This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘An Amazing Airport’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about author purpose and word phrases.
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 vocabulary development activity, ‘Going Places’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to discuss types of transport and sort them by different characteristics. It is aimed at helping students recognise types of transport. It provides transport cards.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Going Places Part I’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that relate to travel and transport. 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, ‘Going Places Part II’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that relate to travel and transport. 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 Readers Theatre activity, ‘History of Aeroplanes’ encourages students to summarise information in the script and retell it in their own words. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘I Am a Boeing 777 Jet’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This oral language photo activity ‘Bicycles’, 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 ‘Car’, 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 ‘Cruise Ship’, 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 ‘Tractor’, 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 ‘Train’, 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 ‘Wagon and Scooter’, 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, ‘Moving Products Over the Gap’ helps students identify similarities between two types of transportation that are used to move products, then state the advantages and disadvantages of each.
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 reading comprehension activity, ‘The Canoe’ asks students to answer questions about canoes of the past. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Essex Steam Train’ asks students to answer questions about the Essex Steam Train run by the Valley Railroad Company in Connecticut in the United States. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings and author purpose.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Way We Get Around’ 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, ‘Traffic’ asks students to answer questions about the problems of traffic congestion and the possible solutions. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings and word endings.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Trains’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
These Bulletin Board Trimmers, ‘Transport’ are a set of narrow bulletin border trimmers for use in classroom displays.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Where do I come from?’, features a poem written from the perspective of a racing car. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, author’s purpose, validity, reasoning, vocabulary, mood/tone, genre, and the main idea. Answer sheet provided with file …More