English Year 6 Literacy Creating Texts

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features

Code AC9E6LY06

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193 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: β€˜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...

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    English Unit - Rhetorical Devices

    This comprehensive unit plan equips teachers with engaging resources to teach students about using rhetorical devices, images, and modal ver...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4 5 6

    English Unit: Editing and Proofreading

    This unit plan incorporates editing skills aligning with the Australian Curriculum content descriptors ACELY1695, ACELY1705 and ACELY1715. T...

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    English Unit: Multimodal Texts

    In this unit, students learn to recognise, and interpret multimodal texts while making one of their own.

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    English Unit: Information Reports

    This unit on information reports was written to enhance students’ understanding and abilities in researching and writing information reports...

  • 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...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Rhetorical Devices - Presentation

    This visually engaging presentation supports students in using rhetorical devices, images, and modal verbs for persuasive effects, targeting...

  • Presentation Year: 4 5 6

    Excellent Editing - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to guide students through an introduction to editing their writing. It focuses on making writing β€˜5 Star...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Creating a Multimedia Text - Presentation

    In this presentation, students look at the evolution of texts, including the introduction of multimedia. They then work through a series of...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Final Reflections

    This reflective resource invites students in Years 3-6 to consolidate their understanding of symbolism and visual storytelling. Designed to...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Glow and Grow - Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants

    These reflection worksheets support students in evaluating their symbolic storytelling, film analysis, or visual comparison in the Leila and...

  • 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...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Creating Clarity

    This comprehensive editing toolkit supports Years 3-6 students in polishing their symbolic writing and analytical responses. Whether student...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Symbols That Speak - Toolkit

    This flexible task sheet supports students in Years 3-6 to create a visual comparison of symbolism in Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants. S...

  • 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...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Say it with Symbolism - Toolkit

    This toolkit includes four structured tools to support students in planning, drafting and refining a short story rich in symbolism, imagery...

  • 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...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Word Power!

    These worksheets explore how word choices affect tone and meaning in storytelling. Designed for Years 3-6, the resource offers scaffolded ta...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle

    This five-week persuasive writing unit explores Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle, guiding students through the analysis of...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery Answers

    The Yahoo Creek Suggested Answers booklet provides model responses for all key activities across the persuasive writing unit. It includes sa...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Echoes of the Past

    This reflection-based worksheet helps students explore how arguments shape our understanding of historical narratives. Using real quotes fro...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Glow and Grow: Yahoo Creek

    These reflection worksheets support students in evaluating their persuasive writing or presentation following a summative assessment based o...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek - Grading Rubric

    These two 5-point grading rubrics are designed to assess persuasive writing for Years 3–6. The Years 3–4 rubric focuses on structure, opinio...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Final Edits That Matter

    This worksheet set supports students in the final editing phase of their persuasive writing. Focusing on logic (does the reasoning make sens...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Sharpen Your Argument

    This resource builds advanced editing skills in persuasive writing. The editing checklist supports Years 3–6 students to review their drafts...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Plan, Prove, Publish

    Designed for Years 5–6, this resource guides students through the full persuasive writing process, from selecting a topic to publishing a fi...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    TAG It, Tweak It!

    This peer feedback worksheet helps students review persuasive paragraphs using structured questions and the TAG (Tell, Ask, Give) strategy....

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Edits That Matter

    This resource helps students identify and apply three key elements of effective persuasive writing: clarity (clear ideas and language), cohe...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Persuasive Power Check

    These differentiated editing checklists support students in revising persuasive writing with a focus on clarity, coherence and persuasive im...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    The PEEL Method

    This worksheet set helps Years 5–6 students write structured persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL methodβ€”Point, Evidence, Explain and Link....

