This graphic organiser, ‘Connecting and Visualising’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to record their personal connections to texts and the mental images they form as they read.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Directed Reading-Thinking Activity,’ helps students to make inferences while reading a text. It actively involves students in reading by having them predict, read and prove their predictions while the teacher asks questions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Main Ideas’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for recording main ideas and supporting details as they read or plan for writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Organising Information’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for main ideas and details as they read or plan for writing.
This Assessment Item, ‘Persuasive Writing Checklist’ can be used by students to self-assess their persuasive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Persuasive Writing Plan’ supports the teaching of writing by giving students a template for planning the features of persuasive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Proof Points’ helps students clarify their opinions and form new solutions.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Question Web,’ has students add information related to a single question as they read the text. It is aimed at helping students develop skills in questioning and is especially practical for small cooperative research groups.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Where Did the Dinosaurs Go?’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This learning activity ‘Wild About Juice’ uses the supplies of juices in a school canteen to help students understand how data can be interpreted for a practical purpose. Students need to discuss and evaluate statements to determine which juices are most popular and how many boxes of each kind the canteen needs to order. An …More
This ‘Claim, Evidence, Reasoning’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to organise their ideas about a claim or assertion that has been put forward. The graphic organiser invites students to make a note of the claim, then provide three separate pieces of evidence to support the claim, before finally giving them an opportunity to …More
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