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English Year 3 Literature Examining Literature

Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative

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Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

English Unit: Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants

This unit invites students in Years 3-6 to explore how imagery, symbolism and connotation shape meaning in stories. Using Leila and the Blue...

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Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

English Unit: ‘Blueback’ Tim Winton- Novel Study

This Blueback unit provides engaging lessons for Years 3-6, aligned with curriculum codes, focusing on characters, settings, themes, and lan...

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Unit Plan Year: 3

English Unit: Responding to Literature

This unit explores how authors create characters, events and settings in different contexts and their influence on the atmosphere of stories...

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Unit Plan Year: 3 4

English Unit: Dreaming Soldiers: Book Study

This unit is based around the text, Dreaming Soldiers. The text presents a variety of themes that have been addressed throughout the unit’s...

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Unit Plan Year: 3

English Unit: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

English Unit: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

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Unit Plan Year: 3

English Unit: Character Development in Narratives

This unit provides a great overview of the narrative strategy ‘show don’t tell’, encouraging the use of descriptive language to describe the...

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Unit Plan Year: 3

English Unit: Adjectives

This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 3 Adjectives Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understan...

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Presentation Year: 3

Responding to Literature - Presentation

A visually engaging presentation, this resource will support the teaching and learning of responding to literature. The presentation begins...

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Presentation Year: 3

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives - Presentation

This presentation is part of a larger unit on ‘Comparative and Superlative Adjectives’ This presentation walks you through the definition of...

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Presentation Year: 3

Character Development - Presentation

Inspire students' character growth with this informative character development presentation. Through engaging visuals and meaningful content...

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Presentation Year: 3

Adjectives - Presentation Year 3

The Action Verbs Presentation introduces students to the concept of adjectives. It includes a definition with examples, as well as a variety...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Answer

The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Suggested Answers booklet offers sample responses for all key activities across the unit. These includ...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Cracking the Code - Symbolism Analysis

This scaffolded worksheet helps Years 3-6 students identify and interpret symbols in visual and written texts, focusing on Leila and the Blu...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Grading Rubric

These differentiated rubrics support summative assessment of narrative, analytical, or visual interpretation tasks in the unit. Each rubric...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Visual Storytelling

This worksheet guides students through the process of creating a symbolic visual storyboard for a new scene inspired by Leila and the Blue F...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Silent Symbols

This Years 3-6 worksheet guides students to identify and interpret symbolic elements in the short film Migrants. Through visual analysis, me...

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Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

English Unit: Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths

This five-week narrative unit explores Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths, engaging students in reading, analysing, and writing humorous stori...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Just Tricking! Answers

The Suggested Answers booklet provides clear sample responses for all core activities in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It offer...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Just Tricking Task Cards

The Extension Task Cards provide engaging enrichment activities for the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. Each card offers a creative c...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Paragraph Planner

These paragraph planners support students to structure clear, engaging paragraphs in prank narratives. They guide sentence order, voice, and...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Glow & Grow - Just Tricking!

This reflection sheet guides students to identify strengths and areas for growth in their writing, provide constructive feedback to peers, a...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Just Tricking! Grading Rubric

The assessment rubric provides a 5-point scale for evaluating students’ summative tasks in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It cov...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Ultimate Prank Project

This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Ordinary to Outrageous

This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Giggle Upgrades

This worksheet helps students practice improving their stories by experimenting with different words and dialogue inspired by the Humour Hac...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Swap and Share

This partner checklist supports peer feedback by prompting students to look for clarity, humour, and areas to improve in each other’s storie...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Humour Hacks

These tip sheets explain age-appropriate humour techniques to help students identify, discuss, and use them in their writing. Each chart sho...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Polishing Your Prank

This editing checklist helps students revise their prank stories for clarity, pacing, and humour. It guides them to self-assess sentence flo...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

View from the Other Side…

This worksheet guides students to explore how changing the narrator’s point of view can shift humour and meaning. Students practise rewritin...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Sneaky Story Steps

This tip sheet guides students through the typical Just Tricking! story format. It breaks down the narrative structure into three clear part...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Prank Plot Planners

These scaffolded narrative planners helps students organise prank stories in the Just Tricking! style. It guides them to plan a clear orient...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Prankster Profiles

This worksheet helps students explore the main character’s traits in Just Tricking!, compare motivations and choices, and write a diary entr...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Laugh Lab

This worksheet helps students identify and analyse different humour techniques in a Just Tricking!-style passage, rewrite it to increase its...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Humour Hunters

This worksheet helps students identify and understand different types of humour used in Just Tricking!. Students practise rewriting a passag...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Just Like Andy!

