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This unit provides a great overview of the narrative strategy ‘show don’t tell’, encouraging the use of descriptive language to describe the...
This unit was designed to help students hone their persuasive texts skills for Year 3.
This comprehensive unit plan is a great way to teach students all about informative texts. The unit contains a presentation that walks stude...
This unit plan has been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and l...
This unit is a great overview of what an exclamation mark is and it’s appropriate use. The unit provides visual examples and questions to fo...
This unit plan incorporates editing skills aligning with the Australian Curriculum content descriptor ACELY1683. The unit contains a present...
This unit is an in-depth look at the Dr. Seuss story ‘The Sneetches’, which includes an analysis of Dr. Seuss’ style, and well as the themes...
In this unit, students are introduced to fables as a literary genre, where they learn to read for the moral lesson, in both ancient and mode...
This ‘Writing a Narrative’ unit is a comprehensive narrative writing guide that will take you through the steps of how to write a well plann...
This comprehensive unit plan about paragraphs explains in detail the importance and role of paragraphs and how to successfully structure par...
This unit plan is a great way to support students plan, draft and compose persuasive texts. The unit contains a detailed presentation, an ab...
This unit plan incorporates editing skills aligning with the Australian Curriculum content descriptors ACELY1695, ACELY1705 and ACELY1715. T...
This unit is designed to teach beginner word processing skills to students.
This unit is based around the text, Dreaming Soldiers. The text presents a variety of themes that have been addressed throughout the unit’s...
This comprehensive unit takes students through writing narratives. The unit begins with a presentation to assist teachers in demonstrating t...
This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring the use of literary devices and deliberate word play in literary tex...
This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring the varying features, structures and purposes of different types of...
This Blueback unit provides engaging lessons for Years 3-6, aligned with curriculum codes, focusing on characters, settings, themes, and lan...
This unit invites students in Years 3-6 to explore how imagery, symbolism and connotation shape meaning in stories. Using Leila and the Blue...
This comprehensive presentation about Paragraphs explains in detail the importance and role of paragraphs and how to successfully structure...
This comprehensive presentation about Paragraphs explains in detail, the importance and role of paragraphs and how to successfully structure...
This paragraph quiz is fantastic for consolidating knowledge of paragraphs and their purpose when writing and reading a variety of texts. Th...
This presentation will support your students to understand informative texts. It walks students through the structure and features of inform...
This presentation has been created to support your students understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and...
This presentation has been created to guide students through an introduction to editing their writing. It focuses on making writing ‘5 Star...
In this presentation, students are asked to think about the larger ethical and philosophical questions that come out of ‘The Sneetches’....
This presentation is the perfect way to introduce your students to fables. It goes through what makes up a fable, how it differs from other...
This presentation is an introduction to the Shel Silverstein book ‘The Giving Tree’, and examines that text as a fable, with multiple lesson...
This Presentation introduces your students to the structure of the hero’s story, in a simplified version of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. You...
This Rowan of Rin presentation was created with summaries, questions and activities for every chapter. It was designed to be a part of our...
This ‘Writing a Narrative’ presentation is a comprehensive narrative writing guide that will take you through the steps of how to write a we...
This detailed presentation supports your students when planning and composing persuasive texts. It runs though the structure, text features,...
This presentation has been created to guide students through an introduction to editing their writing. It focuses on making writing ‘5 Star...
This presentation is designed to introduce students to using a word processor as well as teach them a series of skills they can use to write...
This Quotation Marks Presentation guides students through the use of quotation marks in narrative writing. It unpacks all the common rules i...
This presentation is an excellent resource for teachers introducing and revisiting Narrative Writing. The presentation begins by looking at...
This presentation is a handy resource to work through with your class during the exploration of literary devices and deliberate word play in...
This presentation is a great resource for teachers to use when introducing and revisiting the purpose, structure and features of poems. The...
Inspire students' character growth with this informative character development presentation. Through engaging visuals and meaningful content...
These story starters are a lot of fun and will definitely lead to some truly imaginative storylines. They are designed to stimulate the mind...
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...
Eight A4 pages of words with picture prompts to help students learn to write recounts - including Who, What, Where, When, Why, How did you f...
This resource is a remarkable addition to any classroom and assists students in writing narratives. Each page contains words and images to p...
The 'Sizzling Starts Poster' was created to help students create more exciting starts to their narrative writing.
The 'Sizzling Starts Presentation' was created to help students create more exciting starts to their narrative writing.
Students will examine character descriptions that include appearance and behaviour, understanding how the character's development is eviden...
This set of '35 Narrative Settings' has been developed to allow students to experiment with descriptive words and phrases as they accurately...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...
