This content area reading learning activity, ‘Compare and Contrast,’ helps activate students’ prior knowledge about a topic. It encourages students to compare and contrast new books with books they have read before, and information in nonfiction books with what they learned from doing things outside of school.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Comparing Pictures,’ has students compare their own visualisations with the pictures in the book. It has students listen to an audio book before reading the book, and then use a Venn diagram to compare what the visualised from the audio with the pictures in the book.
This oral language photo activity ‘Cat’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
In this learning activity, ‘Mind Boggle’, students organise attribute blocks. They must use a table to eliminate possible outcomes and a Venn diagram to analyse common features. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This data and probability worksheet, ‘Organising Information’ offers guidance on representing and classifying data according to attributes. Answer sheet provided with file download.