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English Year 1 Year 2 Language for Interacting With Others

Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts

Code EN1-6B

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110 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2

    English Unit: K-2 Booklet- Character

    This Character Workbook supports K–2 students in exploring how characters are developed, change and influence stories. Through differentiate...

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  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Types of Texts

    This engaging unit for lower primary students explores how language shapes preferences and text appreciation. Students compare text organisa...

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  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    English Unit: Ripper Rhymes

    This unit plan is a comprehensive resource for teaching and assessing sound patterns and poetry in your Year 1 classroom. The unit includes...

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  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Verbs

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Verbs Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understanding...

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  • Presentation Year: 2

    Types of Texts -Presentation

    This engaging presentation for lower primary explores text types, comparing narratives, informative texts, poems and brochures. Students lea...

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  • Presentation Year: F 1 2

    Ripper Rhymes - Presentation

    This presentation is an excellent way to introduce sound patterns in poetry to your class. The progressive presentation provides examples of...

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  • Presentation Year: F 1 2

    Syllable Showdown

    This presentation is a fun and inclusive game where students break lists of words into beats based on the number of syllables. Your class wi...

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  • Presentation Year: F 1 2

    Patterns in Poems - Presentation

    This presentation is a great way to analyse text features using simple and familiar nursery rhymes. Display on a projector or print each pos...

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  • Presentation Year: 2

    Action Verbs - Presentation

    The Action Verbs Presentation introduces students to the concept of action verbs. It provides examples and different types of questions in r...

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  • Presentation Year: F 1 2

    5 Senses Word Cline - Presentation

    A presentation to support the Teach This Word Cline lesson plan.  Use the presentation to support a lesson with your class about word cli...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    TEST - Measurement - Mass Poster

    A clear classroom display explaining mass, including units, measurement steps, and comparison language. Supports understanding of grams and...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Be and Have - Grammar Worksheets

    This printable worksheet pack focuses on the correct usage of the verbs be and have, including forms such as am, is, are, has, and have. Stu...

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  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Prepositions Board Game

    This engaging board game helps students consolidate their understanding of prepositions through movement and sentence completion. Players ro...

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  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +1

    Precise Verbs Monster Chain Activity + Banner

    This engaging grammar pack helps students expand their vocabulary by replacing common verbs with more precise alternatives. Students build c...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Beyond the Last Page

    This set encourages students to imagine what could happen after the stories of Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten or The Fantastic Flying Books of M...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Books With Meaning

    This worksheet set explores the powerful symbolism of books in The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Students will use colour,...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character Chats

    This set helps students understand characters through what they say and how they interact. Students will practise matching and creating dial...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    From Grumpy to Great!

    This worksheet set explores the transformation of Mr Wintergarten throughout the story. Students will sequence events, identify the causes o...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Meet the Neighbours

    This worksheet set introduces students to the characters Rose and Mr Wintergarten. Students will explore their physical appearances and pers...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character Transformation - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Character Workbook.

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Advice for Billy

    This worksheet set encourages students to respond to Billy’s situation with empathy and insight. Students will give advice, explore strategi...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Worries Big and Small

    This worksheet set encourages students to think critically about how different characters experience and respond to worry. Students compare...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Billy Learns to Be Brave

    This worksheet set explores how Billy changes throughout Silly Billy, focusing on emotional growth and shifting perspectives. Students will...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Billy’s Big Feelings

    This worksheet set encourages students to explore and understand the emotions of the character Billy from Silly Billy. Through drawing, writ...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Silly Billy’s Worries

    This worksheet set helps students explore the character of Billy in Silly Billy and understand the concept of worry. Students identify what...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Silly Billy - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Character Workbook.

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Mischief Maker

    This worksheet set encourages students to invent their own mischievous or naughty character. Students will describe what their character doe...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Hero or Villain?

    This worksheet set encourages students to reflect on the idea of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ characters in The Bad Guys. Through sorting, writing and d...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    How Does Pig Change?

    This worksheet set explores Pig the Pug's character arc. Students will observe and reflect on how Pig changes throughout the story- if at al...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Pig’s Personality

    This worksheet set helps students identify and describe the physical and personality traits of Pig the Pug. Students will explore what makes...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Pig the Pug, Pig the Rebel and The Bad Guys - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Character Workbook.

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    My Own Character

    This set of differentiated worksheets helps students explore how and why characters change over time. Through drawing, writing and comparing...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    How Characters Change

    This set of differentiated worksheets helps students explore how and why characters change over time. Through drawing, writing and comparing...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Say What?

    This worksheet set helps students explore what characters say and think, building an understanding of how dialogue and inner thoughts reveal...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character Clues

    This worksheet set helps students identify and understand how characters feel during a story. Through visual cues, story events and characte...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Meet The Characters

    This worksheet set introduces students to the concept of fictional characters and how we understand them through words and pictures. Student...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character - Teacher Notes

    This resource provides a brief overview and teaching notes for using the K-2 Multi-Age Character Workbook. 

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Character Workbook.

