This analysing text worksheet ‘An Environmental Quandary’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a woman’s aversion to mice. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Balanced Discussion about Sharks’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about these animals. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at …More
This content area reading activity, ‘Broken Toys Don’t Sell Cereal’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to identify the purpose of the writer.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Cousins in the White House’, features two biographical texts about the U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about making an inference, detail, comparison/contrast, predicting an outcome, and forming an opinion.
This facts and opinions exemplar ‘Editorial in the School Newspaper’ shows students how to use facts to support their opinions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and illustrates this process by showing how the author decided her position on …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Editorial on The Paralympics’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a newspaper editorial about the importance of these games. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Facts and Opinions’ shows students the difference between facts and opinions and provides advice for answering open-ended questions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and includes a practical exercise to help students identify facts and …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Facts and Opinions: Letter to the Editor’ shows students an example of a text that uses facts to support an opinion. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and illustrates this process by showing how the …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Facts and Opinions: Letter to the Editor’ shows students an example of a text that uses facts to support an opinion. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and illustrates this process by showing how the …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Honour Our Earliest People’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about creating a new public holiday. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Lake Monsters’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about whether these creatures exist. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Laura’s Quest for Wide-open Spaces’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about saving land from development. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Letter to the Editor’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a persuasive text about restricting building on floodplains. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Letter to the Editor about Extreme Sports’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing newspaper editorials. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in …More
This content area reading activity, ‘Letter to the Mayor’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to identify the purpose of the writer.
This graphic organiser, ‘Outline Creations’ supports students in organising their thoughts into an outline before writing a draft.
This graphic organiser, ‘Pondering Points of View’ supports students in planning writing, focusing on the pros and cons of an argument.
This graphic organiser, ‘Pondering the School’s Point of View’ supports students in planning writing, focusing on the pros and cons of arguments around common school issues.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Save the Manatee’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about manatee conservation. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words …More
This graphic organiser, ‘School Issues Outlines’ encourages students to organise their thoughts about a school issue before writing a persuasive draft.
This analysing text worksheet ‘State Challenge Olympics Coming Soon?’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about hosting these games. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Lakefield Times’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a newspaper editorial about a children’s benefit concert. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, as well as make …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Phoenix Gazette’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor regarding Gila monsters. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Word Choice,’ helps students identify bias in nonfiction texts. It is aimed at developing students’ critical reading skills by having them identify whether the examples are specific and controlled or biased and overtly emotional.
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