This Editing Task worksheet, ‘A Brilliant Idea’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about two boys who try to solve the problem of carrying heavy textbooks home from school. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, grammar, and usage errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose …More
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘A Football Injury’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about a girl whose knee is hurt during a football game. It encourages students to identify spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is …More
This written language activity, ‘Adverbial Phrases’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding ideas by adding adverbial phrases. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how an adverbial phrase expands an idea by adding important or interesting details.
This written language activity, ‘Building on Nouns and Adjectives’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding descriptions and making them more interesting and informative by building on nouns and adjectives.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Cherokee Nation’, features a rough draft of an informational text about the Native American tribes that settled in the southeast. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalisation errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop students’ …More
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Contractions’ features high-frequency words in which one or more letters have been omitted and replaced with an apostrophe. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples of contractions that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Duke the Dog’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about a dog that wants to play. It encourages students to identify capitalisation, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and word choice errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop students’ …More
This written language activity, ‘Expanding Descriptions: Adding Nouns and Adjectives’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding descriptions by adding nouns and adjectives. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how adding nouns and adjectives makes a description more interesting and informative.
This written language activity, ‘Expanding Ideas with Verbs’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding ideas by using verbs and verb groups. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how changing a verb to a more interesting or explicit verb group can make their writing more expressive.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Grandma’s Parents’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about a boy’s grandmother discussing how her mother would wait for her father to return from sea. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalisation errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose …More
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Irregular Plurals’ features high-frequency plurals that do not follow the normal pluralisation rules. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples of irregular plurals that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Letter to a Driving School’, features the rough draft of a letter seeking further information about a new learn-to-drive system. It encourages students to identify spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop …More
This worksheet ‘Mechanics and Grammar’ provides students with definitions for different punctuation and sentence structures, as well as examples to help them with their writing.
This worksheet ‘Mechanics and Grammar Quick Reference’ provides students with definitions for different grammar terms and punctuation marks, as well as examples to help them with their writing.
Mechanics and Grammar Quick Reference’ provides students with definitions for different grammar terms and punctuation marks, as well as examples to help them with their writing.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Parts of Speech Visualising,’ reinforces parts of speech and requires students to categorise the images they are encountering. It has students record specific nouns, vivid verbs, interesting adjectives and exciting adverbs as they read a text.
In this worksheet, ‘Proofreading’ students correct errors in a sample text.
In this worksheet, ‘Proofreading’ students correct errors in a sample text.
In this worksheet, ‘Proofreading’ students correct errors in a sample text.
This Assessment Item, ‘Proofreading Checklist’ offers guidance for students as they self-assess proofreading of their writing.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Regular Plurals: Adding -es’ features high-frequency words that follow the ‘-es’ pluralisation rule. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Regular Plurals: Adding -s’ features high-frequency words that follow the ‘-s’ pluralisation rule. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Regular Plurals: Changing f to v and adding -es’ features high-frequency words with ‘f’ endings that change when they are pluralised. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Theo’s Coin Collecting’, features a rough draft of a narrative text about a boy who collects any new coins issued by the Mint. It encourages students to identify spelling, grammar, capitalisation, and punctuation errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is …More
This written language activity, ‘Using Tenses’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise using tenses appropriately. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of tenses and how a simple sentence can be expressed in different ways to indicate time in the past, present and future.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Verb Endings: Adding -ed, -ing’ features high-frequency verbs that follow the regular conjugation rules in the past tense and the present participle. The list includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises. It introduces students to basic grammar principals and …More
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Verb Endings: Changing y to i’ features high-frequency verbs ending in ‘y’ which change to ‘ied’ in the past tense. The list includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises. It introduces students to basic grammar principals and is designed …More
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Verb Endings: Dropping Final e’ features high-frequency verbs that lose their final ‘e’ when conjugated. The list includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises. It introduces students to basic grammar principals and is designed to aid language development.
This written language activity, ‘Verbs and Processes’ supports language development by encouraging students to explore and understand the different functions (processes) of verbs. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of the wide range of verbs, such as doing, thinking, saying, feeling and relating.
This written language activity, ‘What’s Really Happening?’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise adding circumstantial details with adverbial groups and prepositional phrases. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of what is really happening in a sentence by discovering details that explain where, when, how and why.
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