This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Story of Doctor Dolittle Part I’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which Doctor Dolittle learns to speak the language of the animals. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and make predictions.
This graphic organiser, ‘The True Story of the Three Little Pigs’ supports students to identify character, setting and plot structure in ‘The True Story of the Three Little Pigs’.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Turtle Story’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Twin Brothers’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which some toys in the nursery become Real. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ asks students to answer questions about a story that features the antics of Badger, Rat, Mole and Toad. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Part I’ asks students to answer questions about the adventures of Dorothy and her dog Toto. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Part II’ asks students to answer questions about the adventures of Dorothy, her dog Toto and friends. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions and draw conclusions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Triple Venn Diagram for Three Pigs’ asks students to compare and contrast three versions of The Three Little Pigs and identify the similarities and differences.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Vulcan and His Inventions’ asks students to answer questions about a tale of the disabled god Vulcan. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This graphic organiser, ‘We Are Family for Dr Seuss’ asks students to find word families in the book Green Eggs and Ham and other books by Dr Seuss.
This graphic organiser, ‘Why That Ending? for Wild Things’ asks students to evaluate the plot and the ending of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and create new endings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Why the Opossum’s Tail Is Bare Part I’ asks students to answer questions about a Native American Cherokee tale. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings and figurative language.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Why the Opossum’s Tail Is Bare Part II’ asks students to answer questions about a Native American Cherokee tale. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.