This true or false on Halloween is a thought-provoking worksheet that requires students to asses the truth of facts about Halloween. Many students may presume the answers quickly only to realise their assumptions were not correct which can lead to interesting discussions and further research into fun facts about the history and topic of Halloween. …More
This word puzzle, ‘Halloween Unscramble’ is a great activity that encourages students to study the sounds and spellings of words associated with Halloween. Students will be challenged to unscramble letters to find common words used on Halloween. An answer sheet is also provided.
This word puzzle, ‘Halloween Word Search’ gives students the opportunity to learn new vocabulary and improve their spelling of words associated with Halloween. Students must scrutinize the spelling of each word on their list, ensuring new vocabulary is committed to memory with the correct spelling.
This word puzzle, ‘Halloween Word Shapes’ is a great resource that encourages students to examine the spelling and letter shapes of words associated with Halloween. Students must use the word bank to match the letter shapes to the correct words. An answer sheet is provided.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Honour Our Earliest People’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about creating a new public holiday. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to …More
This history article, ‘House Cleaning’ features the traditional spring clean that is part of the lead up to Chinese New Year. It provides factual background information and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in an engaging manner.
This kids news activity, ‘How Reading The News Helped Craig Kielburger Change The World’ is about how a 12-year-old activist from Canada was inspired to start an international charity for children.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Brainstorming’ encourages students to generate, develop, and evaluate ideas for writing tasks.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Brainstorming’ encourages students to use the brainstorming technique as a way to gather ideas prior to writing.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Clustering’ encourages students to gather ideas and thoughts about a topic.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Story Planning with an Outline’ encourages students to plan written pieces using outlines.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Theme’ encourages students to identify and assess main ideas, concepts, themes and evidence to generate themes for multiparagraph compositions.
This kids news activity, ‘Ikea Criticised For Airbrushing Women From Its Saudi Arabia Catalogue’ is about an incident where women were airbrushed from Ikea’s Saudi catalogue and the Swedish company’s apologetic response.
This worksheet, ‘Illustrating the Story of Easter’ is a great resource to supplement Christian teaching at Easter. Students are given the opportunity to illustrate the events that occurred from when Jesus Christ rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, to Jesus ascending into Heaven.
This history article, ‘Irish Dancing’ features the traditional dance style unique to Ireland and it’s rise to the global stage in modern times thanks to Michael Flatley. In provides factual information about Irish dancing, along with a glossary of unfamiliar words and terms from the text. It is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical …More
This history article ‘Irish Icons’ features important factual background information about the objects and symbols of Ireland. It identifies the Irish harp, the shamrock, the potato and the Irish flag as icons objects that are quintessentially Irish and that are deep-rooted in the country’s history. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical and cultural awareness …More
This short nonfiction text ‘J: Johannesburg’ features important factual background information relating to the South African city known as the “City of Gold”. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the major cities and landmarks of South Africa and also features an activity for students to practise their handwriting.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Jackie Robinson’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Christian poem ‘Jelly Bean Prayer’ is a great example of a simple ABAB structured poem. It is written in simple language and provides a great opportunity to explore the concept of rhyming words and rhythm. It is also a great supplement to Christian studies, in particular during Easter.
This worksheet, ‘KWHL Chart of Easter’ prompts students to explore what they know about Easter, what they want to learn, how they think they could learn about new ideas and what they have learnt following learning tasks. This is a great, clearly formatted resource to encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and …More
This graphical organiser, ‘KWL Chart of Thanksgiving’ prompts students to explore what they know about Thanksgiving, what they want to learn and what they have learnt following activities. This is a great, clearly formatted resource to encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and to assist teachers in establishing their students’ prior knowledge. …More
This short nonfiction text, ‘L: Leprechaun’ features important background information about these mythical, mischievous Irish fairies. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the symbols and icons associated with Irish culture and also features an activity for students to practise their handwriting.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Lake Monsters’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about whether these creatures exist. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at …More
This history article, ‘Lantern Festival’ features the traditional festival of lanterns held at the end of Chinese New Year. It provides factual background information and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in an engaging manner.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Laura’s Quest for Wide-open Spaces’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about saving land from development. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically …More
This kids news activity, ‘Lego School Will Be A Bricks And Mortar Reality’ reports on a new international school in Denmark, built by the owner of Lego.
This content area reading activity, ‘Letter to the Editor’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to identify and use headlines and compound words.
This content area reading activity, ‘Letter to the Mayor’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to identify the purpose of the writer.
This history article, ‘Loud Fireworks’ features fireworks and how the display of noise and colour frightens away the mythical beast Nian. It provides factual background information and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in an engaging manner.