Create your own imaginative fairy tale text. Use the templates to plan out your characters and setting before writing your own fairy tale st...
Use the template provided to assist you in visualising your perfect fairy tale character. Brainstorm your character’s physical and personali...
Roll a dice three times to discover the character, setting and problem to prompt you when writing your own fairy tale story.
In this activity, students use a series of landscape pictures and writing prompts to explore the importance of setting in narrative. Younger...
In this activity, students complete a writing prompt based on one of the set’s character cards. This set is built around fantasy narratives....
This resource was requested by our member, Sarah, to provide descriptions of each of the 5 stages of The Writing Process - Pre-writing, Draf...
The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...
The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...
The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...
The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...
The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...
These story prompt dice are designed to provide quick and easy prompts for students who struggle to find the right idea when writing narrati...
These story wheels are designed to assist students in planning narratives, allowing students to spin each wheel to discover the narrative el...
With visual prompting, this graphic organiser is provides an easy framework for young students to write a simple report about an animal.
This graphic organiser provides students with a simple framework to write a Book Report.
Students can use this worksheet to guide them through the process of writing a recipe (instructional text)
This Animal Report was designed for students studying farm animals. With visual prompts throughout and a space for drawing or gluing a p...
Persuasive Sentence Starters is made up of 6 sentence beginnings designed primarily to make persuasive writing simple for Year 3 students. S...
This reference card provides a very simple resource for students to access when structuring their persuasive writing texts. It includes a se...
Persuasive Writing Does Need Strong Words so we decided to create a simple classroom poster for lower primary students that says just that!...
The 'Narrative Outline' classroom resource provides a one-page outline of a narrative (or imaginative text), with each subsequent page provi...
The Narrative Structure was created as a visual prompt with relevant questions for each part of a narrative.
Students will use the Persuasive Outline to plan their own persuasive text.
This landscape presentation of the Persuasive Outline provides an alternative planning style for students to use as they plan their own pers...
This set of sentence starters can be displayed in the classroom as a prompt for students to access when creating a persuasive text.
The 'Narrative Writing Prompts' have been created in a NAPLAN style of narrative prompt, to provide practise in interpreting and creating te...
Use the VCOP Openers resource to introduce students to different, and more interesting, ways they can begin sentences. This takes them past...
This set of information report outlines allows students to easily organise their information on animals, people, books, countries and athlet...
This poster sets out the steps involved in researching a topic in preparation for an information report. It provides a list of possible sour...
The 'Draft Writing' poster provides the steps required to turn an idea into a piece of text.
The narrative scene can be displayed in the classroom as a prompt for imaginative writing.
This set of Genre Paragraph Writing - Posters was created to demonstrate how to write a paragraph in a variety of different text types. Thes...
This narrative writing prompt has been written specifically to support Harmony Day celebrations.
This persuasive writing prompt has been written specifically to support Harmony Day celebrations.
This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...
Included are 100 writing prompts. These are perfect for daily writing, early finishers, or literacy rotations. These cards would be the p...
30 images to be used as prompts for narrative writing. Display a visual prompt on your class screen. Students are required to write a na...
A persuasive writing prompt to recruit Australian women as nurses in WW1. Using the persuasive writing visual prompt, students write a t...
A persuasive writing prompt of a poster to recruit Australian soldiers in WW1. Using the persuasive writing visual prompt, students writ...
This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...
This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...
This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...
The Exclamations Quiz is an auto-timed quiz that requires students to identify the correct usage of an exclamation mark. You can run this a...
This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...
This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...
This resource is a great way for your students to imagine and empathise with the men and women who served in Gallipoli during World War I. I...
This poster is a great classroom display, assisting in constructing imaginative paragraphs with appropriate paragraph structure. The hamburg...
This poster is a great classroom display, assisting in constructing paragraphs with appropriate paragraph structure. This paragraph structur...
This TEEL poster is a great classroom display, assisting in constructing paragraphs with appropriate paragraph structure. The paragraph stru...
A great reference card for students to have stuck into their writing books or laminated for easy access when writing informative, persuasive...
A great reference card for students to have stuck into their writing books or laminated for easy access when writing informative, persuasive...
This set of 12 task cards is a great writing resource for students to use within a rotational group setting to practice informative, imagin...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing informative texts. It is part of a p...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing informative texts. The information i...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing informative texts. Students can cho...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a pr...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a p...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a pr...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a p...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing imaginative texts. It is part of a...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing imaginative texts. Students are giv...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing imaginative texts. Students choose o...
This assessment has been designed as a pre and post assessment activity as part of the ‘Peeling Paragraphs’ unit. After studying and learni...
