This analysing text worksheet ‘Devastating Waves’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about tsunamis. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order to ascertain …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘How to Write an Evacuation Plan’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text about coping with natural disasters. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to examine …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Mount St Helen Volcanic Eruption’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about this disaster. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Preparing for a Hurricane’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text that lists steps for action. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at …More
This Writing Traits activity ‘Making Picture Diagrams’ encourages students to identify the usefulness of picture diagrams and to make their own.
This content area reading activity, ‘Shaky Ground’ is a history based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to practise looking for clues to the meanings of words by looking closely at their context.
This learning activity, ‘The Big Shake’, uses the Mercalli scale to graph the strength of an earthquake over time. Students complete graphs based on eyewitness descriptions of earthquakes. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Hurricane of 1900’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the deadliest hurricane in US history. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Storm that Claimed Our House’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order …More
This content area reading activity, ‘Tornadoes’ is a maths based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to distinguish between literal and figurative writing and to use comparisons.