This worksheet guides students to plan and write their own short prank story, following Andy Griffiths’ Just Tricking! style — using clear n...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Swap the Scene

This worksheet helps students practise rewriting a prank scene from Just Tricking! in a completely different style. It teaches them to spot...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Story Building Blocks

This set teaches students how to break down a narrative into key parts, rewrite scenes in a new style, and plan their own short stories insp...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Vocabulary Vibes

This set supports students to collect and use key words from 'Just Tricking', building a rich word wall that enhances their funny storytelli...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Author Antics

This worksheet set helps students learn about Andy Griffiths (the author) and Terry Denton (the illustrator). Students discover how they wor...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Cover Capers

This set of worksheets helps students examine the book cover and title of 'Just Tricking', encouraging them to make predictions about the pl...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Just Tricking - Teaching Notes

The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Just Tricking! By Andy Griffiths - Title Page

This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Fiction Task Cards - Colour & B&W + Recording Sheet

This pack of 32 Fiction Task Cards is designed to deepen students’ comprehension, analysis, and reflection when responding to fiction texts....

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Worksheet Year: 3 4

Grading Rubrics - Year 3-4

These comprehensive 5-point rubrics evaluate key elements of the Blueback-inspired short story and storyboard, including setting, character...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4

Blueback - Storyboard

This resource tasks students with creating a storyboard inspired by Blueback by Tim Winton. It guides them to develop a simple narrative set...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4

Blueback - Writing a Short Story

This resource engages students in writing a short story set in the world of Blueback. With structured planning prompts, students create a na...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Blueback- Task Cards

This resource provides a series of engaging task cards based on Tim Winton’s Blueback. It encourages students to explore themes such as the...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Chart the Plot

This resource helps upper and middle primary students analyse the structure of Tim Winton's Blueback. By breaking down the story's key event...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Main Event Reel

This activity helps students identify key events in Blueback, analyse their influence on the plot, and illustrate each moment. It encourages...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Story Map

This graphic organiser supports students in exploring Tim Winton’s Blueback by identifying the main characters, setting, storyline, theme, a...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4

Exploring Settings

This worksheet helps middle primary students explore how settings influence mood and events in narratives. Using excerpts from Blueback, stu...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Blueback - Title Page and Teaching Notes

This resource supports teaching Tim Winton’s Blueback and includes a visually engaging title page to introduce the unit and teaching notes....

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Worksheet Year: 3

Responding to Literature- Check In

Use this check-in to assess student understanding of how authors make stories engaging when carefully selecting language to portray characte...

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Resource Year: 3

Responding to Literature- Quiz

This 10-question quiz makes a wonderful whole class warmup, review or formative assessment tool to gauge students’ level of understanding ab...

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Worksheet Year: 3

My Thoughts On…

Students create book reviews and share their personal preferences about their favourite texts.

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Worksheet Year: 3

Responding to Texts

Students read different texts, The Tortoise and the Hare or The Beach, before answering questions that will help them examine the language u...

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Worksheet Year: 3

Connecting to Characters

Students create an artwork to represent a character with whom they share a personal connection.

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Worksheet Year: 3

Alter the Atmosphere

Students examine a description of a setting and the atmosphere that is created from it. They then rewrite the description to change the mood...

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Worksheet Year: 3

Create the Scene

A fantastic way to combine visual arts with literary analysis. Using one of the prompts or a text being explored in class, students identify...

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Worksheet Year: 3

Character Comparisons

Students compare the similarities and differences of the portrayal of characters in different stories.

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Worksheet Year: 3

The Story Remix

A fantastic activity to encourage students to explore different contexts and character portrayals. Students are divided into groups and...

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Worksheet Year: 3

Same, Same but Different

Students learn how authors from different parts of the world put their unique twists on the same stories. By exploring different versions of...

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Resource Year: 3

Responding to Literature - Student Reference Card

This student reference card is a handy tool for students to refer to when working through the unit ‘Responding to Literature- Year 3’. Pr...

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Worksheet Year: 4

After Reading Spinner

Have students use this spinner activity to practice asking and answering questions about how authors make stories engaging through their dev...

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Worksheet Year: 4

Tension Detectives

Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.

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Worksheet Year: 4

Tales of Tension

Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.

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Worksheet Year: 4

Spot the Plot

Use these to help your students identify the story plot when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.

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Worksheet Year: 4

Creating Engaging Settings

In this activity, students are asked to: Identify the language authors use to create vivid descriptions of settings. Describe and...

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Worksheet Year: 4

Character Care Factor

Use this activity to help students describe and discuss how authors make the reader care about the decisions of characters and their consequ...

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Worksheet Year: 4

Questions About Characters

This activity is a great way to encourage discussions about characters in the class stories and novels your class is exploring. A discuss...

