This short nonfiction text, ‘D: Duck’ provides factual information about the Duck, exploring where they live, what they eat and other interesting facts.
The story ‘Dad and Terrell’ is about a father and son who are in the car on their way to a game. Terrell has to find the map and help Dad find the way. The story provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This sequencing activity, ‘Daily Schedule’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about class activities during the day.
The story, ‘Damper’ is told through letters between two friends, one at camp and the other at home helping his father at work. The story includes a recipe for a bread cooked over a campfire, and some discussion of fishing. They provide opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with …More
This article, ‘All About Sea Creatures: Danger in the Water,’ profiles venomous sea creatures. It provides factual information and features colourful and engaging photographs.
This analysing text exemplar ‘Danica’s Hero’ shows students how to identify the genre of a text, as well as its implicit and explicit meaning. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the sample text, identifying whether the story is an example of narrative or informational text …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Daring Women Drivers’, features an informational text about the first women to drive across the United States. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about fact/opinion, classifying, reasoning, visual comprehension, cause and effect, comparison/contrast, vocabulary, and making a judgment. Answer sheet provided …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Data Charts,’ helps students compare information. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them gather important information to fill in their charts.
This article, ‘Spiders: Dating and Mating’ provides information about spider mating, protection of eggs and spiderlings. Full-colour photographs illustrate the information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘David Meets His Cousins’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which a boy goes to stay with his cousins for the summer. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘David Thompson, Explorer’, features a biographical text about one of the world’s greatest land geographers. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about character, detail, reasoning, validity, cause and effect, fact/opinion, sequence, theme, making a judgment, and reasoning. Answer sheet provided with …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Day Trip’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about a family spending the day at the beach. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading activity, ‘Days of the Week’ provides opportunities for practice with days of the week vocabulary within the context of sentences.
This ‘Days of the Week’ poster can be used as part of a colourful classroom display to help students learn the days of the week.
This ‘Days of the Week’ poster can be used as part of a colourful classroom display to help students learn the days of the week.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Dazzling Diamonds’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the history and mining of diamonds.
This begin to read card set ‘Dd’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the letter ‘d’.
This article, ‘Deadly Animals’, provides information and statistics that show that sharks are not the world’s most deadly animals. The text is accompanied by diagrammatic illustrations.
This graphic organiser, ‘Debate Planner’ is a great resource to facilitate analytical thinking. Using this planner encourages students to work cooperatively, brainstorm ideas, develop vocabulary and read to support an opinion whilst identifying only the most relevant ideas. Planning the argument is an important aspect of debating and this graphic organiser provides a simple template …More
This facts and opinions exemplar ‘Debate Team’ shows students how to locate the facts and opinions in an example text. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, and shows how the author decided her position on a topic, then used facts to support her opinion.
This resource, ‘Debate Topic Ideas’ is a great resource to facilitate analytical thinking and arguments relevant to students. These classroom-appropriate debate topics are an ideal aid to encourage students to get involved in discussions and engage with the principles of debating. Each idea can be cut out and put into a hat for a fun …More
This worksheet, ‘Debating Language’ is a great resource to facilitate analytical thinking. Debating requires understanding of particular vocabulary when arguing and this resource provides a list of some of the most common terms. Students are required to match up the term with its definition and it can be used following debating activities to consolidate understanding …More
This quick reference sheet, ‘Debating Phrases’ is a great resource to facilitate analytical thinking. Debating requires particular understanding of phrases to use to support or refute an argument and this resource provides a list of some of the most common. If printing for a classroom display poster it is recommended to print in A3 or …More
This role-play mask ‘Deer’ 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 ‘Deer 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 graphic organiser, ‘Definition Blocks’ asks students to evaluate and select the correct definition for a word after it is used in a sentence.
This graphic organiser, ‘Definition Blocks for The Butter Battle Book’ asks students to decide which definition is appropriate for a vocabulary word taken from The Butter Battle Book by Dr Seuss by using context clues from a given sentence.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Definitions’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match definitions to common words.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Definitions’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match common words to their correct definitions.
This reading activity, ‘Definitions’ provides opportunities for practice with matching common words to their descriptions.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Definitions’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match common words to their correct definitions.
This reading activity, ‘Definitions’ provides opportunities for practice with matching common words to their descriptions.
This reading activity, ‘Definitions’ provides opportunities for practice with general vocabulary definitions.
This reading activity, ‘Definitions’ provides opportunities for practice with matching common words to their descriptions.
This reading activity, ‘Definitions’ provides opportunities for practice with general vocabulary definitions.
This spelling activity, ‘Definitions’ provides opportunities for practice with matching meanings to words.
This reading activity, ‘Definitions’ provides opportunities for practice with matching meanings to words.
This spelling activity, ‘Definitions’ provides opportunities for practice with matching meanings to words.
This reading activity, ‘Definitions’ provides opportunities for practice with matching the meaning to words.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Delaware Water Gap’ asks students to answer questions about the different animals found throughout the Delaware Water Gap in the United States. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings and author purpose.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Delving into the Earth’ 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, ‘Demand, Supply, and Price’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This author’s purpose exemplar ‘Dena’s New Puppy’ supports students to identify the author’s purpose for writing a text. It encourages students to look critically at the text in order to ascertain whether the author wrote it to persuade, teach or entertain the reader.
This graphic organiser, ‘Describing a Character’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by asking students to record details about characters as they read or plan to write.
This worksheet, ‘Describing Dad’ is a simple and easy resource that encourages students to come up with adjectives to describe their Dads. It is a quick activity that can be used to start meaningful discussions on parts of speech and can be taken home and given as a gift for Father’s Day.
This worksheet, ‘Describing Mr Easter Bunny’ gives students the opportunity to explore character development through brainstorming adjectives that describe the picture of Mr Easter Bunny.
This worksheet, ‘Describing Mum’ is a simple and easy resource that encourages students to come up with adjectives to describe their mums. It is a quick activity that can be used to start meaningful discussions on parts of speech and can be taken home and given as a gift for Mother’s Day.
This worksheet, ‘Describing Myself’ is a fantastic activity that introduces adjectives and parts of the body. Students must select from the word banks or use their own adjectives to describe the features of their face. After completing the description, they can then use these details to help them draw their own portrait. Younger students tend …More
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Describing Photos and Illustrations’ encourages students to identify and label the parts of an object.
This graphic organiser, ‘Describing Settings’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by asking students to record details about settings as they read or plan to write.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Describing Words’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the appropriate adjective to complete each sentence.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Describing Words’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to the correct use of adjectives.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Descriptions’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match the correct adjectives to the given contexts.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Descriptive Language’ encourages students to identify and use descriptive language in a sentence.
This graphic organiser, ‘Descriptive Language’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by prompting students to record descriptive details as they read or write.
This graphic organiser, ‘Descriptive Language’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by prompting students to record descriptive details as they read or write.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Descriptive Writing’ encourages students to write a sentence using descriptive words.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Desert Bighorn Sheep’ asks students to answer questions about desert bighorn sheep, which live in Arizona in the United States. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Desert Dwelling’ encourages students to organise information to identify the main idea and supporting details. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
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