This art project ‘Doodles’ enables students to create free-form doodle drawings. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a recommended art book.
This graphic organiser, ‘Doorway to Drawings’ supports students in creating and utilising drawings to develop ideas for writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Doorway to Family Drawings’ supports students in creating and utilising family drawings to develop ideas for writing.
This maths activity, ‘Dot and Number Match’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise number recognition and counting as part of a game played as a class. It includes a set of number cards from 1-10 as well as blank cards on which the teacher can create their own dot patterns.
This maths activity, ‘Dot Patterns’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise number recognition and counting across three different challenges. It includes a set of ten frames, counters, numeral and dot cards from 1-10 and a set of blank cards for the teacher.
This maths activity, ‘Dot-card Patterns’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played in pairs. It includes a set of dot cards from 1-9.
The learning activity ‘Dotty Darts’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. Students need to use visualisation to support their spatial, numeric, algebraic and quantitative thinking. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘Double Attribute Tree’ helps students to arrange information into small distinct categories, then write stories using this information.
The learning activity, ‘Double Rules’ shows two students playing a game that uses two calculators. Students need to work out the relationships between numbers in order to solve the problems. This find-the-function game is a great learning activity to help students understand number and function relationships. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching …More
This maths activity, ‘Double Trouble’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise multiplication as part of an engaging game played in two teams. It includes a set of numeral cards from 1-10 for the teacher.
In the learning activity, ‘Double Trouble’, students are challenged to become familiar with arrays and to use arrays to develop their multiplication strategies, focusing on doubling and using fives. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Double-Entry Journals,’ helps students evaluate the author’s organisation and purpose. It encourages students to select significant text information and think critically about the information.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Double-Entry Journals,’ makes the metacognitive process of proficient reading explicitly clear to all readers. It is aimed at teaching students that they are not merely reading words and that their brains should be actively making note of both the text and the thinking that goes on in relation to …More
This art project ‘Dragonfly Sculpture’ enables students to create dragonflies from clothes-pegs. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This content area reading activity, ‘Dragonology’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to understand the purpose of a book review.
This art project ‘Draw a Spider Web’ enables students to create spider web patterns. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a recommended art book.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Draw It,’ has students draw representations of visualisations they made while reading the text. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them visualise key ideas.
This art project ‘Drawing Adventure’ enables students to draw an imaginary journey. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Drawing Conclusions,’ guides students through the process of drawing conclusions. It is aimed at helping students draw conclusions about an issue and about the author’s intent.
This written language activity, ‘Dreaming Symbols’ supports language development by encouraging students to build and reinforce recognition of common Aboriginal Dreaming symbols. It asks students to discuss the symbols and to put them into context through the reading or telling of stories.
This written language activity, ‘Dreaming Symbols’ supports students to build and reinforce recognition of common Aboriginal Dreaming symbols. It asks students to match each symbol to a picture of what it represents and invites further discussion about how the symbols can mean different things in different tribes.
This art project ‘Dripping Paint – Action Painting’ enables students to create ‘action paintings’ in the style of artist Jackson Pollock. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions, a brief background about Jackson Pollock and a recommended art book.
In the engaging learning activity, ‘Duncan’s Day’ Duncan the donkey carries water to thirsty miners in the Australian outback. Students need to use their knowledge of patterns to develop rules that determine mathematical relationships involved in Duncan’s work. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further …More
In ‘Dylan’s Dominoes’, a domino designer rolls a pair of dice to decide which dots to put on his dominoes. The learning activity asks students to simulate 40 dice rolls, pool their data, and graph and analyse the results. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Early Presentation Times’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to present their published autobiographies to the class.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Earthquakes’ 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, ‘Ecosystem Web’ helps students to connect relationships between organisms in a useful way.
This maths activity, ‘Edible Jewellery’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to create their own pattern necklaces. It is aimed at developing students’ understanding that a pattern repeats itself in a predictable way.
This maths activity, ‘Egg Carton Shake’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to subtract with numbers generated from shaking an egg carton. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of subtracting. It provides an egg carton numbers sheet, an egg carton subtraction sheet and an egg carton addition sheet.
This art project ‘Egg Cup Flowers’ enables students to create flowers and vases from egg cartons and tubes. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This graphic organiser, ‘Eggcellent Heroes’ supports students to identify details from stories about folk heroes.
This patterns learning activity, ‘Eight Queens’ asks students to practise with strategic thinking.
This sequencing activity, ‘ El Senor Don Gato’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about the story of El Senor Don Gato.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Electricity’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 3 readers.
This early learning activity, ‘Elephant Song’ provides instructions on how to make elephant puppets using paper plates and socks and is followed by an accompanying song.
Eleventh Heaven’ is a learning activity in which students learn how to multiply by 11 from experience and by following examples. They may use calculators at first but as they identify patterns, they will be able to use efficient strategies with 11. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support the use …More
This Readers Theatre activity, “Ellis Island” encourages students to organize information into logical and sequential order. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This learning activity, ‘Emani’s Haircutting’, describes how guests are given gifts of food after a ceremony on the island of Niue. Students find fractions to help share the food and then write their own story and fraction questions about a celebration. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Emotion Motion’ enables students to improve their reading comprehension by collecting words that reveal the feelings of a character.
This graphic organiser, ‘Emotion Motion for Olive’s Ocean’ allows students to explore the development of Martha’s character in order to read a monologue from Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes expressively.
This art project ‘Emotion Painting’ enables students to create paintings based on feelings. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a recommended art book.
This maths activity, ‘Empty Number Line Sums’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition and place value, as part of a game played in pairs with a dice. It includes six-sided numeral and dot dice templates and number lines from 2-20 to be distributed to pairs.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds ‘all’ or ‘ell” encourages students to read each sentence and find the missing word.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds’ encourages students to say each word and find the word with the same end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds’ encourages students to say each word and find the word with the same end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds’ encourages students to say each word and find the letter/s for the end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds’ encourages students to say each word and find the letter/s for the end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds Names’ encourages students to say each name and find the letter/s for the end sound of the name.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds Names’ encourages students to say each name and find the letter/s for the end sound of the name.
This phonics activity, ‘End Sounds Consonants’ encourages students to say the name of each picture, sound it out and select the end sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Ending Sounds’ encourages students to say the name of each picture and find the matching ending sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Ending Sounds’ encourages students to say the name of each picture and find the matching ending sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Ending Sounds Letter’ encourages students to say each word and find the letter/s that make the ending sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Ending Sounds Match’ encourages students to read the sentence and match the word in bold to the same word.
This graphic organiser, ‘Estimating Coins’ helps students estimate how many coins there are in a jar using two different methods, and then asks them to compare the two estimations.
This graphic organiser, ‘Evaluating Gender Bias’ asks students to evaluate gender stereotypes and record their findings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Evaluating Texts’ supports language development by encouraging students to evaluate different kinds of texts. Students will evaluate language features and author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Evaluating Texts’ supports language development by encouraging students to evaluate different kinds of texts. Students will evaluate text structure, language features and author purpose.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Even Bananas Take Trips!’ encourages students to summarise information in the script and retell it in their own words. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This maths activity, ‘Even, Zero, Odd’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise recognition of odd and even numbers as part of an active game played as a class.
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