This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Find Hidden Mural By Leonardo Da Vinci’ is about the technology used to discover a lost painting by Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Secrets of the Giant Squid’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a giant squid in the American Museum of Natural History.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Secrets of the Giant Squid’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the giant squid in the American Museum of Natural History.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘See Africa by Bike’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a bike trip across East Africa.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘See Africa by Bike’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a bike trip across East Africa.
This kids news activity, ‘Selena and Justin – Why Do We Care?’ is about the source of rumours and speculation in media reports about celebrities.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sending Snapshots to Another Class’ provides opportunities for students to describe themselves in order to create details for writing letters to their peers.
This set of 16 sentence starters provides assistance for beginning writers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Sentence Structure: Problems & Solutions’ encourages students to identify a problem and suggest a solution.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Sentence Structures’ encourages students to write a paragraph using a variety of sentence structures.
This graphic organiser, ‘Share the Love’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm various ways to share their final writing with their peers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Share the Love of Toys’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm various ways to share their final toy writing with their peers.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘She Takes the Cake!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Claudia Fleming, a pastry chef in New York.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘She’s for the Birds’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about endangered birds in Italy.
This graphic organiser, ‘Shining Stars’ supports students in planning writing using models of autobiographies.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Shipwrecked in Antarctica’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on Ernest Shackleton’s trip to Antarctica.
This graphic organiser, ‘Shopping for Ideas’ supports students in organising their ideas when choosing topics for informational writing pieces.
This graphic organiser, ‘Shopping for Science’ supports the use of pre-writing strategies to create lists of science topics.
This writing task worksheet ‘Should Schools Have Uniforms?’ helps students to practise persuasive writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing by choosing their position on a topic, then asking themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details, examples and their own personal experience to support their position. …More
This writing task worksheet ‘Should Students Have Daily Health Classes?’ helps students to practise persuasive writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing by choosing their position on a topic, then asking themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details, examples and their own personal experience to support …More
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Simple and Compound Sentences’ encourages students to read and write simple and compound sentences.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Slice of a Secret Pal’s Pie’ encourages students to write a friendly letter including details about themselves.
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, ‘Snapshots of Me’ provides opportunities for students to describe themselves in order to create details for writing letters.
This graphic organiser, ‘Solutions for the Cows’ allows students to create solutions for various conflicts and evaluate the solutions to determine the best ones.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Space Exploration’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Special Delivery’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a mobile library.
This quick reference chart ‘Spelling’ helps students to spell words they may not be sure of when unable to look them up. It includes practical tips to avoid spelling mistakes, such as using a different word that means the same thing or using the base word to determine the correct spelling of an unfamiliar word.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Spelling: Find the Mistakes’ encourages students to proofread text to find and correct spelling errors.
This kids news activity, ‘Spirit Of ‘Caine’s Arcade’ Felt Around The World’ is about a boy who created an arcade out of cardboard featured in a viral video.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Springtime’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Squiggle Art’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about an excursion to art museum.
This graphic organiser, ‘Stamping Out Letters’ supports students in planning writing using prewriting strategies to categorise information.
This graphic organiser, ‘Stamping Out Letters for My Secret Pen Pal’ supports students in planning letter writing using prewriting strategies to categorise information.
This writing task worksheet ‘Starring Role’ helps students to practise creative writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the story’s characters, setting, beginning, middle and end in order to write the best possible composition. It includes space for students to plan their writing and a checklist …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Step-by-Step’ asks students with to record a sequence of steps for completing a task to help structure their draft writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Stories to Tell supports students in recalling and organising ideas and planning and writing personal narratives.
This learning activity, ‘Story Plots’, prompts students to write stories based on graphs that show the temperature on a spring day and the distance travelled on a car journey. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This oral language activity, ‘Story Starters’ supports language development by encouraging students to use familiar story starters as prompts for storytelling. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of true and imaginative stories through a fun storytelling activity.
This writing task worksheet ‘Stuck in the Tree House’ helps students to practise creative writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the story’s characters, setting, beginning, middle and end in order to write the best possible composition. It encourages students to use a checklist to help …More
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Supporting Sentences: Identifying Main Ideas’ encourages students to identify the main idea in a paragraph.
This graphic organiser, ‘Surfing for Careers’ supports students in planning writing by identifying which information should be included in expository drafts for career interviews.
This writing task worksheet ‘Surprise!’ helps students to practise creative writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the story’s characters, setting, beginning, middle and end in order to write the best possible composition. It includes space for students to plan their writing and a checklist to …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Sweden’s Igloo Inn’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about an Ice Hotel in Sweden.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Sweden’s Igloo Inn’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about an ice hotel in Sweden.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Swept Away by Mitch’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Hurricane Mitch that hit Central America.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Swept Away by Mitch’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Hurricane Mitch that hit Central America.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take Action’ supports students in developing problem and solution scenarios to make their writing interesting.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take Family Action’ supports students in developing problem and solution scenarios to make writing about their family interesting.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take One’ allows students to make predictions, explain the meaning of a text and summarise as they read aloud.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take One for the Pigeon’ asks students to participate in a think-aloud using the story, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! to demonstrate their comprehension of the texts.
This kids news activity, ‘Take Pictures Without A Camera’ is about a camera being developed in Japan that can be operated by finger gestures.
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’ allows students to recognise differences in the same kind of animals or plants and compare and contrast the information.
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 kids news activity, ‘Texters Studied In New Research’ reports on research into texting and ethical thinking.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Alaskan Wilderness’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information given in the text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Assembly Line’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Bears Bounce Back’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about grizzly bears in America.
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