This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Picture-Perfect Job’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Ryan Schick, a young photographer.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Benjamin Franklin’ 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, ‘Blogging’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tone, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Car of the Future’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Enhancing Reality’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
In the interesting learning activity, ‘Good Sports?’ students learn about and discuss the use of technology to improve swimmers’ performances. They use graphs and tables to evaluate the impact of changes, and form opinions about the fairness of using technology to enhance performances. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be read before beginning the …More
This kids news activity, ‘Hadfield Brings Space Life Down To Earth’ is about how technology and social media enable an astronaut to communicate from space.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Picture Story: Robot’ asks students to identify the story that best matches the picture, which features a robot with his robot dog. 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 kids news activity, ‘Playing Video Games Can Make You A Better Searcher’ reports on research suggesting a link between gaming and the development of visual search skills.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Ratings War’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on the TV ratings system in the United States.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘San Francisco Cable Cars’ encourages students to understand structural patterns or organisation in informational texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Space Exploration’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘Take Pictures Without A Camera’ is about a camera being developed in Japan that can be operated by finger gestures.
This kids news activity, ‘Texters Studied In New Research’ reports on research into texting and ethical thinking.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Assembly Line’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
In the learning activity, ‘The Best Throw’ students learn about and discuss the use of technology in sports. They use graphs and tables to evaluate the impact of change on the javelin event, and form opinions about the impact of technology on other sports. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be read before beginning …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Day All Technology Crashed’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Ethics of Computers’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This article, ‘All About Space: The Fastest Spacecraft’, describes the launch of the fastest spacecraft. It provides factual information about New Horizons and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘The Fastest Spacecraft in the Universe’, provides information about the fastest spacecraft, New Horizons. It features interesting facts about this technological innovation and features colourful and engaging photographs.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Industrial Age’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This kids news activity, ‘World’s First Private Spacecraft Makes Successful Trip To International Space Station’ is about an American company that sent its unmanned Dragon spacecraft into space.
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