This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Riddles’ supports language development by encouraging students to listen to riddles and substitute the beginning sounds of words to make new words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound manipulation of beginning sounds. It provides a rime word list as well as blends and digraphs cards.
This graphic organiser, ‘Right On Time’ provides students with the opportunity to record a sequence of events in chronological order.
The learning activity ‘Right or Wrong?’ 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 content area reading learning activity, ‘Right-There Questions,’ gives students an opportunity to practice asking questions. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text through inferencing.
This maths activity, ‘Ring that Bell’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in an engaging game played as a class. It includes a set of operation symbol cards for the teacher and counters to be distributed to students.
This graphic organiser, ‘Rings Theme’ asks students identify themes from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, then select one theme to write about in detail.
This maths activity, ‘Robot Builder’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to recognise the different shapes to build a robot. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic shapes. It provides a robot picture, shape cards and number cards.
This reading activity, ‘Rock Wall’ supports reading development by encouraging students to identify letters as they climb a rock wall. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter identification. It provides uppercase alphabet cards and lowercase alphabet cards.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Roll the Cube,’ reinforces strategies for learning about fact or opinion. It is aimed at helping students to become critical readers through a fun and engaging activity.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Roll the Sound’ supports language development by encouraging students to say the sounds of a word as a ball rolls from student to student. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound segmentation. It provides picture cards.
In the learning activity, ‘Rolling Along’, students are challenged to mentally perform calculations and make sensible estimates and check the reasonableness of answers. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Rolling for Opposites’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to play a dice game asking for opposites of words listed on a die. It is aimed at helping students recognise pairs of opposites. It provides picture flip cards that show opposites, two die masters, a blank die master, blank flip cards …More
For this learning activity, ‘Room with a View’, the class conducts a teleconference with a class from another school and asks them to describe their classroom. Students then draw a scale map of the other classroom. The accompanying teaching notes provide suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This spelling activity, ‘Root Words’ provides opportunities for practice with identifying the root words for the bold words with the ‘ion’ ending within the sentences.
This spelling activity, ‘Root Words’ provides opportunities for practice with identifying the root words for the bold words with the ‘ation’ ending within the sentences.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Rosa Parks: An American Hero’ encourages students to relate new information from the text to prior knowledge and personal experience. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
Run Like the Wind!’ is a learning activity and learning activity that features a triathlete and his coach. The word problems concern his training schedules as they change over time. Students must design schedules to match the triathlete’s changing fitness in each of three sports. An answer sheet is provided and includes comprehensive teaching notes …More
This content area reading activity, ‘Running the Mile’ is a maths based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to use details to visualise, or create pictures of, what they are reading.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sail Away’ allows students to draw pictures to summarise myths and legends identifying what it teaches.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sailing Away to the Sun’ allows students to explain the legend Ra the Sun God.
This maths activity, ‘Salute’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played in small groups with playing cards.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Same Name Patterns’ encourages students to identify, describe and discriminate the attributes and core of an AB Pattern.
This phonics activity, ‘Same Sound’ encourages students to say each word pair and decide if the vowel sound is the same in both words.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘San Francisco Cable Cars’ encourages students to understand structural patterns or organisation in informational texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This art project ‘Sand Painting’ enables students to create paintings using sand. 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.
The children in this practical learning activity love to eat sandwiches for lunch. The ‘Sandwich Survey’ shows some of the results of a survey they did, leaving students to find equivalent fractions. They can also carry out a similar survey of the lunch choices of their classmates. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Sandwiching Sentences’ helps students structure paragraphs.
This sequencing activity, ‘Sara Sidney’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about the story of Sara Sidney.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘ Saving the Red-Eyed Tree Frog’ encourages students understanding the main idea and to find supporting details in the text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
The illustration on the learning activity, ‘Scaling Up’ shows families of fish that are made up of different numbers of square tiles. Students need to calculate the number of squares each family member is made of, then use strategies to count all the fish in the village. Three sizes of fish represent a family, and …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘SCAMPER,’ helps students expand their thinking and visualisation skills. It is aimed at fostering creativity when students have trouble coming up with ideas and helping students expand their observational skills and sharpen their five senses.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Scanning and Previewing,’ helps students set a purpose for reading. It is aimed at helping students predict where information will be found by previewing the text and questions about the text.
