This phonics activity, ‘Middle Sounds’ encourages students to say each pair of words and find the word with the same middle sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Vowel Sounds ‘oo’ and ‘ou” encourages students to read and say the word’ then choose the sound.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Millie’, features a poem about the difficulties a girl faces when she moves with her family to America. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about vocabulary, making a judgment, pronoun meaning, making an inference, and reasoning. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Letters’ encourages students to say the name of the picture and choose the missing letter to make the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Letters’ encourages students to say the name of the picture and choose the missing letter to make the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Sounds’ encourages students to read the sentence and choose the sound to complete the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Words with the ‘ow’/ ‘ou’ Sound’ encourages students to choose the correct word to complete the sentence and say the word.
This graphic organiser, ‘Moving Along’ allows students to describe feelings of both themselves and other groups of people in history.
This kids news activity, ‘New Space Mission Will Study Asteroid In 2018’ reports on a NASA and Canadian Space Agency project aimed at studying a piece of an asteroid.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Not as Easy as You Think’, features an informational text about keeping pet goldfish and includes advice on tank size, cleaning, environment, and feeding. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about cause and effect, validity, detail, reasoning, drawing a conclusion, fact/opinion, …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Our Sunsational Monsters’ supports students in developing their writing skills by creating lists of descriptive words about monsters.
This graphic organiser, ‘Our Sunsational Senses’ supports students in developing their writing skills by creating lists of descriptive words.
This Readers Theatre activity, “Celebrate Diversity” encourages students to compare and contrast historical story events and themes with their knowledge of the present day. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Picture Dictionary,’ helps students use illustrations to determine word meanings. It is aimed at helping students with vocabulary development by having them use context clues.
This graphic organiser, ‘Picture Perfect’ provides students with a visual tool to see concepts or information that may be ambiguous or unclear to them.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Predicting Text,’ helps students read more rapidly and with better comprehension. It is aimed at developing students’ vocabulary by encouraging them to predict what the author will say.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Rabbit Run’, features a fable about a young rabbit who does not listen to his mother’s advice. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about vocabulary, making an inference, reasoning, conclusion, sequence, predicting outcome, and genre. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Rainbow Origins’, features an informational text about the natural phenomena of rainbows, and a recount of two Native American myths about rainbows. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making an inference, reasoning, drawing a conclusion, and comparison/contrast.
This phonics activity, ‘Same Sound’ encourages students to say each word pair and decide if the vowel sound is the same in both words.
This understanding text worksheet ‘Same Word Different Meaning’ supports students to practise using their, there and they’re. 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 ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ are examined.
This quick reference chart ‘Same Word, Different Meanings’ helps students with homonyms. 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 words ‘club’ and ‘fine’ are examined.
This phonics activity, ‘Short Vowels’ encourages students to say the word for each picture and find the matching word below.
This phonics activity, ‘Short Vowels’ encourages students to read each example aloud then choose the word with the short vowel sound.
This graphic organiser, ‘ Snap, Crackle, Pop’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, using their five senses to inspire descriptive creativity.
This graphic organiser, ‘Synonym Shapes’ supports students to create synonyms for vocabulary words.
This graphic organiser, ‘Synonym Shapes for Giraffes’ supports students to create synonyms for vocabulary words found in the story ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Synonyms and Antonyms,’ helps students make connections with the text and other words. It has students look up definitions for unknown words and then write synonyms and antonyms for each word.
This graphic organiser, ‘Telling a Story’ supports students to describe and list characteristics of famous figures from history.
This graphic organiser, ‘Telling a Story of Abraham Lincoln’ supports students to describe and list characteristics of Abraham Lincoln.
This graphic organiser, ‘Terrific T-Charts for Plants’ allows students to recognise differences in two types of plans then compare and contrast the information.
This graphical organiser, ‘Thanksgiving Acrostic Poem’ is a fantastic quick activity to think about what they have to be thankful for. 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 word ‘Thanksgiving’ to list things that they are …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘The Classification Game,’ gives students practice with categorising words. It is aimed at building students’ vocabulary knowledge around a particular topic through a fun and engaging activity.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Monsters are Flying Away’ supports students in developing writing skills by comparing and contrasting their monster drafts with that of their peers.
This Readers Theatre activity, “The Nez Perce and the Appaloosas” encourages students to determine whether statements in a story are facts or opinions. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Snap, Crackle, and Pop of Foods’ supports students in editing and revising their food writing, using their five senses to inspire descriptive creativity.
This worksheet, ‘Toast’ supports students to complete simple sentences related to eating toast. It supports an understanding of reading and writing.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Using a Dictionary,’ teaches students how to use a dictionary. It helps students understand that words are arranged in alphabetical order and that guide words at the top of the page can help them find the word.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Using Context,’ helps students learn how to define words in context. When reading, students can gain a sense of context from the sentence or paragraph that contains the word.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Vocabulary Questioning,’ helps students develop a deeper understanding of new vocabulary words. It has students answer questions about how a word connects to a personal experience, to other words, to sensory details, similes and metaphors, how it is useful and examples of the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Phonemes’ encourages students to read the sentence and choose the correct spelling for the missing word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Phonemes’ encourages students to read the sentence and choose the correct spelling for the missing word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘ai’/’ay” encourages students to read each sentence and find the missing ‘ai’/’ay’ word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘air’/’are’/’ear” encourages students to choose the word with the same sound as the word in bold.
This phonics activity ‘Vowel Sound ‘ar” encourages students to say each pair of words and select the word with the matching vowel sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘aw’/’or’/’oar” encourages students to choose the word with ‘aw’, ‘or’ or ‘oar’ to Finish the sentence and then say the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘aw’/’or’/’oar” encourages students to read each sentence and find the missing ‘aw’/’or’/’oar’ word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘ee’/’ea” encourages students to find the word with the correct ‘ee’/’ea’ sound to complete each sentence.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘er’/’ir” encourages students to read each sentence and find the missing ‘er’/’ir’ word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘ew’/’ue’/’oo” encourages students to read each sentence and find the missing ‘ew’/’ue’/’oo’ word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘ow’/’ou” encourages students to read each sentence, say the word and choose one with the same vowel sound and spelling.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sound ‘ur” encourages students to read each sentence and select the missing ‘ur’ word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowel Sounds for ‘ea” encourages students to read each sentence, find the missing ‘ea’ word and then say it.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowels’ encourages students to read each example aloud then choose the word with the matching vowel.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowels’ encourages students to say the name of the picture, sound out the word and choose the vowel to complete the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowels’ encourages students to say each word and then find the rhyming word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowels’ encourages students to say the name of the picture, sound out the word and choose the vowel to complete the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Vowels’ encourages students to find the missing word to complete each sentence.
This worksheet, ‘Weather Days’ supports students to identify and match words with pictures of weather conditions. It supports an understanding of weather, reading and writing.
This worksheet, ‘Weather Days’ supports students to follow instructions for completing a picture of a snowman. It supports an understanding of reading.
This understanding text exemplar ‘What Are Context Clues?’ supports students to use various strategies to find the meaning of new words. It encourages students to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context and provides examples for students to practise.
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