This oral language activity, ‘Our Voices: Reference Chart’ supports language development by encouraging students to learn appropriate voice volume in different school situations. A reference chart provides prompts showing different voice levels required for different school situations.
This Readers Theatre activity, “Celebrate Diversity” encourages students to compare and contrast historical story events and themes with their knowledge of the present day. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Plant Life’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This oral language activity, ‘Presentation Checklist’ informs teaching by recording students’ development as they make oral presentations.
This oral language activity, ‘Presentation Checklist’ informs teaching by recording students’ development as they make oral presentations.
This oral language activity, ‘Presentation Checklist’ informs teaching by recording students’ development as they make oral presentations.
This graphic organiser, ‘Presentation Time’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to present their published writing to the class.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Protect the Pond’ encourages students to identify and assess problems or concerns and propose solutions. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Pumpkins’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to understand and respond to new information. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reading Aloud’ helps students to organise their thoughts before performing as a class, concentrating on correct expression and changes in voice.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reading Aloud for the Eensy Weensy Spider’ asks students to determine the type of voice and facial expressions that should be used for The Eensy Weensy Spider, then perform the song using their chosen voice, facial expressions and word emphasis.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reading Together’ helps students to build fluency by performing a choral reading as a group.
This phonics activity, ‘Rhyming Word Families’ encourages students to say each pair of words and then find the word that belongs with them.
This phonics activity, ‘Rhyming Word Families’ encourages students to say each pair of words and then find the word that belongs with them.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Rosa Parks: An American Hero’ encourages students to relate new information from the text to prior knowledge and personal experience. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This phonics activity, ‘Same Sound’ encourages students to say each word pair and decide if the vowel sound is the same in both words.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘San Francisco Cable Cars’ encourages students to understand structural patterns or organisation in informational texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘ Saving the Red-Eyed Tree Frog’ encourages students understanding the main idea and to find supporting details in the text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This phonics activity, ‘Short Vowels’ encourages students to say the word for each picture and find the matching word below.
This oral language activity, ‘Social Conventions’ supports language development by encouraging students to develop their awareness of the different ways they use language in everyday social situations and interactions, such as at home, with friends, with grandparents, in a community or sports group or with a teacher.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Space Exploration’ 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, ‘Speaking Notes’ supports language development by encouraging students to make and present an oral presentation. A cue card provided has space for students to record their topic and cues for speaking.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Springtime’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take One’ allows students to make predictions, explain the meaning of a text and summarise as they read aloud.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take One for the Pigeon’ asks students to participate in a think-aloud using the story, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! to demonstrate their comprehension of the texts.
This oral language activity, ‘Talking Cards’ supports language development by encouraging students to use prompts to practice good speaking and listening skills in a class discussion. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of discussion skills.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Alaskan Wilderness’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information given in the text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Assembly Line’ 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, ‘The Charreada’ 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, ‘The Dust Bowl’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Invention Convention’ encourages students to write a plan for creating an invention. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Key to Fluency’ allows each student to organise their thoughts about a book, evaluate the book and then promote it to their classmates through a book talk.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Key to Fluency for Olivia’ asks students to evaluate the book Olivia by Ian Falconer, then use the information to give a book talk to try to convince others to read it.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Mountain Lion’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Mudpuppy’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, “The Nez Perce and the Appaloosas” encourages students to determine whether statements in a story are facts or opinions. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Radio Show that Frightened Thousands’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to understand and respond to new information. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Rhyming Author’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to understand and respond to new information. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Story of Basketball’ encourages students to develop an understanding of structural patterns or organisation in informational texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Way We Get Around’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Thoughts on Fluency’ gives students the opportunity to create original pictures based on literature to demonstrate their comprehension of the text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Thoughts on Fluency for A Closet Full of Shoes’ asks students to draw images after hearing a read aloud of the poem A Closet Full of Shoes, taken from the book A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein.
This oral language activity, ‘Turn Taking’ supports language development by encouraging students to understand some of the conventions of taking turns in classroom discussions and other exchanges. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of turn-taking through wall chart prompts.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using Full Stops, Question Marks and Exclamation Marks’ encourages students to use the appropriate punctuation mark at the end of a sentence.
This phonics activity ‘Vowel Sound ‘ar” encourages students to say each pair of words and select the word with the matching vowel sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘aw’/’or’/’oar” encourages students to choose the word with ‘aw’, ‘or’ or ‘oar’ to Finish the sentence and then say the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘aw’/’or’/’oar” encourages students to read each sentence and find the missing ‘aw’/’or’/’oar’ word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘ow’/’ou” encourages students to read each sentence, say the word and choose one with the same vowel sound and spelling.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sounds for ‘ea” encourages students to read each sentence, find the missing ‘ea’ word and then say it.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowels’ encourages students to say the name of the picture, sound out the word and choose the vowel to complete the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowels’ encourages students to say each word and then find the rhyming word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowels’ encourages students to say the name of the picture, sound out the word and choose the vowel to complete the word.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘ We Are Family’ encourages students to learn about setting, main characters, events and sequence in stories. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘What’s The Weather?’ encourages students to use mental images, stimulated by words to aid in the comprehension of text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Where Did the Dinosaurs Go?’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This phonics activity, ‘Which Ending?’ encourages students to say each word and choose the letter that makes the end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Which Ending?’ encourages students to say each word and choose the letter that makes the end sound.
This oral language activity, ‘Who’s Talking?’ supports language development by encouraging students to compare and contrast different roles and ways of interacting. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of social interactions.
This phonics activity, ‘Word Endings’ encourages students to say the word and find the matching picture.
This phonics activity, ‘Words That Rhyme’ encourages students to say the name of each picture and find the picture of the word that rhymes.
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