This worksheet acts as a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write an imaginative paragraph. The Hamburger method suppo...
This worksheet acts as a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write an imaginative paragraph. Students are encouraged to...
This is a great persuasive paragraph sequencing activity on the topic ‘Single Use Plastic’. Students read the jumbled persuasive paragraph a...
This is a great persuasive paragraph sequencing activity on the topic ‘Single Use Plastic’. Students read the jumbled persuasive paragraph a...
This worksheet acts as a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write a persuasive / informative paragraph. The PEEL Para...
This worksheet acts a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write a persuasive paragraph. The TEEL Paragraph method suppo...
This worksheet acts as a scaffold to support students to accurately structure an informative paragraph about cats. Students read the jumbled...
This worksheet acts as a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write an informative paragraph. This is useful when plann...
This exit ticket acts as an assessment which could be used pre and post the study of paragraphs. Students read the jumbled-up paragraph and...
This is the ultimate pack of 50 Picture Writing Prompts which are essential for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. Each writ...
This visual poster display will help support your students when remembering how to correctly sequence an informative text.
This handy reference card supports your students when remembering how to correctly sequence an informative text.
This fun worksheet will help your students differentiate between facts and opinions which essentially will help them when planning, researc...
This four page resource assists students when learning to correctly structure an informative text. The topic for this informative text is Pl...
This four page resource assists students when learning to correctly structure an informative text. The topic for this informative text is Su...
This four page resource assists students when learning to correctly structure an informative text. The topic for this informative text is Th...
This resource will help your students to identity and understand some language features found in informative texts. This informative paragra...
This resource will help your students to identity and understand some language features found in informative texts. This informative paragra...
This resource set has been designed to support students to categorise groups of information when planning to write an informative paragraph....
This resource set has been designed to support students to categorise groups of information when planning to write an informative paragraph....
This resource set has been designed to support students to categorise groups of information when planning to write an informative paragraph....
This resource can be used to help students plan and organise an informative text. These slides include a topic for students to write about....
This resource about the Great Barrier Reef is a great tool to show the structure of an informative text as well as displaying this text in a...
This helpful template will support your students when planning their informative texts. It provides space for them to add facts and details...
This helpful scaffold encourages your students to write their research facts as full sentences in preparation for composing an informative t...
This helpful scaffold encourages and supports your students to compose a correctly structured informative text. It provides students with se...
These handy student checklists are a great tool for your students to ‘tick off’ as they write and review their informative texts. Cut eac...
This resource is a great way for your students to explore and identify informative text features found in a variety of texts. It would be be...
Use this useful rubric as a guide to to assess your students understanding and ability to plan, draft and compose an informative text .
A fantastic set of 25 Persuasive Picture Writing Prompts which are great for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. In Set One,...
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...
A great example of a persuasive text that can be used in multiple ways, within your classroom:Identify and annotate structural and language...
This handy worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive devices by matching each one listed, to the...
This worksheet has been created to support the text, ‘All Children Should Learn to Swim’. The worksheet contains literal and inferential que...
This cut and paste worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language features by categorising t...
This helpful scaffold encourages and supports your students to compose a correctly structured persuasive text. It provides students with sec...
These handy reference cards have been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structura...
This is a great resource to have handy when exploring procedural texts with your students. We have some worksheets within our Year 3 unit pl...
This worksheet encourages your students to correctly sequence the procedural text ‘How to Make an Egg Parachute’. The procedural text, ‘How...
This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and identify language features of a procedural text. The procedural text, ‘How to Make...
This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and work with language features of a procedural text (verbs and adverbs). Students fill...
This worksheet encourages your students choose a ‘simple’ procedural text displayed on the worksheet to ‘improve’ it, making it more detaile...
The Procedural Texts Quiz requires students to answer a range of questions stemming from the Procedural Texts Unit to cover both text struct...
This stimulus can be used as inspiration for students to write their own procedural texts. They can be printed or simply displayed on your i...
A handy student scaffold students can use, to provide structure when they are learning to write procedural texts. This can also be used as p...
This series of posters outlines commonly used types of punctuation with clear examples and explanations of their usage. A fantastic visual r...
These common proofreading symbols have been put into an easily understood table. Suitable for Lower Primary students, you can provide o...
The CUPS Editing Poster is a bright and student-friendly visual reminder for self-checking writing. CUPS stands for: • Capital Letters – A...
This bookmark was created to support the CUPS editing poster (Capital Letters, Understand, Punctuation, Spelling). The bookmark acts as a ha...
These charts have a myriad of uses in the classroom. They can be used to help students express their own emotions. The visual aspect of thes...
