This worksheet ‘My Ultimate Pancake Day’ is a great writing prompt that encourages students to write freely using their own creative ideas about what they would like to do on Pancake Day. Some students may find it difficult to motivate themselves to write creatively but this writing prompt gives students enough freedom to explore many …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Mysterious Situations’ asks students to look at a picture, list ideas for a story and then write an original story of their own.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Narrative Voice: Retelling a Story’ encourages students to retell a story with characters and setting, and with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
This writing task worksheet ‘New Bicycle’ 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 reading comprehension activity, ‘New Champs Take the Court’, asks students to read a story and answer comprehension questions on a text about American tennis champions, Venus and Serena Williams.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘New Champs Take the Court’, asks students to read a story and answer comprehension questions on American tennis champions, Venus and Serena Williams.
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 writing task worksheet ‘New Sports Programme’ 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. It …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘New Tales of the Taino’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the Taino people of the Dominican Republic.
This graphic organiser, ‘News Report’ supports the teaching of writing by prompting students to ask and record key questions about an event.
This kids news activity, ‘Nine-Year-Old Up For Best Actress Oscar’ is about Quvenzhane Wallis, the youngest Academy Award nominee.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘No Helmet? Pay Up!’, asks to answer comprehension questions on a text about helmet laws in America.
This kids news activity, ‘Nomadic Gnome Puts Gravity To The Test’ is about a scientific experiment centred on physical location, gravity and the measurement of weight.
This postcard ‘Northern Cape: Big Hole’ features important factual background information on the world’s largest human-made hole. The postcard template encourages students to research the location in order to write creatively about it as though recounting a visit. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the environmental, cultural and historical landmarks of South Africa …More
This postcard ‘Northern Cape: Kalahari Desert’ features important factual background information on this semi-arid desert that stretches from South Africa to Namibia and Botswana. The postcard template encourages students to research the location in order to write creatively about it as though recounting a visit. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the environmental, …More
This postcard ‘Northern Cape: Namaqualand’ features important factual background information on this semi-arid area that bursts to life when the Spring rains fall. The postcard template encourages students to research the location in order to write creatively about it as though recounting a visit. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the environmental, cultural …More
This reading comprehension activity ‘Not Too Young to Fight’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a school girl named Kory Johnson, who educated people about the environment and pollution.
This kids news activity, ‘Nutella Is Not A Health Food’ is about a legal case involving a product’s misleading advertising.
This kids news activity, ‘NYPD Officer’s Random Act Of Kindness Goes Viral’ is about how a photo of a Police Officer’s good deed was seen by millions on the internet.
This writing task worksheet ‘On a Different Planet’ 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 with …More
This reading comprehension activity ‘On the Prowl Again’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a deadly virus that struck lions in Africa.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Open Wide, Don’t Bite!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about an animal dentist.
This graphic organiser, ‘Opinion Organiser’ helps students organise their thoughts and opinions regarding a character’s decisions in a story.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Opposites Attract’ encourages students to use clues, such as the title and topic, to aid comprehension and make predictions about content. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Writing Dynamic Conclusions’ encourages students to write conclusions that summarise written work in an intriguing way.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Writing Enticing Leads’ encourages students to write creative leads to attract a reader to read their articles.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Organisational Outlines: Chronological Order’ encourages students to sequence information.
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 graphic organiser, ‘Outline Creations’ supports students in organising their thoughts into an outline before writing a draft.
This graphic organiser, ‘Outline Form’ helps students to prepare a paragraph. It encourages students to think about a topic sentence, supporting ideas and a conclusion.
This graphic organiser, ‘Outline Form’ helps students to write about the topic sentences and supporting details for different paragraphs.
This kids news activity, ‘Owner Of Mollie’s Candy Stores Is Just Six Years Old’ is about the youngest entrepreneur in Britain, Molly Price, who opened a chain of candy stores.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Paragraph Topics: Compare and Contrast’ encourages students to identify paragraph topics and compare and contrast .
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Paragraphing’ encourages students to organise information into different categories (paragraphs).
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Adjectives’ encourages students to read and write sentences containing adjectives.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Adverbial Phrases’ encourages students to read and write sentences containing adverbial phrases.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Nouns’ encourages students to read, identify, and classify nouns used in a sentence.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Pronouns’ encourages students to identify and use pronouns in a sentence.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Verbs’ encourages students to identify the verb in a sentence.
This kids news activity, ‘Peanuts Recalled For Not Stating ‘May Contain Peanuts” investigates an incident where a product was recalled for inadequate allergy warning.
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 reading comprehension activity, ‘People Should Not Capture Whales’, asks students to read a story and answer comprehension questions about whales.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘People Should Not Capture Whales’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about whales in water parks.
This writing text exemplar ‘Persuasive Prompts’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. 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 and examples to support their position.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Persuasive Writing’ encourages students to identify a problem and provide supporting evidence.
This Assessment Item, ‘Persuasive Writing Checklist’ can be used by students to self-assess their persuasive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Persuasive Writing Plan’ supports the teaching of writing by giving students a template for planning the features of persuasive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Persuasive Writing: Proposals’ supports the teaching of writing to put forward a proposal across the curriculum by providing a template to frame thinking and writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Picture Me Here’ provides students the opportunity to design final layouts for their narrative picture books.
This graphic organiser, ‘Picture Me Here for the First Time’ provides students the opportunity to design final layouts for their first time narratives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Picture My Science Topic’ provides students with the opportunity to draw mental images to aid the comprehension of a science topic.
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 graphic organiser, ‘Picture This’ provides students with the opportunity to draw mental images to aid the comprehension of a text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Picture This’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, focusing on the use of illustrations to enhance their writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘ Picture This Food’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, focusing on the use of illustrations to enhance their descriptive drafts.
This writing task worksheet ‘Plan a Special Day’ 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 Readers Theatre activity, ‘Plant Life’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Play Time’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about producing a play.
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