This Writing Traits activity, ‘Theme: Describing an Alien’ supports students in learning to organise ideas and consider word choice in their writing.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Transitional Words’ encourages students to identify and use transitional words in sentences.
This kids news activity, ‘Underwater Dolphin Rescue Caught On Video’ is about an unusual interaction between a diver and a dolphin captured on video.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using a Map’ supports students learning about the representation of directions.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Vocabulary: Interesting Words’ encourages students to identify and choose words in their writing that evoke visual imagery.
This kids news activity, ‘Want To Be An Astronaut? A New Post Just Opened Up’ reports on the retirement of well-known Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘ We Are Family’ encourages students to learn about setting, main characters, events and sequence in stories. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘What’s The Weather?’ encourages students to use mental images, stimulated by words to aid in the comprehension of text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Where Did the Dinosaurs Go?’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Working It Out’ encourages students to relate story events, characters, conflicts and themes to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘World Honours Young Activist With Malala Day’ is about Malala Yousafzai and her campaign for the right to an education for girls.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘World War 1’ encourages students to make, confirm and revise predictions about a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘World’s First Private Spacecraft Makes Successful Trip To International Space Station’ is about an American company that sent its unmanned Dragon spacecraft into space.
This kids news activity, ‘World’s Smallest Chameleon Discovered’ is about a tiny reptile found on an island near Madagascar.
This kids news activity, ‘Zebra Dung May Be New Fuel Source’ is about research into alternative sources of eco-friendly bio-fuels.
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