This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Hollow Earth’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘A War Against Land Mines’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about banning land mines.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘After the Spill’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a shipwreck near Alaska.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Air Pollution’ 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, ‘Biomass’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘Bubble Map’ allows students to list adjectives that describe communities of the past and present.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Celebrate Diversity’ encourages students to relate story events, conflicts and themes to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Coral Reefs’ 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, ‘Delving into the Earth’ 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, ‘Demand, Supply, and Price’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Exploring the Deep’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Sylvia Earle, a marine biologist who explores the ocean.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Global Warming’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Global Warming’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about how global warming is affecting the Earth.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Goal: Ending Child Labour’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about ending child labour.
This vocabulary activity, ‘How Does Nature Help Us?’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the correct noun in context.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Letter about an Environmental Issue’, features instructions for students to write a letter to the editor about an environmental issue of their choosing. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest topics such as global warming, toxic waste, pollution, endangered species, open space, and …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Life on a Mountain’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
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 graphic organiser, ‘Mapping Farms’ allows students to distinguish farming from long ago to that of farming today.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘New Tales of the Taino’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the Taino people of the Dominican Republic.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Not Too Young to Fight’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a school girl named Kory Johnson, who educated people about the environment and pollution.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Open Spaces Project’, features an informational and procedural text about efforts to purchase lands for open space use. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, reasoning, classifying, making a judgment, fact/opinion, predicting outcome, comparison/contrast, character, questioning, theme, and genre. Answer …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Prejudice’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Save Our Streams’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a letter written by a boy who is concerned about water pollution.
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Criticise Iron-Dumping Experiment’ is about a company that dumped iron dust into the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to re-populate fishing grounds.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Impact of Global Warming’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Outside World Part I’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that relate to nature and the outside world. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a sentence describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Outside World Part II’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that relate to nature and the outside world. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a sentence describing it.
This Writing Traits activity ‘Persuasive Voice’ encourages students to read texts and determine whether the writer is sharing information or trying to persuade the reader.
This reading comprehension activity ‘War on Land Mines’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about removing the land mines in the world.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘You and the Environment’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This hands-on activity, ‘Make Your Own Recycled Paper’ provides step-by-step instructions for students to follow in the classroom or at home. This resource guides students through the process of making their own paper from scrap paper and supports students in understanding the paper recycling process by giving them hands-on experience of trying it themselves. This …More