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 Bats’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 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, ‘Biography: Abraham Lincoln’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘American History: The American Revolution’ encourages students to organise events in a story into sequential order using a timeline. 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 kids news activity, Baby Superb Fairy-Wren Sings For Its Supper’ is about a species of Australian bird using unique calls to keep their babies safe.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Benjamin Franklin’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Biography: Madame Marie Curie’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Black Bart the P08’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Book Talk’ encourages students to personally engage with reading material to formulate independent opinions and ideas.
This graphic organiser, ‘Book Talk for Bridge to Terabithia’ helps students reflect on what has been learnt after reading and to formulate ideas, opinions and personal responses to the text.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Booker T. Washington’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Brainstorming: My Favourite Job’ supports students in learning to organise their writing ideas.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Celebrate Diversity’ encourages students to relate story events, conflicts and themes to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Chain of Words’ helps students to learn the meaning of new vocabulary words by creating definitions that use only two words.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Chickenpox’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Cluster Synthesis: How Animals Help People’ supports students in learning to organise their writing ideas.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Clustering Information: How I Get to School’ supports students in learning to organise their writing ideas.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Community Heroes’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Complete Sentences’ encourages students to select read, write, and identify complete sentences.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Cool Cow Facts’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Creating Graphs’ encourages students to practise representing data.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Describing Photos and Illustrations’ encourages students to identify and label the parts of an object.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Descriptive Language’ encourages students to identify and use descriptive language in a sentence.
This graphic organiser, ‘Descriptive Language’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by prompting students to record descriptive details as they read or write.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Descriptive Writing’ encourages students to write a sentence using descriptive words.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Desert Dwelling’ encourages students to organise information to identify the main idea and supporting details. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘Different Toys For Girls And Boys?’ reports on gender stereotyping in the marketing of toys.
This kids news activity, ‘Director James Cameron Goes To Earth’s Deepest Point’ is about Cameron’s solo dive, in a submarine, to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
This kids news activity, ‘Does Ancient Antarctic Lake Hold Secrets To Life In Outer Space?’ is about the discovery of a lake buried under the ice, that may hold clues to life on other planets .
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Double-Entry Journals,’ helps students evaluate the author’s organisation and purpose. It encourages students to select significant text information and think critically about the information.
This quick reference chart ‘Drawing Conclusions’ helps students to identifying the meaning of what they have read. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose, then put this together with what they already know about a topic to draw conclusions about texts.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Earthquakes’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘Eating Like They Do In The Mediterranean Is Good For Your Heart’ reports on research suggesting a link between a Mediterranean diet and heart health.
This kids news activity, ‘ Egyptian Leader Backs Off On Strict Controls’ reports on the Arab Spring protests in Egypt and the leader Mohamed Morsi.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Electricity’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 3 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, “Ellis Island” encourages students to organize information into logical and sequential order. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘England’s Future Monarch Born In 2013’ reports on the media and public interest in the lead up to the birth of a new royal baby.
This kids news activity, ‘EU Donates Peace Prize Money To Children Affected By War’ is about the Nobel Peace Prize 2012, and the decision to give the funds to organisations helping children in war zones.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Even Bananas Take Trips!’ encourages students to summarise information in the script and retell it in their own words. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Every Family Has a History’ encourages students to learn about setting, characters, events and sequence in stories. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Expository Writing’ encourages students to identify and write factual statements.
This kids news activity, ‘Extreme Skydiver Breaks World Records With Dive From Near Space’ is about Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking high-altitude jump and his other daring feats.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Feeling and Tone in Writing’ encourages students to identify a positive or negative feeling and tone in a paragraph.
This graphic organiser, ‘Finding Facts’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for recording facts and details as they read or plan for writing.
This kids news activity, ‘First Human Colony Planned For Mars’ reports on an international project to establish a human settlement on Mars.
This graphic organiser, ‘Fishbone Theme’ asks students identify themes from within a book, providing specific examples to support that theme.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Fossils’ encourages students to summarise information from the script and retell it in their own words. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘Four Year Old Becomes Mayor Of Small Town’ is about a child selected to be mayor of a small US community.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Frogs’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Goldie and the Three Bears’ encourages students to understand similarities and differences within and among literary works from various genre and cultures. It also builds on reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Grace’s Family Story’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘Hadfield Brings Space Life Down To Earth’ is about how technology and social media enable an astronaut to communicate from space.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Helping Monkeys’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘History of Aeroplanes’ encourages students to summarise information in the script and retell it in their own words. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘How Did They Do it?’ encourages students to determine problems and solutions located in the content of a script. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.