This worksheet, ‘The Dreaming’ provides a blank diagram where the trunk represents the central concept of the Dreaming and the branches can be used to brainstorm related elements. This is a great way to introduce the topic of Aboriginal beliefs or as an informal method of assessment to consolidate learning. Using this diagram to organise …More
This worksheet, ‘The Effects of Australian Colonisation’ combines brainstorming and mind mapping skills to build an understanding of the effects of colonisation of Australia by the British. It helps students to visualise all possible connections instead of simply focusing on the obvious and develops essential critical thinking skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Eggcellent Robin Hood’ supports students to identify details from the ‘Robin Hood’ folk story.
This worksheet, ‘The Events of Easter’ asks students to illustrate the events of Easter that are written according to the Bible.
This worksheet, ‘The Events of Easter in Sequence’ is a great resource to supplement Christian teaching at Easter. Students are given the opportunity to outline the events that occurred from when Jesus Christ rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, to Jesus ascending into Heaven.
This history article, ‘The Evolution of Video Games’ features the history of video games and how they developed from early games like Pong and Pac Man to the more complex games we play today. It provides factual information and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
This history article, ‘The Explosive Story of Alfred Nobel’ outlines the life and work of the man behind the prestigious Nobel Prize. It provides factual information about Alfred Nobel and how the Nobel Prize originated and it is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This writing prompt, ‘The Extra Mile’ helps students to write about a time when they went the extra mile. It encourages students to think about helping others and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This content area reading activity, ‘The Eyes Have It’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to recognise the use of lists as a reading device.
This set of flashcards,’The Face’,supports vocabulary development about the face. Topic based flashcards are a great tool for teachers or parents to build a child’s vocabulary and improve word association. Browse over 200+ thematic flashcards and make learning fun!
This set of flashcards,’The Face’,supports vocabulary development about the face. Topic based flashcards are a great tool for teachers or parents to build a child’s vocabulary and improve word association. Browse over 200+ thematic flashcards and make learning fun!
This set of flashcards,’The Face’,supports vocabulary development about the face. Topic based flashcards are a great tool for teachers or parents to build a child’s vocabulary and improve word association. Browse over 200+ thematic flashcards and make learning fun!
This set of flashcards,’The Face’,supports vocabulary development about the face. Topic based flashcards are a great tool for teachers or parents to build a child’s vocabulary and improve word association. Browse over 200+ thematic flashcards and make learning fun!
This graphic organiser, ‘The Family’s Strongest Word’ supports students in editing and revising their family writing draft, focusing on their use of verbs to create stronger meanings.
This graphic organiser, ‘The First and Last Name Game’ provides students opportunities to practise capitalising first and last names.
This analysing text worksheet ‘The First Modern Magician’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Robert-Houdin. 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 and to look critically at words in …More
This informational text, ‘The Flute’ provides a simple outline of the main features of the flute with a labelled diagram. It is a great resource to prompt discussion, assist in research or introduce musical terminology that is related to instruments, in particular the flute.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Fossil Finder’, is available at three different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to read a story and answer comprehension questions about a palaeontologist.
This informational text, ‘The French Horn’ provides a simple outline of the main features of the French horn with a labelled diagram. It is a great resource to prompt discussion, assist in research or introduce musical terminology that is related to instruments, in particular the French horn.
This informational text, ‘The Geography of Brazil’ features factual information about Brazilian geography. It is aimed at broadening students’ geographical awareness of the country in providing a summary of key concepts with engaging images.
This informational text, ‘The Geography of Scotland’ features factual information about the geography of Scotland. It is aimed at broadening students’ geographical awareness of the country in providing a summary of key concepts with engaging images.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Geometric Tree’ supports students to identify similarities and differences in geometric shapes.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Geometric Tree of Circles, Rectangles and Triangles’ supports students to identify and compare circles triangles and rectangles.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Golden Fingers’ asks students to answer questions about a tale of a king who wanted to get a pot of gold that was guarded by two golden fingers. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and study words.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Golden River’ asks students to answer questions about a tale of two brothers: one greedy, mean brother and one kind brother. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, make predictions and think about word meanings.
