This graphic organiser, ‘A Movie About My Firsts’ supports students in planning writing using prewriting strategies, writing about their first time doing things.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘A Pair of Socks’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to draw pictures of selected pairs of homophones. It is aimed at helping students recognise homophones. It provides pairs of socks cards and a book page template.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Picture Tells a Thousand Words’ asks students to judge the importance of a photograph or other picture in a non-fiction text based on how much information it gives.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘A Scavenger Hunt,’ develops students’ skills in sourcing and locating information from a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to activate their prior knowledge and make connections through a fun and engaging activity.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Shower of Toys’ provides students with the opportunity to create a word bank of adjectives about toys that could be used in descriptive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Shower of Words’ provides students with the opportunity to create a word bank of adjectives that could be used in descriptive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Slice of the Pie’ supports students in planning writing using prewriting strategies to structure ideas for a friendly letter.
This learning activity, ‘A Smile a Day’, explores informal relations, where one of the variables is difficult to quantify. It features a graph of feelings over time and a graph template for students to complete. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In this learning activity, ‘A Spot of Sickness’, students place counters on Jerry’s face to work out the pattern of his chickenpox spots over several days. Students then plot the increase in spots on the supplied graph template. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Star is Born’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to publish a biography and present it to the class.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Star is Born in the Classroom’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to publish a their peer biographies and present them to the class.
In this learning activity, ‘A Sticky Problem’, Rachel has made 40 pieces of fudge to raise funds for her school. Students must use basic multiplication and division facts to solve a series of problems about the fudge. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Storm of Symbols’ allows students to describe symbols and state their importance.
This content area reading activity, ‘A Toothpaste That Repairs Cavities’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to recognise prefixes and suffixes and to understand the nature of a summary.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Treasure Hunt with Peers’ supports students in planning writing using brainstorming as a prewriting strategy.
This art project ‘A Unique Drawing Experience’ enables students to listen to instructions and to draw what they hear. 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, ‘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 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 Beginning Maths activity, ‘AB or Not’ encourages students to identify, classify and name the elements of patterns using objects or sounds around them.
This spelling activity, ‘Acronyms’ provides opportunities for practice with finding the appropriate acronym for the examples.
This maths activity, ‘Action Numbers’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to count numbers as they perform various actions. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of counting. It provides action cards and number cards.
This learning activity, ‘Add It On’, provides a self-tester for reviewing addition facts. Students complete tables of equations, checking each answer as they proceed. The accompanying teaching notes include suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Add Meaning’ supports language development by encouraging students to explore how noun groups can be expanded by adding articles and adjectives. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of noun groups through an activity in which students will add words to expand the meaning of a noun.
This maths activity, ‘Add One’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to add the number 1 to selected number cards. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of adding. It provides a 21 game mat, a 13 game mat and number cards.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Add the Missing Text Organiser,’ helps students understand the purpose and function of text organisers. It has students find places in a text where a text organiser would really help them to understand the text better.
This maths activity, ‘Add Two Dice’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played in pairs. It includes a set of number cards from 2-12 and a six-sided dot dice template to be distributed to each pair.
This addition and subtraction learning activity, ‘Adders and Ladders’ asks students to practise counting forwards and backwards.
This spelling activity, ‘Adding ‘ing’ provides opportunities for practice with adding ‘ing’ to words.
This spelling activity, ‘Adding a Suffix’ provides opportunities for practice with the correct spelling when adding suffixes to root words.
This learning activity, ‘Adding Adders’, features an addition array. Students are asked to use the array to solve equations and find the associated family of facts. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Adding Details’ supports students to revise and improve their writing by adding details.
This maths activity, ‘Adding Two Two-digit Numbers’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise adding two two-digit numbers mentally.
This maths activity, ‘Addition Bonds to 20’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played as a class.
This addition learning activity, ‘Addition Links’ asks students to practise adding words and numbers.
This maths activity, ‘Addition Quick Draw’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played in pairs with playing cards.
This maths activity, ‘Addition to 10’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played in pairs. It includes number cards from 1-10 and an addition chart to be distributed to each pair.
This maths activity, ‘Addition to 10’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played in pairs with playing cards.
This reading activity, ‘Adjectives’ provides opportunities for practice with using adjectives to describe nouns.
This written language activity, ‘Adverbial Phrases’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding ideas by adding adverbial phrases. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how an adverbial phrase expands an idea by adding important or interesting details.
This reading activity, ‘Advertisements’ provides opportunities for practice with reading the advertisements and answering comprehension questions.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Affixes and Roots,’ teaches students how to use their prior knowledge to make sense of root words, suffixes and prefixes. It is aimed at growing students’ confidence levels in understanding words and increasing reading comprehension.
This art project ‘African Dumbek Drum’ enables students to create African drums. 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.
How old would you be if you lived on Venus or Mars? That’s what students have to work out in this engaging activity, ‘Ageing in Space’. The activity gives some interesting facts about how our ages are calculated, and relates them to the time the planets take to orbit the Sun. This activity includes comprehensive …More
This fun learning activity, ‘Alien Addition’ shows colourful little aliens whose work is controlled by numbers on their bellies. Students must use addition and subtraction to solve problems for the aliens. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Alike and Different,’ helps students compare and contrast two things. It is aimed at helping students see a visual representation of common elements.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Alike in One Attribute’ encourages students to identify, classify and sort shoes into pairs based on different attributes .
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 content area reading activity, ‘All About Magnets’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to understand the nature of a summary.
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.
How many children do most families have? This learning activity, ‘All in the Family’ shows how a girl gathers data and represents it in different ways to compare the families in her class. Students can display and interpret her data and then gather data from their own classmates. An answer sheet is provided and includes …More
Using a practical carpet tiling problem the learning activity ‘All Square’ challenges students to find ways of calculating numbers of tiles by using multiplication instead of addition. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘All Students Respond,’ helps reinforce students’ knowledge of the parts of a book. It can be used for just a few minutes each day to practice using parts of a textbook for locating information.
In the learning activity, ‘All That Glitters’, students are challenged to use their knowledge of basic facts that add up to 10 to make rounded or tidy numbers. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Almost Squares’ is a board game for two players. It encourages students to derive multiplication facts by playing a game that uses addition, multiplication, and division. As they explore square numbers, they gain insights that will be valuable in algebra studies. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with …More
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 graphic organiser, ‘Alphabet Boxes’ helps students to establish letter/sound correspondence as they think of items that begin with a particular sound and link the two together.
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