This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Baking Soda Volcano’ helps students make a baking soda volcano and asks students to answer comprehension questions about making a baking soda volcano. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in an informative and instructional text in order …More
This writing prompt, ‘A Balloon Ride’ helps students to write about what they would look for in their neighbourhood if they went for a hot-air balloon ride. It encourages students to think about the five top places in their neighbourhood and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Best Friend’, features an informational and narrative text about the bond between dogs and humans. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, drawing a conclusion, fact/opinion, cause and effect, and theme. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Blueberry Shake’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Boy on a Farm’ asks students to answer questions about the important work boys do on a farm. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Brave Feat’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘A Brilliant Idea’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about two boys who try to solve the problem of carrying heavy textbooks home from school. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, grammar, and usage errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose …More
This article, ‘A Bull Rider’s Friend’ starts with a narrative then goes on to describe the role and importance of rodeo clowns. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This article, ‘A Cardboard Picture Frame’ gives instructions for making a picture frame from cardboard. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Carousel of Dreams’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a new carousel in New York City.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Cereal Shake-up’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about cereal companies and costs in America.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Cereal Shake-up’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about cereal companies and costs in America.
This reading comprehension activity ‘A Chance to Learn’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about educating girls in third world countries.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Circus Adventure’, features instructions for students to create a newspaper report about an imagined class trip to the circus. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest describing what the class saw, what was most interesting, and what was most surprising.
This reading comprehension activity ‘A Communist Party!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the Communist party in China.
The article, ‘A Cool Bowl of Fun’ suggests that bowling is a good summer activity and gives helpful tips. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Coral Feat’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This questioning and predicting worksheet ‘A Costume Party’ supports students to predict the outcome of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to write about what will happen next based on the clues provided in the story, and provides questions to help them map out their ideas. It also asks students questions to …More
This writing task worksheet ‘A Creative Activity’ helps students to practise expository writing. It is aimed at encouraging students plan their writing and ask themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details, examples and their own personal experience. It includes space for students to plan their writing and a checklist to …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Daring Feat’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative about magic tricks. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text as well as draw conclusions about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Day at the Circus’, features a narrative text about a family of clowns who visit a boy’s class to talk about circus life and then invite the class to visit the circus. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making …More
This writing prompt, ‘A Day in My Life’ helps students to write about and describe a typical day in their life, from waking to sleep time. It encourages students to think about their daily routine and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Day with Duffy and Stuffy’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a story about Duffy the dog and Stuffy the cat. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in a narrative text in order to ascertain the …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Dedicated Teacher’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This writing prompt, ‘A Deserved Award’ helps students to write about which member of their family deserves an award. It encourages students to think about the good qualities of a family member and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘A Different Kind of Boat’, features a whimsical poem about an unusual sailing voyage in a pea-green concrete boat. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about detail, vocabulary, and making a judgment. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Different Kind of Juice’ asks students to answer questions about rubber, a naturally hard substance. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This text, ‘A Different Point of View’ gives a brief history of the life and work of the American artist Georgia O’Keefe. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The paired texts, ‘A Dollar a Day’ and ‘In Shape’ tell about two men who ride their bicycles to work. In the first story, Mr Davis struggles all the way; in the second story, Mr Kelly flies along in great style. They provide opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Dream Come True’ is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students answer comprehension questions on a text about playgrounds for disabled kids.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Dream Come True’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about special playgrounds for disabled children.
This writing prompt, ‘A Dream Meeting’ helps students to write about one person, alive or deceased, who they would like to meet and to explain why. It encourages students to think about someone they admire and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing task worksheet ‘A Famous Visitor’ helps students to practise creative writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the story’s characters, setting, beginning, middle and end in order to write the best possible composition. It includes space for students to plan their writing and a …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Fancy of Hers’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which a new school teacher arrives in a small town called Granville. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Fancy of Hers Part I’ asks students to answer questions from an excerpt of Horatio Alger’s story. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Fancy of Hers Part II’ asks students to answer questions from an excerpt of Horatio Alger’s story. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions and draw conclusions.
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Figure Skating Controversy’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about controversial judging in this Winter Olympics event. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Fish Tale’, features a fable about a goldfish who does not listen to his teacher and ends up in danger. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about cause and effect, purpose, classification, reasoning, character, sequence, detail, and genre. The task …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Fishing Adventure’, features instructions for students to write a story about a real or imaginary holiday involving fish. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest that the student could describe a fishing trip, a deep-sea adventure, a fish rescue mission, or another …More
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘A Fishing Trip’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about a day-long excursion on a fishing boat. It encourages students to identify capitalisation, punctuation, usage, and word choice errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop students’ …More
This writing prompt, ‘A Fly on the Wall’ helps students to write about where they would like to be if they could be a fly on the wall. It encourages students to think about a time and a place in which they would like to land and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language …More
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘A Football Injury’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about a girl whose knee is hurt during a football game. It encourages students to identify spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is …More
This ‘Animal Alphabet: A: Alligator’ is an animal themed worksheet that provides opportunities for handwriting practice.
This story, ‘A Friend Comes Through’ tells how Max’s friend helps him to find a healthy recipe for his class cookbook. It includes a procedure and provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Garden Visitor’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about chipmunks. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Garden Visitor’, features an informational text about chipmunk appearance, diet, behaviour, and life history. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, importance, making an inference, vocabulary, drawing a conclusion, making a judgment, detail, and reasoning. Answer sheet provided with …More
In the story, ‘A Good Deed’ a boy is called in to help his uncle out in a busy pizza restaurant. After initial problems, he proves to be a good worker. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Great Sea Rescue’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about two ships that collided in New York Harbour. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Guide and a Princess’, features two biographical texts about the courageous Native American women Sacagawea and Sarah Winnemucca. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about making an inference, making a judgment, detail, drawing a conclusion, reasoning, predicting outcome, and comparison/contrast.
This reading comprehension activity ‘A Healthy Rise in Vaccinations’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about vaccination rates in America.
This writing prompt, ‘A Helping Hand’ helps students to write about a time when they have lent a helping hand. It encourages students to think about helping others and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Hollow Earth’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This life science worksheet, ‘A Home for a Rabbit’ asks students to imagine and plan a different kind of home for a rabbit. It supports an understanding of animals and habitats.
This life science worksheet, ‘A Home in a Tree’ asks students to examine a tree to find insects that live in or on it. It supports an understanding of animal habitats.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘A Horse Story’, features instructions for students to create a narrative or informational story about a horse. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest including interesting words, different kinds of sentences, and details about the horse’s involvement in an activity.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Hot Place’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This writing task worksheet ‘A Knock at the Door’ helps students to practise creative writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing and ask themselves questions about the story’s characters, setting, beginning, middle and end in order to write the best possible composition. It encourages students to use a checklist to help …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Land of Their Own’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a new territory in Canada.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Letter to Save the Fish’, features instructions for students to write a persuasive letter about helping dying fish. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest covering the reasons for the letter, the location of the dying fish, three possible causes for their decline, …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Letter to the White House’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a letter that Kayla Low wrote to the President on the environment.
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