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  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Grammar Posters

    The Grammar Posters set is a visually engaging classroom display designed to help students understand the importance of punctuation and gram...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Easter Sentence Builder

    The Easter Sentence Builder is an interactive and engaging literacy resource designed to help students construct meaningful sentences while...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Plan Your Story!

    This worksheet supports students in planning a narrative by introducing basic story structure. Kindergarten students use drawings, Year 1 st...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Grading Rubric

    This marking guide provides a 5-point rubric for assessing Year 2 student responses to the Exploring and Comparing Texts assessment. It focu...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Assessment

    This assessment supports Year 2 students in analysing texts to appreciate language use, identify organisational differences and compare pres...

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  • Resource Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Quiz

    This quiz helps upper primary students explore how language is used to appreciate texts, express preferences and understand different text t...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Tell Me About It!

    This worksheet helps students explore how language is used to appreciate texts by identifying the title, author and type of text, summarisin...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Appreciating Texts

    This worksheet helps students develop skills in expressing opinions about texts using precise language. Featuring a poem about a water dropl...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Exploring Preferences

    This collaborative worksheet helps students learn and record their classmates' preferences using guided question stems. It focuses on practi...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Express Your Preference

    This worksheet guides students in exploring their likes, dislikes and indifference about activities, songs and movies. It includes structure...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Say it Your Way!

    This creative activity engages lower primary students in deciding how to inform or persuade the community about a new beachside resort. Stud...

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  • Resource Year: 2

    Comparing and Contrasting Texts

    This graphic organiser supports students in comparing two text types, focusing on their organisation, features and purpose. It encourages cr...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Same, Same but Different

    This worksheet helps lower primary students compare narrative and informational texts by exploring their purpose, organisation and language...

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  • Resource Year: 2

    Match the Features - Non-Fiction

    This matching puzzle activity helps students connect titles, descriptions and examples of common non-fiction texts. It encourages understand...

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  • Resource Year: 2

    Match the Features - Fiction

    These engaging puzzles help students match common features of fictional texts, such as characters, setting, dialogue and illustrations, with...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Troublesome Texts

    This worksheet helps middle primary students distinguish between fiction and non-fiction texts. It guides them to identify text features, or...

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  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Text Feature Finders - Colour

    Encourage critical thinking with these vibrant magnifying glass templates! Teachers can print them on thick cards or let students cut them o...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Text Feature Finders - B&W

    This resource includes a checklist for fictional and non-fictional texts and printable B&W magnifying glass templates. Students assemble the...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Feature Finder - Non-Fiction

    This interactive worksheet helps lower primary students identify non-fiction text features, such as diagrams, glossaries and captions, in a...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Feature Finder - Fiction

    This interactive worksheet helps lower primary students identify fiction text features, such as diagrams, glossaries and captions, in a fun...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Features of Texts

    Students identify the purpose of text snippets- recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, poetry and explain- by colour-coding them. This r...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Sorting Text Types

    This sorting activity lower primary students identify the main purposes of different text types: to persuade, inform, or entertain. Students...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    What is the Purpose?

    This activity introduces students to text purposes- persuade, inform and entertain- by sorting text titles into categories. It’s an engaging...

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  • Resource Year: 2

    Exploring and Comparing Texts - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card provides Year 2 students with a simple overview of the unit, including key concepts such as appreciating texts,...

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  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +4

    Gesture Guess

    Similar to a game of charades, Gesture Guess challenges students to guess where and in what context they might encounter these actions, from...

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  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +4

    Expression Explorer Poster Set

    Unlock the power of emotional literacy with our Expression Explorer Poster Set! Crafted in landscape A4 format, these vibrant posters depict...

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  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +4

    Expressive Encounters

    Engage your students with our "Expressive Encounters" scenario cards! Each card features two roles and a scene, inviting students to dive in...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Ripper Rhymes Assessment

    This simple assessment sheet has been designed to be used at the conclusion of the Ripper Rhymes unit. It includes a teacher checklist to hi...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Syllable Sort

    As your students learn about sound patterns in poetry, this worksheet will help them to demonstrate their ability to hear and identify sylla...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Alliteration Animals

    With this worksheet, your students will have fun identifying alliterating words before creating their very own, funny alliteration sentences...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Pirate Poetry

    Your students will love completing this poetry task as they add their own rhyming words to create their very own version of this funny pirat...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Poetry with Pip

    This simple worksheet encourages your students to use rhyming words in basic poetry by selecting from the picture prompts or word bank. C...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Colour by Rhyme

    Your students will love completing these Colour by Rhyme worksheets as they build their knowledge and understanding of rhyming words. Can...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Rhyme Time

    This simple worksheet will give your students the chance to practise the skill of looking at the final sound in words and producing words th...

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  • Resource Year: 1

    Haiku Heroes

    This assessment worksheet is a comprehensive resource to self and teacher assess the planning, writing and performing of a haiku. This task...

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  • Resource Year: 1

    Ripper Rhymes Quiz

    This fun and engaging quiz is the perfect resource to allow your students the chance to demonstrate their knowledge of sound patterns in sim...

