This Readers Theatre activity, ‘A Community of Helpers’ encourages students to relate elements of the story to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘All About Oceans’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to comprehend and respond to new information found in text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘An Ancestor Potluck’ encourages students to relate elements of a story, including events, characters, conflicts and themes, to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Circle’ encourages students to explore, compare and classify the attributes of a circle and locate circular items in the classroom.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Comparisons’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to create similes using ‘as’.
This fractions and decimals worksheet, ‘Happy Families’ asks students to practise with equivalent fractions, percentages and decimals.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Height’ encourages students to identify, compare and arrange objects by height from shortest to tallest.
This fractions and decimals worksheet, ‘If It’s All the Same to You’ asks students to practise with equivalent fractions, percentages and decimals.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Imagery: Using Similes’ encourages students to use a simile in descriptive writing.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Large or Small’ encourages students to identify, compare and arrange objects from smallest to largest.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Length’ encourages students to identify, compare and arrange objects by length from shortest to longest.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making a Graph’ supports the teaching of writing and mathematics by giving students a template for creating a graph to organise information.
This beginning algebra worksheet, ‘Missing Numbers’ allows for practice using patterns to recognise rules of operations and superlatives in measurement. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Odour’ encourages students to explore, compare and classify a variety of odours.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Opposites Attract’ encourages students to use clues, such as the title and topic, to aid comprehension and make predictions about content. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, “Celebrate Diversity” encourages students to compare and contrast historical story events and themes with their knowledge of the present day. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Rectangle’ encourages students to explore, compare and classify the attributes of a rectangle and locate rectangular items in the classroom.
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.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Similar Triangles’ allows for practice finding corresponding sides of similar triangles. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘Similarities’ provides a blank mind map to assist students in organising the similarities between two concepts. Having students evaluate and analyse ideas and then organise these ideas visually, provides a scaffold for all students to engage with higher-order thinking skills. It can be used as a whole class pre-writing activity or individually …More
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Taste Test’ encourages students to explore, compare and classify the different flavours and textures of a variety of foods.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Texture’ encourages students to explore, compare and describe textures of materials.
This Readers Theatre activity, “The Nez Perce and the Appaloosas” encourages students to determine whether statements in a story are facts or opinions. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Radio Show that Frightened Thousands’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to understand and respond to new information. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Triangle’ encourages students to explore, compare and classify the attributes of a triangle and locate triangle-shaped items in the classroom.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Working It Out’ encourages students to relate story events, characters, conflicts and themes to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.