The Punctuation Monster Chart was designed to provide a simple reference tool for the purpose of punctuation in writing.
The Punctuation Monsters were designed to provide a simple reference tool for the purpose of punctuation in writing.
The Monster Punctuation Posters are a colourful and engaging set of visual aids designed to reinforce key punctuation rules in an easy-to-un...
The 'Editing Symbols Poster' displays a set of standard agreed-upon symbols that help students to edit their texts for meaning.
The editing symbols handouts can be attached within writing books or attached to student desks for easy reference when editing.
The Punctuation Monster Chart was designed to provide a simple reference tool for the purpose of punctuation in writing.
The Wonder Wall display header has been developed to be used as a word wall display to introduce vocabulary associated with various units of...
A writing prompt for The Gingerbread Man to be used on a class screen. Use along with the TeachThis The Gingerbread Man read aloud.
The Gingerbread Man newspaper report writing prompt is for use on a class screen, and newspaper template for the report. Use along with...
The Gingerbread Man newspaper report writing prompt is for use on a class screen, and newspaper template for the report. Use along with...
The Gingerbread Man writing prompt for class screen. Use along with the TeachThis ‘The Gingerbread Man’ read aloud. Display the writing p...
Fractured Fairy Tale prompt and plan for The Gingerbread Man. Use along with the TeachThis ‘The Gingerbread Man’ read aloud. Students pl...
A writing prompt for The Three Billy Goats Gruff to be used on a class screen. Use along with the TeachThis The Three Billy Goats Gruff...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff newspaper report writing prompt is for use on a class screen, and newspaper template for the report. Use alo...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff newspaper report writing prompt is for use on a class screen, and newspaper template for the report. Use alo...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff writing prompt is for class screen. Use along with the TeachThis ‘ The Three Billy Goats Gruff ’ read aloud....
Fractured Fairy Tale prompt and plan for The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Use along with the TeachThis ‘ The Three Billy Goats Gruff ’ read...
Write a persuasive letter to Mr Wolf, outlining your opinions about his bad behaviour and what he can do to change his unkind character trai...
This useful poster is a visual representation and great anchor chart explaining the basic features of a sentence. Display this in your class...
These colourful posters have been created to support students when editing their writing. It focuses on making writing ‘5 Star Writing’ by l...
These Excellent Editing checklists have been designed as a handy reference tool for students to use whilst working through the Excellent Edi...
This beautifully designed poster is part of the Excellent Editing units and is used to remind students that feedback given to each other sho...
These feedback forms have been designed to use when students are required to provide feedback to their peers. Students should focus on two s...
These feedback forms have been designed to use when students are required to provide feedback to their peers. Students should focus on two s...
These feedback forms have been designed to use when students are required to provide feedback to their peers. They ask students to focus on...
Use these prompts to guide students when providing feedback to their peers. They scaffold students to write feedback on a:Glow- a positive a...
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...
This set of worksheets provides students with opportunities to practise some of the explicit skills required to edit texts in Year 3. Includ...
Students will use their knowledge of ‘5 Star Writing’ to read over and edit Edward, Eva and Erin’s writing. On each re-reading they should f...
Use these quick and fun erasers as warm up activities, fast finishers or rotational activities in literacy groups. Students can either edit...
These proofreading passages can be displayed as a whole class activity, printed for literacy groups or used as fast finishers. For convenien...
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...
This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of ‘5 Star Writing’ when editing at a Year 3 level. It focuses on assessin...
This keyboard features a visual display of correct finger positioning when typing.
These posters remind students of the essential keyboard shortcuts they can use to open and save documents in most of the software they will...
This poster set reminds your students of the groups of keys on their keyboard and what they all do. There is a similar set of posters featur...
This poster set reminds your students of the groups of keys on their keyboard and what they all do. There is a similar set of posters featur...
These posters were created to support student learning of poetic devices. They feature a description and a corresponding example in bright a...
These posters were brought to you by one of our wonderful members, Katrina, who kindly sent them in to us to share with our members. Thanks...
Spoonerisms are devices used in deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts. They are included in Year 4 of the Australian Engl...
This resource was created to define and provide examples of the various language devices used to create poetry and prose.
Use this bright one-page game as a fun and interactive way for students to learn more about the literary device of spoonerisms.
A colourful class display of a short Gingerbread Man poem.
A colourful class display of a short The Three Billy Goats Gruff poem.
This collection of Easter activities is a great way of engaging students before the Easter break. This workbook covers a variety of topics f...
This worksheet walks you through an activity you can do with your students before reading ‘The Sneetches’, it will help students identify wi...