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  • Resource Year: F 1

    Alliterate the Alphabet

    This teacher resource and worksheet is the perfect way to explore alliteration with your class. Authentic and fun, this task will challenge...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Terrific Translations

    This teacher resource complements our range of lower primary poetry units by introducing language and cultural elements. Use our large co...

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  • Resource Year: F 1

    Write a Rhyme

    This worksheet is a great way to get your students writing rhyming couplets. Students choose from the bank of rhyming words to create a 2 li...

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  • Resource Year: 1

    Ripper Rhymes - Student Reference Card

    Print these reference cards for your students so they can easily refer back to the key concepts of sound patterns. Each card provides exampl...

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  • Resource Year: F 1

    Ripper Rhymes Class Display

    This class display is a great way to reinforce sound patterns in poems such as rhyme, alliteration and syllable beats. The displays provide...

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  • Resource Year: F 1

    Patterns in Poems

    This worksheet allows students to demonstrate their understanding of text features and poetic devices. It is the perfect accompaniment to th...

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  • Resource Year: F 1

    Alliteration Stations

    This worksheet allows students to demonstrate their understanding of alliteration. Perfect for lower primary, students colour, trace and dra...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1

    Alliterating Apples

    This worksheet will help your students become familiar with the poetic device of alliteration. Students colour a series of apples depending...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Awesome Alliteration

    This board game will get your students thinking about alliteration and the patterns this poetic device can make. Students roll a die and say...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Patterns in Words Class Display

    This class display is a great way to introduce or reinforce rhyming words, syllables and alliteration with your lower primary class. The dis...

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  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Wheel of Emotions Spinner

    This handy mood and emotion wheel, is a great way for students to express a variety of emotions and share how they’re feeling in a simple wa...

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  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Fairy Tale Story Map

    This story map is useful for practising the retell comprehension strategy and understanding that all stories should have characters, a setti...

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  • Resource Year: P F 1 2

    Fairy Tale Nouns and Adjectives Board Game

    This game is designed to practise building descriptive vocabulary and understanding the purpose of a noun and an adjective.

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  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Let me tell you about...

    This worksheet and activity were a request from on of our member teachers. To complete this activity, students take turns interviewing one o...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +4

    Presentation Rubric

    Created as a resource request from one of our member teachers, this rubric and self-assessment is designed to be used for any student doing...

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  • Resource Year: 2

    Verbs - Assessment

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Verbs Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understanding...

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  • Resource Year: 2

    Verb - Student Reference Card

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Verbs Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understanding...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Word Cline Worksheet

    Worksheets to support the Teach This Word Cline lesson plan.  Use these worksheets to have a go at creating word clines. Students will le...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    5 Senses Word Cline

    A lesson plan designed to teach your class about word clines.  Use the lesson plan to support a lesson with your class about word clines....

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  • Resource Year: 2

    Verbs Are Action Words

    Engage students in the world of verbs with this dynamic resource. Through engaging examples and interactive activities, students will learn...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Verbs

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Verbs Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understanding...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Verb Hunt

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Verbs Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understanding...

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  • Resource Year: 1

    Alliteration - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Explore the literary device of alliteration with this engaging resource based on the story of "Three Billy Goats Gruff."

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Harmony Day Flashcards / Word Wall

    This set of flashcards have been designed to support Harmony Day celebrations. Pair this resource with our Harmony Day banners and displays...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Alliteration Side Show Alley

    This colourful side show alley themed poster has been designed to illustrate the meaning of alliteration and provide simple examples. 

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Alliteration Alley

    This colourful poster has been designed to define and provide simple examples of alliteration.

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  • Resource Year: P F 1 2

    Narrative Characterisation - Lower

    Students will explore how language is used to construct characters in narratives, including choice of nouns and choice of adjectives.

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  • Resource Year: P F 1 2

    Hot, Hot Pancakes

    Hot, Hot Pancakes is a rhyme written to celebrate Pancake Day. Two versions of the rhyme are available for you to select for your class.

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  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Common Noun Activity Cards - Lvl 1

    Students will consolidate their understanding that common nouns represent people, places, animals and things. This set of activity cards...

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  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Emotion Sketch Cards

    Emotion Sketch Cards were developed to assist lower primary students in understanding that language is used in combination with other means...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Handwriting Lines 1 - with Cats

    Created by request, the Handwriting Lines 1 - with Cats provides a visual handwriting prompt and guide to students when learning to write....

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Descriptive Writing Cards 2

    Use these charts to help guide students through descriptive writing or oral presentations, including Show and Tell. There is one chart for e...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Descriptive Writing Cards

    Use these charts to help guide students through descriptive writing or oral presentations, including Show and Tell. There is one chart for e...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Alliteration

    Practise use of alliteration with this Halloween worksheet.

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  • Resource Year: 1

    Flutterby Words - Onset & Rime Game

    In the game, Flutterby Words - Onset & Rime Game, students create words through the use of onset and rime. Not only is this game simple to p...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Questions I Need to Answer - Poster Set

    This set of six posters was made by request, to prompt students during verbal presentations such as Show and Tell. These posters gently remi...

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