This short nonfiction text, ‘M: Mountain Gorilla’ provides factual information about the Mountain Gorilla, exploring where they live, what they eat and other interesting facts.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Madame C.J. Walker’ asks students to answer questions about a hardworking, driven African American woman who built up a thriving business. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons, form opinions and think about word meanings and author purpose.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Maggie’s First Day’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to participate in a read-aloud activity by acting out feelings portrayed by characters in a story. It is aimed at helping students recognise language related to feelings. It provides feeling faces picture and word cards.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Magic Show Memo’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative about a magic show. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, as well as make …More
In this worksheet, ‘Magic Squares’ students complete three samples then create their own squares.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Magic Word’ supports language development by encouraging students to create a new word by substituting a sound in any position in a word. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound manipulation by sound substitution. It provides a song chart and a word list.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Magnetic Magic’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This article, ‘Endangered: Mahogany Gliders’, provides information about mahogany gliders. It is aimed at broadening students’ environmental awareness and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Main Idea,’ can be used after reading to help students understand the main idea of a text. It includes three different activities for students to practice finding the main idea.
This graphic organiser, ‘Main Idea and Details Chart’ assists students to identify the relationship between the main idea and supporting details. For example, students can use this table to break down a broad concept into greater detail during a post-reading comprehension activity. It could also be used as a pre-writing prompt to expand on ideas.
This graphic organiser, ‘Main Idea and Details Chart’ assists students to identify the relationship between the main idea and supporting details. For example, students can use this graphical scaffold to break down a broad concept into greater detail during a post-reading comprehension activity. It could also be used as a pre-writing prompt to expand on …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Predictions,’ encourages students to focus on the main idea in a text. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them make predictions and set their own purpose for reading.
This graphic organiser, ‘Main Idea Hierarchy’ 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 chart is a great resource for post-reading comprehension activities or as a pre-writing prompt …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Main Ideas’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for recording main ideas and supporting details as they read or plan for writing.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Make a Collage’ asks students to answer questions about how to make a collage. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This word study activity, ‘Make a Compound Word’ asks students to combine pairs of words to form compound words. It is aimed at developing students’ understanding of compound word formations.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Make an Index,’ has students make an index using vocabulary words from a nonfiction book. It is aimed at helping students build vocabulary and teaching them the importance of the index.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Make the Most Out of Your Whale-Watching Experience’ asks students to answer questions about going whale-watching. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings and author purpose.
This article, ‘Make Your Own Zoo’ has instructions telling students how to make a zoo with simple materials. The article provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This quick reference chart ‘Make Your Writing Interesting’ shows word variety and detail-rich opinions and conclusions can improve their writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to avoid using repetitive words, sentences and phrases and to use word variety to make their writing interesting. It includes a practical example to illustrate this point. It also …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Making a Glossary’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for recording new words and their meanings.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making a Map’ supports the teaching of writing and geographical skills by providing students with a template for making a map.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Making A Mobile’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Making a Scrapbook’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text that gives the steps to create a scrapbook. 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 …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Making a Scrapbook’, features a procedural text about creating a photo scrapbook of a family holiday. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about questioning, author’s purpose, persuasion, reasoning, detail, vocabulary, sequence, making an inference, and categorisation. Answer sheet provided with file …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Making a Tipi’, features a procedural text and diagrams about making a model of the tipi used by the Great Plains tribes of North America. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and diagrams, and includes questions about vocabulary, importance, questioning, sequence, author’s purpose, visual …More
This author’s purpose worksheet ‘Making a Tipi (Tepee)’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text about how to create a miniature Tipi. 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 …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Making an Aquarium’, features a procedural text about purchasing and setting up a fish tank. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, drawing a conclusion, cause and effect, detail, reasoning, predicting outcome, sequence, and classification. Answer sheet provided …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Making an Aquarium’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, as well as draw conclusions about the text as …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Banana Bread’ asks students to answer questions about a recipe. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context. It also encourages students to recall information from the recipe.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Comparisons’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to compare past and present events as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Comparisons’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for comparing ideas.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Connections’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise the comprehension strategy of making connections. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of making connections with their life, with things they know, with something they have heard about and with other texts they have seen.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Connections’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to record their connections to texts as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Connections’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to record their connections to texts as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Connections’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to record their connections to texts as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Connections’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to record their connections to texts as they read.
This content area reading activity, ‘Making Dull Pennies Shine’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to follow the procedural steps of an experiment.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Making Glass’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, and understand sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Inferences’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise the comprehension strategy of making inferences. Students will infer what writers really want them to understand.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Inferences’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to draw on what they already know to make inferences as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Inferences’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to draw on what they already know to make inferences as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Inferences’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to think about what they already know to make inferences as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Inferences’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to draw on what they already know to make inferences as they read.
This quick reference chart ‘Making Judgements’ shows students different questions to ask to make judgements about a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to use what they already know together with information from texts themselves to make a decision about what they are reading.
This quick reference chart ‘Making Judgements’ helps students to make judgements about what they have read. It is aimed at encouraging students to use what they already know together with information from texts themselves to make a decision about what they are reading. It then provides a practical example to illustrate this process.
This quick reference chart ‘Making Judgements’ shows students questions to ask themselves to help them make judgements about a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to use what they already know together with information from texts themselves to make a decision about what they are reading.
This quick reference chart ‘Making Judgements’ shows students questions to ask themselves to help them make judgements about a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to use what they already know together with information from texts themselves to make a decision about what they are reading.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Making Judgements/Drawing Conclusions’ shows students questions to ask and steps to follow to form decisions about a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose, then put this together with what they already know about a topic as well …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Memories’ helps students make memory cards and asks students to answer comprehension questions about making memory cards. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in informative and instructional text, as well as recall information, draw conclusions and form …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Poems Part I’ asks students to fill in the missing rhyming words in poems. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of words that end with the same sound.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Poems Part II’ asks students to fill in the missing rhyming words in poems. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of words that end with the same sound.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Making Postcards,’ helps students strengthen their reading skills by visualising various audiences. It has students create a postcard that demonstrates a relationship between characters or ideas in the text.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Making Potable Drinking Water’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text about recycled water. 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 at words in …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Predictions supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to record their predictions as events unfold in a text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Predictions’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise the comprehension strategy of making predictions.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Making Predictions,’ helps students make predictions before and during the reading of a text. Throughout the reading, students are able to confirm, reject or revise predictions to reflect the learning of new information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Sentences’ supports language development by encouraging students to understand the way words appear in written language. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sentences through a fun activity in which students form short sentences using jumbled sentences.
This writing prompt, ‘Making the World a Better Place’ helps students to write about one thing they would change in order to make the world a better place. It encourages students to think about making a difference and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Vegetable Soup’ asks students to answer questions about vegetable soup and a recipe for soup. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
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