This worksheet is designed to be a comprehension and reflection sheet for students to complete after reading the story ‘The Sneetches’. T...
In this worksheet, students imagine themselves as a Plain-bellied Sneetch from the Dr Seuss story ‘The Sneetches’, and write a journal entry...
In this worksheet, students imagine themselves as a Plain-bellied Sneetch and must write a persuasive text arguing for or against a suggeste...
In this worksheet, students write a dialogue of friendship between two sneetches who are different. This worksheet is a part of a larger...
In this worksheet, students use their imaginations to create creatures who live near the Sneetches, but don’t let their differences come bet...
In this activity, students rotate around the classroom writing their favourite things about each other their classmates. Encourage your stud...
This is a word-search activity that students from the book ‘The Sneetches’. This worksheet is a part of a larger in-depth look at the Dr....
In this worksheet, students replicate Dr. Suess’ rhyming style to find rhymes to common words, and then create a rhyming couplet. This wo...
This student card is designed to be used as a reference for students to the characteristics of fables. It is a part of a larger fables unit...
After printing this single sheet in duplex (front and back), a single cut and a pair of staples turns it into a mini booklet that can be rea...
This crossword covers a number of the terms and information that will be covered in the Year 4 Fables unit. It is a part of a larger fables...
In this worksheet, students reframe their favourite fable as a comic book. It is a part of a larger fables unit for students, where they lea...
This is a comprehension page, which gets students to identify the moral of a fable, using evidence from the text, which they compare with ot...
This is a word search for Dr Seuss’ story ‘The Lorax’, including a key. Look for the words running on the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal...
In this worksheet, students try and identify some of the lessons that are in the Dr. Seuss story ‘The Lorax’. It is a part of a larger fabl...
This is a colouring page inspired by Dr. Seuss’ story ‘The Lorax’. It is a part of a larger fables unit for students, where they learn to r...
In this worksheet, students look at the story ‘The Lorax’ for connections between actions and consequences. It is a part of a larger fables...
In this worksheet, students use their own experience and insights to draw a series of pictures to explain the final message from the story “...
In this worksheet, students write a entry in the Lorax’s journal, recounting one of the events from a day in the story. It is a part of a l...
This is a word search for Shel Silverstein’s story ‘The Giving Tree’, including a key. Look for the words running on the horizontal, vertica...
In this worksheet, students try and identify the moral in the story ‘The Giving Tree,' including evidence for their conclusion in the text....
This worksheet is designed to be planning or scaffolding for students to be able to write their own version of a classic fable. It is a par...
This is an example of a basic rubric you can use to assess your students’ written fables, based on the criteria for a fable reinforced durin...
This workbook introduces students to the “hero’s journey” structure of narrative storytelling in a simplified version of Joseph Campbell’s m...
This Rowan of Rin title page is a great way to kick off the unit with a bit of fun. It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of Rin book...
In this worksheet, students try and recreate Rowan’s magic map based on what they remember from the story. It was designed to be a part of...
In this worksheet, students plot the excitement level of the various chapters of the book, revealing how the author has to make choices abou...
In this worksheet, students design a new dust jacket for a new edition of the book they are studying in class. They illustrate a favourite s...
In this worksheet, students write descriptions of a handful of characters from the novel they are reading and then swap them with a friend....
In this worksheet, students create a character profile for one of the secondary characters in the story Rowan of Rin, using evidence from th...
This crossword puzzle is the perfect fast finishers activity for your Rowan of Rin book study. It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of...
This Word Search is the perfect fast finishers activity for your Rowan of Rin book study. It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of Rin...
This ‘Narrative Student Reference Card ‘ is a great resource for students to glue in their book and refer back to when narrative writing. Th...
Use this resource when planning to write a narrative. The planning includes all the necessary resources required to structure and write an e...
Use this resource when planning to write a narrative. The planning includes all the necessary resources required to structure and write an e...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with setting the scene and using your five senses, to create imagery for the reader. This works...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with setting the scene. This worksheet provides opportunities to visualise the setting, in orde...
These ‘Problem Prompt Cards’ are a great tool for assisting with choosing a ‘problem’ within a story and thinking of a suitable solution. Th...
This ‘Analyse a Narrative’ worksheet is a great tool for assisting with understanding the structure of a narrative and recognising it within...
This ‘Roll-A-Narrative’ worksheet is a great writing prompt activity for brainstorming characters, settings and problems within your narrati...
This ‘Exciting Endings’ worksheet is great for describing the different types of endings that can be used within a narrative, by providing a...
This ‘Story Editing Checklist’ is a great tool for practising self-editing skills. Encourage students to use this checklist at the completio...
