This worksheet, ‘5Ws and How of Valentine’s Day’ provides a structured diagram that helps students identify the who, what, when, where, why and how of Valentine’s Day. It is a great visual graphic that can be used as a comprehension activity and to generate meaningful class discussion.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Biography: Harriet Tubman’ encourages students to understand similarities and differences within and among literary works from various genres and cultures. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
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, ‘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 graphic organiser, ‘Art Collector’ ask students to organise a selection of art around a centralised theme for a display in an art gallery.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Biography: Madame Marie Curie’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Continuum’ helps students see historical events from different perspectives, identifying negative and positive events.
This graphic organiser, ‘Correct Time’ helps students categorise events related to time, sequencing past, present and future events.
This worksheet, ‘Cupid’ is a fun and interesting resource to prompt discussion and writing about the quality of ‘love’. Students are asked to fill out a profile about Cupid, one of the most prominent symbols of Valentine’s Day. Following this, students are encouraged to think of a person who is loving, either a family member …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Domino Effect’ helps students think about the consequences and impact of certain events from history.
This worksheet, ‘Key Dates in the History of Valentine’s Day’ provides a vertical timeline with space for students to explore key events using the dates provided. The timeline spans the period from Ancient Roman times to today and includes key dates relating to the history of Valentine’s Day. This resource allows students to demonstrate their …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Mapping the Meaning’ helps students find meaning from history, looking at how people viewed events and the reasons behind their decisions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Outlining Medical Advances’ helps students to combine facts about medical advancements with their own personal opinions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Outlining Opinions’ asks students to combine facts about a topic with their own personal opinions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Point of View Pinwheel’ allows students to view and record the content of a topic from different perspectives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Proof Points’ helps students clarify their opinions and form new solutions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reporting the Battle’ helps students to arrange and apply what they learn about battles and warfare.
This graphic organiser, ‘Revolutionary War and the Timeline’ asks students to place events from the revolutionary war in chronological order on a timeline.
This graphic organiser, ‘Right On Time’ provides students with the opportunity to record a sequence of events in chronological order.
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 Find Hidden Mural By Leonardo Da Vinci’ is about the technology used to discover a lost painting by Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci.
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 graphic organiser, ‘Stepping Stones’ allows students to structure key events into chronological order, looking at the possible consequences of changing the order of events.
This graphic organiser, ‘Storyboard Documentary’ helps students to study about famous people or events and then place events in chronological order.
This graphic organiser, ‘Synthesising Information’ supports the teaching of comprehension and writing across the curriculum by prompting students to consider and respond to facts as they read and write.
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 analysing text worksheet ‘The Mary Celeste’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the mysterious disappearance of this ship. 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 worksheet, ‘The Origins of Valentine’s Day’ is a fantastic resource that encourages students to engage with the history of Valentine’s Day. It provides a brief summary of the legend and history of Valentine’s Day and is followed by a comprehension activity to consolidate understanding. It is an enjoyable and simple resource that can be …More
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Story of Basketball’ encourages students to develop an understanding of structural patterns or organisation in informational texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
The story, ‘Think Fast’ describes the meeting between a fun-loving girl who wants to be a photographer and a woman in her nineties who has many memories. Photography helps connect the two characters. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘Timeline’ allows students to structure events into chronological or sequential order.
This graphic organiser, ‘Timeline’ provides a vertical timeline with space for students to explore four key events. The timeline starts with a definite beginning however, includes and arrow at the end to demonstrate the continuum beyond the spaces provided. For example, this timeline can be used to plot and detail significant events of a student’s …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Travelling with Columbus’ helps students explain the trip of Christopher Columbus, then create their own route of exploration that they would like to travel.
This hands-on activity, ‘Using a Roman Abacus’ supports students to learn how to use a Roman Abacus and perform simple maths sums.
This worksheet, ‘Valentine’s Day True or False’ is a thought-provoking worksheet that requires students to asses the truth of facts about Valentine’s Day. 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 Valentine’s Day related topics. An answer sheet …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Wartime Art Classification’ asks students to view different kinds of wartime art, then classify them into four different categories.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘World War 1’ encourages students to make, confirm and revise predictions about a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
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