This vocabulary activity, ‘Making Words (Consonant Digraphs)’ supports language development by encouraging students to make and identify words with two-letter consonant digraphs. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of consonant digraphs through a fun activity, which uses dice templates to make words.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Making Your Own Code’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text about codes. 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 order …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Making Your Own Code’, features an informational and procedural text about constructing different types of cipher codes. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about comparison/contrast, vocabulary, importance, inference, sequence, visual comprehension, and decoding. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This quick reference chart ‘Making 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 quick reference chart ‘Making 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 article, ‘All About Sea Creatures: Mammals’, describes marine mammals. It provides factual information and features colourful and engaging photographs.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Manatee’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about these animals. 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 order to ascertain …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Manatees’, features an informational text about these endangered aquatic mammals. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, making a judgment, importance, visual comprehension, making an inference, cause and effect, fact/opinion, detail, predicting outcome, purpose, and reasoning. Answer sheet …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Manatees’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Mangroves’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This kids news activity, ‘Many Celeb Chefs’ Recipes Not Healthy’ investigates whether recipes from celebrity chefs actually healthy.
This content area reading activity, ‘Many Moons’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to recognise the use of lists as a reading device.
This graphic organiser, ‘Mapping Farms’ allows students to distinguish farming from long ago to that of farming today.
The story, ‘Marbles’ is about two friends who have agreed to host a fundraiser. When one friend has to attend a golf try-out , he writes instructions for some marble games that his friend can use to entertain people. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Margaret Atwood’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Maria DeCastro Blake’ asks students to answer questions about a woman who spent her life helping others. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about author purpose.
This article, ‘All About Dinosaurs: Marine Reptiles’, provides information about marine reptiles that lived during the dinosaur age. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of natural history and includes colourful and engaging images.
This article, ‘All About Space: Mars’, describes the planet Mars. It provides factual information and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This classic nursery rhyme ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ 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 phonemic awareness activity, ‘Mary Had a Little Word’ supports language development by encouraging students to listen to the sounds of a word and identify the word. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound blending. It provides a Mary Had a Little Lamb nursery rhyme chart and a close activity sheet.
The classic nursery rhyme ‘Mary Mary Quite Contrary’ 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 article, ‘Spiders: Masters of Disguise’, provides information about spiders’ ability to camouflage themselves. Full-colour photographs provide vivid examples of camouflage strategies.
This reading activity, ‘Match Letters’ provides opportunities for practice with matching capital letters to their lower case letters.
This reading activity, ‘Match Letters’ provides opportunities for practice with matching capital letters to their lower case letters.
This reading activity, ‘Match Letters’ provides opportunities for practice with matching lower case letters to their capital letters.
This reading activity, ‘Match Letters’ provides opportunities for practice with matching lower case letters to their capital letters.
This spelling activity, ‘Match the Number and Word’ provides opportunities for practice with matching number words to their numerical forms.
This reading activity, ‘Match the Word’ provides opportunities for practice with matching pictures to common words.
This reading activity, ‘Match the Word’ provides opportunities for practice with matching pictures to common words.
This reading activity, ‘Match the Word’ provides opportunities for practice with matching pictures to common words.
This reading activity, ‘Match the Word’ provides opportunities for practice with matching words within paragraphs to those in a list.
This spelling activity, ‘Match the Word’ provides opportunities for practice with correcting wrongly spelt words within sentences.
This spelling activity, ‘Match the Word’ provides opportunities for practice with correctly spelling the days of the week.
This reading activity, ‘Match the Words’ provides opportunities for practice with finding the word to complete the sentence.
This reading activity, ‘Match the Words’ provides opportunities for practice with reading sentences and matching words.
This reading activity, ‘Match the Words’ provides opportunities for practice with reading sentences and matching words.
This reading activity, ‘Match the Words’ provides opportunities for practice with reading sentences and matching words.
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 and Final Consonants Blends’ encourages students to choose the correct word using the picture and the sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Initial Diagraphs’ encourages students to say each word and choose the word with the same beginning sound.
This word study activity, ‘Matching Opposites’ asks students to identify different opposites. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of antonyms.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Matching Rimes’ supports language development by encouraging students to recognise and match common rimes. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of rimes through a fun matching activity.
This written language activity, ‘Matching Signs and Symbols’ supports language development by encouraging students to build and reinforce instant recognition of common signs and symbols. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of signs and symbols through a fun activity in which the students play a game such as Snap or Memory.
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 reading activity, ‘Matching Words ‘ provides opportunities for practice with reading sentences and recognising particular words within them.
This spelling activity, ‘Matching Words’ provides opportunities for practice with recognising similar letter patterns.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Maths + Ads = Trouble’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about brand placement in school text books.
This subject area word list, ‘Maths 4′ features vocabulary commonly associated with topics in maths. 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, ‘Maths 5′ features vocabulary commonly associated with topics in maths. 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, ‘Maths 6′ features vocabulary commonly associated with topics in maths. 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 article, ‘Mawson’s Hut’, describes the hut Sir Douglas Mawson built in Antarctica. It is aimed at broadening students’ geographical and historical awareness and includes colourful and engaging images.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘McTeague: A Story of San Francisco’ asks students to answer questions about an excerpt from a story about McTeague, a dentist from San Francisco. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This graphic organiser, ‘Me in the Early Years’ supports students in editing and revising their autobiographical writing, focusing on conveying feelings and attitudes in their text.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Me Too the Horse’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about a friendly horse who finds a new rider. 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’ …More
This graphic organiser, ‘ Me, Myself, and I’ supports students in editing and revising autobiographical writing, focusing on conveying feelings and attitudes in texts.
This meaning in text exemplar, ‘Meaning of Phrases’ provides a model of a completed meaning in text worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics, idiomatic language and colloquialisms and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context.
This meaning in text exemplar, ‘Meaning of Words: Life in Ancient Rome’ provides a model of a completed meaning in text worksheet. 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 …More
This meaning in text activity, ‘Meaning of Words: Olivia’s Sunflowers’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a girl who grows sunflowers. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in a narrative text in order to ascertain the meaning and usage of individual …More
This meaning in text activity, ‘Meaning of Words: President John F. Kennedy’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about American President John F. Kennedy. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in informative text in order to ascertain the meaning and usage of …More
This meaning in text activity, ‘Meaning of Words: Stitches’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a story in which a boy has to have stitches. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in narrative text in order to ascertain the meaning and …More
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