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 set of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears B&W’ role-play masks is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate …More
This reading activity, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears Part 1’ provides opportunities for reading about Goldilocks and the Three Bears and answering comprehension questions.
This reading activity, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears Part 2’ provides opportunities for reading more about Goldilocks and the Three Bears and answering comprehension questions.
This writing prompt, ‘Good News, Bad News’ helps students to write about the best news they have ever received. It encourages students to think about good news and bad news and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Goose Bumps’ helps students to write about how they felt when they last got goose bumps. It encourages students to think about the body’s physical reaction to fear and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
The classic nursery rhyme ‘Goosey Goosey Gander’ is presented with illustrations ready for projection or printing. It provides a simple and engaging introduction to following rhythm and rhyme whilst simultaneously encouraging group cooperation and interaction. Accompanying sheet music is available for each item in this collection of classic nursery rhymes.
This role-play mask ‘Gorilla’ is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the mask into other speaking activities. It …More
This role-play mask ‘Gorilla B&W’ is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the mask into other speaking activities. …More
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Got a Lemon?’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about how they can turn a bad experience into something good and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This set of flashcards, ‘GR Blend’ supports recognition of sound patterns in words containing ‘gr’. Repetition with using word families will support children in the development of their reading, vocabulary and word association. Students will learn to identify the common sounds, patterns and letter combinations within each word family. Browse over 200+ Lesson Zone visual …More
This set of flashcards, ‘GR Blend’ supports recognition of sound patterns in words containing ‘gr’. Repetition with using word families will support children in the development of their reading, vocabulary and word association. Students will learn to identify the common sounds, patterns and letter combinations within each word family. Browse over 200+ Lesson Zone visual …More
This set of flashcards, ‘GR Blend’ supports recognition of sound patterns in words containing ‘gr’. Repetition with using word families will support children in the development of their reading, vocabulary and word association. Students will learn to identify the common sounds, patterns and letter combinations within each word family. Browse over 200+ Lesson Zone visual …More
This set of flashcards, ‘GR Blend’ supports recognition of sound patterns in words containing ‘gr’. Repetition with using word families will support children in the development of their reading, vocabulary and word association. Students will learn to identify the common sounds, patterns and letter combinations within each word family. Browse over 200+ Lesson Zone visual …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Gr-r-r-eat News About Tigers’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to read a story and answer comprehension questions about the tigers in Africa.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Gr-r-r-eat News About Tigers’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about tigers in Africa.
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 text type and structure exemplar ‘Grand Stumbles’ helps students to identify the structure and genre of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the sample text, identifying whether this story is an example of the narrative or everyday genre.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Grandma’s Parents’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about a boy’s grandmother discussing how her mother would wait for her father to return from sea. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalisation errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Graphic Features,’ helps students understand the purpose of graphic features in texts. It has students work together to determine the graphic features in the text and then think about how these graphic features contribute to the text.
This writing organiser ‘Graphics’ supports students to plan for the graphics that will support their writing.
This writing organiser ‘Graphics’ supports students to plan for making diagrams to support their writing.
This learning activity ‘Graphing Our Names’ uses simple graphing concepts to record and analyse the lengths of students’ first and last names. This resource features record cards, formatted as 4 per page, to be cut out, distributed to students and filled in with the number of letters in their first and last name. The whole …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Graphite’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This role-play mask ‘Grasshopper B&W’ is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the mask into other speaking activities. …More
This article, ‘All About Animal Homes: Grasslands’, describes different animals that live in grasslands. It provides factual information about these animals and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Great American Buffalo’ asks students to answer questions about bison. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Great Ball of Fire!’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the Sun and solar power.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Great Ball of Fire!’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about weather predictions and the Sun.
This article, ‘Great Inventions’, profiles some of the great inventions of our time. It provides factual information about these inventions and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Great Inventions’, profiles some of the great inventions of our time. It provides factual information about these inventions and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Great Inventions’, profiles some of the great inventions of our time. It provides factual information about these inventions and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Great Inventions’, profiles some of the great inventions of our time. It provides factual information about these inventions and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Great Minds Think Alike’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about two best friends. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Great Taste’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about taste buds. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to draw conclusions and make judgements.
This article, ‘Great White Shark’ provides information about the size, habitat, life cycle, diet and behaviour of the great white shark. It provides a detailed Fact File of statistics and also displays illustrations and photographs in full colour of the shark’s appearance and behaviour. Includes a map of migration.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Greek Female Slaves’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This role-play mask ‘Green Alien’ is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the mask into other speaking activities. …More
This role-play mask ‘Green Alien B&W’ is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the mask into other speaking …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Green Thumbs’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a neighbourhood project.
This graphic organiser, ‘Greetings to All’ supports students in developing their writing skills by brainstorming greetings and closings for friendly letter writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Greetings to My Secret Pal’ supports students in developing their writing skills by brainstorming greetings and closings for their secret pal letters.
This article, ‘Grey Nurse Shark’, provides information about this shark’s life cycle, habitat, diet, and behaviour. It provides a detailed Fact File of statistics and also displays illustrations and photographs in full colour with details of the shark’s appearance and characteristics.
This content area reading activity, ‘Grizzly Bears’ is a history based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to practise interpreting maps and other visuals to gain information.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Group Observations,’ has students working together to make observations about the text. It has students record their observations on a worksheet and then rate them in importance.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Grown Up’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about a young girl trying to decide on a career. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, and capitalisation errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop students’ accuracy …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Guidebook to Dogs’, features instructions for students to write a guidebook to dogs and includes visual prompts of the key commands and training topics to help students work out what they want to say. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Answer sheet provided with …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Gwendolyn’s New Goldfish; asks students to answer comprehension questions about a story in which a brother teaches his sister how to take care of goldfish. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and details from the narrative text and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘H – Match the Picture’ asks students to write words to match pictures that that start with the letter H. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of the alphabet, sound-letter relationships and word knowledge.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘H – Match the Word’ asks students to identify words and pictures that start with the letter H. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of the alphabet, sound-letter relationships and word knowledge.
This ‘Animal Alphabet: H: Hippo’ is an animal themed worksheet that provides opportunities for handwriting practice.
This short nonfiction text, ‘H: Harp’ features important factual background information about Ireland’s national symbol, the Celtic harp. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the symbols and icons associated with Irish culture and also features an activity for students to practise their handwriting.
This short nonfiction text, ‘H: Hippopotamus’ provides factual information about the Hippopotamus, exploring where they live, what they eat and other interesting facts.
This short nonfiction text ‘H: Home’ features important factual background information relating to some of the different styles of homes found in South Africa. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the various traditional dwellings associated with South African society and also features an activity for students to practise their handwriting.