This writing task worksheet ‘HELP!’ helps students to practise creative writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the story’s characters, setting, beginning, middle and end in order to write the best possible composition. It includes space for students to plan their writing and a checklist to …More
This article, ‘Help! It’s a Jellyfish!’, provides information about jellyfish. It features interesting facts about thi venomous creature and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Helpful Tips for Camping Trips’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about camping, preparation and safety. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in an informative text in order to ascertain the meaning and usage of individual words and …More
This writing task worksheet ‘Helping A Sad Friend’ helps students to practise creative writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the story’s characters, setting, beginning, middle and end in order to write the best possible composition. It includes space for students to plan their writing and …More
This vocabulary activity, ‘Helping at Home’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to select the correct words to complete sentences.
This reading activity, ‘Helping at Home’ provides opportunities for practice with reading about the things you can do at home and answering the questions.
This article, ‘All About Birds: Helping Birds’, provides information about what we can do to help birds. It encourages students to participate in activities that will help to protect birds and is aimed at broadening their awareness of environmental issues.
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 reading comprehension activity, ‘Helping the Hungry One Glass at a Time’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a story in which a boy raises money by selling lemonade. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall the main idea and details from a narrative text.
This grammar activity, ‘Helping Verbs’ asks students to choose verbs to complete different sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of verbs and how a verb describes an action or a state of being.
This role-play mask ‘Hen’ 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 ‘Hen 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 editing and revising learning activity, ‘Henri Matisse’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tone, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Henry Bergh: Founder of the ASPCA’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about the founder of the American SPCA. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and form opinions.
This classic nursery rhyme ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ 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 begin to read card set ‘Hh’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the letter ‘h’.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Hiawatha’s Childhood’ asks students to answer questions about the legendary Native American. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about similes.
This article, ‘All About Animal Families: Hiding Families’, profiles different types of animal families that hide. It provides factual information about these animals and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This graphic organiser, ‘Hierarchy Chart’ is an upside-down tree diagram used to organise the flow of ideas into a top down format. For example, students can use this graphical scaffold to break down a broad concept into greater detail. The hierarchy chart is a great resource for post-reading comprehension activities or as a pre-writing prompt …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Hierarchy Chart’ is an upside-down tree diagram used to organise the flow of ideas into a top down format. For example, students can use this graphical scaffold to break down a broad concept into greater detail. The hierarchy chart is a great resource for post-reading comprehension activities or as a pre-writing prompt …More
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Higglety Pigglety Pop’ supports language development by encouraging students to create rhyming patterns to use in a nursery rhyme. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of rhyming. It provides a nursery rhyme chart and make-a-new-rhyme cards.
This article, ‘Wingsuits: High Adventure’, provides information about wingsuits. Experienced wingsuit flyers describe what it is like to participate in this extreme sport.
This Assessment Item, ‘High Frequency Words’ features a list of commonly used words arranged into three sets. It supports reading, writing and vocabulary development.
This set of flashcards, ‘High Frequency Words’ supports vocabulary development through recognition of high frequency words. High frequency words are quite simply words that most frequently occur in early encounters with reading and writing. Many high frequency words are difficult for children to sound out phonetically and must therefore be learnt by sight. Working with …More
This set of flashcards, ‘High Frequency Words’ supports vocabulary development through recognition of high frequency words. High frequency words are quite simply words that most frequently occur in early encounters with reading and writing. Many high frequency words are difficult for children to sound out phonetically and must therefore be learnt by sight. Working with …More
This set of flashcards, ‘High Frequency Words’ supports vocabulary development through recognition of high frequency words. High frequency words are quite simply words that most frequently occur in early encounters with reading and writing. Many high frequency words are difficult for children to sound out phonetically and must therefore be learnt by sight. Working with …More
This set of flashcards, ‘High Frequency Words’ supports vocabulary development through recognition of high frequency words. High frequency words are quite simply words that most frequently occur in early encounters with reading and writing. Many high frequency words are difficult for children to sound out phonetically and must therefore be learnt by sight. Working with …More
This set of flashcards, ‘High Frequency Words’ supports vocabulary development through recognition of high frequency words. High frequency words are quite simply words that most frequently occur in early encounters with reading and writing. Many high frequency words are difficult for children to sound out phonetically and must therefore be learnt by sight. Working with …More
This set of flashcards, ‘High Frequency Words’ supports vocabulary development through recognition of high frequency words. High frequency words are quite simply words that most frequently occur in early encounters with reading and writing. Many high frequency words are difficult for children to sound out phonetically and must therefore be learnt by sight. Working with …More
This set of flashcards, ‘High Frequency Words’ supports vocabulary development through recognition of high frequency words. High frequency words are quite simply words that most frequently occur in early encounters with reading and writing. Many high frequency words are difficult for children to sound out phonetically and must therefore be learnt by sight. Working with …More
This set of flashcards, ‘High Frequency Words’ supports vocabulary development through recognition of high frequency words. High frequency words are quite simply words that most frequently occur in early encounters with reading and writing. Many high frequency words are difficult for children to sound out phonetically and must therefore be learnt by sight. Working with …More
This Assessment Item, ‘High-Frequency Words Assessment’ can be used by teachers to record the words a student knows on sight, on three occasions.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Hiking and Camping’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about two boys preparing for a weekend in the mountains. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, and word choice errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop …More
This role-play mask ‘Hippo’ 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 ‘Hippo 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 subject area word list, ‘History and Geography 4′ features vocabulary commonly associated with topics in history and geography. Organised thematically and available in different levels of difficulty, this list is designed to broaden students’ subject-specific vocabulary and to aid language development.