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Debate Challenge

    This lesson introduces students to the fundamentals of structured debate. To be used in conjunction with Yahoo Creek: Debate Topics, student...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    PEEL for Powerful Paragraph - Display

    This poster helps students structure persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL method: Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link. It supports clear,...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Build a Burger - Display

    This poster helps students build strong persuasive paragraphs using the hamburger method. Each layer of the burger shows what to include: op...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek - Teaching Notes

    The Teaching Notes page supports implementation of the Yahoo Creek Persuasive Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the weekly lesson sequ...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle - Title Page

    The Yahoo Creek unit title page introduces students to the theme of persuasive writing through the lens of historical mystery and storytelli...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    My Year 12 Self - Future Letter Template

    This printable letter-writing template invites Year 6 students to reflect on their current interests, goals, and friendships, and write a he...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    How to Structure a Newspaper Article - Display Poster

    This newspaper-themed A3 poster helps students understand how to structure a news article using the inverted triangle format, where the most...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Letter to the Editor - Reading, Analysing and Writing Pack

    This comprehensive Letter to the Editor pack supports students in reading, analysing, and writing persuasive opinion letters in response to...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Grading Rubrics - Year 5-6

    This resource contains two five-point rubrics to support middle to upper primary teachers in assessing work based on Blueback. The analytica...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Blueback - Representing Themes

    This creative task for middle to upper primary students requires students to design a poster representing a theme from Blueback. Using drawi...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Blueback - Analytical Essay

    This task for middle to upper primary students involves writing an analytical essay on a key theme in Blueback. Students develop critical th...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Diving Deep into Language

    This activity engages students in analysing Tim Winton’s use of figurative language in Blueback, focusing on how similes, metaphors, and ima...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Paragraph Building Workshop

    Build confident and capable writers with the Paragraph Building Workshop! This step-by-step resource helps students learn to construct stron...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Rhetorical Devices Marking Rubric

    This comprehensive 5-point assessment rubric is designed to support the unit of work on Rhetorical Devices, focusing on students' ability to...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Rhetorical Devices Assessment

    This 2-page assessment task evaluates students' proficiency in employing rhetorical devices, images, and modal verbs to achieve persuasive e...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Rhetorical Devices Quiz

    This quiz is a valuable tool for assessing students' understanding of using rhetorical devices and modal verbs for persuasive effects. With...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Convince Me!

    This engaging resource comprises a set of scenario cards designed to ignite creativity and persuasive skills in students. Ideal for pairs or...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Race to Persuade

    A simple game where students move around the board, selecting a topic and rhetorical device to persuade others. Easy to set up and adaptable...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Persuade Me

    This engaging, low-prep game allows students to practice oral language skills by selecting topic cards and using rhetorical devices to convi...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Transform the Text- Social Media

    Transform an informative text about social media use into a persuasive text using learned rhetorical devices. This worksheet includes sugges...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Transform the Text- Vending Machines

    Transform an informative text about vending machine use into a persuasive text using learned rhetorical devices. This worksheet includes sug...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Transform the Text- The Great Barrier Reef

    Transform an informative text about the Great Barrier Reef into a persuasive text using learnt rhetorical devices. This worksheet includes s...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Modal Verbs

    This worksheet guides students through using modal verbs in persuasive writing. They fill in blanks, rewrite sentences incorporating modal v...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    The Pillars of Persuasion

    This worksheet introduces students to Aristotle's pillars of persuasion: pathos, ethos, and logos. Students will learn about each device and...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Rhetorical Devices - Student Reference Card

    Equip your students with this handy reference card, aiding their understanding of using rhetorical devices, images, and modal verbs for pers...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Rhetorical Devices Poster Pack

    Enhance your persuasive writing unit with our Rhetoric Devices posters! This set includes clear explanations, examples, and reasons for usin...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Text Type Posters

    Engage your students with our insightful series of posters. Tailored for educators, these visually appealing resources break down each genre...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Text Types and Genres

    This display provides a visual prompt for students when learning about text types and genres.Enlarge to A3 and laminate for multiple uses.Β 

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Narrative Text Structure Display

    This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the structure of narrative texts. Enlarge to A3 and laminate for mult...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Informative Text Structure Display

    This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the structure of informative texts. Enlarge to A3 and laminate for mu...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Purpose, Text Types and Features- Snapshot

    This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the purpose, text types and features of the three texts types. Β 

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Persuasive Picture Prompts - Set Two

    A fantastic set of 25 Persuasive Picture Writing Prompts which are great for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. In Set Two,...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Picture Writing Prompts (Middle & Upper - Set Two)

    This is the ultimate pack of 50 Picture Writing Prompts which are essential for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. Each writ...