This ‘Narrative Writing Task’ lined story writing template can be used in conjunction with the narrative story writing prompts to write a na...
This ‘Narrative Assessment Rubric’ is a comprehensive and Australian Curriculum aligned marking rubric, to be used when assessing a narrativ...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with exciting starts in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for using desc...
These charts include all the writing conventions for six of the most common text types along with an example of each. Designed to accompany...
This selection of persuasive writing prompts are a great resource to display on the IWB for students to access as practise writing exercises...
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...
Persuasion... this poster was created as a reminder when structuring a persuasive writing text. Students are reminded that successful persua...
This chart provides a very simple resource for students to access when structuring their persuasive writing texts. It features 5 positively...
This cut and paste worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language features by categorising t...
This handy worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language devices by matching each one liste...
A great example of a persuasive text that can be used in multiple ways within your classroom. This text could be annotated through the explo...
This helpful scaffold encourages and supports your students to compose a correctly structured persuasive text. It provides students with sec...
These common proofreading symbols have been put into an easily understood table. Suitable for Upper Primary students, you can provide one fo...
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...
This set of worksheets provides students with opportunities to practise some of the explicit skills required to edit texts in Year 4. Includ...
Students will use their knowledge of ‘5 Star Writing’ to read over and edit Pat, Pam and Peter’s writing. On each re-reading they should foc...
Use these quick and fun erasers as warm up activities, fast finishers or rotational activities in literacy groups. Students can either edit...
These proofreading passages can be displayed as a whole class activity, printed for literacy groups or used as fast finishers. For convenien...
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...
This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of ‘5 Star Writing’ when editing at a Year 4 level. It focuses on assessin...
Encourage students to refer to this set of Microsoft Word Shortcuts to build confidence and efficiency in their work.
This student card is designed for students to use as a personal reference for keyboard shortcuts. This resource is a part of a larger unit...
This worksheet is a basic word search of computer and word processing terms. Words appear horizontally, vertically and diagonally, both for...
In this worksheet, students complete a glossary of word processor terms, all of which are covered in the ‘Working With Word Processors’ pres...
In this worksheet, students draw and define the common icons that they find in the tool bars of their preferred word processor. This worksh...
This worksheet is a checklist, that students will use to edit the .doc file on lions as a final assessment piece. It will allow you to check...
This file is designed to be used with the worksheet ‘Wrestling With Word Processors’, where students will make a series of changes, edits an...
This is the ultimate pack of 50 Picture Writing Prompts which are essential for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. Each writ...
A fantastic set of 25 Persuasive Picture Writing Prompts which are great for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. In Set Two,...
This Using Quotations Mark class display is a simple yet effective display to remind students where to place their quotation marks for direc...
This Instead of Said class display is a wonderful way to encourage your students to use words other than ‘said’ in their writing. It feature...
Display this Quotation Marks Checklist as a point of reference for students to use while writing. This poster makes for a great self-edit...
This Quotation Marks student reference card makes for a great reference for students to refer to for the correct use of quotation marks. It...
This Quotation Station Activity makes for a fantastic hands-on learning experience for students as they recall their knowledge on using quot...
All the quotation marks have gone on vacation! Students read and edit the sentences with direct speech to add in quotation marks.
This worksheet features visual scenarios for students to create character dialogue. Students are encouraged to think about what the characte...
Students use this worksheet along with the ‘Spin A Story’ resource to choose characters, a setting and problem to write about. Students are...
The Using Quotation Marks Quiz requires students to recall and retrieve their knowledge on how to use quotation marks. Simply open the slide...
This Using Quotation Marks Assessment requires students to recall their knowledge on how to correctly use quotation marks. Students inven...
These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with references to assist them when...
Print and display this narrative poster when introducing this concept to your class. The display provides prompts to guide students about th...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing narrative texts. Students can choos...
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing narrative texts. Students can choos...
This worksheet was created for students to develop and consolidate their skills using apostrophes, both of possession and in contractions. ...
Use these bookmarks are a handy reference for making text cohesive. Laminate and distribute for students to use when completing writing task...
This task asks students to follow the process of writing a narrative to create their version of a familiar story. Students are provided with...
Hand out these useful reference cards to your students when exploring common literary devices. Students can glue this into their workbooks f...
A handy oxymoron display for your classroom when exploring literacy devices!
A handy nonsense words display for your classroom when exploring word play in literacy texts!
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of puns as a literary device in texts. It has been created as part...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of neologisms as a literary device in texts. It has been created a...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of sound play as literary devices in texts. The worksheet focuses...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text, Jabberwocky by Lewis C...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text, Always Was Always Will...
This helpful resource is a great way to check your students understanding of literary devices and deliberate word play, in literary texts. W...
