This graphic organiser, ‘A Buckingham Palace Storm’ allows students to describe and state the importance of Buckingham Palace.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Fish Tale’, features a fable about a goldfish who does not listen to his teacher and ends up in danger. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about cause and effect, purpose, classification, reasoning, character, sequence, detail, and genre. The task …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Garden Visitor’, features an informational text about chipmunk appearance, diet, behaviour, and life history. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, importance, making an inference, vocabulary, drawing a conclusion, making a judgment, detail, and reasoning. Answer sheet provided with …More
This graphic organiser, ‘A Storm of Symbols’ allows students to describe symbols and state their importance.
This graphical organiser, ‘ABCs of Thanksgiving’ provides an alphabet grid that students can use to develop their vocabulary and brainstorm different reasons to be thankful. This is a fun and simple resource that can be used to prompt thoughts about being grateful and the concept of appreciation during Thanksgiving.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Affixes and Roots,’ teaches students how to use their prior knowledge to make sense of root words, suffixes and prefixes. It is aimed at growing students’ confidence levels in understanding words and increasing reading comprehension.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘An Easy Pet’, features a poem that recommends goldfish as an easy pet to look after. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about vocabulary, word meaning, conclusion, theme, and reasoning. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘Analysing Poetic Language’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by prompting students to explore different ways of expressing meaning as they read or write.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Dramatic Definitions,’ helps students express the relationship between a word and its synonyms through art. It has students find the definition of an unknown word and then draw an illustration of the word interacting with other ideas, people, places or things.
This graphic organiser, ‘Balancing the Colours of the World’ supports students to categorise colours by gradation.
This graphic organiser, ‘Balancing the Scales’ supports students to relate the colours, shapes and objects found in the world to themselves and other objects.
This phonics activity, ‘Beginning Consonant Diagraph ‘ch” encourages students to say each word and choose the word with the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Beginning Consonant Diagraph ‘sh” encourages students to say each word and choose the word with the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Beginning Sounds’ encourages students to say each pair of words and find the word with the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Beginning Sounds’ encourages students to say each word and find the word with the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Beginning Sounds’ encourages students to say each word and find the word with the same beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Beginning Sounds Letters’ encourages students to say each word and find the letter/s for the beginning sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Beginning Sounds Letters’ encourages students to say each word and find the letter/s for the beginning sound.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Categorising Vocabulary,’ helps students with vocabulary development. It is aimed at facilitating recall of definitions through the use of a categorisation chart to organise vocabulary.
This reading activity, ‘Choose a Word ‘ provides opportunities for practice with recognising the appropriate word that fits with the picture.
This graphic organiser, ‘Circle of Illustrations’ supports students to illustrate concepts or ideas and label pictures with appropriate vocabulary.
This graphic organiser, ‘Circle of Lines, Colours and Shapes’ supports students to identify lines, shapes and colour while being exposed to various artists.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Clines for Evaluative Language’ supports language development by encouraging students to build vocabulary knowledge. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of evaluative language through an activity in which students record a range of words with a similar (evaluative) theme.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Clines for Evaluative Language’ supports language development by encouraging students to build vocabulary knowledge. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of evaluative language through an activity in which students record a range of words with a similar (evaluative) theme.
This ‘Colour Chart’ features differently coloured images of familiar objects such as food and animals to help students learn to recognise colours and common colour words.
This ‘Colour Dinosaurs’ chart features differently coloured dinosaur species to help students learn to recognise colours and common colour words using the fun topic of dinosaurs.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Comic Strip,’ provides students with the chance to use new vocabulary words in context. It is aimed at reinforcing vocabulary acquisition through a fun and engaging activity.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Compound Word Search,’ teaches students about compound words. It is aimed at helping students understand the meanings of words and become successful readers.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Concentrate,’ helps students to remember new words. It is aimed at reinforcing and building vocabulary through a fun and engaging activity.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Conceptual Definitions,’ helps students think about how a concept they are studying relates to other ideas. It has students think of subcategories of a concept and then record details about each of the subcategories to show how they relate back to the main concept.
This phonics activity, ‘Consonant Blends’ encourages students to name each picture, say the beginning sounds and find the word to match.
This phonics activity, ‘Consonant Blends’ encourages students to say each sound and choose the word beginning with that sound.
This understanding text worksheet ‘Could the Same Word Have Two Meanings?’ helps students with homophones. It encourages students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain their particular meaning. In this case, the words ‘to’, ‘too’ and ‘two’ are examined. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This quick reference chart ‘Could the Same Word Have Two Meanings?’ helps students with homonyms and homophones. It encourages students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain their particular meaning. In this case, the various definitions of the word ‘bark’ are examined.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Could the Same Word Have Two Meanings?’ shows students how to identify the different meanings of words that are spelt the same within a narrative text. It encourages students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain their meaning in a specific context.
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 graphic organiser, ‘Descriptive Language’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by prompting students to record descriptive details as they read or write.
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 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 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 Readers Theatre activity, “Ellis Island” encourages students to organize information into logical and sequential order. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds’ encourages students to say each word and find the word with the same end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds’ encourages students to say each word and find the word with the same end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds’ encourages students to say each word and find the letter/s for the end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds’ encourages students to say each word and find the letter/s for the end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds Names’ encourages students to say each name and find the letter/s for the end sound of the name.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds Names’ encourages students to say each name and find the letter/s for the end sound of the name.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds Consonants’ encourages students to say the name of each picture, sound it out and select the end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Ending Sounds’ encourages students to say the name of each picture and find the matching ending sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Ending Sounds’ encourages students to say the name of each picture and find the matching ending sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Ending Sounds Letter’ encourages students to say each word and find the letter/s that make the ending sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Ending Sounds Match’ encourages students to read the sentence and match the word in bold to the same word.
This phonics activity, ‘Final Consonant Diagraph ‘ch” encourages students to say each word and choose the word with the same beginning sound.
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