This early learning activity, ‘Scarecrow’ provides instructions on how to make crow stick puppets and a scarecrow cut-out that students can assemble as they read the accompanying poem.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘School Bell’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to play a card game in which they have to state the names of school workers and the jobs they perform. It is aimed at helping students recognise names for school workers and the tasks they do. It provides picture cards.
In ‘School Crossing’, Nathan and Malia are trying to find a pattern in the traffic outside their school. The learning activity asks students to interpret a time-series graph and assess the validity of statements made about it. Students then conduct their own statistical investigation. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions …More
This graphic organiser, ‘School Issues Outlines’ encourages students to organise their thoughts about a school issue before writing a persuasive draft.
This reading activity, ‘School Life’ provides opportunities for practice with reading about school life and choosing the correct answers.
This content area reading activity, ‘School Play Diary’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to think about why they are reading and the purpose of the writing.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘School Supplies’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to play a listening game in which they must identify names of common school supplies and classroom items. It is aimed at helping students recognise names for common school supplies and classroom items. It provides a game mat, a blank game mat and …More
This content area reading activity, ‘Science Verse’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to practise looking for clues to the meanings of words by looking closely at their context.
This art project ‘Scrap Wood Sculptures’ enables students to create sculptures from wood scraps. 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 recipe and instructions on how to make tempera wood stain and a recommended art book.
This art project ‘Sculpt-a-Planet’ enables students to create space-themed sculptures. 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 reading activity, ‘Sea Creatures’ provides opportunities for practice with reading information about marine animals and answering the comprehension questions.
The learning activity, ‘Sea Shelters’ shows a variety of sea creatures and some of the places they might live. By using the equations on each creature and the sums on the various homes, students find out where each creature lives. Students can use different methods to find the right places, apart from carrying out each …More
The learning activity, ‘Sea Sorting’ asks students to sort a variety of sea creatures into groups. Students make decisions about the ways they will sort and represent their data. They then write questions about their data for their classmates to solve. The activity requires an understanding of the different kinds of graphs and which ones …More
The learning activity, ‘Sea Symmetry’ provides illustrations students can complete by using reflection symmetry. In the process, students learn how to use the line of symmetry to find the reflection. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This sequencing activity, ‘Seasons’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about the seasons of the year.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Secondary Colours’ encourages students to explore, compare and classify secondary colours.
This learning activity, ‘Secret Codes’, asks students to use multiplication and division facts to decipher messages written in code. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Secret Draw’ supports language development by encouraging students to listen to segmented words and then draw a picture of each word. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound blending. It provides an activity sheet and a word list.
In the learning activity ‘See-Saw Numbers’ students need to identify the operations shown on a number balance and write statements to describe each example. They can also make more number balance problems for classmates to solve. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This sequencing activity, ‘Seeds on the Move’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about how seeds are spread.
This sequencing activity, ‘Seeds to Fruit’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about a plant’s life cycle from seed to fruit.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Using My Senses: Seeing’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to draw two pictures and compare the one in which they were able to use their sense of sight to the one in which they were not able to use their sense of sight. It is aimed at helping students understand …More
This graphic organiser, ‘ Seeing Clearly’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, asking students to identify complex words and clarify meaning.
The learning activity ‘Seeing Cs’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. The problems engage students in thinking about the variables that may affect the solutions and the strategies they can use. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
The learning activity, ‘Seeing Dots’ provides students with a fun way to explore sequential patterns, using a dot grid or a geoboard and rubber bands. By changing and scaling, students find rules to help them predict the sizes of extended shapes. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Semantic Mapping,’ encourages students to organise the information they know about the subject. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them create a visual representation of the subject being discussed.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Semantic Mapping,’ can be used to activate students’ prior knowledge about a topic. It has students record the key concept that they will be reading about in the centre of the map and then brainstorm everything they already know about the topic.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sending Snapshots to Another Class’ provides opportunities for students to describe themselves in order to create details for writing letters to their peers.
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