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English Year 6 Literacy Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources

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101 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    English Unit: Biography

    This biography unit was developed to help students research interesting people while learning about the form of biography, and information r...

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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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  • Presentation Year: 6

    Information Reports - Presentation

    This presentation is designed to help later years primary students develop their writing skills for information texts. It is part of a la...

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  • Presentation Year: 6

    The Redfern Park Speech

    This presentation is a copy of Prime Minister Paul Keating's historic 'Redfern Park Speech'. As one of more significant pieces of public spe...

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  • Presentation Year: 6

    Biography - Presentation

    This presentation introduces students to biographies, and gets them set up for the biography unit for year 6. This unit was developed to hel...

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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

    Reading Comprehension Dice & Template Pack - Before, During & After Reading

    This interactive Reading Comprehension Dice & Template Pack is designed to guide students through Before, During, and After Reading strategi...

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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: 6

    Report Rubric

    This is an example of a rubric which could be used to assess information reports for Year 6. It is part of a larger unit on information r...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Information Report Checklist Bookmarks

    These bookmarks, directly tied to the suggested unit rubric, can be given to students as they work on their information report to help them...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Information Report Perfect Paragraph Planner

    This worksheet helps scaffold students as they lay out an information report paragraph. It is part of a larger unit on information report...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Information Report Road Map

    This worksheet is an information report planning template to help scaffold your students as they write their reports. It is part of a lar...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    My Information Report Research Register

    In this worksheet, students lay out the facts they discover during their research into categories to help them sort it later for draft writi...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Narrowing Your Focus

    In this worksheet, students are forced to come up with some specific search criteria to use online to reduce the amount of time wasted while...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Topic Brainstorming

    In this worksheet, students work through series of brain storming steps to help them choose a topic that they’re not only interested in, but...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Opinion vs Fact

    This worksheet can help students develop their abilities sorting facts from opinions. It is part of a larger unit on information reports...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Information Reports- Student Reference Card

    This card is meant to serve as an individual reference for students to use while writing information reports. It is part of a larger unit...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Roll While Researching

    While students begin to research their biography subject, this dice rolling activity will help them see their subjects in a different light....

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Graphic Biography

    Graphic Biography

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  • Resource Year: 6

    The Bellear Brothers - Extension Activity

    This extension activity is written to work together with the Bellear Brothers Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    The Bellear Brothers Biography

    This is a biography of Australian Aboriginal civil-rights leaders. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students rese...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Phar Lap Biography

    This is a biography of the legendary Australian racehorse, Phar Lap. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students re...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Present a Person

    This worksheet is designed to further scaffold students in biography writing, by prompting their research of a person in preparation for sha...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Ian Frazer Biography

    This is a biography of Australian researcher, Ian Frazer. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students research inte...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Roald Dahl - Comprehension Activity

    This extension activity is written to work together with the Roald Dahl Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to help s...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Athlete Research Report

    Athlete Research Report

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Donald Bradman Biography

    This is a biography of Australian Cricketer Donald Bradman. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students research in...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Cathy Freeman - Extension Activity

    This extension activity is written to work together with the Cathy Freeman Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to hel...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Cathy Freeman Biography

    This is a biography of Australian Olympic champion Cathy Freeman. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students resea...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Fred Hollows Biography

    This is a biography of Fred Hollows, a prominent Australian and New Zealand eye surgeon and humanitarian. This Biography is part of a larger...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Shared Birthday

    This worksheet is designed to get students interested in researching and writing biographies, by finding a subject who shares their birthday...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Jane Goodall - Comprehension Activity

    This comprehension activity is written to work together with the Jane Goodall Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Jane Goodall - Biography

    This is a biography of primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Biography Subjects - Poster

    This poster suggests a number of diverse biography subjects for your students to reserach and write on. The poster is a part of a larger uni...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Biography - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card was created as a part of the Biography unit plan.  It can be stuck in their books and referred to throughout the...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Comparing the Book to the Film

    This worksheet is designed to get students to contrast and compare books they’ve read with their filmed counterparts. Students not only revi...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Plant Table

    This worksheet lets them compare their plant experiment’s measurements with the control group, as well as the other plants so that they can...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    How Many Babies?

    This reading comprehension activity has students complete a short reading on the reproductive rates of different living things so students c...

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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: 5 6

    Writing a Summary Poster

    When summarising a narrative (or story), follow these simple steps to ensure you have an accurate and appropriately detailed summary. 

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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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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6 H

    Comprehension Strategies - Upper

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

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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: 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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