This phonics activity, ‘Ending Sounds Letter’ encourages students to say each word and find the letter/s that make the ending sound.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Even Bananas Take Trips!’ encourages students to summarise information in the script and retell it in their own words. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Every Family Has a History’ encourages students to learn about setting, characters, events and sequence in stories. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This oral language activity, ‘Explaining How’ supports language development by encouraging students to present an oral explanation. A cue card provided has space for students to record their topic and cues for speaking.
This graphic organiser, ‘Face to Face’ helps students develop fluency as they use expression in their reading and understand the importance of using expression when performing for an audience.
This graphic organiser, ‘Face to Face for Hattie and the Fox’ asks students to identify the different types of expressions that should be used for Hattie and the Fox, then perform parts of the story using the appropriate expressions.
This phonics activity, ‘Final Consonant Diagraph ‘ch” encourages students to say each word and choose the word with the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Final Consonant Diagraph ‘sh” encourages students to say each word and choose the word with the matching ‘sh’ sound at the end.
This graphic organiser, ‘Fluent vs. Non-fluent’ asks students to compare and contrast fluent reading and non-fluent reading.
This graphic organiser, ‘Fluent vs. Non-fluent for The Owl and the Pussycat’ asks students to listen to and evaluate a passage from The Owl and the Pussycat read both fluently and non-fluently.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Fossils’ encourages students to summarise information from the script and retell it in their own words. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Frogs’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Goldie and the Three Bears’ encourages students to understand similarities and differences within and among literary works from various genre and cultures. It also builds on reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This oral language activity, ‘Good Listener, Good Speaker’ supports language development by encouraging students to understand some conventions for listening and speaking. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of appropriate classroom interactions through wall chart prompts.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Grace’s Family Story’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Helping Monkeys’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘History of Aeroplanes’ encourages students to summarise information in the script and retell it in their own words. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘How Did They Do it?’ encourages students to determine problems and solutions located in the content of a script. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This written language activity, ‘How We Communicate’ supports language development by encouraging students to recognise that there can be many cultures and languages in one country, and many ways to communicate, including through spoken or written words.
This graphic organiser, ‘I Need a Voice’ ask students to identify the correct tone of voice needed to read a piece of literature.
This graphic organiser, ‘I Need a Voice for News’ asks students to identify the correct tone of voice that should be used when reading sentences found in different news articles.
This phonics activity, ‘Identify the Beginning Sounds’ encourages students to say the word for each picture and find the word below.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Consonant Blends’ encourages students to say each word and choose the correct beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Consonant Blends’ encourages students to say each word and choose the correct beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Consonant Blends Beginning Sound’ encourages students to say each sound and select the word with the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Consonant Blends Initial Sound’ encourages students to say the initial sounds and choose the word to complete the sentence.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Consonant Blends Pictures’ encourages students to say each consonant blend, look at each picture and find the word to match.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Consonant Blends Pictures’ encourages students to look at the picture, say each sound and find the word to match.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Consonant Blends Sentences’ encourages students to say the initial sound and choose the word to complete the sentence.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Sounds A to L’ encourages students to say each sound and find the picture and word that begin with that sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Sounds A to L’ encourages students to say each sound and find the picture that begins with the same sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Sounds M to Y’ encourages students to say each sound and find the picture and word that begin with that sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Sounds Match’ encourages students to say each word and match it to a word that has the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Sounds Match’ encourages students to say the name of each picture and find the word that starts with the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Sounds Match’ encourages students to say the name of each picture and find the word that starts with the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Sounds Names’ encourages students to say each name and find the letter/s of the beginning sound of the name.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Sounds Names’ encourages students to say each name and find the letter/s of the beginning sound of the name.
This phonics activity, ‘Initial Sounds Pictures’ encourages students to say the picture name and find the picture that starts with the same sound.
This oral language activity, ‘Interactions Guide’ supports language development by encouraging students to learn to participate in more formal, focused discussions. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of interactions by providing students with helpful prompts.
This graphic organiser, ‘It’s in the Cards’ asks students to evaluate fluent readers and non-fluent readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Jackie Robinson’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Just Say It’ helps students to develop fluency as they use expression in their readings.
This graphic organiser, ‘Just Say It for Diary of a Worm’ asks students to sort sentences from Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin into the correct expression categories, then write original sentences and practise reading their sentences with the correct expression.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Learn About Ducks’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This oral language activity, ‘Listener’s Guide’ supports language development by encouraging students to develop good listening skills in a classroom setting. Students will listen to a presentation or speech and provide feedback based on prompt cards.
This phonics activity, ‘Long Vowels’ encourages students to say the word for each picture and find the matching word in the box below.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Final Diagraphs’ encourages students to say each word and choose the word with the same ending sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Initial Diagraphs’ encourages students to say each word and choose the word with the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Vowel Sounds’ encourages students to say each pair of words and find the word with the same vowel sound and spelling.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Vowel Sounds ‘ee’ and ‘ea” encourages students to say the word and choose the sound to complete the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Middle Sounds’ encourages students to say each pair of words and find the word with the same middle sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Vowel Sounds ‘oo’ and ‘ou” encourages students to read and say the word’ then choose the sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Letters’ encourages students to say the name of the picture and choose the missing letter to make the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Letters’ encourages students to say the name of the picture and choose the missing letter to make the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Words with the ‘ow’/ ‘ou’ Sound’ encourages students to choose the correct word to complete the sentence and say the word.
This oral language activity, ‘Observing Formal Interactions’ informs teaching of students’ oral interactions in more formal speaking situations. The results can be used to make a list of teaching points to be addressed over time.
This oral language activity, ‘Observing Informal Interactions’ informs teaching of students’ oral interactions during informal situations.
This oral language activity, ‘Observing Interactions’ informs teaching of students’ oral interactions over four separate periods.
This oral language activity, ‘Observing Student Interactions’ informs teaching by monitoring and recording changes in students’ oral interactions at four points in time.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Opposites Attract’ encourages students to use clues, such as the title and topic, to aid comprehension and make predictions about content. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
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