  • FREE! Resource Year: P F 1 2 +4

    Monthly Writing Prompts - Generic

    This is a fantastic resource that can be used in many ways in your classroom. Designed as a generic calendar, students use the prompts for e...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Persuasive Picture Prompts - Set One

    A fantastic set of 25 Persuasive Picture Writing Prompts which are great for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. In Set One,...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Editing and Proofreading - Year 4 - Assessment

    This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of β€˜5 Star Writing’ when editing at a Year 4 level. It focuses on assessin...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Get Ready to Edit - Year 4

    Want a fun way to practise editing skills? Get Ready to Edit is an interactive and collaborative way for your students to practise the editi...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Proofreading Passages - Year 4

    These proofreading passages can be displayed as a whole class activity, printed for literacy groups or used as fast finishers. For convenien...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Editing Erasers - Year 4

    Use these quick and fun erasers as warm up activities, fast finishers or rotational activities in literacy groups. Students can either edit...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Proofreading with Pat, Pam and Peter

    Students will use their knowledge of β€˜5 Star Writing’ to read over and edit Pat, Pam and Peter’s writing. On each re-reading they should foc...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Excellent Editing - Skill Builders Year 4

    This set of worksheets provides students with opportunities to practise some of the explicit skills required to edit texts in Year 4. Includ...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Excellent Editing - Student Reference Card

    These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference when editing their...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Glow, Grow, Know Prompts

    Use these prompts to guide students when providing feedback to their peers. They scaffold students to write feedback on a:Glow- a positive a...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Glow, Grow, Know

    These feedback forms have been designed to use when students are required to provide feedback to their peers. They ask students to focus on...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Two Glows and a Grow Feedback Form

    These feedback forms have been designed to use when students are required to provide feedback to their peers. Students should focus on two s...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Two Stars and a Wish Feedback Form

    These feedback forms have been designed to use when students are required to provide feedback to their peers. Students should focus on two s...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Fantastic Feedback

    This beautifully designed poster is part of the Excellent Editing units and is used to remind students that feedback given to each other sho...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    5 Star Writing Checklists

    These Excellent Editing checklists have been designed as a handy reference tool for students to use whilst working through the Excellent Edi...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    5 Star Writing Posters - Excellent Editing

    These colourful posters have been created to support students when editing their writing. It focuses on making writing β€˜5 Star Writing’ by l...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Picture Writing Prompts (Middle & Upper - Set One)

    This is the ultimate pack of 50 Picture Writing Prompts which are essential for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. Each writ...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    iPad Bootcamp

    This iPad Bootcamp is designed to teach your students a range of iPad, internet and media arts skills while completing a series of tasks. Ea...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Multimedia Text Rubric

    This rubric was created to assess the presentation created by your students and allow you to easily break it down into separate assessable u...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Animal Infographics Resource

    These displays were created to be used as examples of infographics you and your students can use in class. They are a part of a larger unit...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Understanding Infographics

    This poster introduces your students to the components common in many infographics, as well as a brief explanation on why infographics are u...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Multimodal Texts - Student Reference Card

    This reference card helps reinforce their learning as a part of a larger unit for Year 5 where students learn to recognise and interpret mul...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Multimedia - Student Reference Card

    This reference card helps reinforce their learning as a part of a larger unit for Year 5 where students learn to recognise and interpret mul...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Resource Year: 6

    Graphic Biography

    Graphic Biography

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Athlete Research Report

    Athlete Research Report

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Biography Subjects - Poster

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

  • Resource Year: 6

    Biography - Student Reference Card

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

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    ANZAC Recruiting Soldiers Persuasive Writing Prompt

    A persuasive writing prompt of a poster to recruit Australian soldiers in WW1.Β  Using the persuasive writing visual prompt, students writ...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    ANZAC Recruiting Nurses - Persuasive Writing Prompt

    A persuasive writing prompt to recruit Australian women as nurses in WW1.Β  Using the persuasive writing visual prompt, students write a t...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Fractured Fairy Tales - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Fractured Fairy Tale prompt and plan for Β The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Use along with the TeachThis β€˜ The Three Billy Goats Gruff ’ read...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Persuasive Writing - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    The Three Billy Goats Gruff writing promptΒ is for class screen. Use along with the TeachThis β€˜ The Three Billy Goats Gruff ’ read aloud....

