This graphic organiser, ‘Shades of Meaning’ helps students to see patterns and relationships between an author’s word choice and themes in the book.
This graphic organiser, ‘Shades of Meaning for Living Up the Street’ will examine the different shades of meaning for a word and relate them to a theme from Living Up the Street by Gary Soto.
This graphic organiser, ‘Shining Stars’ supports students in planning writing using models of autobiographies.
This worksheet, ‘Story Map of Are We There Yet?’ is a great resource to model the structure of a narrative using the book, Are We There Yet?. Students are prompted to identify the author, the main characters, the setting, main events, problem and solution. This blank scaffold can be used during a whole class pre-writing …More
This worksheet, ‘Story Map of Diary of a Wombat’ is a great resource to model the structure of a narrative using the book, Diary of A Wombat. Students are prompted to identify the author, the main characters, the setting, main events, problem and solution. This blank scaffold can be used during a whole class pre-writing …More
This worksheet, ‘Story Predictions: Are We There Yet?’ is an effective scaffold to prompt analytical discussions about the book, Are We There Yet?. Predicting the story and looking for clues within the cover or first few pages of the text is an essential reading skill for all students. This scaffold encourages students to justify their …More
This worksheet, ‘Story Predictions: Edward the Emu’ is an effective scaffold to prompt analytical discussions about the book, Edward the Emu. Predicting the story and looking for clues within the cover or first few pages of the text is an essential reading skill for all students. This scaffold encourages students to justify their predictions and …More
This worksheet, ‘Story Structure of Diary of a Wombat’ is a great resource to model the structure of a narrative. Students are prompted to identify and expand on the events of three of the days in the story. This is a fun and simple comprehension activity that can be differentiated for ability levels and used …More
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 reading comprehension activity, ‘Tarzan of the Apes’ asks students to answer questions about Edgar Rice Burroughs’ famous tale about Tarzan. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Tarzan of the Apes Part I’ asks students to answer questions about Edgar Rice Burroughs’ famous tale about Tarzan. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Tarzan of the Apes Part II’ asks students to answer questions about Edgar Rice Burroughs’ famous tale about Tarzan. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Big Scoop’ allows students to research and record information found in a specific text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Bobbsey Twins’ asks students to answer questions about a story about two sets of twins: Bert and Nan; and Flossie and Freddie. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Contraction Train for Dialogue’ asks students to write contractions for commonly combined words, as they appear in the dialogue of various literature books.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Farmer’s Daughter and the Pail’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
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 sequencing activity, ‘The Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about the nursery rhyme of The Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Order of the Day’ asks students to place events and important facts in sequential order as they occur in a textbook.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Order of the Day for Volcanoes’ asks students to write the events from the non-fiction text, Danger! Volcanoes by Seymour Simon in sequential order.
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 sequencing activity, ‘The Rooster who went to his Uncle’s Wedding’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about the story of The Rooster who went to his Uncle’s Wedding.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Shining Early Years’ supports students in planning their own autobiographical writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Solution Scoop’ asks students to identify and evaluate the problems and solutions in a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Solution Scoop for The Pain and the Great One’ asks students to read The Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume, then identify problems and solutions found in the book and create other solutions for the two siblings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Story of Doctor Dolittle Part I’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which Doctor Dolittle learns to speak the language of the animals. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and make predictions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Story of Doctor Dolittle Part II’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which Doctor Dolittle is an animal doctor who talks to animals. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ asks students to answer questions about a story that features the antics of Badger, Rat, Mole and Toad. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Part I’ asks students to answer questions about the adventures of Dorothy and her dog Toto. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Part II’ asks students to answer questions about the adventures of Dorothy, her dog Toto and friends. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions and draw conclusions.
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 graphic organiser, ‘Three Times a Charm’ encourages students to re-read passages to improve their comprehension of the material.
This graphic organiser, ‘Three Times a Charm for Canyons’ encourages students to re-read passages from Canyons by Gary Paulsen to improve their comprehension of the material.
This graphic organiser, ‘Triple Venn Diagram’ helps students separate ideas that are similar and different in two stories. It then provides space for students to add their own stories.
This graphic organiser, ‘Triple Venn Diagram for Three Pigs’ asks students to compare and contrast three versions of The Three Little Pigs and identify the similarities and differences.
This graphic organiser, ‘Vocabulary Diagram for Anne of Green Gables’ enables students to break down words they recognise into parts, using Greek and Latin roots, synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes and associated words to deepen their understanding of Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
This graphic organiser, ‘Who Am I?’ asks students to research various people by reading biographies and applying the information they find to their own lives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Who Am I? for Scientists’ asks students to read biographies of important scientists and create a Who Am I? game.
This graphic organiser, ‘Why That Ending?’ provides a structure with which students can summarise the plot of the story, record the ending of the story and then create their own endings.
This graphic organiser, ‘Why That Ending? for Wild Things’ asks students to evaluate the plot and the ending of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and create new endings.
This creative narrative, ‘Easter Helper’ is a short story about Ed a bunny who lives in the woodlands just outside of town. Ed helps the Easter Bunny who had lost his way and is running out of time to deliver his eggs before Easter morning. Students will enjoy the simple language and the story about …More
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