This reading comprehension activity, ‘S – Match the Word’ asks students to identify words and pictures that start with the letter S. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of the alphabet, sound-letter relationships and word knowledge.
This ‘Animal Alphabet: S: Squirrel’ is an animal themed worksheet that provides opportunities for handwriting practice.
This geography article, ‘Salmon’, features factual information about salmon. It is aimed at broadening students’ cultural, geographical, and historical awareness in an engaging manner.
This short nonfiction text ‘S: Soweto’ features important factual background information relating to the famous urban settlement southwest of Johannesburg. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the landmarks and settlements associated with South African society and also features an activity for students to practise their handwriting.
This short nonfiction text, ‘S: St Patrick’s Day’ features important factual background information about Ireland’s Patron Saint, St Patrick, and celebrations to remember him. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the symbols and icons associated with Irish culture and also features an activity for students to practise their handwriting.
This Animal Alphabet, ‘S: Stegosaurus’ is a Dinosaur themed worksheet that provides opportunities for handwriting practice.
This article, ‘Sacagawea’ describes the life of a Native American woman who helped early settlers find a route across America to the Pacific Ocean. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This writing prompt, ‘Safe Places’ helps students to write about if they like to be alone or with others when they are worried about something. It encourages students to think about dealing with worries and fears and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Safety Tips to Avoid Getting Stung by Bees’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text about bees. 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 look critically …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Sailing across the Seas’, features instructions for students to write a story about a sea voyage. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest including the destination, the type of ship, roles on the trip, and feelings.
This life science worksheet, ‘Salad Survey’ asks students to carry out a survey to determine what people like in their salads. It supports an understanding of plants and nutrition.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Sally Ride’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This understanding text worksheet ‘Same Word Different Meaning’ supports students to practise using their, there and they’re. It encourages students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain their particular meaning. In this case, the words ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ are examined.
The paired texts, ‘Samuel’ and ‘A Special Little Boy’ concern a boy who has autism. The story is told first from the perspective of Samuel’s doctor’s daughter, then by the doctor. They provide opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Sarah’s Allergies’ asks students to answer questions about a young girl who has food allergies. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This article, ‘Satchel Paige, Pitcher’ tells about the life and achievements of a famous African American baseball player. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This writing task worksheet ‘Saturday School’ helps students to practise persuasive writing. It is aimed at encouraging students to plan their writing by choosing their position on a topic, then asking themselves questions to best explain their ideas to the reader using details, examples and their own personal experience to support their position. It includes …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Saturn’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The reading comprehension activity, ‘Saturn’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about the planet Saturn. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and the main idea.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Save Our Streams’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a letter written by a boy who is concerned about water pollution.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Save the Manatee’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about manatee conservation. 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 look critically at words …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Saving a Village’, features a narrative text about a young man who displays courage during the American Revolution. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about genre, reasoning, character, vocabulary, detail, making a judgment, cause and effect, drawing a conclusion, and predicting …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Saving the Birds’ asks students to answer questions about a tale of a man named Abraham Lincoln who stopped to save some birds. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings, rhyming word families and homophones.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Saving the Day’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about natural disasters.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Saving the Swordfish’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the decreasing numbers of swordfish in the ocean.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Scales and Proportions’ offers an introduction to using a scale to find distances or lengths. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This data and probability worksheet, ‘Scatter Plots’ allows for practice with scatter plots. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘School Days Part I’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that relate to school. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a sentence describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘School Days Part II’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that relate to school. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a sentence describing it.
This writing prompt, ‘School Dress Code’ helps students to write about why schools should or should not have uniforms. It encourages students to think about self-expression and individuality and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing task worksheet ‘School Is Hard Work’ 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 …More
This writing task worksheet ‘School Rules’ 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 help …More
This word problems worksheet, ‘School Statistics’ asks students to practise in the completion of word problems about ratios.
This writing task worksheet ‘School Subjects’ 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 encourages students to use a checklist to help with the content and organisation, …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Science Experiment’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Scientific and Standard Notation’ allows for practice expressing numbers in scientific notation and standard form. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This writing prompt, ‘Sea Monster’ helps students to write about a large sea creature that might live under the ocean. It encourages students to think about mysterious sea creatures and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This article, ‘Sea Turtles’ describes the habitat, features and behaviour of turtles that live in the sea. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Sea Turtles in Trouble’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about sea turtles and what a class of students does to help sea turtles. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to make predictions, explain ideas and recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Sea-Fever’ asks students to answer questions about John Masefield’s famous poem about a sailor who wants to go to sea. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Search and Rescue Dogs’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about these special canines. 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 …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Search and Rescue Dogs’, features an informational text about dogs that find survivors after disasters such as earthquakes and building collapses. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, comparison/contrast, central purpose, detail, sequence, visual comprehension, reasoning, validity, and …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Seashell Wind Chime’ helps students make a wind chime out of seashells and asks students comprehension questions about making a seashell wind chime. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to make predictions, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Seashells’ asks students to answer questions about seashells and where they come from. 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, ‘Seasons Change’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about the four seasons. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Seat Belts’ asks students to answer questions about seat belt safety. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This writing prompt, ‘Seat Belts Save Lives’ helps students to write about why we should or shouldn’t have seat belt laws. It encourages students to think about seat belt laws and safety and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
The paired texts, ‘Second Best’ and ‘Charros’ give the stories of an American and a Mexican cowboy competing in different rodeos. They provide opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Secrets’, features a narrative text about two boys fascinated by a deserted house. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about setting, validity, cause and effect, making a judgment, detail, drawing a conclusion, character, fact/opinion, mood/tone, literary device, and genre. Answer sheet …More
This writing prompt, ‘Secrets’ helps students to write about whether a character had the right to be upset when her mother read her diary. It encourages students to think about privacy rights and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Secrets of the Giant Squid’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a giant squid in the American Museum of Natural History.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Secrets of the Giant Squid’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the giant squid in the American Museum of Natural History.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘See Africa by Bike’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a bike trip across East Africa.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘See Africa by Bike’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a bike trip across East Africa.
This life science worksheet, ‘Seeds and Water’ provides students with an experiment to determine how much water seeds need. It supports an understanding of plants.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Seeing Codes’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the use of codes through history. 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 make judgements about …More
This addition worksheet, ‘Seeing Double’ asks students to practise doubling numbers.
This writing prompt, ‘Seeing Red’ helps students to write about how different colours make them feel. It encourages students to think about how different colours affect their mood and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Selecting Computational Methods’ allows for practice selecting the appropriate computational method. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This data and probability worksheet, ‘Selecting Graphs’ allows for practice choosing the appropriate graph to use in a given situation. Answer sheet provided with file download.
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