The paired texts, ‘A Dollar a Day’ and ‘In Shape’ tell about two men who ride their bicycles to work. In the first story, Mr Davis struggles all the way; in the second story, Mr Kelly flies along in great style. They provide opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Selective Environmentalist’, features a humorous narrative about a woman who does not like mice. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about predicting outcome, the main idea, sequence, comparison/contrast, making an inference, importance, detail, point of view, and author’s purpose. Answer …More
This Poetry worksheet, ‘I Will Survive’, features a humorous poem about the difficulties of early childhood. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about making an inference, figurative language, vocabulary, cause and effect, predicting outcome, and mood/tone. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘It Was So Funny!’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This photo card provides students with a discussion prompt using a riddle. Riddles are fun and demonstrate the concept of word play and often open the platform for activities surrounding puns, homophones and homonyms. The answer for this riddle is: ‘Because 7, 8 (ate), 9’
This photo card provides students with a discussion prompt using a riddle. Riddles are fun and demonstrate the concept of word play and often open the platform for activities surrounding puns, homophones and homonyms. The answer for this riddle is: ‘Your age’
This photo card provides students with a discussion prompt using a riddle. Riddles are fun and demonstrate the concept of word play and often open the platform for activities surrounding puns, homophones and homonyms. The answer for this riddle is: ‘It had too many problems’
This photo card provides students with a discussion prompt using a riddle. Riddles are fun and demonstrate the concept of word play and often open the platform for activities surrounding puns, homophones and homonyms. The answer for this riddle is: ‘A towel’
This photo card provides students with a discussion prompt using a riddle. Riddles are fun and demonstrate the concept of word play and often open the platform for activities surrounding puns, homophones and homonyms. The answer for this riddle is: ‘Put it in front of the mirror’
This photo card provides students with a discussion prompt using a riddle. Riddles are fun and demonstrate the concept of word play and often open the platform for activities surrounding puns, homophones and homonyms. The answer for this riddle is: ‘A clock’
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