This vocabulary development activity, ‘Moving Day’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to place appropriately furniture picture cards according to their functions on a house map. It is aimed at helping students recognise the names and purposes of different types of furniture. It provides a house map and furniture picture cards.
This graphic organiser, ‘Moving Products Over the Gap’ helps students identify similarities between two types of transportation that are used to move products, then state the advantages and disadvantages of each.
This graphic organiser, ‘Moving Star’ allows students to develop and organise ways to move objects using force, then choose the best way to move an object.
This graphic organiser, ‘Moving Star for Pulling’ helps students create lists of objects that you can change the position of by pulling, then evaluate the best object to be pulled.
This graphic organiser, ‘Mr Fix-It’ provides students an opportunity to edit their classmate’s writing and provide feedback on how sentences can be improved.
This art project ‘Muffin Liner Flowers’ enables students to create flowers from muffin liners and buttons. 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 Beginning Maths activity, ‘Multiple Attributes’ encourages students in classifying and sorting objects using a variety of attributes into a set.
This learning activity, ‘Multiple Mirrors’ reinforces the commutative property for multiplication. Students shade in numbers on an array according to rules and notice the patterns that emerge. Understanding the patterns helps students recognise when they have missed a particular product in their array. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions …More
This learning activity, ‘Multiplying Madness’, features problems involving scooters, skateboards, triangles, and insects. Students use their basic addition facts to begin developing an understanding of multiplication. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This art project ‘Music Around the House’ enables students to create music, sounds and rhythms from everyday household objects. It provides a list of materials and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.
This reading activity, ‘Musical Chairs’ supports reading development by encouraging students to practise reading sight words as they play musical chairs. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sight words. It provides sight word cards, musical rhyming cards and uppercase alphabet cards.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Musical Movements’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to practise different movements by playing a musical chairs game. It is aimed at helping students recognise movement words. It provides movement picture cards and animal sort cards.
This maths activity, ‘Musical Number Plates’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting as part of an engaging elimination game played as a class.
This maths activity, ‘Musical Numbers’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise identifying seven-digit numbers as part of an engaging game played as a class.
This graphic organiser, ‘Musical Quotations’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, focusing on the correct use of quotation marks.
This graphic organiser, ‘Musical Quotations of My Peer’ supports students in editing and revising their writing about a peer, focusing on the correct use of quotation marks.
This graphic organiser, ‘My Favourite Passage’ asks students to share their opinions with their classmates about their favourite book passages.
This graphic organiser, ‘My Favourite Passage for From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler’ asks students to prepare and present a passage they have selected independently from the book From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by EL Konigsberg and explain why it is their favourite.
This graphic organiser, ‘My First Pronouns’ supports students in editing and revising their autobiographical writing, focusing on correct use of pronouns and antecedents.
This graphic organiser, ‘My First Time Tuning In’ supports students in include details in their autobiographical writing, focusing on sequencing and structuring topical information.
This graphic organiser, ‘My Masterpiece’ supports students in editing and revising their written work.
This graphic organiser, ‘My Masterpiece of Firsts’ supports students in editing and revising their draft about their first time doing things.
This graphic organiser, ‘My Secret Pal’s Envelope, Please’ provides the opportunity for students to practise writing addresses for letters to their secret pals.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘My Side/Your Side,’ helps students understand that there are often two sides to a story or problem issue. It is aimed at teaching students about author’s point of view by having them work with a partner to discuss two sides of a problem.
In ‘My Town’, Josh surveys houses in his neighbourhood and draws a map to show his results. The learning activity prompts students to use a computer spreadsheet program to sort and analyse Josh’s data. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘Mysterious Situations’ asks students to look at a picture, list ideas for a story and then write an original story of their own.
The activity, ‘Mystery Decimals’ gives students practice in turning fractions to decimals and vice versa. They solve problems then write some of their own for others to solve. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
Mystery Hexagons’ is an intriguing game in which students use factors and number operations to find the missing numbers on a hexagonal grid. They need to be able to explain how the ‘mystery’ works by communicating their mathematical ideas. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be read before beginning the activity with students, as …More
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Mystery Names’ supports language development by encouraging students to identify names that match target sounds. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound matching. It provides name cards and sentence frame cards.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Nailbiting Narratives,’ helps students develop an understanding of the narrative frame structure. It is aimed at helping students become aware of how this structure is used in both fiction and nonfiction texts, and that even though we associate stories with literature, many real-life events have narrative characteristics.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Name Change’ supports language development by encouraging students to use the beginning sound of the names of their classmates to practise sound manipulation. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound manipulation by substitution. It provides a name tent card and a Hey Diddle Diddle nursery rhyme chart.
