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English Year 3 Literacy Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating

Use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

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Unit Plan Year: 3 4

English Unit: Judy Moody - Mood and Voice Study

Middle primary English unit using Judy Moody to explicitly teach mood, emotion and first person narrative voice. Includes teaching notes, pr...

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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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Presentation Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Making Inferences - Presentation

This presentation is a great resource for teachers to use when introducing the reading strategy of making inferences. The presentation is pr...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Migrant Messages - Toolkit

The Migrant Messages toolkit equips students in Years 3-6 to analyse how the short film Migrants uses visual symbolism to convey emotion, mo...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Teaching Notes

The Teaching Notes page supports the implementation of the Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Imagery and Symbolism Unit for Years 3-6. It ou...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Title Page

The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants unit title page introduces students to the theme of visual storytelling through rich imagery, symbolis...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Yahoo Creek - Discussion Starters

This set of discussion prompts supports students to explore ideas about evidence, belief and historical perspectives. The prompts encourage...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Yahoo Creek - Debate Topics

This set of debate prompt cards helps students develop persuasive speaking and critical thinking skills. Each card presents a topic related...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Historical Source Analysis

These worksheets guide students in analysing historical sources from Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle. Year 3–4 students i...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Evaluating and Embedding Evidence

This worksheet helps students evaluate the credibility of sources and use evidence effectively in persuasive writing. Using quotes from Yaho...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Back it up!

This worksheet introduces students to using quotes as evidence in persuasive writing. Students read simple excerpts from Yahoo Creek: An Aus...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Make it Convincing!

This worksheet helps students plan a persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the PEEL structure. Students choose their viewpoint, com...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Build Your Best Argument

This worksheet guides students to plan a simple persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the Hamburger model. Students choose their op...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

PEEL-ing Apart Arguments

This worksheet introduces students to the PEEL structure for persuasive writing. Students read and label the parts of a strong persuasive pa...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Persuasion Burgers

This worksheet introduces students to the structure of persuasive writing using the Hamburger model. Students read examples of a strong and...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Fact or Feeling?

A set of differentiated worksheets supporting students to distinguish between fact, opinion and bias in historical sources about the Hairy M...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Voices from the Past

A set of differentiated worksheets exploring whose stories are heard in history, using real excerpts from Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

The Power of Three

A set of differentiated worksheets to help students learn about ethos, pathos and logos- three powerful persuasive techniques. Students expl...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Voices That Echo

A set of differentiated worksheets introducing argument, persuasion and authority, using examples from Yahoo Creek and well-known figures. S...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Comprehension Detective: Detective Kit

These worksheets provide a set of comprehension passages, both fictional and non-fictional, accompanied by questions that encourage the use...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Comprehension Detectives

This interactive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the ‘Comprehension Detective’ game, where they work in teams to solve compr...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Monitor for Meaning

This resource helps upper primary students develop comprehension monitoring skills by identifying and addressing reading difficulties. It in...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Monitoring Graphic Organisers

This set of graphic organisers supports students in monitoring comprehension. Tools like 3-2-1 Check-In, Challenge and Conquer, SQ3R, and Th...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

This Reminds Me…

If you are looking for a fun, versatile resource to introduce making connections to your class, then this is the one for you. This resource...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Connection Quest

Engage middle and upper primary students in making meaningful connections with this board game. Featuring 36 diverse text passages, a gamebo...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Exploring Connections

This resource explores Bennelong's role as a cultural mediator between First Nations Australians and early English settlers. It includes a n...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Connecting - Graphic Organisers

Use this comprehensive set of graphic organisers to enhance reading comprehension by helping students make connections. Includes Connection...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Prediction Pictures

Engage students in practising prediction skills with ‘Prediction Pictures’. Use the picture cards for a class competition or as an independe...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Prediction Paths

Prediction Paths is an engaging board game that reinforces comprehension skills through interactive prediction exercises. Students move forw...

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Worksheet Year: 5

Prediction Passages

Students will read character profiles, which include key traits and past decisions, and predict how these characters might respond in variou...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Predicting - Graphic Organisers

This set of graphic organisers supports students in making predictions during reading. It includes tools like Prediction Pathways, Pause and...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Don’t Say It! - Game

Use the ‘Don’t Say It!’ Visualising Card Game to engage students in practising visualising skills and reading comprehension. Players describ...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Visualise and Draw Relay

Our ‘Visualise & Draw Relay’ is designed to help students build literal meaning through visualisation. It includes instructions for team-bas...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Transform the Text

These differentiated worksheets help students visualise and transform non-fiction texts into diagrams. It includes three versions: the water...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Introduction to Visualising

This resource introduces visualising as a comprehension strategy, guiding students to create mental images using their senses. It includes a...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Roll and Respond- Questioning

This engaging activity is perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or as an extension task. Students use a dice to roll a question st...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Wonder Wheels

This engaging activity is perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or as an extension. Students use a paper clip and pencil to spin u...

