This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Biography: Harriet Tubman’ encourages students to understand similarities and differences within and among literary works from various genres and cultures. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Celebrate Diversity’ encourages students to relate story events, conflicts and themes to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Goldie and the Three Bears’ encourages students to understand similarities and differences within and among literary works from various genre and cultures. It also builds on reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Olympic Events’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Olympic horse events. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text, to make judgements and draw conclusions about the text, as well as form opinions about the text as a whole in …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Olympic Events’, features an informational text about the Olympic horseriding events of dressage, show jumping, and three-day events. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about the main idea, vocabulary, comparison/contrast, detail, sequence, and genre. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Performing Cowboys’, features two biographical texts about Tom Mix and Will Rogers, cowboys who ended up as stars of stage and screen. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about detail, drawing a conclusion, reasoning, comparison/contrast, making a judgment, and genre. The …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Pet or Pest’, features instructions for students to write a passage about eliminating or saving an animal. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest that the student list several reasons for saving or destroying the animal and consider the broader ecological impact of …More
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 Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Soaring Women’, features two biographical texts, one about the American pilot Jacqueline Cochrane and the other about the American astronaut Sally Ride and the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tareshkova. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about reasoning, making a judgment, drawing a …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Special Horse Breeds’, features two informational texts about the history and characteristics of the Lippizaner and the Appaloosa. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, reasoning, detail, and comparison/contrast. The task also prompts students to write their own …More
This kids news activity, ‘The Biggest Swimming Pool In The World’ is about a resort in Chile with a pool that holds as much water as 6, 000 regular swimming pools.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Two People Who Changed Motor Racing’, features two biographical texts about Barney Oldfield and Richard Petty. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about detail, drawing a conclusion, cause and effect, reasoning, sequence, mood/tone, author’s purpose, vocabulary, genre, and comparison/contrast. Answer sheet …More
This content area reading activity, ‘Where Do You Live’ is a history based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to compare and contrast different points of view about a topic.
This graphic organiser, ‘Y Chart’ prompts students to use higher-order thinking skills to analyse and organise the relative parts of information. The Y shape splits the diagram into three sections of feels like, sounds like and looks like to help students explore a concept in detail. This resource can be used across all learning areas …More
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