This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Letter to Save the Fish’, features instructions for students to write a persuasive letter about helping dying fish. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest covering the reasons for the letter, the location of the dying fish, three possible causes for their decline, …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘An Essay on Playing Competitive Sport’, features instructions for students to write an essay about how teams should be chosen. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest considering the advantages and disadvantages of choosing only the best players and of allowing all students …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Author on Trial,’ helps students understand that there are often different ways to look at a concept. It has students evaluate a text to determine whether the author created a balanced opinion.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Canal Touring Holidays’, features the text of a brochure about sailing holidays on New York’s Erie Canal. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about reasoning, validity, cause and effect, and detail. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The article, ‘Fireworks’ gives a brief history of fireworks then explains how they are made and how different effects are created. A poster advertises a fireworks show. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Lake Monsters’, features two editorials offering different opinions about legendary lake creatures. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about detail, reasoning, making a judgment, predicting outcome, and categorising.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Letter about an Environmental Issue’, features instructions for students to write a letter to the editor about an environmental issue of their choosing. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest topics such as global warming, toxic waste, pollution, endangered species, open space, and …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Letter to Raise a Guide Dog’, features instructions for students to write a persuasive letter offering to raise a puppy that would later become a guide dog. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest explaining why you want to raise the puppy, your …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Letter to Your Newspaper’, features instructions for students to write a letter to the editor about restoring a local statue. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest including why the statue was erected, its present condition, and why and how it should be …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Brand New Excelsior’, features an advertisement for a futuristic motor car. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about reasoning, making a judgment, drawing a conclusion, fact/opinion, detail, author’s purpose, genre, and categorising. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘True Heroes’, features a newspaper report about a dog that sounds the alarm when two boys fall through the ice, and a persuasive letter to the mayor about celebrating heroic dogs. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about sequence, detail, cause …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Two Views of the Gila Monster’, features two persuasive letters about the conservation of this desert lizard species. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the letters and includes questions about the author’s purpose, vocabulary, fact/opinion, slant/bias, comparison/contrast, persuasion, validity, predicting outcome, genre, and key points. Answer …More
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