This history article, ‘The Gory Story: Cheers to Horatio!’ features a short tale about Admiral Horatio Nelson who died in the famous Battle of Trafalgar. It provides factual information about how, when he died, he was preserved in a barrel of brandy for the long sea journey back to England, and is aimed at broadening …More
This history article, ‘The Gory Story: Elagabalus: The Punk of Rome’ features a young Roman Emperor who liked playing pranks on his friends. It provides factual information about Elagabalus and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
This history article, ‘The Gory Story: Got a Frog in Your Throat?’ features an odd medieval medical procedure, which involved putting a frog in your mouth to cure a number of illnesses! It provides an introduction to the topic of old and traditional medical practices and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This history article, ‘The Gory Story: Homemade Shampoo?’ features an unusual ancient custom from Roman times for cleaning your teeth and colouring your hair! It provides factual information about this custom and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
This history article, ‘The Gory Story: Passing Laws or Passing Wind?’ features an unusual ancient law from Roman times that legalised farting in public and at banquets! It provides an introduction to the topic of Emperor Claudius’ strange law and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This history article, ‘The Gory Story: Pee-ew! The Great Stink!’ features the very smelly summer of 1858 in London, England. It provides factual information about the summer that became known as the Great Stink, and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This history article, ‘The Gory Story: Saved by the Bell?’ explains why some coffins had bells attached to them in the 18th and 19th centuries. It provides factual information about this practise and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
This history article, ‘The Gory Story: Those Imaginative Incans’ describes some of the gruesome and brutal ways in which the Incans punished their enemies. It provides factual information about the Incan Empire and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This printable sheet music, ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’ with lyrics can be reproduced for classroom use.
This hands-on activity, ‘The Gravity-Friction Challenge’ asks students to tackle the two challenges of making a tennis ball return to its original height when dropped and discovering how to move a piece of plasticine across the room.
This hands-on activity, ‘The Great Hidden Continent and the Age of Exploration’ describes the discovery of Australia and how this southern continent was a mystery to those north of the equator. It provides factual information and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
This article, ‘The Green and Gold’ provides students with factual information about Australia’s national flower, the golden wattle. It describes the history of the golden wattle as Australia’s national emblem and explains how the colours of the golden wattle have come to represent our country through our national sporting colours. This is a great resource …More
This informational text, ‘The History of Brazil’ features factual information about Brazilian history. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical awareness of the country in providing a summary of key events with engaging images.
This history article, ‘The History of Carrier Pigeons’ features how carrier pigeons have helped during times of war. It provides factual information about some famous carrier pigeons, and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This history article, ‘The History of the Bicycle’ describes the invention of the bicycle and how it evolved throughout history. It provides factual information and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This content area reading activity, ‘The History of the Yo-yo’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to identify the main idea in a piece of writing.
This printable sheet music, ‘The Holly and the Ivy’ with lyrics can be reproduced for classroom use.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The House Sparrow’ asks students to answer questions about the common house sparrow. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and think about word meaning.
This reading activity, ‘The Human Body’ provides opportunities for practice with reading a passage about the body and answering comprehension questions.
This article, ‘The Ideas Man’ tells readers about events in the life of the inventor Thomas Edison. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Iditarod’s Top Dogs’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a dogsled race in Alaska.
This history article, ‘The Interesting History of Queen Victoria’ features the life and family of Queen Victoria. It provides factual information about Queen Victoria and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
In this story, ‘The Job’ Jeff has to deliver papers but he finds his bike has a flat tyre. His little brother helps him solve the problem. The story provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Key to Fluency’ allows each student to organise their thoughts about a book, evaluate the book and then promote it to their classmates through a book talk.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Key to Fluency for Olivia’ asks students to evaluate the book Olivia by Ian Falconer, then use the information to give a book talk to try to convince others to read it.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Kittens’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, and understand sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This history article, ‘The Lady of Liberty’ features the famous New York City landmark the Statue of Liberty. It provides factual information about the history and significance of the statue and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Lakefield Times’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a newspaper editorial about a children’s benefit concert. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, as well as make …More
This history article, ‘The Legend of Kotai’ features a family who fled Hungary to start a new life in Australia during the aftermath of World War II. It provides factual information about the various hardships the Kotai family faced during their journey and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This history article, ‘The Life of Dorothea Mackellar’ features Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar, who wrote the famous poem ‘My Country.’ It provides factual information about the poet’s life and work and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This informational text, ‘The Life of Leonardo da Vinci’ provides a brief summary about Leonardo da Vinci and the simple machines he had to understand before he could be innovative.
This history article, ‘Lion Dance’ features the traditional dance performed during Chinese New Year in which a lion brings good luck for the upcoming year. It provides factual background information and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in an engaging manner.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Loon’ asks students to answer questions about a Native American tale about how a grandmother saves her grandchildren. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Magic Show’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about magicians and their tricks .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 and to look critically at …More
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