This helpful resource is a great way to check your students’ understanding of literary devices and deliberate word play, in literary texts....
Hand out these useful reference cards to your students when exploring the purpose, structure and features of poems.
This helpful resource is a great way for you and your students to identify and solidify important terminology related to poetry. Together wi...
This worksheet provides opportunities for students to experiment with spoonerisms and asks them to explain how and why they are included in...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text, The Spelling Lesson wr...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text The Rainbow Serpent. Th...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text, The Spelling Lesson wr...
Use this resource to generate discussions about poems that are being examined in your classroom. Students can work in partners or small grou...
Playful Poetic Devices is a rotation activity designed to consolidate the understanding of poetic devices such as alliteration, nonsense wor...
Playful Poetic Devices is a rotation activity designed to consolidate the understanding of poetic devices such as puns, neologisms and spoon...
This poetry quiz makes for a wonderful whole-class review/formative assessment to gauge students’ abilities of the purpose, structure and fe...
This has been created as a resource for students to utilise when examining poetry. Students work through the checklist, following the steps...
Engage students in a fun and interactive character activity with "Act It Out." This resource provides a collection of character scenarios an...
Empower students with this handy character development student reference card.
Decorate your learning environment with this vibrant character traits poster.
Empower students to express themselves with enthusiasm and emotion using the "Exclamations Student Reference Card."
Enhance students' ability to craft persuasive texts with this resource. This resource provides structured activities that guide students thr...
Equip students with the "Persuasive Texts Student Reference Card," a valuable tool that outlines the essential elements of persuasive writin...
Enhance your persuasive writing unit with our Rhetoric Devices posters! This set includes clear explanations, examples, and reasons for usin...
This resource supports teaching Tim Winton’s Blueback and includes a visually engaging title page to introduce the unit and teaching notes....
This graphic organiser supports students in exploring Tim Winton’s Blueback by identifying the main characters, setting, storyline, theme, a...
This activity helps students identify key events in Blueback, analyse their influence on the plot, and illustrate each moment. It encourages...
This resource helps upper and middle primary students analyse the structure of Tim Winton's Blueback. By breaking down the story's key event...
Engage middle primary students in exploring Blueback through drama. This activity guides them to plan, draft, and perform a play, deepening...
This resource provides a series of engaging task cards based on Tim Winton’s Blueback. It encourages students to explore themes such as the...
This resource engages students in writing a short story set in the world of Blueback. With structured planning prompts, students create a na...
This resource tasks students with creating a storyboard inspired by Blueback by Tim Winton. It guides them to develop a simple narrative set...
These comprehensive 5-point rubrics evaluate key elements of the Blueback-inspired short story and storyboard, including setting, character...
The Indigenous Sentence Builder is an engaging, hands-on literacy activity designed to support students in constructing meaningful sentences...
The Easter Sentence Builder is an interactive and engaging literacy resource designed to help students construct meaningful sentences while...
The How to Write an Invitation Display Poster breaks down the steps of writing a clear and friendly invitation, using a fun example and simp...
The Journal Sentence Starter Cards provide 45 engaging and imaginative prompts designed to help students get started with daily or weekly jo...
This pack of 32 Fiction Task Cards is designed to deepen students’ comprehension, analysis, and reflection when responding to fiction texts....
This newspaper-themed A3 poster helps students understand how to structure a news article using the inverted triangle format, where the most...
This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...
The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...
This set of worksheets helps students examine the book cover and title of 'Just Tricking', encouraging them to make predictions about the pl...
This worksheet set helps students learn about Andy Griffiths (the author) and Terry Denton (the illustrator). Students discover how they wor...
This set supports students to collect and use key words from 'Just Tricking', building a rich word wall that enhances their funny storytelli...
This set teaches students how to break down a narrative into key parts, rewrite scenes in a new style, and plan their own short stories insp...
This worksheet helps students practise rewriting a prank scene from Just Tricking! in a completely different style. It teaches them to spot...
This worksheet guides students to plan and write their own short prank story, following Andy Griffiths’ Just Tricking! style — using clear n...
This worksheet helps students identify and understand different types of humour used in Just Tricking!. Students practise rewriting a passag...
This worksheet helps students identify and analyse different humour techniques in a Just Tricking!-style passage, rewrite it to increase its...
This worksheet helps students explore the main character’s traits in Just Tricking!, compare motivations and choices, and write a diary entr...
These scaffolded narrative planners helps students organise prank stories in the Just Tricking! style. It guides them to plan a clear orient...
This tip sheet guides students through the typical Just Tricking! story format. It breaks down the narrative structure into three clear part...
