This graphic organiser, ‘A Movie About Me’ supports students in planning autobiographical writing using prewriting strategies.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Movie About My Firsts’ supports students in planning writing using prewriting strategies, writing about their first time doing things.
This graphic organiser, ‘A Web of Animal Information’ supports students in planning writing by brainstorming animals that could be used in informational writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Bright Ideas’ supports students in generating ideas for their writing through brainstorming, making lists and class discussion.
This graphic organiser, ‘Bright Toy Ideas’ supports students in planning a piece of descriptive writing about their favourite toys.
This graphic organiser, ‘Descriptive Doodles’ supports students in planning descriptive writing using prewriting strategies.
This graphic organiser, ‘Descriptive Doodles for the Monster Match’ supports students in planning writing using prewriting strategies by drawing ideas for silly monsters .
This graphic organiser, ‘Family Moments to Tell’ supports students in brainstorming family memories to create personal narratives.
This worksheet, ‘My Ultimate Australia Day’ is a great writing prompt that encourages students to write freely using their own creative ideas on what they would consider to be their ultimate Australia day. Some students may find it difficult to motivate themselves to write creatively. With this writing prompt students have enough freedom to explore …More
This understanding text worksheet ‘Questioning and Predicting Texts’ supports students to use various strategies to predict the outcome of two texts. It is aimed at encouraging students to write about what will happen next based on the clues provided in the story, and provides questions to help them map out their ideas. It also asks …More
This set of 16 sentence starters provides assistance for beginning writers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Shopping for Ideas’ supports students in organising their ideas when choosing topics for informational writing pieces.
This graphic organiser, ‘Shopping for Science’ supports the use of pre-writing strategies to create lists of science topics.
This graphic organiser, ‘Stories to Tell supports students in recalling and organising ideas and planning and writing personal narratives.
This oral language activity, ‘Story Starters’ supports language development by encouraging students to use familiar story starters as prompts for storytelling. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of true and imaginative stories through a fun storytelling activity.
This ‘Coping With Change’ writing prompt is an ideal activity for promoting a growth mindset by encouraging students to reflect on how they respond to change. The writing prompt provides an introductory passage describing how changes in our circumstances can generate different reactions in different people and promotes the idea that we have some control …More
This ‘Having a Plan B’ writing prompt is an ideal activity for promoting a growth mindset by encouraging students to reflect on how they respond to setbacks. The writing prompt provides an introductory passage describing how having a plan B is about adapting and being resilient, flexible and able to make a choice to go …More
This ‘Making Mistakes’ writing prompt is an ideal activity for promoting a growth mindset by encouraging students to reflect on how they respond to making mistakes. The writing prompt provides an introductory passage posing a question about the usefulness of mistakes before detailing a real-world example of how one scientist’s mistake led to an amazing …More
This ‘My Weekly Learning Journal’ printable is a fantastic activity to encourage students to reflect on their achievements and experiences of the week, whether they are in the classroom or learning from home. The Weekly Learning Journal prompts students to write about something they have learnt, read, watched and tried for the first time that …More
This ‘Training Your Brain’ writing prompt is an ideal activity for promoting a growth mindset by encouraging students to stretch themselves by trying new learning strategies. The writing prompt provides an introductory passage describing how our brains are similar to our other muscles in that they grow when we exercise them and dispels the myth …More
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