This Readers Theatre activity, ‘A Community of Helpers’ encourages students to relate elements of the story to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Letter: The Fire Station’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This art project ‘Be a Curator’ enables students to learn about art curators. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials and easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Be a Server’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading activity, ‘Bikes and Cars’ provides opportunities for practice with reading advertisements and then completing the comprehension questions.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Buildings’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify types of buildings from their descriptions.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘City and Suburb’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Commercial Artists’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
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 reading comprehension activity, ‘Composting’ asks students to answer questions about how to build a compost pile. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions and form opinions.
This oral language photo activity ‘Baker’, 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 ‘Firefighter’, 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 ‘Hairdresser’, 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 ‘Ice Cream Van’, 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 ‘Librarian’, 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 ‘Police Officer’, 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 ‘Postal Worker’, 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 ‘Supermarket’, 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 ‘Veterinarian’, 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 writing prompt, ‘Making the World a Better Place’ helps students to write about one thing they would change in order to make the world a better place. It encourages students to think about making a difference and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with reading and completing sentences within a story.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Names for Places’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify places where particular objects are found.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match occupations to the person who performs them.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match descriptions to occupations.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ encourages students to match materials and equipment to the various occupations in which they are used.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify materials, equipment and environments associated with various occupations.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Picture Story: In the Street’ asks students to identify the story that best matches the picture, which features a street scene. 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: Library’ asks students to identify the story that best matches the picture, which features a boy bringing back his library books in a wagon. 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, ‘Police Officer Next Door’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions about police officers living in tough neighbourhoods.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Shopping’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify places you would find various types of items or services.
This reading activity, ‘Who Am I?’ provides opportunities for practice with understanding the roles of different people within the community.