This reading activity, ‘Name Game’ supports reading development by encouraging students to match pictures of classmates to initial letters. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Names for Places’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify places where particular objects are found.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Naming a Pattern’ encourages students to identify and name each different attribute of a pattern using letters.
The learning activity, ‘Napier’s Bones’ introduces students to John Napier’s fascinating historical discovery that numbers arranged on rods (bones) can be used for calculations. Students can make their own set of ‘bones’ from the template provided and use them to solve multiplication problems. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with historical information …More
This art project ‘Napkin Rings’ enables students to create napkin rings from recycled paper towel rolls. 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 Writing Traits activity, ‘Narrative Voice: Retelling a Story’ encourages students to retell a story with characters and setting, and with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Nationalities’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match various languages to their nationalities.
This content area reading activity, ‘New Dog Diary’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to learn to separate facts from opinions.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Newscasts,’ helps students demonstrate the knowledge they have gained about a topic or concept they have been studying in class. It is aimed at getting students involved in writing reports, editorialising and interviewing characters in order to demonstrate their knowledge of a particular concept or idea.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Newspapers,’ reinforces students’ understanding of the table of contents. It is aimed at showing students how a table of contents can be used outside the classroom.
This reading activity, ‘Night Sky Match’ supports reading development by encouraging students to turn over star pieces that match initial sounds of given pictures. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations. It provides night sky pictures, letter stars, blank letter stars, night sky picture cards and sight word cards.
This maths activity, ‘Nim’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a strategy game played in pairs. It includes a hundreds chart and counters to be distributed to the class.
This maths activity, ‘Nine Piles’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played in pairs with playing cards.
In this learning activity, ‘Nines and Eights’, Sami shares her easy method for subtracting 9. Students try Sami’s method and look for patterns in the problems they solve. They are then challenged to use the same method for subtracting 8. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning …More
This content area reading activity, ‘No Bones about It’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to learn about and practise predicting when reading.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Chain of Events,’ helps students see a sequence of events. It is aimed at teaching students how to outline the sequence of a nonfiction text or to tell a progression of ideas.
This art project ‘Norval Morrisseau X-Ray Painting’ enables students to create X-ray paintings in artist Norval Morrisseau’s Eastern Woodland style. 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 related vocabulary words.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Notetaking,’ helps students identify key information within a text. It is aimed at developing students’ skills in summarising by teaching them that notetaking is a process just like reading and writing are processes.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Notetaking Wheels,’ is a fun way to celebrate the students’ learning of factual information as well as their increasing skills with summarising. It is particularly useful with nonfiction text that is organised in a narrative fashion as texts often are in social studies.
This learning activity, ‘Now and Then’ features activities using the numeric system used by the ancient Romans. Students learn to tell the time using Roman numerals on analogue clock faces. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This maths activity, ‘Now You Are 21’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition, as part of a game played in pairs with a calculator.
This maths activity, ‘Number Card Order’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting forwards and backwards and to recognise odd and even numbers in a sequencing game played as a class. It includes a set of number cards from 1-30 to be distrusted to the class.
This maths activity, ‘Number Circle’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition and subtraction as part of a game played in pairs.
The learning activity ‘Number Crunching’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. The problems engage students in thinking about the strategies they can use to solve problems that involve number puzzles, making patterns, and changing shapes. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further …More
This maths activity, ‘Number Draw’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a competitive game played as a class. It includes a set of number cards from 1-20.
This maths activity, ‘Number Ducks’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to match addition problems with their answers. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of adding. It provides duck pond game mats, duck addition cards and number cards.
The learning activity ‘Number Fun’ is designed to be used as a short starting point for a lesson. The problems will generate discussion about the way students think about solving problems, and the strategies they can use. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
This maths activity, ‘Number in My Pocket’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to play a guessing game as a class.
This graphic organiser, ‘Number Line’ asks students to rank numbers and place them in the correct order.
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