This role-play mask ‘Rat B&W’ is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the mask into other speaking activities. …More
This set of ‘Reading Strategy Bookmarks: Asking Questions’ is formatted as two simple colourful bookmarks per full page that can be printed and distributed to students to provide them with helpful reading strategies. They prompt students to ask questions before reading, whilst reading, and following reading to better their understanding the text. This resource can …More
This set of ‘Reading Strategy Bookmarks: Determining Importance’ is formatted as two simple colourful bookmarks per full page that can be printed and distributed to students to provide them with helpful reading strategies. They prompt students to identify the important ideas and constantly ask what is the main idea of the text and how do …More
This set of ‘Reading Strategy Bookmarks: Making Predictions’ is formatted as two simple colourful bookmarks per full page that can be printed and distributed to students to provide them with helpful reading strategies. They prompt students to look for clues and guess what might happen next to help them better understand the text. This resource …More
This set of ‘Reading Strategy Bookmarks: Monitoring for Meaning’ is formatted as two simple colourful bookmarks per full page that can be printed and distributed to students to provide them with helpful reading strategies. They prompt students to use strategies if the understanding is not immediately apparent by rereading, using the pictures or breaking a …More
This template of ‘Reading Strategy Bookmarks: Summarising’ feature two simple colourful bookmarks that can be used to help students learn helpful reading strategies. They prompt students to ask questions before reading, whilst reading, and following reading to better their understanding the text. This resource can be printed onto card or paper, cut, stuck back-to-back, and …More
This set of ‘Reading Strategy Bookmarks: Visualising’ is formatted as two simple colourful bookmarks per full page that can be printed and distributed to students to provide them with helpful reading strategies. They prompt students to create a mental picture in their minds and think about what they could see, hear, taste, smell and feel …More
This predicting outcomes exemplar ‘Sentences from a Famous Story’ asks students questions about a narrative text with no context to help them predict the outcome. It encourages students to use their personal experience and clues from tone and expression to guess the meaning of sentences with little or no context and uses an example text …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Silkworm and Spider’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a story in which a silkworm and a spider make a robe for a king. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and the main idea from a narrative text.
This set of ‘Snow White and Dwarfs’ role-play masks is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the mask …More
This quick reference bookmark ‘Procedure Writing Prompt: Step by Step’ offers guidance for students as they plan and develop their writing of procedure texts.
This worksheet, ‘Story Map of Are We There Yet?’ is a great resource to model the structure of a narrative using the book, Are We There Yet?. Students are prompted to identify the author, the main characters, the setting, main events, problem and solution. This blank scaffold can be used during a whole class pre-writing …More
This worksheet, ‘Story Map of Diary of a Wombat’ is a great resource to model the structure of a narrative using the book, Diary of A Wombat. Students are prompted to identify the author, the main characters, the setting, main events, problem and solution. This blank scaffold can be used during a whole class pre-writing …More
This worksheet, ‘Story Predictions: Are We There Yet?’ is an effective scaffold to prompt analytical discussions about the book, Are We There Yet?. Predicting the story and looking for clues within the cover or first few pages of the text is an essential reading skill for all students. This scaffold encourages students to justify their …More
This worksheet, ‘Story Predictions: Edward the Emu’ is an effective scaffold to prompt analytical discussions about the book, Edward the Emu. Predicting the story and looking for clues within the cover or first few pages of the text is an essential reading skill for all students. This scaffold encourages students to justify their predictions and …More
This worksheet, ‘Story Structure of Diary of a Wombat’ is a great resource to model the structure of a narrative. Students are prompted to identify and expand on the events of three of the days in the story. This is a fun and simple comprehension activity that can be differentiated for ability levels and used …More
This quick reference bookmark ‘Report Writing Prompt: Tell Me the Facts’ offers guidance for students as they plan and develop their writing of reports.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Sea Fairies’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a story by L. Frank Baum. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and to look at the language used in narrative text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Secret Garden’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a story in which a young girl is going to live with an uncle who she barely knows. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to describe the main conflict and recall the main idea and …More
This set of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ role-play masks is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the mask …More
This set of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ role-play masks is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the mask …More
This set of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ role-play masks is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the mask …More
This set of ‘The Wizard of Oz B&W’ role-play masks is a resource that can be used in a variety of classroom activities. It is a hands-on tool that provides a stimulus to prompt vocabulary and concept development. Use it during class discussions to fuel engagement, or have students use their imaginations to incorporate the …More
This Writing Traits activity ‘Narrative Voice’ encourages students to write original pieces using narrative voice.
This ‘We Heart Books’ bunting can be printed and used as part of a colourful classroom display. The flags feature the letters and symbols for the phrase ‘We Heart Books’, which could also be used to make Book Week bunting. The bunting is formatted as two flags per page and each flag includes drawn cut-out …More
This black and white ‘We Heart Books’ bunting can be printed, coloured in and used as part of a decorative classroom display. The flags feature the letters and symbols for the phrase ‘We Heart Books’, which could also be used to make Book Week bunting. The bunting is formatted as two flags per page and …More
This quick reference bookmark ‘Recount Writing Prompt: What Happened?’ offers guidance for students as they plan and develop their writing of recount texts.
These World Book Day themed bookmarks are simple colourful bookmarks that can be used to celebrate World Book Day. Each bookmark can be printed onto card or paper and laminated and distributed to students. Each bookmark has room for the student’s name and a hole that can be hole punched to attach a ribbon or …More
This set of ‘Reading Strategy Bookmarks: Making Inferences’ is formatted as two simple colourful bookmarks per full page that can be printed and distributed to students to provide them with helpful reading strategies. They prompt students to read between the lines and think deeply about the meaning of the text. This resource can be printed …More
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