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Newspaper Report - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    The Three Billy Goats Gruff newspaper report writing promptΒ is for use on a class screen, and newspaper template for the report.Β  Use alo...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Narrative - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    A writing prompt for Β The Three Billy Goats Gruff to be used on a class screen. Use along with the TeachThis Β The Three Billy Goats Gruff...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Fractured Fairy Tales - Gingerbread Man Activities

    Fractured Fairy Tale prompt and plan for The Gingerbread Man.Β  Use along with the TeachThis β€˜The Gingerbread Man’ read aloud. Students pl...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Persuasive Writing - Gingerbread Man Activities

    The Gingerbread Man writing prompt for class screen. Use along with the TeachThis β€˜The Gingerbread Man’ read aloud. Display the writing p...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Newspaper Report Worksheet - Gingerbread Man Activities

    The Gingerbread Man newspaper report writing promptΒ is for use on a class screen, and newspaper template for the report.Β  Use along with...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Narrative - Gingerbread Man Activities

    A writing prompt for The Gingerbread Man to be used on a class screen. Use along with the TeachThis The Gingerbread Man read aloud.Β 

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Narrative Writing Prompts

    30 images to be used as prompts for narrative writing.Β  Display a visual prompt on your class screen. Students are required to write a na...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Writing Prompt Cards

    Included are 100 writing prompts. These are perfect for daily writing, early finishers, or literacy rotations. These cards would be the p...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Migration Marathons

    Students investigate some the largest migrations in the animal kingdom, plotting them on a world map.

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Super Tardigrade

    Students take what they’ve learned about the Tardigrade, and reimagine them in a super hero setting.

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Harmony Day Persuasive Writing Prompt

    This persuasive writing prompt has been written specifically to support Harmony Day celebrations.Β 

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Harmony Day Narrative Writing Prompt

    ThisΒ narrative writing prompt has been written specifically to support Harmony Day celebrations.Β 

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Genre Paragraph Writing - Posters

    This set of Genre Paragraph Writing - Posters was created to demonstrate how to write a paragraph in a variety of different text types. Thes...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Annotated Text Types

    Introducing a comprehensive resource for educators, encompassing annotated texts across various genres such as Information Reports, Procedur...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Rhetorical Questions Poster

    This poster provides a definition for Rhetorical Questions and provides examples to help students consolidate understanding.Β 

  • Resource Year: 5 6 H

    Narrative Story Starters

    This set of Narrative Story Starters focuses on using: Dialogue Conversation Vivid Descriptions An Interesting Fact Onomatopoeia Aski...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +3

    Editing Symbols Poster

    The 'Editing Symbols Poster' displays a set of standard agreed-uponΒ symbols that help students to edit their texts for meaning.

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Steps for Conducting & Compiling Research Poster

    This poster sets out the steps involved in researching a topic in preparation for an information report. It provides a list of possible sour...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Information Report Outlines

    This set of information report outlinesΒ allows students to easily organise their information on animals, people, books, countries and athlet...

  • Resource Year: 5 6 H

    PEEL Sentence Starters - Poster

    The PEEL Sentence Starters are a great reference tool for students to access to develop persuasive writing skills. This chart features a var...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    VCOP Openers

    Use the VCOP Openers resource to introduce students to different, and more interesting, ways they can begin sentences. This takes them past...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Narrative Prompts

    The 'Narrative Writing Prompts' have been created in a NAPLAN style of narrative prompt, to provide practise in interpreting and creating te...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Persuade Me - Persuasive Sentence Starters Display

    This set of sentence starters can be displayed in the classroom as a prompt for students to access when creating a persuasive text.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Narrative Structure

    The Narrative Structure was created as a visual prompt with relevant questions for each part of a narrative.