This procedural text, ‘Make and Play a Djembe Drum’ features instructions about how to make and play a Djembe drum and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This kids news activity, ‘Meteorite Lands In Russia’ reports on a destructive sonic boom event over a Russian town, caused by a meteorite explosion.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Modern Circus’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the history of the modern circus. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify specific details from the text and to make judgements about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Modern Circus’, features an informational text about the history of the modern circus. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about detail, making an inference, validity, drawing a conclusion, cause and effect, comparison/contrast, and detail. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This author’s purpose exemplar ‘Mother’s Day’ shows students how to identify the author’s purpose for writing a narrative text. It encourages students to look critically at the text in order to ascertain whether the author wrote it to inform, persuade or entertain the reader.
This template, ‘My Thanksgiving Booklet’ is a fun resource that requires students to colour-in the Thanksgiving objects and fill out information about how they celebrate Thanksgiving and why they are thankful this year.
This short nonfiction text ‘National Reconciliation Week’ features important factual information relating to National Reconciliation Week in Australia. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the Stolen Generations, how Australians are going about reconciling these past wrongs today and the history of reconciliation in Australia.
This history poster ‘Nelson Mandela’ features important factual background information about this anti-apartheid activist who went from 27 years in prison to being elected South Africa’s first black president. This is a great resource for broadening students’ knowledge of significant figures from South African history and could be used as a prompt for further discussion …More
This history article, ‘New Year Greetings’ features traditional Mandarin and Cantonese greetings for Chinese New Year, as well as special hand gestures. It provides factual background information and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in an engaging manner.
This history article, ‘Nkosi Johnson’ features the South African child who put a face to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, and the world. It provides factual information about Nkosi Johnson, HIV/AIDS and his fight to protect the rights of innocent children infected with this disease, along with a glossary of unfamiliar words and terms …More
This history article, ‘Now Showing: Australia on Screen’ features the history of television, the drive-in cinema and Indigenous cinema in Australia. It is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match occupations to the person who performs them.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match descriptions to occupations.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ encourages students to match materials and equipment to the various occupations in which they are used.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify materials, equipment and environments associated with various occupations.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Open Spaces Project’, features an informational and procedural text about efforts to purchase lands for open space use. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, reasoning, classifying, making a judgment, fact/opinion, predicting outcome, comparison/contrast, character, questioning, theme, and genre. Answer …More
This worksheet ‘Pancake Day Festivities’ is a simple graphical resource that helps students research and discuss various activities that happen on Pancake Day in the UK. The worksheet directs students to discuss how these activities have become a tradition and what exactly is involved. Some examples include cooking pancakes, special football matches or pancake flipping …More
This worksheet ‘Pancakes Around the World’ is a fantastic and simple resource that prompts discussion and research into how other countries celebrate Pancake Day. Students are encouraged to see similarities and differences in the celebration of this well-loved festival between different cultures. Each country profile gives a list of ingredients that are commonly used in …More
In the paired letters within the text, ‘Park or Parking?’ students read two letters to the editor of a fictional newspaper. One argues for a park, the other for more car parking. They provide opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This oral language photo activity ‘Harp’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Irish Dancing’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Irish Stew’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Leprechaun’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Potato’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Thatched Cottage’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This worksheet, ‘Recognition’ is a fantastic resource that encourages students to explore the concept of recognition. It prompts students to relate the concept of recognition to how they show or receive recognition in their own lives. It provides a great foundation to the concept of Indigenous recognition, why it is important and how we can …More
This worksheet, ‘Reconciliation Acrostic Poem’ is a fantastic activity to brainstorm ideas about the meaning of reconciliation. It is a fun activity that can be used without preparation and across all age groups and abilities. Students are required to use the letters from the word reconciliation to describe its meaning in relation to themselves and …More
This worksheet, ‘Reconciliation Crossword’ provides students with the opportunity to use skills including vocabulary, reasoning and spelling to find the correct reconciliation words to complete the puzzle. It encourages students to identify and understand the terms being used and to build on their vocabulary of key words used on National Sorry Day or during National …More
This worksheet, ‘Reconciliation True or False’ is a thought-provoking activity that requires students to asses the truth of facts about the history of reconciliation in Australia. Many students may presume the answers quickly only to realise their assumptions were not correct which can lead to interesting discussions and further research. An answer sheet is also …More
This worksheet, ‘Reconciliation Unscramble’ is a great activity that encourages students to study the sounds and spellings of words associated with reconciliation. Students will be challenged to unscramble letters to find common words used in celebrations during National Reconciliation Week or on National Sorry Day. An answer sheet is also provided.
This worksheet, ‘Reconciliation Word Search’ gives students the opportunity to learn new vocabulary and improve their spelling of words associated with reconciliation. Students must scrutinise the spelling of each word on their list, ensuring new vocabulary is committed to memory with the correct spelling.
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