This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Great Depression’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘World War 2’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Benjamin Franklin’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Booker T. Washington’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Classifying Categories’ helps students to write information about art in their own words.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Community Heroes’ 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, ‘Goldie and the Three Bears’ encourages students to understand similarities and differences within and among literary works from various genre and cultures. It also builds on reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Grace’s Family Story’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Jackie Robinson’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Opposites Attract’ encourages students to use clues, such as the title and topic, to aid comprehension and make predictions about content. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Text Organisation: Biography’ supports the teaching of text structure and developing ideas by providing students with a template for planning their writing.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Alaskan Wilderness’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information given in the text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Assembly Line’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This author’s purpose worksheet ‘The World’s Largest Natural Wonder’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the Great Barrier Reef. 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, and draw conclusions …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Wartime Art Classification’ asks students to view different kinds of wartime art, then classify them into four different categories.
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.