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Worksheet Year: 5

Questioning - Graphic Organisers

These graphic organisers support the reading comprehension strategy of questioning, guiding students to ask questions before, during, and af...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Question Answer Response Display

This series of posters outlines the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) and clearly explains the four question types. Perfect for classroom d...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Question Answer Response

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

States of Matter - Stimulus Sheet

This engaging reading resource introduces students to solids, liquids, and gases, highlighting their observable properties and the arrangeme...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Introduction to Skimming

This worksheet introduces your students to the fast-reading technique of skimming. It explains skimming, provides clear steps, and offers pr...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Teach This Newsletter

This newsletter, designed to complement ‘Introduction to Skimming’ and ‘Introduction to Scanning’, provides a familiar resource for students...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Monitoring Meaning Display

A set of vibrant posters designed to support Year 5 students in monitoring comprehension. Includes skimming, scanning, and clarifying techni...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Roll and Respond- Summarising

Enhance students' summarising skills with this engaging literacy activity, perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or extensions. Af...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Summarising- Graphic Organisers

This set of graphic organisers supports the comprehension reading strategy of summarising. It includes various organisers to help students r...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Reading Role Charts

This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great display to work through before starting the Reciprocal Reading group process. The set...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Reading Role Cards

This set of Reciprocal Reading Cards provides a valuable student reference for the Reciprocal Reading Roles, including Director, Predictor,...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Reading Strategies Poster Set

A series of posters that support the teaching and learning of comprehension reading strategies, including activating prior knowledge, predic...

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

Reading Comprehension Cards

Enhance reading comprehension with these versatile question cards, suitable for any book. With 24 thought-provoking questions, students enga...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Inference Detective Badges

This resource can be used to show recognition to students who have been learning to make inferences and become reading ‘detectives’. These c...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Inferences Assessment

This worksheet has been designed as an assessment tool at the completion of the Making Inferences Unit. The assessment includes a visual fo...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Making Inferences Task Cards

These useful task cards have been designed to support students to make inferences using visual texts. The questions are prompts, to assist s...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Difference With Inference

This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet includes two non-...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Reading Between The Lines

This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet includes two fict...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Puzzling Inferences

This useful worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet, contains...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Interesting Inferences

This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The worksheet provides sentence starters...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Making Inferences - Student Reference Card

These student reference cards are designed two to a page and can be glued into student’s books as a reference. They provide students with an...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Making Inferences Poster

This poster was designed to provide students with an explanation of what it means to infer meaning when reading and how to make inferences....

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Simpson And His Donkey Research Task

This research resource provides students with a series of questions to guide them during their research of John Simpson Kirkpatrick. Student...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Christmas Big Brain Builders

Spend the 12 days of Christmas encouraging creative, playful and immersive learning with your students. This variety of activities ranges fr...

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Resource Year: 3 4

Easter Booklet - Middle Primary

This collection of Easter activities is a great way of engaging students before the Easter break. This workbook covers a variety of topics f...

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Resource Year: 2 3

Villain Wanted Poster

Villain Wanted PosterDraw on your character and fairy tale story knowledge to create a wanted poster about a villain. Think of the physical...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5

Chinese New Year - Reading Comprehension and Table Interpretation

This reading comprehension activity teaches students about the Chinese new year, and checks their comprehension of the text as well as a tab...

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Worksheet Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

The Easter Story - Reading Comprehension

A short reading about The Story of Easter. From Palm Sunday, The Last Supper, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Pentecost. The students read an...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

Picture Sentence Match - Three Billy Goats Gruff

Colour, cut, match and paste sentences to pictures. To be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Build com...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

Reading Comprehension - Three Billy Goats Gruff

Reading comprehension questions to be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

Cloze Passage - Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Three Billy Goats Gruff cloze passage. Use the word bank to complete the sentences. Can be used in conjunction with the TeachThis ‘Th...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

Picture Sentence Match - Gingerbread Man Activities

Colour, cut, match and paste sentences to pictures. To be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Gingerbread Man. Build comprehensi...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

Reading Comprehension - Gingerbread Man Activities

Reading comprehension questions to be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Gingerbread Man

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

Cloze Passage - Gingerbread Man Activities

The Gingerbread Man cloze passage. Use the word bank to complete the sentences. Can be used in conjunction with the TeachThis ‘The Ginger...

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Worksheet Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

Read and Roll - Fiction & Non-Fiction

Students will roll dice to select comprehension questions to answer on various fiction or non-fiction texts they have read.

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

Read and Roll - Fiction & Non-Fiction

Students will roll dice to select comprehension questions to answer on various fiction or non-fiction texts they have read.

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

Bookmark - Levels of Comprehension

These bookmarks provide prompts for students to understand how to approach literal, inferential and evaluative questions that they encounter...

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

Close Readers Poster

The 'Close Readers Poster' poster is designed to inform students about the habits of successful readers.

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

Animal Reading Strategy Charts - Comprehension Skills

This set of 'Animal Reading Strategy Charts' was designed to help students identify the correct comprehension strategies to use to build lit...

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FREE! Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

Remarkable Readers

The 'Remarkable Readers' poster provides students with a quick reference chart for comprehension skills including: Inferential Comrpehension...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

Comprehension Strategies - Lower

Students will understand how to use literal, evaluative and inferential comprehension skills to understand what they are reading.

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

An inference is

This poster was designed to provide a simple definition for students to understand what is required of them when they are asked to make infe...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

Easter Cloze Activity - Middle & Upper Primary

The 'Easter Cloze Activity - Middle & Upper Primary' activity is suitable for Year 3 -6 students. It tells the Easter Story in simple, easy...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

Super 6 Comprehension Strategies

The 'Super 6 Comprehension Strategies' classroom display includes the following strategies: Predict Make Connections Visualise Questio...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Reciprocal Reading Charts

This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great to display to work through prior to beginning the Reciprocal Reading group process. Pr...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Reciprocal Reading Cards

Reciprocal Reading Cards are a fantastic prompt for students as they work their way through this highly valuable process. Using the cards, e...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

Reading Responses with Multiple Intelligences (48 cards)

Each activity is individually numbered and linked to Howard Gardner's 8 Multiple Intelligences. They are suited to ANY STORY and ALL YEAR LE...

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