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Worksheet Year: F 1 2 3 +3

Character Silhouettes

This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...

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Worksheet Year: F 1 2 3 +3

Unpacking Characters

This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...

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Worksheet Year: F 1 2 3 +3

Character Trading Cards

This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...

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Worksheet Year: 2 3

Text Connections

This worksheet is a terrific resource that allows your students to demonstrate multiple connections they may have to the same text. Students...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3

Text Connection Paper Chains

These paper chain strips can be used to make a whole class display of the different connection skills. They pair perfectly with the Text Con...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3

Making Connections Venn Diagrams

These Venn Diagrams are a simple graphic organisers for students to demonstrate connections and differences with a text. There are 3 differe...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

Text Connections Posters

These Text Connection posters provide a clear and easy to understand explanation of the 3 types of text connections. They are a terrific res...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Character Creator Cards

In this activity, students complete a writing prompt based on one of the set’s character cards. This set is built around fantasy narratives....

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Scenery Cards

In this activity, students use a series of landscape pictures and writing prompts to explore the importance of setting in narrative. Younger...

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Resource Year: 3 4

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives - Quiz

This quiz is part of a larger unit on ‘Comparative and Superlative Adjectives’. This quiz enables you to assess your knowledge and understa...

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Resource Year: 3

Adjective Crossword

This word search is part of a larger unit on ‘Comparative and Superlative Adjectives’. This worksheets provides opportunities to practice us...

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Resource Year: 3

Adjectives - Word Search

This word search is part of a larger unit on ‘Comparative and Superlative Adjectives’. This worksheets provides opportunities to practice us...

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Resource Year: 3

Comparative or Superlative Game

Comparative or Superlative Game

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Resource Year: 3

Adjectives Sentences

This ‘Adjectives Sentences’ worksheet is part of a larger unit on ‘Comparative and Superlative Adjectives’. This worksheets provides opportu...

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Resource Year: 3

Adjectives - Worksheet D

These ‘Adjectives’ worksheets are part of a larger unit on ‘Comparative and Superlative Adjectives’. These worksheets provide opportunities...

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Resource Year: 3

Adjectives - Worksheet C

These ‘Adjectives’ worksheets are part of a larger unit on ‘Comparative and Superlative Adjectives’. These worksheets provide opportunities...

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Resource Year: 3

Adjectives - Worksheet B

These ‘Adjectives’ worksheets are part of a larger unit on ‘Comparative and Superlative Adjectives’. These worksheets provide opportunities...

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Resource Year: 3

Adjectives - Worksheet A

These ‘Adjectives’ worksheets are part of a larger unit on ‘Comparative and Superlative Adjectives’. These worksheets provide opportunities...

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Resource Year: 3

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives - Student Reference Card

This student reference card is part of a larger unit on ‘Comparative and Superlative Adjectives’ The reference card provides a definition as...

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Resource Year: 2 3

How to Write a Fairy Tale

Create your own imaginative fairy tale text. Use the templates to plan out your characters and setting before writing your own fairy tale st...

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Resource Year: 3

Act It Out! - Character Activity

Engage students in a fun and interactive character activity with "Act It Out." This resource provides a collection of character scenarios an...

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Resource Year: 3

Character Development - Student Reference Card

Empower students with this handy character development student reference card.

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Resource Year: 3

Character Traits - Poster

Decorate your learning environment with this vibrant character traits poster.

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Resource Year: 3

Adjectives - Assessment Year 3

This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 3 Adjectives Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understan...

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Resource Year: 3

Formative Assessment Quiz - Adjectives Year 3

This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 3 Adjectives Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understan...

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Resource Year: 3

Adjectives Year 3

This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 3 Adjectives Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understan...

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Resource Year: 3

Adjectives Year 3

This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 3 Adjectives Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understan...

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Resource Year: 3

Adjectives - Student Reference Card Year 3

This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 3 Adjectives Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understan...

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Worksheet Year: 3

Adjectives

This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 3 Adjectives Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understan...

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Storybook

A read-aloud storybook of The Three Billy Goats Gruff

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

The Gingerbread Man - Storybook

A read-aloud storybook of The Gingerbread Man.

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Worksheet Year: 2 3

Comparatives

Comparative adjectives are used to compare two things. This worksheet has been designed as a tool for students to practise comparing adjecti...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3

Once Upon a Time - Narrative Adjectives

The narrative scene can be displayed in the classroom to demonstrate adjective choices students can use in their imaginative writing.

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Resource Year: 2 3

Comparatives - Poster

Comparative adjectives are used to compare two things. This poster has been designed as a tool for students to access when creating texts an...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5

Narrative Characterisation - Middle & Upper

Students will examine character descriptions that include appearance and behaviour, understanding how the character's development is eviden...

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