This writing prompt, ‘A Deserved Award’ helps students to write about which member of their family deserves an award. It encourages students to think about the good qualities of a family member and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Along the Way to Family Memories’ supports students in recalling and organising information in sequential order and gives them the opportunity to draft a piece of writing based on family memories.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘An Ancestor Potluck’ encourages students to relate elements of a story, including events, characters, conflicts and themes, to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Around the House’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify rooms and areas of a house.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Baby Brother’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about a girl’s crawling baby brother. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Cloze’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the correct word for the context using family vocabulary.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Devastating Waves’, features an informational text about tsunamis and discusses three tsunamis that have devastated parts of Alaska. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, vocabulary, cause and effect, detail, comparison/contrast, emotional reaction, and reasoning. The task also …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Doorway to Family Drawings’ supports students in creating and utilising family drawings to develop ideas for writing.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Every Family Has a History’ encourages students to learn about setting, characters, events and sequence in stories. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Family’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the correct family words in context.
This reading activity, ‘Family’ provides opportunities for practice with reading a passage about a family and answering comprehension questions.
This writing prompt, ‘Family Fun’ helps students to write about what they like to do with their family. It encourages students to think about special family time and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt exemplar, ‘Family Holidays’ provides a writing model for the students. It encourages students to think about their favourite family holiday and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Family Holidays’ helps students to write about a favourite holiday they have had with their family. It encourages students to think about their best family holiday and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Family Match the Picture’ asks students to write words to match pictures that relate to family. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a word describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Family Match the Word’ asks students to identify words and pictures that relate to family. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a word describing it.
This graphic organiser, ‘Family Memory Makers’ supports students in identifying the main idea from their family picture books.
This graphic organiser, ‘Family Moments to Tell’ supports students in brainstorming family memories to create personal narratives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Family Puzzle Pieces’ supports students in developing their writing skills and structuring complete sentences about their families.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Family Time’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about a family and the time they spend together in the evenings. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This writing prompt, ‘Family Traditions’ helps students to write about some of the special things they do with their family during holiday time. It encourages students to think about holiday traditions and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Fixing Family Memories’ supports students in editing and revising their family writing drafts.
This writing prompt, ‘Fun Without Funds’ helps students to write about what their family does together without spending money. It encourages students to think about inexpensive family entertainment and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Helping at Home’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to select the correct words to complete sentences.
This reading activity, ‘Helping at Home’ provides opportunities for practice with reading about the things you can do at home and answering the questions.
This oral language photo activity ‘Autumn’, 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 ‘Baby’, 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 ‘Baby and Daddy’s Hand’, 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 oral language photo activity ‘Dog’, 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 ‘Family’, 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 graphic organiser, ‘My Family Tree’ introduces students to the concept of organising connections between family members using the visual representation of a tree. Students are prompted to add names or drawings of their family into the boxes that are clustered together. This is a great resource to scaffold more complex hierarchical family trees.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘My Grandfather and Me’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Picture Story: Family’ asks students to identify the story that best matches the picture, which features a family arriving at Grandmother’s house. 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: Siblings’ asks students to identify the story that best matches the picture, which features two siblings about to have a pillow fight. 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: Sisters’ asks students to identify the story that best matches the picture, which features two twin sisters. 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 vocabulary activity, ‘Sentences’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the correct nouns in context.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take Family Action’ supports students in developing problem and solution scenarios to make writing about their family interesting.
This graphic organiser, ‘Tell Me a Family Story’ supports students in identifying setting, characters and problems in their peers family picture books.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Sore Thumb of Family Memories’ supports students in editing and revising their writing on family memories, ensuring that they are staying on topic.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The World’s Largest Natural Wonder’, features an informational text about the Great Barrier Reef, its many different types of coral, its abundant marine life, and the threats it is facing. The worksheet encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, …More
This writing prompt, ‘Time Well Spent’ helps students to write about a special time spent with a relative. It encourages students to think about why it was so special and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
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