This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Letter: A New Game Table’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Letter: Chess’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Letter: We Should Have a Chess Club’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tone, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Aerobic Exercise’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Awesome Expeditions’ asks students to answer questions about different adventure day programmes. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Baseball Cards’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Basketball’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about children playing basketball. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This history article, ‘Basketball’, features important factual background information about the invention of basketball. It explains how Canadian schoolteacher James Naismith came up with the idea for the game as a way to occupy his unruly students. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical and cultural awareness and could be used as a prompt for …More
This art project ‘Brown Paper Bag Kites’ enables students to create kites from paper bags. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This writing prompt, ‘Favourite Sports’ helps students to write about the sport they like playing the best. It encourages students to think about why they like playing their favourite sport and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Four Square’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This writing prompt, ‘Free Time’ helps students to write about what they do in their free time. It encourages students to think about their daily schedule and how they spend their free time and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
The hands-on activity, ‘Holey Moley’ shows students how they can set up a beanbag golf game. As they work out the layout of their course, they must decide on the distances between the holes and estimate the number of throws (the par) required to reach each hole. They record their results on the learning activity. …More
This writing prompt, ‘Holiday at Home’ helps students to write about the fun places they can visit near their home. It encourages students to think about their surroundings and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘In Your Free Time’ helps students to write about their after-school activities. It encourages students to think about after-school activities and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Inline Skating’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This oral language photo activity ‘Coach’, 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.
This oral language photo activity ‘Cycling’, 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.
This art project, ‘Make a Ten Pin Bowling Kit’ provides instructions for making a bowling kit using wooden totems, polystyrene balls and coloured paints
This art project, ‘Make a Tennis Ball Magnet’ provides instructions for making a magnet from a half polystyrene ball and paint.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Missing Words’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the correct word in context using beach vocabulary.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘My Favourite Pastime’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Picture Story: Camping’ asks students to identify the story that best matches the picture, which features two friends in a tent. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a short story describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Picture Story: Surfing’ asks students to identify the story that best matches the picture, which features a boy surfing. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a short story describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Quilting’ asks students to answer questions about making a quilt. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This writing prompt, ‘Reading’ helps students to write about reading. It encourages students to think about the kind of reading they enjoy the most and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Shall We Dance?’ asks students to answer questions about dance, one of the oldest art forms.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Skiing and Snowboarding’ asks students to answer questions about skiing and snowboarding. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Snowboarding’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This writing prompt, ‘So Many Books, So Little Time’ helps students to write about the plot of their favourite book, the characters in it and why they like the book so much. It encourages students to think about what they enjoy reading and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Soccer’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Splash!’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about five toy boats floating on a pond. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Sports’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match associated sports words.
This article, ‘Table Tennis’ describes the history of table tennis and explains its rules. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading activity, ‘The Beach’ provides opportunities for practice with reading a passage about the beach and answering comprehension questions.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Best Sports Team Ever’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Lifesaving Typhus Epidemic’, features an informational text about a Polish doctor who saved thousands of lives during World War II by faking an epidemic. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, cause and effect, drawing a conclusion, figurative language, …More
This vocabulary activity, ‘Things You Can Do’ supports vocabulary development through word and picture association with active verbs.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Things You Can Do’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the correct verbs in context.