English Year 3 Year 4 Examining Literature

Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language

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  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4

    English Unit: Judy Moody - Mood and Voice Study

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

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants

    This unit invites students in Years 3-6 to explore how imagery, symbolism and connotation shape meaning in stories. Using Leila and the Blue...

  • 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: 4

    English Unit: Poetry

    This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring the varying features, structures and purposes of different types of...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Literary Devices

    This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring the use ofΒ literary devicesΒ and deliberate word play inΒ literary tex...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Narrative Texts

    This comprehensive unit takes students through writing narratives. The unit begins with a presentation to assist teachers in demonstrating t...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4

    English Unit: Dreaming Soldiers: Book Study

    This unit is based around the text, Dreaming Soldiers. The text presents a variety of themes that have been addressed throughout the unit’s...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Procedural Texts

    This unit plan has been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and l...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Persuasive Texts

    This unit plan is a great way to support students plan, draft and compose persuasive texts. The unit contains a detailed presentation, an ab...

  • 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: 3

    English Unit: Excellent Editing

    This unit plan incorporates editing skills aligning with the Australian Curriculum content descriptor ACELY1683. The unit contains a present...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Exploring Informative Texts

    This comprehensive unit plan is a great way to teach students all about informative texts. The unit contains a presentation that walks stude...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Peeling Paragraphs

    This comprehensive unit plan about paragraphs explains in detail the importance and role of paragraphs and how to successfully structure par...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Fables

    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...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Working With Word Processors

    This unit is designed to teach beginner word processing skills to students.

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Writing A Narrative

    This β€˜Writing a Narrative’ unit is a comprehensive narrative writing guide that will take you through the steps of how to write a well plann...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4

    English Unit: Sneetches

    This unit is an in-depth look at the Dr. Seuss story β€˜The Sneetches’, which includes an analysis of Dr. Seuss’ style, and well as the themes...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Character Development in Narratives

    This unit provides a great overview of the narrative strategy β€˜show don’t tell’, encouraging the use of descriptive language to describe the...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Exclamation Marks

    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...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Persuasive Texts

    This unit was designed to help students hone their persuasive texts skills for Year 3.

  • Presentation Year: 4

    The Wonderful World of Poetry - Presentation

    This presentation is a great resource for teachers to use when introducing and revisiting the purpose, structure and features of poems. The...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Literary Devices - Presentation

    This presentation is a handy resource to work through with your class during the exploration of literary devicesΒ and deliberate word play in...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Narrative Writing - Presentation

    This presentation is an excellent resource for teachers introducing and revisiting Narrative Writing. The presentation begins by looking at...

  • Presentation Year: 2 3

    Quotation Marks - Presentation

    This Quotation Marks Presentation guides students through the use of quotation marks in narrative writing. It unpacks all the common rules i...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Procedural Texts - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to support your studentsΒ  understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Persuasive Texts - Presentation

    This detailed presentation supports your students when planning and composing persuasive texts. It runs though the structure, text features,...

  • 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: 3

    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: 3

    Exploring Informative Text - Presentation

    This presentation will support your students to understand informative texts. It walks students through the structure and features of inform...

  • Presentation Year: 4 5 6

    Rowan of Rin Chapter by Chapter

    This Rowan of Rin presentation was created with summaries, questions and activities for every chapter.Β  It was designed to be a part of our...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4 5

    Paragraph Quiz

    This paragraph quiz is fantastic for consolidating knowledge of paragraphs and their purpose when writing and reading a variety of texts. Th...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Practising Paragraphs - Presentation

    This comprehensive presentation about Paragraphs explains in detail, the importance and role of paragraphs and how to successfully structure...

  • Presentation Year: 4 5 6

    The Hero’s Journey - Presentation

    This Presentation introduces your students to the structure of the hero’s story, in a simplified version of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. You...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4 5

    Peeling Paragraphs - Presentation

    This comprehensive presentation about Paragraphs explains in detail the importance and role of paragraphs and how to successfully structure...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Learning Lessons in 'The Giving Tree'

    This presentation is an introduction to the Shel Silverstein book β€˜The Giving Tree’, and examines that text as a fable, with multiple lesson...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Fable - Presentation

    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...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Writing a Narrative - Presentation

    This β€˜Writing a Narrative’ presentation is a comprehensive narrative writing guide that will take you through the steps of how to write a we...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Working With Word Processors - Presentation

    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...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4

    The Sneetches - Presentation

    In this presentation, students are asked to think about the larger ethical and philosophical questions that come out of β€˜The Sneetches’....