This subject area word list, ‘History and Geography 5′ features vocabulary commonly associated with topics in history and geography. Organised thematically and available in different levels of difficulty, this list is designed to broaden students’ subject-specific vocabulary and to aid language development.
This subject area word list, ‘History and Geography 6′ features vocabulary commonly associated with topics in history and geography. Organised thematically and available in different levels of difficulty, this list is designed to broaden students’ subject-specific vocabulary and to aid language development.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘History in Houses’, features three everyday texts about a historic house: a real estate advertisement, a report about a council meeting, and a letter to the editor. The worksheet encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, making a judgment, …More
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 analysing text worksheet ‘History of Figure Skating’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the origins of this sport. 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, to look critically …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘History of the Automobile’, features an informational text about the invention of the motor car. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, making an inference, emotional reaction, importance, detail, reasoning, sequence, making a judgment, importance, and author’s intent. Answer sheet …More
This article, ‘Hive of Activity’, provides information about the internal structure of man-made beehives. It describes the purpose of the various sections and describes how the bees use them. The text is supported by detailed illustrations.
This writing task worksheet ‘Hold Fast to Dreams’ helps students to practise expository writing. It is aimed at encouraging students plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details, examples and their own personal experience. It includes space for students to plan their writing and a checklist …More
This writing prompt, ‘Holiday’ helps students to write about where they would like to go if they could go to any place. It encourages students to think about their ideal holiday and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Holiday at Home’ helps students to write about the fun places they can visit near their home. It encourages students to think about their surroundings and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Home Alone’ helps students to write about how they would cope if they were home alone and they heard a strange noise. It encourages students to think about how they would react to a fearful situation and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Home Alone’ helps students to write about a time when they were left home alone. It encourages students to think about safety and advice and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This ‘Home Reading Log’ form helps students (with parental or guardian sign off) record the title, the duration of their reading session and their thoughts and responses to the reading material. It encourages students to develop their ideas and understanding of a text and allows teachers and parents to monitor extra-curricular reading practice.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Home Sweet Home’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to make spinners to learn the types of homes in which different animals live. It is aimed at helping students recognise names of animal homes. It provides animal home spinners.
This article, ‘Homemade Beetles’ gives detailed instructions for using household materials to make a bug that can fly. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This word study activity, ‘Homographs’ provides opportunities for practice with identifying the homographs being described.
This spelling challenges word list, ‘Homophones’ features high-frequency words that sound the same but have different spellings. It includes some of the most commonly occurring homophones that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development.
This spelling activity, ‘Homophones’ provides opportunities for practice with identifying the correct homophone for the sentences.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Homophones’ shows students how to correctly use the words ‘wood’ and ‘would’. It is aimed at encouraging students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain which spelling of a word that sounds the same should be used in which context.
This quick reference chart ‘Homophones’ guides students to correctly use the words ‘its’ and ‘it’s’ and ‘your’ and ‘you’re’. It is aimed at encouraging students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain which spelling of a word that sounds the same should be used in which context. It …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Homophones’ guides students to correctly use the words sheer and shear, and whether and weather. It is aimed at encouraging students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain which spelling of a word that sounds the same should be used in which context. It …More
This spelling activity, ‘Homophones’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the correct homophone to complete the sentences.
This spelling activity, ‘Homophones’ provides opportunities for practice with selecting the correct spelling between two homophones.
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