This kids news activity, ‘How Reading The News Helped Craig Kielburger Change The World’ is about how a 12-year-old activist from Canada was inspired to start an international charity for children.
This kids news activity, ‘IBM Produces World’s Smallest Movie – Made Of Atoms’ is about a stop-motion film created on an atomic level.
This kids news activity, ‘Ikea Criticised For Airbrushing Women From Its Saudi Arabia Catalogue’ is about an incident where women were airbrushed from Ikea’s Saudi catalogue and the Swedish company’s apologetic response.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Imagery: Using Similes’ encourages students to use a simile in descriptive writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘In My Own Words’ enables students to map out ideas prior to writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘In My Own Words for Anne of Green Gables’ asks students to summarise and paraphrase information after reading a passage from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
This kids news activity, ‘Introducing Ukes To Youths’ is about a Canadian program introducing school students to music through learning the ukulele .
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Jackie Robinson’ 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, ‘Japanese Mom Builds Adorable Art Around Sleeping Infant’ is about a mother who photographed her baby in imagined dream scenes.
This kids news activity, ‘Lance Armstrong Confesses’ is about the cycling champion Armstrong admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Learn About Ducks’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘Lego School Will Be A Bricks And Mortar Reality’ reports on a new international school in Denmark, built by the owner of Lego.
This graphic organiser, ‘Living or Dead Opinion Organiser’ asks students to read the story Is He Living or Dead and decide whether Millet makes the right decisions, then write paragraphs to support their opinions.
This kids news activity, ‘Lonesome George May Not Have Been The Last Of His Kind’ investigates the discovery of a species of giant tortoise previously thought to be extinct.
This kids news activity, ‘Many Celeb Chefs’ Recipes Not Healthy’ investigates whether recipes from celebrity chefs actually healthy.
This kids news activity, ‘Meteorite Lands In Russia’ reports on a destructive sonic boom event over a Russian town, caused by a meteorite explosion.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Narrative Voice: Retelling a Story’ encourages students to retell a story with characters and setting, and with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
This kids news activity, ‘New Space Mission Will Study Asteroid In 2018’ reports on a NASA and Canadian Space Agency project aimed at studying a piece of an asteroid.
This kids news activity, ‘Nine-Year-Old Up For Best Actress Oscar’ is about Quvenzhane Wallis, the youngest Academy Award nominee.
This kids news activity, ‘Nomadic Gnome Puts Gravity To The Test’ is about a scientific experiment centred on physical location, gravity and the measurement of weight.
This kids news activity, ‘Nutella Is Not A Health Food’ is about a legal case involving a product’s misleading advertising.
This kids news activity, ‘NYPD Officer’s Random Act Of Kindness Goes Viral’ is about how a photo of a Police Officer’s good deed was seen by millions on the internet.
This graphic organiser, ‘Opinion Organiser’ helps students organise their thoughts and opinions regarding a character’s decisions in a story.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Opposites Attract’ encourages students to use clues, such as the title and topic, to aid comprehension and make predictions about content. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Organisational Outlines: Chronological Order’ encourages students to sequence information.
This kids news activity, ‘Owner Of Mollie’s Candy Stores Is Just Six Years Old’ is about the youngest entrepreneur in Britain, Molly Price, who opened a chain of candy stores.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Paragraph Topics: Compare and Contrast’ encourages students to identify paragraph topics and compare and contrast .
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Paragraphing’ encourages students to organise information into different categories (paragraphs).
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Adverbial Phrases’ encourages students to read and write sentences containing adverbial phrases.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Pronouns’ encourages students to identify and use pronouns in a sentence.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Parts of Speech: Verbs’ encourages students to identify the verb in a sentence.
This kids news activity, ‘Peanuts Recalled For Not Stating ‘May Contain Peanuts” investigates an incident where a product was recalled for inadequate allergy warning.
This Readers Theatre activity, “Celebrate Diversity” encourages students to compare and contrast historical story events and themes with their knowledge of the present day. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Persuasive Writing’ encourages students to identify a problem and provide supporting evidence.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Picture the Order,’ helps students tell the progression of ideas in a text using pictures. It is aimed at teaching students how to determine the main ideas told in the text, in the correct order.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Plant Life’ 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, ‘Playing Video Games Can Make You A Better Searcher’ reports on research suggesting a link between gaming and the development of visual search skills.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Protect the Pond’ encourages students to identify and assess problems or concerns and propose solutions. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Pumpkins’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to understand and respond to new information. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘Raising Awareness About Prader-Willi Syndrome’ is about a boy with a rare medical condition and his family’s efforts to find a cure.
This kids news activity, ‘Rhinos Being Poached For Horns’ is about wild rhinos in South Africa and efforts to stop them being killed by poachers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Rings Theme’ asks students identify themes from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, then select one theme to write about in detail.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Rosa Parks: An American Hero’ encourages students to relate new information from the text to prior knowledge and personal experience. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘San Francisco Cable Cars’ encourages students to understand structural patterns or organisation in informational texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘ Saving the Red-Eyed Tree Frog’ encourages students understanding the main idea and to find supporting details in the text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Criticise Iron-Dumping Experiment’ is about a company that dumped iron dust into the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to re-populate fishing grounds.
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Discover Cause Of Irish Potato Famine’ reports on the discovery of the plant disease that caused a disaster in Ireland in the 1800s.
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Discover Corn Plants Make A Noise’ is about research into the role of sound and vibration in the life cycle of plants.
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Find Hidden Mural By Leonardo Da Vinci’ is about the technology used to discover a lost painting by Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci.
This kids news activity, ‘Selena and Justin – Why Do We Care?’ is about the source of rumours and speculation in media reports about celebrities.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Sentence Structure: Problems & Solutions’ encourages students to identify a problem and suggest a solution.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sequencing Train’ provides a structure with which students can focus on the beginning, middle and ending of a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sequencing Train for The Mitten’ provides a structure with which students can focus on the beginning, middle and ending of The Mitten by Jan Brett.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Space Exploration’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘Spirit Of ‘Caine’s Arcade’ Felt Around The World’ is about a boy who created an arcade out of cardboard featured in a viral video.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Springtime’ 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, ‘Supporting Sentences: Identifying Main Ideas’ encourages students to identify the main idea in a paragraph.
This kids news activity, ‘Take Pictures Without A Camera’ is about a camera being developed in Japan that can be operated by finger gestures.
This quick reference bookmark ‘Report Writing Prompt: Tell Me the Facts’ offers guidance for students as they plan and develop their writing of reports.
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