This text elements exemplar ‘A Bundle of Sticks’ shows students how to identify the story’s central idea and supporting details. It is aimed at introducing students to the principles of deconstructing texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose.
This text type exemplar ‘A Business Letter’ shows students how to identify the structure and genre of an informational text. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the sample text, identifying whether this story is an example of the narrative or informational genre.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘A Furry Friend’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This understanding text exemplar ‘A Story About Moses’ Birthday’ supports students to use various strategies to find the implicit and explicit meaning of a narrative text. It encourages students to ask questions to find the directly stated meaning of the story, then to find the deeper, not-directly stated meaning of the story.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘All Aboard the Race for Space’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, summarise, make predictions, draw conclusions and think about author purpose.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘All About Goldfish’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context. It also encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘An Amazing Airport’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about author purpose and word phrases.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Analogies’ shows students how to use this figure of speech to improve their writing. It is aimed at introducing students to the principles of comparing two pairs that have the same relationships to help students make their writing more interesting and includes an exercise for students to practise forming analogies.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Ancient Egyptian Pyramids’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and interpret map information.
This understanding text exemplar, ‘Asking Questions’ provides a model of a completed understanding text worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and how asking questions will help them clarify or make sense of what they have read and predict what might happen next.
This understanding text exemplar, ‘Asking Questions and Predicting the Future’ provides a model of a completed understanding text worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and how asking questions will help them clarify or make sense of what they have read and predict what might happen next.
This understanding text exemplar, ‘Asking Questions and Predicting the Future’ provides a model of a completed understanding text worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and how asking questions will help them clarify or make sense of what they have read and predict what might happen next.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Best Birthday Present’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about the best birthday present they ever received and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Best-Loved Toys’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about their favourite toy and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This text type and structure exemplar ‘Chicken Feathers’ helps students to identify the structure and genre of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the sample text, identifying whether this story is an example of the narrative or everyday genre.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Climb to Inspiration Point’ shows students how to predict the outcome of a story. It is aimed at encouraging students to guess what will happen next based on the clues provided in the story.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Colonial Cooking’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to think about clarifying and predicting information in an informative text.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Compromise’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about other people’s opinions and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Confessions of a Year Six Bully’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Could the Same Word Have Two Meanings?’ shows students how to identify the different meanings of words that are spelt the same within a narrative text. It encourages students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain their meaning in a specific context.
This writing text exemplar ‘Creative Prompts’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘ where’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the story, then determine which ideas would be best to include in their …More
This writing text exemplar ‘Creative Prompts’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘ where’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the story, then determine which ideas would be best to include in their …More
This writing text exemplar ‘Creative Writing Prompt’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘ where’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the story, then determine which ideas would be best to include in …More
This writing text exemplar ‘Creative Writing Prompts’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. 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 an example of a …More
This analysing text exemplar ‘Danica’s Hero’ shows students how to identify the genre of a text, as well as its implicit and explicit meaning. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the sample text, identifying whether the story is an example of narrative or informational text …More
This facts and opinions exemplar ‘Debate Team’ shows students how to locate the facts and opinions in an example text. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, and shows how the author decided her position on a topic, then used facts to support her opinion.
This author’s purpose exemplar ‘Dena’s New Puppy’ supports students to identify the author’s purpose for writing a text. It encourages students to look critically at the text in order to ascertain whether the author wrote it to persuade, teach or entertain the reader.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Diamonds: Treasures Underground’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall the main ideas and draw conclusions.
This writing text exemplar ‘Different Ways to Prewrite’ shows students different ways to organise their ideas before writing. It introduces students to a list, outline and web as ways to organise ideas, then encourages students to review these ideas and decide which would be best to use before they start writing.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Dinosaur Days’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, make predictions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Dogs Don’t Dance’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context. It also encourages students to recall information.
This facts and opinions exemplar ‘Editorial in the School Newspaper’ shows students how to use facts to support their opinions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and illustrates this process by showing how the author decided her position on …More
This analysing text exemplar ‘Emily Meets Jacob’ shows students how to identify the structure and genre of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the text as well as identifying whether the story is an example of narrative or everyday text.
This writing text exemplar ‘Explanatory Prompts’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details and examples.
This writing text exemplar ‘Expository Prompts’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details and examples.
This writing text exemplar ‘Expository Writing Prompt’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details and examples.
This writing text exemplar ‘Expository Writing Prompts’ shows students how to approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details and examples.
This finding meaning in text exemplar ‘Extrapolation of Information’ shows students how to find the implicit and explicit meaning of a narrative text. It introduces students to the principles of layered storytelling and uses a practical example to explain how to identify the directly stated meaning, as well as the not-directly stated meaning, which is …More
This finding meaning in text exemplar ‘Extrapolation of Information’ shows students how to find the implicit and explicit meaning of a narrative text. It introduces students to the principles of layered storytelling and uses a practical example to explain how to identify the directly stated meaning, as well as the not-directly stated meaning, which is …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Facts and Opinions’ shows students the difference between facts and opinions and provides advice for answering open-ended questions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and includes a practical exercise to help students identify facts and …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Facts and Opinions: Letter to the Editor’ shows students an example of a text that uses facts to support an opinion. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and illustrates this process by showing how the …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Facts and Opinions: Letter to the Editor’ shows students an example of a text that uses facts to support an opinion. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and illustrates this process by showing how the …More
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Family Holidays’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about holiday traditions and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Family Holidays’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about their favourite family holiday and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Family Misfit’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, summarise, make comparisons and think about word meanings.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Favourite Pet’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about their ideal pet and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Finding Clues and Drawing Conclusions’ shows students how to use context clues and personal experience to understand a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose, then put this together with what they already know about a topic …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Finding Clues and Drawing from Experience’ shows students how to use clues and personal experience to understand a narrative text. It provides a practical example for students of how to deconstruct a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, then put this together with what they already …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Finding Clues and Drawing from Experience’ shows students how to use context clues and personal experience to predict the outcome of a narrative text. It provides a practical example for students of how to deconstruct a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, then put this together …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Forming Opinions and Drawing Conclusions’ shows students how to use context clues and personal experience to understand a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose, then put this together with what they already know about a topic …More
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Friendly Advice’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about what helpful advice they would give a new student and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Friends Are Special’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about friends and what makes them special and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Future Scientist’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, think about cause and effect and think about word meanings.
This understanding text exemplar, ‘Going Beyond What You Read’ provides a model of a completed understanding text worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics, as well as making judgements and drawing conclusions.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Got a Lemon?’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about how they can turn a bad experience into something good and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This text type and structure exemplar ‘Grand Stumbles’ helps students to identify the structure and genre of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the sample text, identifying whether this story is an example of the narrative or everyday genre.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Homophones’ shows students how to correctly use the words ‘wood’ and ‘would’. It is aimed at encouraging students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain which spelling of a word that sounds the same should be used in which context.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Homophones’ guides students to correctly use the words sheer and shear, and whether and weather. It is aimed at encouraging students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain which spelling of a word that sounds the same should be used in which context. It …More
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Hoops’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about age limits in sports and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This worksheet ‘How to Be a Better Writer’ helps guide students to revise their writing.
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