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, ‘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 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 graphic organiser, ‘Early Presentation Times’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to present their published autobiographies to the class.
This graphic organiser, ‘Event Map’ enables students to map out ideas so they can make connections and clarify their thinking about themes and characters.
This graphic organiser, ‘Face to Face’ helps students develop fluency as they use expression in their reading and understand the importance of using expression when performing for an audience.
This graphic organiser, ‘Face to Face for Hattie and the Fox’ asks students to identify the different types of expressions that should be used for Hattie and the Fox, then perform parts of the story using the appropriate expressions.
This graphic organiser, ‘It’s in the Bag for Poetry’ asks students to divide vocabulary words taken from poems found in Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein into syllables.
This graphic organiser, ‘Picture Me Here’ provides students the opportunity to design final layouts for their narrative picture books.
This graphic organiser, ‘Picture Me Here for the First Time’ provides students the opportunity to design final layouts for their first time narratives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Presentation Time’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm ways to present their published writing to the class.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reading Aloud’ helps students to organise their thoughts before performing as a class, concentrating on correct expression and changes in voice.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reading Aloud for the Eensy Weensy Spider’ asks students to determine the type of voice and facial expressions that should be used for The Eensy Weensy Spider, then perform the song using their chosen voice, facial expressions and word emphasis.
This graphic organiser, ‘Share the Love’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm various ways to share their final writing with their peers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Share the Love of Toys’ provides students with the opportunity to brainstorm various ways to share their final toy writing with their peers.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Key to Fluency’ allows each student to organise their thoughts about a book, evaluate the book and then promote it to their classmates through a book talk.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Key to Fluency for Olivia’ asks students to evaluate the book Olivia by Ian Falconer, then use the information to give a book talk to try to convince others to read it.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using a Map’ supports students learning about the representation of directions.
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