This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Lucky Brake’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Larry Champagne, a school student who saved a bus from an accident.
This reading comprehension activity ‘A Million Butterflies’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a Jewish boy, Pavel, who wrote a poem during the Holocaust.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Movie About Me’ supports students in planning autobiographical writing using prewriting strategies.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Movie About My Firsts’ supports students in planning writing using prewriting strategies, writing about their first time doing things.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Native American Museum’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a new Native American museum in Washington, D.C.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A New Dinosaur Pair’ is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to read a story and answer comprehension questions on a text about dinosaur bones found in Utah.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A New Dinosaur Pair’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students answer comprehension questions on a text about a scientist discovering dinosaur bones.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘A Pair of Socks’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to draw pictures of selected pairs of homophones. It is aimed at helping students recognise homophones. It provides pairs of socks cards and a book page template.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Picture-Perfect Job’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Ryan Schick, a young photographer.
This reading comprehension activity ‘A Real Pain in the Neck’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the weight of students’ backpacks .
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Safety Net for Salmon’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about pacific salmon in the ocean.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘A Scavenger Hunt,’ develops students’ skills in sourcing and locating information from a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to activate their prior knowledge and make connections through a fun and engaging activity.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Shower of Toys’ provides students with the opportunity to create a word bank of adjectives about toys that could be used in descriptive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Shower of Words’ provides students with the opportunity to create a word bank of adjectives that could be used in descriptive writing.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Sixth Great Lake’, asks students to answer comprehension questions about the five Great Lakes in America.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Slice of the Pie’ supports students in planning writing using prewriting strategies to structure ideas for a friendly letter.
This reading comprehension activity ‘A Special Delivery’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about newborn platypuses.
This writing prompt, ‘A Special Gift’ helps students to write about the gift they would like to give someone if money were no object. It encourages students to think about an ideal gift and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, A Spooky Friend’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about bats.
This reading comprehension activity, A Spooky Friend’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about bats.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Star is Born’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to publish a biography and present it to the class.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Star is Born in the Classroom’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to publish a their peer biographies and present them to the class.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Storm of Symbols’ allows students to describe symbols and state their importance.
This reading comprehension activity ‘A Sweet Deal’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about soft drinks machines in schools.
This history article, ‘A Tale of Ned’s Head’ features Ned Kelly, a famous Australian criminal bushranger, and the theories surrounding the disappearance of his head after he was hanged in 1880. It provides factual information about the life of Ned Kelly, as well as a fun online game. It has a glossary of unfamiliar words …More
This photo essay, ‘All About Australian Animals: A to Z Australian Animals’, features different Australian animals in alphabetical order. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of Australian animals and features colourful and engaging photographs.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Treasure Hunt with Peers’ supports students in planning writing using brainstorming as a prewriting strategy.
This art project ‘A Unique Drawing Experience’ enables students to listen to instructions and to draw what they hear. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Variety of Pen Pal Letters’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, looking at different sentence types to ensure variety in their writing.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Very Cool Hotel’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a hotel made of ice in Sweden.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Very Cool Hotel’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about an ice hotel in Sweden.
This writing prompt, ‘A Visit to the Doctor’ helps students to write about a time when they visited a doctor. It encourages students to think about their health and the doctors who take care of them and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A War Against Land Mines’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about banning land mines.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Animal Information’ supports students in planning writing by brainstorming animals that could be used in informational writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Information’ supports students in planning writing through brainstorming topics for informational writing.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘AB or Not’ encourages students to identify, classify and name the elements of patterns using objects or sounds around them.
This maths template, ‘Abacus Place Value’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This graphic organiser, ‘ABC Brainstorming’ provides an alphabet grid that students can use to develop their vocabulary. Use this organiser before, during or after an activity or unit to brainstorm words and concepts starting with different letters of the alphabet. It can also be utilized during individual, pair or whole class tasks, especially whilst developing …More
This article, ‘All About Space: Aboriginal Star Gazing’, provides information about the history of Australian Aboriginal star gazing. It tells an Aboriginal myth about how the Moon first appeared in the sky.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘About How Many?’ allows for practice with estimation. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Accident Prone’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a school cross country race.
This history article, ‘Accidentally on Purpose’ features the misconceptions of early explorers and the accidental ‘rediscovery’ of Australia. It provides factual information about early exploration, complete with a glossary of unfamiliar words and terms from the text and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Accuracy of Estimates’ allows for practice recognising overestimates and underestimates. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Accuracy of Estimates’ allows for practice recognising the limitations of estimation. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This shape worksheet, ‘Accurate Areas’ asks students to practise finding the area of rectangles.
This units of measurement worksheet, ‘Accurate Measuring’ asks students to practise using units of measurement.
This maths activity, ‘Action Numbers’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to count numbers as they perform various actions. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of counting. It provides action cards and number cards.
This ‘Acts of Kindness!’ award is a certificate that can be reproduced for classroom use. It is formatted as either one full page award or two half page awards for printing convenience and can be laminated and distributed to students.
This ‘Acts of Kindness!’ award is a certificate that can be reproduced for classroom use. It is formatted as either one full page award or two half page awards for printing convenience and can be laminated and distributed to students.
This addition worksheet, ‘Add It Up!’ asks students to practise using the partitioning method of addition.
This maths activity, ‘Add One’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to add the number 1 to selected number cards. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of adding. It provides a 21 game mat, a 13 game mat and number cards.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Add the Missing Text Organiser,’ helps students understand the purpose and function of text organisers. It has students find places in a text where a text organiser would really help them to understand the text better.
This addition worksheet, ‘Add Them On’ asks students to practise adding and subtracting decimals.
This addition template, ‘Add Them On Template’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This addition and subtraction learning activity, ‘Adders and Ladders’ asks students to practise counting forwards and backwards.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Adding and Subtracting Decimals’ allows for practice with the process of adding and subtracting decimals. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Adding and Subtracting Fractions’ allows for practice with addition and subtraction of fractions. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This learning activity, ‘Adding Details’ supports students to revise and improve their writing by adding details.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Adding Numbers 1’ allows for practice with addition problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.