This content area reading learning activity, ‘Design a Book Cover,’ helps students demonstrate their knowledge of book parts. It is aimed at teaching students the importance of each feature of a book cover and its placement on the cover.
This graphic organiser, ‘Determining Purpose’ supports the teaching of reading strategies by giving students a template for finding evidence of an author’s purpose.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Devastating Waves’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about tsunamis. 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, ‘Devastating Waves’, features an informational text about tsunamis and discusses three tsunamis that have devastated parts of Alaska. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, vocabulary, cause and effect, detail, comparison/contrast, emotional reaction, and reasoning. The task also …More
This article, ‘All About Animal Families: Devoted Dads’, profiles different types of animal dads. It provides factual information about these animals and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Diabetes’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This writing task worksheet ‘Dialogue’ supports students to write a short dialogue between two people. It introduces students to the principles of this literary form, covering proper punctuation, paragraph breaks and speaker identification.
This writing task worksheet ‘Dialogue’ supports students to write a short dialogue between two people. It aims at encouraging students to use dialogue to put life into their work and provides space for students to practise this form.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Diamonds: Treasures Underground’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall the main ideas and draw conclusions.
This worksheet, ‘Diary of a Wombat’ provides a diagram that allows students to visually organise the events of each day from the book, Diary of Wombat. It is a great resource to aid in comprehension that can be differentiated depending on ability.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Dictionary Definitions,’ helps students practice using a dictionary to look up unknown words. It has students look up unknown words in a dictionary and encourages them to take note of the guide words at the top of the page, the pronunciation of the words, the parts of speech and …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Did I Achieve My Purpose?’ helps students identify a purpose for reading. Then, once students have finished reading, they write an explanation of whether or not their purpose was achieved.
This classic nursery rhyme ‘Diddle Diddle Dumpling’ 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 kids news activity, ‘Different Toys For Girls And Boys?’ reports on gender stereotyping in the marketing of toys.
This graphic organiser, ‘Digging Out the Root’ asks students to analyse words in order to find the smaller, more familiar root words within them.
This graphic organiser, ‘Digging Out the Root for The Twistable Turnable Man’ asks students to analyse complex words from the poem, Twistable, Turnable Man from A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein, then identify the root word within each to help them decode the meaning.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Digraphs’ features high-frequency words with similar pairs of letters used to create the same sound. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples of digraphs that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development.
This phonics activity, ‘Digraphs’ encourages students to look at each picture and say its name then find the word for the picture in the box below.
This phonics activity, ‘Diagraphs’ encourages students to find the word to match the picture and the sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Diagraphs’ encourages students to say each sound and find the word with the matching middle sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Diagraphs’ encourages students to say each sound and find the word with the same middle sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Digraphs and Consonant Blends’ encourages students to say the word and find another word with the same beginning sound.
This reading activity, ‘Dinner Time’ supports reading development by encouraging students to pass a bowl filled with pictures of food and then try to determine the initial letter of selected pictures. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations. It provides food picture cards.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Dino Eggs by the Dozen’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the discovery of dinosaur eggs.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Dino Eggs by the Dozen’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the discovery of dinosaur eggs.
This role-play mask ‘Dinosaur’ 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 ‘Dinosaur 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 reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Dinosaur Days’ 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, make predictions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This article, ‘All About Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Footprints’, describes the dinosaur stampede at Lark Quarry in Australia. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of natural history and includes colourful and engaging images.
This Animal Alphabet, ‘Dinosaurs’ is a collection of Dinosaur themed worksheets that provides opportunities for handwriting practice.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Dinosaurs with Feathers’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about dinosaur fossils found in China.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Direct Inquiry Activity,’ helps students make predictions by answering five key questions. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension by having them answer the questions ‘Who,’ ‘What,’ ‘Where,’ ‘How’ and ‘Why’ during reading.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Directed Reading-Thinking Activity,’ helps students to make inferences while reading a text. It actively involves students in reading by having them predict, read and prove their predictions while the teacher asks questions.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Direction Prefixes’ introduces students to high-frequency words with prefixes that denote directionality. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples of direction prefixes that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development.
This kids news activity, ‘Director James Cameron Goes To Earth’s Deepest Point’ is about Cameron’s solo dive, in a submarine, to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Disagree with Me,’ teaches students that they can disagree with the text or with what the author has written. It is aimed at helping students to become critical readers and to understand that authors often don’t show opposing viewpoints.
This worksheet, ‘Discovering Words’ provides students with the opportunity to explore word origins.
This worksheet, ‘Discovering Words’ provides students with the opportunity to explore eponyms.
This worksheet, ‘Discovering Words’ provides students with the opportunity to identify proverbs and add more to their collection
This reading comprehension activity ‘Do Athletes Make Too Much Money’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the incomes of athletes.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Do Girls Know Best?’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Zoya Ahmadi’s new book.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Do Kids Look Up to Athletes Too Much?’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the appropriateness of athletes as role models.
This classic nursery rhyme ‘Doctor Foster’ 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 sequencing activity, ‘Doctor’s Visit’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about a normal doctor’s visit.
This kids news activity, ‘Does Ancient Antarctic Lake Hold Secrets To Life In Outer Space?’ is about the discovery of a lake buried under the ice, that may hold clues to life on other planets .
This reading activity, ‘Doggie, Doggie’ supports reading development by encouraging students to match uppercase letters on dog-bone cards to lowercase letters on dog-bowl cards. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter identification. It provides dog bone cards and dog bowl cards.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Dogs’ asks students to answer questions about different dog breeds. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and form opinions.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Dogs Don’t Dance’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. 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.
This content area reading activity, ‘Dogs in France’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to learn how to use generalisations.
This article, ‘Dogs in Space’, describes the first dog to go to space. It provides factual information about this mission and features a photograph of Laika.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Dogs with Jobs’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about working dogs. 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 phrases.
This sight words list, ‘Dolch Lists 1’ features words that occur most frequently in early reading encounters. Available in different levels of difficulty, these high-frequency word lists are essential for language development as they include words which often cannot be sounded out or illustrated.
This sight words list, ‘Dolch Lists 2’ features words that occur most frequently in early reading encounters. Available in different levels of difficulty, these high-frequency word lists are essential for language development as they include words which often cannot be sounded out or illustrated.
This sight words list, ‘Dolch Lists 3’ features words that occur most frequently in early reading encounters. Available in different levels of difficulty, these high-frequency word lists are essential for language development as they include words which often cannot be sounded out or illustrated.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Dolley Madison’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about this US first lady. 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 role-play mask ‘Dolphin’ 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 ‘Dolphin 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
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