This graphic organiser, ‘A Star is Born’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to publish a biography and present it to the class.
This graphic organiser, ‘Circles of Life’ asks students to record the qualities and accomplishments of a famous person and predict what might have been if they had lived longer.
This graphic organiser, ‘ Circles of Life and Shakespeare’s Ghosthunter’ asks students to record the qualities and accomplishments of William Shakespeare and predict what plays he may have written if he had lived longer.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Using Paragraphs’ encourages students to write a paragraph using main ideas and additional support sentences.
This graphic organiser, ‘Eggcellent Heroes’ supports students to identify details from stories about folk heroes.
This graphic organiser, ‘Extra, Read All About It’ asks students to use newspapers, or other news sources, to find factual information and record events.
This graphic organiser, ‘Extra, Read All About It for Headlines’ asks students to read the headlines in newspapers, or other news sources, and identify important information from the articles.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Theme’ encourages students to identify and assess main ideas, concepts, themes and evidence to generate themes for multiparagraph compositions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Like a Sore Thumb’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, ensuring that they are staying on topic.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Paragraph Topics’ encourages students to develop and support clearly stated themes for multiparagraph expository compositions.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Paragraph Topics’ encourages students to use topic sentences to begin organised paragraphs.
This graphic organiser, ‘Packaging My Firsts into Paragraphs’ supports students in developing their writing skills, focusing on topic sentences and paragraph structure of their draft writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Packaging Paragraphs’ supports students in developing their writing skills, focusing on topic sentences and paragraph structure.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Summarising’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise the comprehension strategy of summarising. Students will summarise the main ideas or events in different texts.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Animal Information Station’ supports students in developing their writing skills, focusing on sentence and paragraph structure as they write an informational piece about animals.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Eggcellent Robin Hood’ supports students to identify details from the ‘Robin Hood’ folk story.
This content area reading activity, ‘The History of the Yo-yo’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to identify the main idea in a piece of writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Information Station’ supports students in developing their writing skills, focusing on sentence and paragraph structure.