This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Planting of the Apple Tree’ asks students to answer questions about a poem by William Cullen Bryant. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Purple Cow’ asks students to answer questions about Gelett Burgess’s poem about a purple cow. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word and phrase meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Quest for Happiness’ asks students to answer questions about two poems, which are about a character’s battle for what they want. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons and form opinions.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Rhyme Climb’ encourages students to identify words that rhyme and rhyming word endings.
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 reading comprehension activity, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ asks students to answer questions about Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous poem. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ asks students to answer questions about a famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall informatio, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ asks students to answer questions about Francis Scott Key’s famous poem about the American flag. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Sword of Arthur’ asks students to answer questions about a famous poem by John Clair Minot. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘The Therapy Dog’, features a poem about a gentle dog that visits the elderly and the sick. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about vocabulary, figurative language, validity, making a judgment, reasoning, and character. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Village Blacksmith’ asks students to answer questions about a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter Part I’ asks students to answer questions about the famous poem by Lewis Carroll. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and make predictions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter Part II’ asks students to answer questions about the famous poem by Lewis Carroll. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Wolf and the Stork’ asks students to answer questions about a poem about a wolf and a stork. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, make predictions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘There Is No Frigate Like a Book’ asks students to answer questions about a poem that is about how books let you travel without going anywhere. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘There Was a Little Girl’ asks students to answer questions about a poem, which is about a little girl who could be good and horrid! It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This classic nursery rhyme ‘There Was an Old Woman’ 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 reading comprehension activity, ‘This Little Mouse’ asks students to answer questions about a poem featuring a little mouse. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and make predictions.
The classic nursery rhyme ‘This Little Piggy’ 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.
The classic nursery rhyme ‘This Old Man’ 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 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.
The classic nursery rhyme ‘Three Blind Mice’ 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 reading comprehension activity, ‘Three Poems’ asks students to answer questions about three poems by American poet Robert Frost. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Trees’ asks students to answer questions about a poem by Joyce Kilmer. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and form opinions.
This early learning activity, ‘Turkey Time’ provides instructions on how to make turkey stick puppets followed by an accompanying song.
This classic nursery rhyme ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ 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.
The classic nursery rhyme ‘Two Little Dickie Birds’ 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 reading comprehension activity, ‘Two Moods from the Hill’ asks students to answer questions about a poem by Ernest Benshimol. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Two Poems’ asks students to answer questions about two famous nursery rhymes. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Two Poems’ asks students to answer questions about two poems about losing a loved one. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Two Poems’ asks students to answer questions about two poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Two Poems with the Same Title: The Wind’ asks students to answer questions about two poems featuring the wind. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using Alliteration’ encourages students to write a sentence using alliteration.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using Assonance’ encourages students to read and identify words in a sentence that have the same vowel sounds.
This Valentine’s poem is a great example of a simple ABCB structured four-line poem. It is written in simple language and provides a great opportunity to explore the concept of rhyming words and rhythm.
This Valentine’s poem is a great example of a simple ABCB structured eight-line poem. It is written in simple language and provides a great opportunity to explore the concept of rhyming words and rhythm. It also offers supporting actions to each line so that students can accompany the words with movements.
This Valentine’s poem is a great example of a simple ABCB structured eight-line poem. It is written in simple language and provides a great opportunity to explore the concept of rhyming words and rhythm.
This graphic organiser, ‘Vowel Charts’ provides students with the opportunity for word play, using middle-vowel sounds and anchors, they can manipulate beginning and ending sounds to create new words.
This graphic organiser, ‘Vowel Charts for Hop on Pop’ helps students to identify the middle-vowel sounds of words and think of additional words with the same middle vowel sounds.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowels’ encourages students to say each word and then find the rhyming word.
The classic nursery rhyme ‘Waltzing Matilda’ 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, ‘Want To Be An Astronaut? A New Post Just Opened Up’ reports on the retirement of well-known Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
This graphic organiser, ‘We Are Family for Dr Seuss’ asks students to find word families in the book Green Eggs and Ham and other books by Dr Seuss.
This worksheet, ‘We Love Books Acrostic Poem’ is a fantastic quick activity to brainstorm facts and ideas about books. It is a fun resource that can be used without preparation across all age groups and abilities. Students are required to use the letters from the words ‘we love books’ to list book titles, authors or …More
This classic nursery rhyme ‘Wee Willie Winkie’ 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 understanding text activity, ‘What Is the Theme and Central Idea?’ explains to students about themes and central ideas. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘When a Nice Day Isn’t a Good Day’, features a poem about drought and water conservation. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about detail, vocabulary, making an inference, author’s purpose, reasoning, and making a judgment. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Where do I come from?’, features a poem written from the perspective of a racing car. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, author’s purpose, validity, reasoning, vocabulary, mood/tone, genre, and the main idea. Answer sheet provided with file …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Why Porcupine Has Quills’ asks students to answer questions about a tale of how porcupine ended up with quills instead of beautiful feathers. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics Acrostic Poem’ is a fabulous quick activity to brainstorm facts about the current and past Winter Olympics. It is a fun activity that can be used without preparation and across all age groups and abilities. Students are required to use the letters from the words Winter Olympics to list facts that …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘You Are Old, Father William’ asks students to answer questions about Lewis Carroll’s poem featuring a father and his son. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Young John’ asks students to answer questions about a poem about love. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This worksheet, ‘Acrostic Poem About My Mum’ is a fantastic quick activity to celebrate Mother’s Day. It is a fun resource that can be used without preparation across all age groups and abilities. Students are required to use the letters of the words ‘Love You Mum’ to brainstorm why their mums are special.
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