This worksheet guides students to explore how changing the narrator’s point of view can shift humour and meaning. Students practise rewritin...
This editing checklist helps students revise their prank stories for clarity, pacing, and humour. It guides them to self-assess sentence flo...
These tip sheets explain age-appropriate humour techniques to help students identify, discuss, and use them in their writing. Each chart sho...
This partner checklist supports peer feedback by prompting students to look for clarity, humour, and areas to improve in each other’s storie...
This worksheet helps students practice improving their stories by experimenting with different words and dialogue inspired by the Humour Hac...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
The assessment rubric provides a 5-point scale for evaluating students’ summative tasks in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It cov...
This reflection sheet guides students to identify strengths and areas for growth in their writing, provide constructive feedback to peers, a...
These paragraph planners support students to structure clear, engaging paragraphs in prank narratives. They guide sentence order, voice, and...
The Extension Task Cards provide engaging enrichment activities for the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. Each card offers a creative c...
The Suggested Answers booklet provides clear sample responses for all core activities in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It offer...
This five-week narrative unit explores Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths, engaging students in reading, analysing, and writing humorous stori...
The Yahoo Creek unit title page introduces students to the theme of persuasive writing through the lens of historical mystery and storytelli...
The Teaching Notes page supports implementation of the Yahoo Creek Persuasive Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the weekly lesson sequ...
This poster helps students build strong persuasive paragraphs using the hamburger method. Each layer of the burger shows what to include: op...
This poster helps students structure persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL method: Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link. It supports clear,...
This lesson introduces students to the fundamentals of structured debate. To be used in conjunction with Yahoo Creek: Debate Topics, student...
This worksheet uses a hamburger-style graphic organiser to help students structure a complete persuasive text. It guides them to write an in...
These differentiated editing checklists support students in revising persuasive writing with a focus on clarity, coherence and persuasive im...
This resource helps students identify and apply three key elements of effective persuasive writing: clarity (clear ideas and language), cohe...
This peer feedback worksheet helps students review persuasive paragraphs using structured questions and the TAG (Tell, Ask, Give) strategy....
This scaffolded worksheet supports Years 3–4 students as they complete their persuasive writing summative task. Students follow simple, stru...
This resource builds advanced editing skills in persuasive writing. The editing checklist supports Years 3–6 students to review their drafts...
This worksheet set supports students in the final editing phase of their persuasive writing. Focusing on logic (does the reasoning make sens...
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...
These reflection worksheets support students in evaluating their persuasive writing or presentation following a summative assessment based o...
This reflection-based worksheet helps students explore how arguments shape our understanding of historical narratives. Using real quotes fro...
The Yahoo Creek Suggested Answers booklet provides model responses for all key activities across the persuasive writing unit. It includes sa...
This five-week persuasive writing unit explores Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle, guiding students through the analysis of...
The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants unit title page introduces students to the theme of visual storytelling through rich imagery, symbolis...
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...
This worksheet introduces the concept of symbolism through imagination and discussion. Without relying on text or visuals, students explore...
This worksheet set helps students in Years 3-6 compare symbols from Leila and the Blue Fox with those in other texts or films. Through scaff...
This worksheet helps students analyse visual storytelling in the short film Migrants. Through structured observation, symbolism identificati...
This worksheet supports students in Years 3-6 to explore how imagery is used in written and visual texts. Using Leila and the Blue Fox and M...
This worksheet guides students to explore the symbolic meaning of animals in literature and film. Students analyse the role of the fox in Le...
These differentiated worksheets explore how colour impacts meaning, mood and symbolism in storytelling. Aligned to Leila and the Blue Fox an...
These worksheets explore how word choices affect tone and meaning in storytelling. Designed for Years 3-6, the resource offers scaffolded ta...
This worksheet guides students through the process of creating a symbolic visual storyboard for a new scene inspired by Leila and the Blue F...
This toolkit includes four structured tools to support students in planning, drafting and refining a short story rich in symbolism, imagery...
The Migrant Messages toolkit equips students in Years 3-6 to analyse how the short film Migrants uses visual symbolism to convey emotion, mo...
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...
This comprehensive editing toolkit supports Years 3-6 students in polishing their symbolic writing and analytical responses. Whether student...
These differentiated rubrics support summative assessment of narrative, analytical, or visual interpretation tasks in the unit. Each rubric...
These reflection worksheets support students in evaluating their symbolic storytelling, film analysis, or visual comparison in the Leila and...
This reflective resource invites students in Years 3-6 to consolidate their understanding of symbolism and visual storytelling. Designed to...
The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Suggested Answers booklet offers sample responses for all key activities across the unit. These includ...
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