This reading comprehension activity, A Spooky Friend’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about bats.
This reading comprehension activity, A Spooky Friend’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about bats.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Star is Born’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to publish a biography and present it to the class.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Star is Born in the Classroom’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to publish a their peer biographies and present them to the class.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Star Myth’, features instructions for students to invent a myth about a group of stars. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest that the story could describe the origin and the current influence of the star group, and could feature people or …More
This graphic organiser, ‘A Storm of Symbols’ allows students to describe symbols and state their importance.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Story of Brave Actions’, features instructions for students to create an original essay about courage in a crisis. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest thinking of a situation in which a person or an animal needs protection and considering how other …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Story of Survival’, features instructions for students to create an original essay about someone who has overcome the odds. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest describing the person, the situation, the obstacles, and how the person overcame the odds.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Strange Land’, features instructions for students to write a story about living in a strange place. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest that the place could be another country or even another planet and advise students to describe three confusing, annoying, …More
This reading comprehension activity ‘A Sweet Deal’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about soft drinks machines in schools.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Treasure Hunt with Peers’ supports students in planning writing using brainstorming as a prewriting strategy.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Variety of Pen Pal Letters’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, looking at different sentence types to ensure variety in their writing.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Very Cool Hotel’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a hotel made of ice in Sweden.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Very Cool Hotel’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about an ice hotel in Sweden.
This writing prompt, ‘A Visit to the Doctor’ helps students to write about a time when they visited a doctor. It encourages students to think about their health and the doctors who take care of them and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A War Against Land Mines’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about banning land mines.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Animal Information’ supports students in planning writing by brainstorming animals that could be used in informational writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Information’ supports students in planning writing through brainstorming topics for informational writing.
This short nonfiction text, ‘A: Albatross’ provides factual information about the Albatross, exploring where they live, what they eat and other interesting facts.
This short nonfiction text, ‘A: Angelfish’ provides factual information about the Angelfish, exploring where they live, what they eat and other interesting facts.
This Animal Alphabet, ‘A: Ankylosaurus’ is a Dinosaur themed worksheet that provides opportunities for handwriting practice.
This short nonfiction text, ‘A: Ant’ provides factual information about the Ant, exploring where they live, what they eat and other interesting facts. The resource also provides a photo of the insect and guided handwriting practice that can be used to supplement the informational text.
This short nonfiction text ‘A: Antechinus’ provides factual information about the Australian animal the Antechinus.
This short nonfiction text, ‘A: Antelope’ provides factual information about the Antelope, exploring where they live, what they eat and other interesting facts.
This short nonfiction text ‘A: Apartheid’ features important factual background information relating to the system of racial segregation that was in place in South Africa between 1948 and 1991. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of this significant and turbulent period in South African history and also features an activity for students to practise …More
This short nonfiction text, ‘A: Aran Islands’ features important factual background information about a group of three islands that lie off the west coast of Ireland, the language people speak there and famous local crafts. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the symbols and icons associated with Irish culture and also features an …More
This ‘Animal Alphabet: ABC Animals’ is a collection of animal themed worksheets that provide opportunities for handwriting practice.
This worksheet, ‘ABCs of Dad’ provides an alphabet grid that students can use to develop their vocabulary and brainstorm different ideas about their Dads. This is a fun and simple resource that can be used effectively before, during or after an activity and across ability levels. It can also be utilised during individual, pair or …More
This worksheet, ‘ABCs of Mum’ provides an alphabet grid that students can use to develop their vocabulary and brainstorm different ideas about their mums. This is a fun and simple resource that can be used effectively before, during or after an activity and across ability levels. It can also be utilised during individual, pair or …More
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘About a Kitten’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about a stray kitten. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, and capitalisation errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop students’ accuracy in written work.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Accident Prone’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a school cross country race.
This worksheet, ‘Acrostic Poem of Valentine’s Facts’ is a fantastic quick activity to brainstorm facts and ideas about Valentine’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 from the word ‘Valentine’s’ to list facts or ideas that they …More
This learning activity, ‘Adding Details’ supports students to revise and improve their writing by adding details.
This written language activity, ‘Adverbial Phrases’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding ideas by adding adverbial phrases. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how an adverbial phrase expands an idea by adding important or interesting details.
This writing organiser ‘Advertisements’ supports students to plan for writing an advertisement.
This writing prompt, ‘Afraid of the Dark’ helps students to write about whether they are afraid of the dark. It encourages students to think about how the dark affects them and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘After the Spill’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a shipwreck near Alaska.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Aliens in Lake Victoria’, asks students to answer comprehension questions about plants that are growing in Lake Victoria in Africa.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Aliens in Lake Victoria’, asks students answer comprehension questions on a text about Lake Victoria.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘All About Bats’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This content area reading activity, ‘All About Magnets’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to understand the nature of a summary.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘All About Oceans’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to comprehend and respond to new information found in text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This writing prompt, ‘All Five Senses’ helps students to write about what they like to use each of their five senses for. It encourages students to think about the five main senses and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Along the Way’ supports students in recalling and organising information in sequential order and gives them the opportunity to draft a narrative text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Along the Way to Family Memories’ supports students in recalling and organising information in sequential order and gives them the opportunity to draft a piece of writing based on family memories.
This graphic organiser, ‘Alphabet Boxes’ helps students to establish letter/sound correspondence as they think of items that begin with a particular sound and link the two together.
This ‘Alphabet Desk Strips’ chart features uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters that can be attached to students’ desks. It is a visual tool designed to help students learn the alphabet and to practice their early handwriting.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Amazon Alert!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Amazon Alert!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Biography: Abraham Lincoln’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘American History: The American Revolution’ encourages students to organise events in a story into sequential order using a timeline. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Great Depression’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘World War 2’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘An Ancestor Potluck’ encourages students to relate elements of a story, including events, characters, conflicts and themes, to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘An Animal Spelling Bee’ asks students to identify misspelled words in their animal drafts, making corrections with dictionaries.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Essay on Playing Competitive Sport’, features instructions for students to write an essay about how teams should be chosen. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest considering the advantages and disadvantages of choosing only the best players and of allowing all students …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘An Even Grander Old Flag’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on the history of the American anthem flag.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Interesting Career’, features instructions for students to create an informational text about an interesting career. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest describing the kind of work performed, the education or training required, and what appeals to the student about the career.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Interview with Success’, features instructions for students to write a newspaper article based on an imagined interview with a famous woman. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest choosing a woman from the distant or recent past, writing four interview questions, and …More
This writing task worksheet ‘An Open Mind’ helps students to practise expository writing. It is aimed at encouraging students plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details, examples and their own personal experience. It includes space for students to plan their writing and a checklist to …More
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