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Persuasive Words - Upper Primary Reference Card

    This reference card is designed to give students easy access to a list of highly persuasive words when structuring their persuasive writing...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Persuasive Words - Upper Primary

    This chart provides a useful resource for students to access when structuring their persuasive writing texts. It features one page of positi...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Persuasive Sentence Starters - Upper Primary

    This set of Persuasive Sentence Starters is designed for upper primary students providing them with some effective sentence starters to acce...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Persuasion

    Persuasion... this poster was created as a reminder when structuring a persuasive writing text. Students are reminded that successful persua...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    More Persuasive Writing Prompts

    This set of 15 persuasive writing prompts are a great resource to display on the IWB for students to access as practise writing exercises be...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Persuasive Writing Prompts

    This selection of persuasive writing prompts are a great resource to display on the IWB for students to access as practise writing exercises...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Figurative Language

    This worksheet helps students identify similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole in advertisements. Students then create their own...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Plan to Persuade

    Collaborative worksheet where students plan a persuasive letter to their principal against cancelling recess and school sports. Students gen...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Take Action

    This worksheet helps students use rhetorical devices to transform statements into persuasive language, encouraging action. Includes suggeste...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Start with Strong Arguments

    This worksheet helps students identify their strongest arguments for and against school uniforms. They will craft well-constructed sentences...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Rhetorically Speaking - Worksheet

    Use this handy worksheet when learning about rhetorical questions within persuasive texts.Β 

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    There is More to Persuasion

    This worksheet allows students to brainstorm where they encounter persuasion in their daily lives, from streaming services to social media....

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Lazy Language

    This worksheet challenges students to elevate the language in advertisements by replacing mundane words with more compelling alternatives, c...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Choosing Better Words

    This worksheet helps students improve their persuasive writing by replacing weak language choices with stronger, more effective words and ph...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Powers of Persuasion

    This worksheet guides students in collaborating to plan a persuasive letter to their principal, arguing against the cancellation of recess a...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Repetition

    This worksheet helps students identify repetition in a passage and use it effectively in their own writing for persuasive impact. Ideal for...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Rhetorical Questions

    This worksheet helps students identify rhetorical questions, match them to scenarios, and write their own around various topics. It supports...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    CUPS Bookmark

    This bookmark was created to support the CUPS editing poster (Capital Letters, Understand, Punctuation, Spelling). The bookmark acts as a ha...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Narrative Prompt Sheets

    This resource is a remarkable addition to any classroomΒ and assists students in writing narratives. Each page contains words and images to p...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    CUPS Editing Poster

    The CUPS Editing Poster is a bright and student-friendly visual reminder for self-checking writing. CUPS stands for:Β  Β β€’Β Capital Letters – A...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +4

    Typing Keyboard Colour

    This keyboard features a visual display of correct finger positioning when typing.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +4

    Typing Keyboard BW

    Typing Keyboard BW

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Writing a Recipe

    Students can use this worksheet to guide them through the process of writing a recipe (instructional text)

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Book Report

    This graphic organiser provides students with a simple framework to write a Book Report.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Animal Report - Junior

    With visual prompting, this graphic organiser isΒ provides an easy framework for young students toΒ write a simple report about an animal.

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Story Wheels

    These story wheels are designed to assist students in planning narratives, allowing students to spin each wheel to discover the narrative el...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Story Prompt Dice

    These story prompt dice are designed to provide quick and easy prompts for students who struggle to find the right idea when writing narrati...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Whales

    The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Dolphins

    The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Seahorses

    The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Octopus

    The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Sharks

    The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Storyboard

    Storyboard

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Narrative Planner

    Narrative Planner

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Narrative Outline

    Narrative Outline

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Text Type Charts - Landscape

    Everyone has been waiting eagerly for the Text Type Charts to arrive. These charts include all the writing conventions for six of the most c...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Text Type Charts - Portrait

    These charts include all the writing conventions for six of the most common text types along with an example of each. Designed to accompany...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Writing Process

    This resource was requested by our member, Sarah, to provide descriptions of each of the 5 stages of The Writing Process - Pre-writing, Draf...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Visual Writing Prompts

    This is a truly terrific class set of A4 visual writing prompts. They are loads of fun and will definitely inspire your students. They are d...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Punctuation Charts

    This series of posters outlines commonly used types of punctuation with clear examples and explanations of their usage. A fantastic visual r...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Proofreading Symbols

    These common proofreading symbols have been put into an easily understood table. Suitable for Upper Primary students, you can provide one fo...

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