaurus’ provides students with a template to use as they create a personal word list.
This content area reading activity, ‘Shaky Ground’ is a history based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to practise looking for clues to the meanings of words by looking closely at their context.
This kids news activity, ‘Texters Studied In New Research’ reports on research into texting and ethical thinking.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Vocabulary: Interesting Words’ encourages students to identify and choose words in their writing that evoke visual imagery.
This graphic organiser, ‘Word Meanings In Context’ supports the teaching of vocabulary and comprehension by giving students a template for identifying multiple meanings of words.
This kids news activity, ‘Zebra Dung May Be New Fuel Source’ is about research into alternative sources of eco-friendly bio-fuels.
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