This reading comprehension activity, ‘Play With Your Food’, asks students to read a story and answer comprehension questions about a book on fruits and vegetables.
This kids news activity, ‘Playing Video Games Can Make You A Better Searcher’ reports on research suggesting a link between gaming and the development of visual search skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Poetry in Motion’ supports students in creating poems by combining rhyming words and sentences.
This oral language activity, ‘Points of View’ supports language development by encouraging students to explore different points of view and different ways to express them. Students will describe an event in a story and describe the characters’ points of view.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Police Officer Next Door’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions about police officers living in tough neighbourhoods.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Police Officer Next Door’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions about police officers living in tough neighbourhoods.
This graphic organiser, ‘Pondering Points of View’ supports students in planning writing, focusing on the pros and cons of an argument.
This graphic organiser, ‘Pondering the School’s Point of View’ supports students in planning writing, focusing on the pros and cons of arguments around common school issues.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Pooh Stays!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Winnie the Pooh toys in the New York City library.
This writing task worksheet ‘Practise Makes Perfect’ 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
This graphic organiser, ‘Presentation Time’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to present their published writing to the class.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Enhancing Writing with Graphs’ encourages students to read and create vertical and horizontal bar graphs and recognise how they enhance writing.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Graphs and Charts’ encourages students to present writing in a manner that enhances the reader’s ability to understand and identify the ideas.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Illustration and Page Layout’ encourages students to determine the best items to illustrate their written work and create illustrations to accompany their writing.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Making Picture Diagrams’ encourages students to identify the usefulness of picture diagrams and to make their own.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Maps and Diagrams’ encourages students to present writing in a manner that enhances the reader’s ability to understand and identify the ideas.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Page Layout’ encourages students to present writing in a manner that enhances the reader’s ability to understand and identify the ideas.
This quick reference chart ‘Prewriting with a Graphic Organiser’ shows students how to prewrite using a web. It introduces students to the principles of prewriting and how to use a web to organise ideas, then encourages students to review these ideas and decide which would be best to use before they start writing. It also …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Prewriting with Peers’ supports students in planning writing using brainstorming as a prewriting strategy.
This graphic organiser, ‘Problem/Solution’ helps students to list problems by asking who, what and why. It encourages students to come up with possible solutions.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Proofreading Writing’ encourages students to proofread a piece of text for spelling and punctuation errors.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Protect the Pond’ encourages students to identify and assess problems or concerns and propose solutions. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This quick reference tool ‘Publishing Ideas’ offers presentation and format ideas for students as they plan to publish their writing.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Puerto Rico: The 51st State’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Puerto Rico.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Pumpkins’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to understand and respond to new information. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Racing a Tornado’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students answer comprehension questions on a text about surviving a tornado.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Racing a Tornado!’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about escaping a tornado.
This kids news activity, ‘Raising Awareness About Prader-Willi Syndrome’ is about a boy with a rare medical condition and his family’s efforts to find a cure.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Raising Royal Treasure’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the real-life story of Cleopatra.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Raising the Next Balto’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about training puppies for a dogsled race.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Ratings War’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on the TV ratings system in the United States.
This writing task worksheet ‘Recess Games’ 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 help …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Reflecting Triangles’ promotes application of knowledge as students reflect on three of the elements of literature and connect them with their own lives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reflecting Triangles for Alexander’ asks students to respond to how Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst relates to something in their own lives.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Remembering Their Journey’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the Museum of African American History.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reporting the Battle’ helps students to arrange and apply what they learn about battles and warfare.
This quick reference guide, ‘Research Guide’ provides students with guidance and a template to help them to organise information.
This quick reference guide, ‘Research Methods’ supports students with tips and a template as they plan and carry out research.
This quick reference chart ‘Revising Your Writing’ shows students what to look for when they proofread their work. It is aimed at encouraging students to review the content, organisation, sentence construction, usage and mechanics in their writing and suggests questions they should ask themselves when revising their work.
This kids news activity, ‘Rhinos Being Poached For Horns’ is about wild rhinos in South Africa and efforts to stop them being killed by poachers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Rhyming Words’ encourages students to identify and use rhyming words.
This graphic organiser, ‘Right On Time’ provides students with the opportunity to record a sequence of events in chronological order.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Rings Around Jupiter’, asks students answer comprehension questions on a text about Jupiter and its moons.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Rings Around Jupiter’, asks students answer comprehension questions on a text about Jupiter and its moons.
This writing task worksheet ‘Rising When We Fall’ 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 …More
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Rosa Parks: An American Hero’ encourages students to relate new information from the text to prior knowledge and personal experience. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sail Away’ allows students to draw pictures to summarise myths and legends identifying what it teaches.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sailing Away to the Sun’ allows students to explain the legend Ra the Sun God.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘San Francisco Cable Cars’ encourages students to understand structural patterns or organisation in informational texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This writing task worksheet ‘Saturday School’ 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 includes …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Save Our Streams’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a letter written by a boy who is concerned about water pollution.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Saving the Day’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about natural disasters.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘ Saving the Red-Eyed Tree Frog’ encourages students understanding the main idea and to find supporting details in the text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Saving the Swordfish’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the decreasing numbers of swordfish in the ocean.
This writing task worksheet ‘School Is Hard Work’ 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 …More
This writing task worksheet ‘School Rules’ 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 help …More
This writing task worksheet ‘School Subjects’ 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 encourages students to use a checklist to help with the content and organisation, …More
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Criticise Iron-Dumping Experiment’ is about a company that dumped iron dust into the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to re-populate fishing grounds.
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Discover Cause Of Irish Potato Famine’ reports on the discovery of the plant disease that caused a disaster in Ireland in the 1800s.
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Discover Corn Plants Make A Noise’ is about research into the role of sound and vibration in the life cycle of plants.
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