This maths activity, ‘Blocks on Bowls’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise subtraction as part of a game played in pairs.
This content area reading activity, ‘Blowing in the Wind’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to recognise the process of cause and effect in writing.
This art project ‘Body Collage’ enables students to create a collage based on their body. 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, ‘Bold the ‘Golden’ Words,’ helps students identify important words in texts. It has students read a text in which important words are not bolded or italicised and challenges students to underline, circle or highlight the ‘golden’ words.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Book Jacket,’ teaches students about how examining the book jacket can yield useful information in deciding whether or not to keep reading. It encourages students to identify the information in the book jacket that matches their purpose for reading and connections to prior knowledge and personal experience.
This graphic organiser, ‘Book Talk’ encourages students to personally engage with reading material to formulate independent opinions and ideas.
This graphic organiser, ‘Book Talk for Bridge to Terabithia’ helps students reflect on what has been learnt after reading and to formulate ideas, opinions and personal responses to the text.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Booker T. Washington’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Bounty of Businesses’ supports students in planning writing by brainstorming a list of companies that they could write to for information
This reading activity, ‘Bowling for Sight Words’ supports reading development by encouraging students to knock down ‘bowling pins’ and then practise reading the sight words on the pins. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sight words. It provides sight word cards and uppercase alphabet cards.
This learning activity, ‘Boxes of Tricks’, asks students to use the supplied grid paper to make various pentominoes and then fold them into open cubes. A second activity involves making a tetrahedron from the supplied isometric dot paper. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘Brain-Based Facts and Heartfelt Opinions’ helps students distinguish facts from opinions in informational texts.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Brainstorming,’ has students tell all they know about a topic. It is aimed at helping students access their prior knowledge about a topic.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Brainstorming,’ involves students telling all they know about a topic. It is aimed at helping students access their prior knowledge about a topic.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Brainstorming,’ helps students set a purpose for reading. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them generate a list of words and sort them into different groups.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Brainstorming: My Favourite Job’ supports students in learning to organise their writing ideas.
Branching Out’ presents students with webs containing expressions that require a missing number before they become valid equations. To do this, students need to identify and apply patterns and relationships between equations. An answer sheet is provided and includes comprehensive teaching notes for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘Break it Down’ allows students to practise thinking of descriptive words and to sort the words by syllables.
This graphic organiser, ‘Breaking Down Stereotypes’ helps students to think about the consequences of an individual’s behaviour on society.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Breaks in Text Practice,’ helps students notice, read and understand breaks in text. It is aimed at teaching students how breaks in text are related to the meaning of the text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Bridging the Gap’ helps students identify similarities between two ideas, concepts or things, then state the advantages and disadvantages of each.
This graphic organiser, ‘Bright Ideas’ supports students in generating ideas for their writing through brainstorming, making lists and class discussion.
This graphic organiser, ‘Bright Toy Ideas’ supports students in planning a piece of descriptive writing about their favourite toys.
This content area reading activity, ‘Broken Toys Don’t Sell Cereal’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to identify the purpose of the writer.
This art project ‘Brown Paper Bag Kites’ enables students to create kites from paper bags. 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, ‘Bubble Map’ allows students to list adjectives that describe communities of the past and present.
This maths activity, ‘Bucket Count’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting forwards and backwards in an engaging game played as a class.
This maths activity, ‘Bucket Count 10s and 100s’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting forwards and backwards by 10s and 100s in an engaging game played as a class.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Buddy Reading,’ helps students work together to understand the purpose and function of text organisers. It is aimed at maximising students’ learning through structured group work.
This graphic organiser, ‘Buddy’s Clock’ asks students retell a short story by sequencing the main events.
This graphic organiser, ‘Bugging Around’ encourages students to write rough drafts of biographies.
This graphic organiser, ‘Bugging Around for My Peer’s Biography’ encourages students to write a short biography about a peer, focusing on paragraph and sentence structure.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Build a Weather Bear’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to outfit a bear based on an assigned type of weather. It is aimed at helping students understand weather terminology. It provides weather bear picture cards, a weather wheel and weather item picture cards.
This maths activity, ‘Builder’s Paradise’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise place value as part of a game played in pairs with playing cards.
This graphic organiser, ‘Building A Letter’ supports students in planning and structuring a friendly letter.
This graphic organiser, ‘Building a Pen Pal Letter’ supports students in planning and structuring a friendly letter to a pen pal.
The learning activity, ‘Building Boldly’ provides opportunities for students to explore the ways in which 3-dimensional objects can appear in different plan views. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Building Graphs’, prompts students to use Cuisenaire rods and pattern blocks to copy patterns and then to show the patterns on the supplied graph paper. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘Building Knowledge’ supports students in planning writing by providing a framework to organise research findings.
This written language activity, ‘Building on Nouns and Adjectives’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding descriptions and making them more interesting and informative by building on nouns and adjectives.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Building Prior Knowledge,’ helps students learn to discriminate fact from opinion. It teaches students about key words that signal opinion through mini-lessons.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Buildings’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify types of buildings from their descriptions.
This maths activity, ‘Bull’s Eye’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to create and solve their own addition problems. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of adding. It provides a bull’s eye game mat.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Button Slide’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise adding a sound to words to make new words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound manipulation. It provides button patterns and add-a-sound word lists.
This maths activity, ‘Buzz Game’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting while recognising multiples of five as part of an engaging elimination game played as a class.
This maths activity, ‘Buzz Off’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting in multiples such as two, fives and 10s as part of an engaging elimination game played as a class.
In the learning activity ‘Calculation Chains’ a chain is used as a model for demonstrating the changes that take place as a series of operations are performed on the numbers at the start of long chains. Students must work out how each number in the chain has been transformed, using a variety of strategies. They …More
In this fun and engaging learning activity, ‘Calculator Golf’ students use a calculator to work out the shots needed for each tee on a golf course game board. They use estimation and keep improving their estimates until they get onto the green. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Can You Name That Thing?’ highlights for students the frustration of trying to read a passage without visualising. It has them attempt to identify the unnamed object in a passage using key words and phrases that trigger their ideas.
This units of measurement learning activity, ‘Capacity’ asks students to practise with estimating and ordering the capacity of different cups.
This spelling activity, ‘Capital Letters’ provides opportunities for practice with using capital letters.
This graphic organiser, ‘Capitalisation King’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, focusing on correct capitalisation of common and proper nouns.
This graphic organiser, ‘Capitalising on Chocolate’ supports students in editing and revising their draft letters focusing on correct capitalisation of common and proper nouns.
This content area reading activity, ‘Car Trip Fun’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to think about the reason or purpose for their reading.
In this engaging learning activity ‘Carrot Country’, students help Rufus the Rabbit collect as many carrots as he can from pots of carrots that he passes on his way home. They do this by choosing the route that will add up to the greatest number of carrots. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying …More
This content area reading activity, ‘Cartoon Timeline’ is a history based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to recognise and use a timeline.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Categories,’ helps students organise information about different aspects of a topic. It is aimed at giving students practice with summarising information from nonfiction texts.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Categories’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the correct grouping nouns in context.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Categories’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match grouping categories to the correct pictures.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Categories’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to matching categories to groups of nouns.
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