This article, ‘A Cardboard Picture Frame’ gives instructions for making a picture frame from cardboard. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
These paired texts, ‘A Special Treasure’ and ‘A Homemade Draughtboard’ give a story and instructions to interest readers in making their own draughtboard. They provide opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Become a Puppeteer’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a procedural text about creating a puppet show. 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 Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Become a Puppeteer’, features a procedural text about how to create puppets, build a puppet theatre, and put on a puppet show. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, sequence, reasoning, drawing a conclusion, vocabulary, visual comprehension, and …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Building a Viking Longboat’, features a procedural recount about the innovative shipbuilding methods of the Vikings. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about importance, vocabulary, sequence, reasoning, predicting outcome, comparison/contrast, visual comprehension, and making a judgment. Answer sheet provided with file …More
The paired texts, ‘Chore Chart’ and ‘A Weekly Dilemma’ show how household chores can be managed to avoid arguments. They provide opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Guidebook to Dogs’, features instructions for students to write a guidebook to dogs and includes visual prompts of the key commands and training topics to help students work out what they want to say. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Answer sheet provided with …More
This article, ‘Homemade Beetles’ gives detailed instructions for using household materials to make a bug that can fly. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘How to Write an Evacuation Plan’, features a procedural text about planning for emergencies such as volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about importance, purpose, questioning, slant/bias, genre, and drawing a conclusion. Answer sheet provided …More
This story, ‘Ice Cream’ is about a mother who makes ice cream for her son using an old fashioned method. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This environmental science worksheet, ‘Make a Windmill’ supports students to follow the instructions to make their own windmill. It supports an understanding of science in daily life.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Making a Scrapbook’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text that gives the steps to create a scrapbook. 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 Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Making a Scrapbook’, features a procedural text about creating a photo scrapbook of a family holiday. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about questioning, author’s purpose, persuasion, reasoning, detail, vocabulary, sequence, making an inference, and categorisation. Answer sheet provided with file …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Making a Tipi’, features a procedural text and diagrams about making a model of the tipi used by the Great Plains tribes of North America. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and diagrams, and includes questions about vocabulary, importance, questioning, sequence, author’s purpose, visual …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Making Your Own Code’, features an informational and procedural text about constructing different types of cipher codes. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about comparison/contrast, vocabulary, importance, inference, sequence, visual comprehension, and decoding. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The story, ‘Marbles’ is about two friends who have agreed to host a fundraiser. When one friend has to attend a golf try-out , he writes instructions for some marble games that his friend can use to entertain people. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Open Spaces Project’, features an informational and procedural text about efforts to purchase lands for open space use. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, reasoning, classifying, making a judgment, fact/opinion, predicting outcome, comparison/contrast, character, questioning, theme, and genre. Answer …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Preparing for a Monster Storm’, features an informational text about disaster plans for hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, comparison/contrast, drawing a conclusion, classifying, reasoning, and genre. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Steps to Becoming an Inventor’, features a procedural text about the process of inventing something. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, reasoning, making an inference, figurative language, questioning, and detail. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This text, ‘Telling the Time With the Sun’ explains why and how we can use the Sun to tell the time. It gives instructions for making a simple sundial. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
In this story, ‘The Big Brother’, problem is solved when Analina’s brother finds instructions on his computer. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This article, ‘The Big One’ gives instructions for making a big fish from newspaper. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Training a Puppy’, features a procedural text about dog training, including bonding, bathroom training, and commands. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about importance, emotional reaction, sequence, making an inference, figurative language, purpose for reading, visual comprehension, author’s purpose, and genre. …More
This story, ‘Which Plant Will Grow Tallest?’ tells how a girl found and carried out an experiment for a school project. It includes instructions for the experiment. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘Writing Instructions’ supports the teaching of writing by giving students a template for creating a set of instructions.
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