How to Be a Better Writer’ helps guide students to revise and improve their writing work.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘How to Build a Pueblo’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to consider the author’s purpose, to make predictions and to think about text conventions, such as bulleted lists.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘How to Make a Pinhole Camera’ 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 think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Hummers’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to form opinions and consider the author’s purpose.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘I Spy Something Red’ 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 and think about word and phrase meanings as well as author purpose.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Impressionists’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about an excursion to an art gallery. 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 know …More
This analysing text exemplar ‘Jack in the Department Store’ shows students how to identify the explicit and implicit meaning in 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, ‘Jackie Cochran’ 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 draw conclusions.
This author’s purpose exemplar ‘Labor Day’ shows students how to identify the author’s purpose for writing this passage. It encourages students to look critically at the text in order to ascertain whether the author wrote it to inform, persuade, teach or entertain the reader.
This predicting outcomes exemplar ‘Laura and a Letter’ asks students questions about a narrative text to help them predict the outcome. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask questions and use their personal experience, along with clues provided in the story to guess what will happen next and write the end of the story …More
This facts and opinions exemplar ‘Letter to the School Board’ 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 reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Louis Armstrong’ 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 think about word meanings.
This meaning in text exemplar, ‘Meaning of Phrases’ provides a model of a completed meaning in text worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics, idiomatic language and colloquialisms and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context.
This meaning in text exemplar, ‘Meaning of Words: Life in Ancient Rome’ provides a model of a completed meaning in text worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in an informative text in order to ascertain the meaning and usage of individual …More
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 reading comprehension exemplar, ‘My Shadow’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information from the poem.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Nellie Bly’ 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 supporting details and think about word meanings.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Night Owl or Early Bird?’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about when they feel most alert and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This predicting outcomes exemplar ‘Not Just a Day at the Beach’ asks students questions about a narrative text to help them predict the outcome. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask questions and use their personal experience, along with clues provided in the story to guess what will happen next and consider how they …More
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Oscar’s Escape’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to draw conclusions and make judgements.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Painting a Room’ 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 and draw conclusions.
This writing text exemplar ‘Persuasive Prompts’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing by choosing their position on the topic, then asking themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details and examples to support their position.
This writing text exemplar ‘Persuasive Prompts’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. 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 and examples to support their position.
This writing text exemplar ‘Persuasive Writing Prompt’ gives students an example of how to approach such a prompt. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing by choosing their position on the topic, then asking themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details and examples to support their position.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Predicting Outcomes’ asks students questions about a narrative text to help them predict the outcome. It encourages students to use their personal experience and clues from tone and expression to guess the meaning of sentences with little or no context and uses an example text to illustrate this approach.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Preserving the Present: Time Capsules’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions and think about word meanings and author purpose.
This predicting text exemplar ‘Questioning and Predicting’ shows students how to predict the outcome of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to guess what will happen next based on the clues provided in the story.
This understanding text exemplar, ‘Reader’s Opinion’ provides a model of a completed understanding text worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to form opinions.
This understanding text exemplar, ‘Reading Between the Lines’ provides a model of a completed understanding text worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics, extrapolation of information and text organisation.
This understanding text exemplar, ‘Reading Between the Lines’ provides a model of a completed understanding text worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and extrapolation of information.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Rosa’s Ant Farm’ 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, summarise and think about word meanings.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Same Word, Different Meaning’ supports students to use various strategies to understand homonyms in a narrative text. It encourages students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain their particular meaning.
This predicting outcomes exemplar ‘Sentences from a Famous Story’ asks students questions about a narrative text with no context to help them predict the outcome. It encourages students to use their personal experience and clues from tone and expression to guess the meaning of sentences with little or no context and uses an example text …More
This text type exemplar, ‘Short Stories’ provides a model of a completed text type worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of literary elements, text conventions and text organisation.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Simply Fun’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about fun yet inexpensive activities and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This data representation exemplar, ‘Socks’ offers an introduction to bar graphs.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Success and Failure’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about the fear of failure and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Teacher of the Year’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about an awkward situation. 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 know …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Text Structure and Genre’ shows students how to identify the structure and genre of a story. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the sample text, as well as identifying whether the story is an example of narrative or informational text.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Baseball Game’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and plot details.
This understanding text exemplar ‘The Bear and Two Travellers’ 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 reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Duel’ 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 idea and text details.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Farmer’s Daughter and the Pail’ 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 and think about word meanings.
This text elements exemplar ‘The Frogs and the Well’ 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 reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Giving Tree’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in a factual text in order to ascertain the meaning of individual words and phrases.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Heron and the Hummingbird’ 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 think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The History of Kites’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to draw conclusions, think about the main idea and think about text conventions, such as bold letters to help the reader find information easily.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Lighthouse’ 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 think about word meanings.
This meaning in text exemplar, ‘The Meaning of Words’ provides a model of a completed meaning in text worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at words in order to make an educated guess at their meaning in context.
This meaning in text exemplar, ‘The Meaning of Words’ provides a model of a completed meaning in text worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at words in order to make an educated guess at their meaning in context.
This text elements exemplar ‘The Miser and His Gold’ 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 reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Mystery of Dreams’ 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 and think about word meanings and author purpose.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘The Perfect Class Trip’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to describe their ideal class trip and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Planet Mars’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions and summarise information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Saver’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a story in which a girl and her mother clear out her room to make room for her new baby brother or sister. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and the central idea, …More
This extrapolation of information exemplar ‘The Skating Accident’ shows students how 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 text elements exemplar ‘The Stag at the Pool’ 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 reading comprehension exemplar, ‘The Swimming Party’ 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 think about word meanings.
This text structure exemplar, ‘The Way Things Go Together’ provides a model of a completed text structure worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to think about the main idea and text organisation.
This text elements exemplar ‘The Wind and the Sun’ 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.
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