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 editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Letter: Ventriloquism’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Animal Acts’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about circus animals. 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 analysing text worksheet ‘Become a Puppeteer’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a procedural text about creating a puppet show. 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 hands-on activity, ‘Draw the Simpsons’ shows students how to draw characters from the popular cartoon The Simpsons. It provides step-by-step instructions and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
This illustration, ‘Globe Theatre’ is available in PNG format at 300 DPI resolution with a transparent background for classroom use. This illustration is also available in black and white which makes it ideal for photocopying and colouring-in. The clip art is fast and easy to download, and can be reproduced for use on bulletin boards, …More
This illustration, ‘Globe Theatre B&W’ is available in PNG format at 300 DPI resolution with a transparent background for classroom use. This black and white illustration is ideal for photocopying and colouring-in. The clip art is fast and easy to download, and can be reproduced for use on bulletin boards and student handouts, and in …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Lipizzaner Horses’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text the history of this horse breed. 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 make judgements and …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Magic Show Memo’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative about a magic show. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, as well as make …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Making a Scrapbook’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text that gives the steps to create a scrapbook. 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Modern Circus’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the history of the modern circus. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify specific details from the text and to make judgements about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer …More
This history article, ‘Now Showing: Australia on Screen’ features the history of television, the drive-in cinema and Indigenous cinema in Australia. It is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
This analysing text worksheet ‘P.T. Barnum’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a biographical text about the famous showman. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, as well as draw conclusions about …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘P.T. Barnum’, features a biographical text about the famous showman who promoted circus sideshow acts. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about character, comparison/contrast, sequence, making a judgment, detail, and reasoning. 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 analysing text worksheet ‘Putting on Your Own Magic Show’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text about performing magic. 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 draw conclusions …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Rodeo Clowns’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the role of rodeo clowns. 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 analysing text worksheet ‘Snowboarding’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the history of this sport. 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 in …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Snowboarding Equipment’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text about this sport. 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 examine how the text is organised and …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The First Modern Magician’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Robert-Houdin. 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 …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Jugglers’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Magic Show’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about magicians and their tricks .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 history article, ‘The Simpsons’ features the cartoon family The Simpsons. It provides factual information about one of the most popular TV shows in history and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
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