This graphic organiser, ‘A Treasure Hunt with Peers’ supports students in planning writing using brainstorming as a prewriting strategy.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Variety of Pen Pal Letters’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, looking at different sentence types to ensure variety in their writing.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Very Cool Hotel’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a hotel made of ice in Sweden.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Very Cool Hotel’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about an ice hotel in Sweden.
This writing prompt, ‘A Visit to the Doctor’ helps students to write about a time when they visited a doctor. It encourages students to think about their health and the doctors who take care of them and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A War Against Land Mines’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about banning land mines.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Animal Information’ supports students in planning writing by brainstorming animals that could be used in informational writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Information’ supports students in planning writing through brainstorming topics for informational writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Words’ helps students to build vocabulary as they learn the meaning of words and determine how each word relates to other words.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Words for Science Vocabulary’ helps students build science vocabulary by analysing the meaning of words.
This graphic organiser, ‘ABC Brainstorming’ provides an alphabet grid that students can use to develop their vocabulary. Use this organiser before, during or after an activity or unit to brainstorm words and concepts starting with different letters of the alphabet. It can also be utilized during individual, pair or whole class tasks, especially whilst developing …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Accident Prone’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a school cross country race.
This writing prompt, ‘Afraid of the Dark’ helps students to write about whether they are afraid of the dark. It encourages students to think about how the dark affects them and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘After the Spill’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a shipwreck near Alaska.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Aliens in Lake Victoria’, asks students to answer comprehension questions about plants that are growing in Lake Victoria in Africa.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Aliens in Lake Victoria’, asks students answer comprehension questions on a text about Lake Victoria.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘All About Bats’ 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, ‘All About Oceans’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to comprehend and respond to new information found in text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This writing prompt, ‘All Five Senses’ helps students to write about what they like to use each of their five senses for. It encourages students to think about the five main senses and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Along the Way’ supports students in recalling and organising information in sequential order and gives them the opportunity to draft a narrative text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Along the Way to Family Memories’ supports students in recalling and organising information in sequential order and gives them the opportunity to draft a piece of writing based on family memories.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Amazon Alert!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Amazon Alert!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
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, ‘American History: The American Revolution’ encourages students to organise events in a story into sequential order using a timeline. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 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 Readers Theatre activity, ‘An Ancestor Potluck’ encourages students to relate elements of a story, including events, characters, conflicts and themes, to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Essay on Playing Competitive Sport’, features instructions for students to write an essay about how teams should be chosen. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest considering the advantages and disadvantages of choosing only the best players and of allowing all students …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘An Even Grander Old Flag’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on the history of the American anthem flag.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Interesting Career’, features instructions for students to create an informational text about an interesting career. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest describing the kind of work performed, the education or training required, and what appeals to the student about the career.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Interview with Success’, features instructions for students to write a newspaper article based on an imagined interview with a famous woman. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest choosing a woman from the distant or recent past, writing four interview questions, and …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘An Uneasy Move’, features a narrative about a boy who must suddenly move to the United States when his father is transferred there for work. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about cause and effect, comparison/contrast, character, emotional reaction, making an …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Unfair Situation’, features instructions for students to write a letter about an unfair situation. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest explaining what was unfair, who or what was involved, and how they felt about it.
This writing prompt, ‘Animal Adages’ helps students to write a new animal adage. It encourages students to think about animal behaviour and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Animal Characteristics’ helps students to write about an animal that has characteristics they have or would like to have. It encourages students to think about animal behaviours and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Animals in Motion’ supports students in creating poems about animals by combining rhyming words and sentences.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Another Star on the Flag’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Puerto Rico and the United States.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Antarctic Shipwreck!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a shipwreck in Antarctica.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Antarctic Shipwreck!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a shipwreck in Antarctica.
This writing prompt, ‘Anywhere But Here’ helps students to write about a place that they would like to be right now. It encourages students to think about a favourite place and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Applauding Affixes for the Classroom’ asks students to apply their knowledge of affixes to the classroom as they search for words that contain given affixes.
This writing prompt, ‘Around the World’ helps students to write about a trip they would take around the world and which four people they would take. It encourages students to think about different places and cultures and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Around the World in 20 Days’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about flying around the world in a hot air balloon.
This graphic organiser, ‘Ask Me Anything’ provides students with the opportunity to answer questions and evaluate their draft writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Ask the Animals Anything’ provides students with the opportunity to answer questions and evaluate their animal draft poems.
This graphic organiser, ‘At the Animal Car Wash ‘supports students in editing and revising their writing by developing titles for their animal poems.
This graphic organiser, ‘At the Car Wash’ supports students in editing and revising their writing by developing titles for their poems.
This graphic organiser, ‘At the End of the Rope’ supports students in developing their writing skills, focusing on sentence structure and correct use of punctuation.
This graphic organiser, ‘At the End of the Science Rope’ supports students in developing skills in science writing, focusing on sentence structure and correct use of punctuation.
This graphic organiser, ‘Attribute Chart’ supports students to evaluate characters in a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘Attributes of Miss Rumphius’ supports students to evaluate characters in the story ‘Miss Rumphius’.
This kids news activity, Baby Superb Fairy-Wren Sings For Its Supper’ is about a species of Australian bird using unique calls to keep their babies safe.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Back to the Moon!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about rocket scientists researching the Moon.
This writing prompt, ‘Bad Habits’ helps students to write about a bad habit they have or once had. It encourages students to think about how habits can affect their life and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Bad News Fans’ helps students to write about sports fans and their behaviour. It encourages students to think about what is unacceptable behaviour and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Balancing the Colours of the World’ supports students to categorise colours by gradation.
This graphic organiser, ‘Balancing the Scales’ supports students to relate the colours, shapes and objects found in the world to themselves and other objects.
This graphic organiser, ‘Ballooning Vowel Pairs for Bartholomew and the Oobleck’ asks students to differentiate between the ‘ew’ and ‘oo’ vowel pairs as they select appropriate words from the book Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr Seuss.
This writing prompt, ‘Be Grateful’ helps students to write about what it means to be grateful. It encourages students to think about a famous quote and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.