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Character Development - Presentation

    Inspire students' character growth with this informative character development presentation. Through engaging visuals and meaningful content...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Answer

    The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Suggested Answers booklet offers sample responses for all key activities across the unit. These includ...

  • 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...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Colour With Meaning

    These differentiated worksheets explore how colour impacts meaning, mood and symbolism in storytelling. Aligned to Leila and the Blue Fox an...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Creature Clues!

    This worksheet guides students to explore the symbolic meaning of animals in literature and film. Students analyse the role of the fox in Le...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Picture This!

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Strong but Silent

    This worksheet helps students analyse visual storytelling in the short film Migrants. Through structured observation, symbolism identificati...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Symbols in Stories

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Symbol Spotters

    This worksheet introduces the concept of symbolism through imagination and discussion. Without relying on text or visuals, students explore...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Teaching Notes

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

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Title Page

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

  • 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, Present

    This scaffolded worksheet supports Years 3–4 students as they complete their persuasive writing summative task. Students follow simple, stru...

  • 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 Hamburger Method

    This worksheet uses a hamburger-style graphic organiser to help students structure a complete persuasive text. It guides them to write an in...

  • 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...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths

    This five-week narrative unit explores Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths, engaging students in reading, analysing, and writing humorous stori...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Tricking! Answers

    The Suggested Answers booklet provides clear sample responses for all core activities in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It offer...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Tricking Task Cards

    The Extension Task Cards provide engaging enrichment activities for the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. Each card offers a creative c...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Paragraph Planner

    These paragraph planners support students to structure clear, engaging paragraphs in prank narratives. They guide sentence order, voice, and...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Glow & Grow - Just Tricking!

    This reflection sheet guides students to identify strengths and areas for growth in their writing, provide constructive feedback to peers, a...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Tricking! Grading Rubric

    The assessment rubric provides a 5-point scale for evaluating students’ summative tasks in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It cov...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Ultimate Prank Project

    This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Ordinary to Outrageous

    This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Giggle Upgrades

    This worksheet helps students practice improving their stories by experimenting with different words and dialogue inspired by the Humour Hac...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Swap and Share

    This partner checklist supports peer feedback by prompting students to look for clarity, humour, and areas to improve in each other’s storie...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Humour Hacks

    These tip sheets explain age-appropriate humour techniques to help students identify, discuss, and use them in their writing. Each chart sho...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Polishing Your Prank

    This editing checklist helps students revise their prank stories for clarity, pacing, and humour. It guides them to self-assess sentence flo...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    View from the Other Side…

    This worksheet guides students to explore how changing the narrator’s point of view can shift humour and meaning. Students practise rewritin...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Sneaky Story Steps

    This tip sheet guides students through the typical Just Tricking! story format. It breaks down the narrative structure into three clear part...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Prank Plot Planners

    These scaffolded narrative planners helps students organise prank stories in the Just Tricking! style. It guides them to plan a clear orient...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Prankster Profiles

    This worksheet helps students explore the main character’s traits in Just Tricking!, compare motivations and choices, and write a diary entr...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Laugh Lab

    This worksheet helps students identify and analyse different humour techniques in a Just Tricking!-style passage, rewrite it to increase its...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Humour Hunters

    This worksheet helps students identify and understand different types of humour used in Just Tricking!. Students practise rewriting a passag...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Like Andy!

    This worksheet guides students to plan and write their own short prank story, following Andy Griffiths’ Just Tricking! style β€” using clear n...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Swap the Scene

    This worksheet helps students practise rewriting a prank scene from Just Tricking! in a completely different style. It teaches them to spot...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Story Building Blocks

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Vocabulary Vibes

    This set supports students to collect and use key words from 'Just Tricking', building a rich word wall that enhances their funny storytelli...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Author Antics

    This worksheet set helps students learn about Andy Griffiths (the author) and Terry Denton (the illustrator). Students discover how they wor...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Cover Capers

    This set of worksheets helps students examine the book cover and title of 'Just Tricking', encouraging them to make predictions about the pl...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Tricking - Teaching Notes

    The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Just Tricking! By Andy Griffiths - Title Page

    This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Fiction Task Cards - Colour & B&W + Recording Sheet

    This pack of 32 Fiction Task Cards is designed to deepen students’ comprehension, analysis, and reflection when responding to fiction texts....

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Journal Sentence Starter Cards

    The Journal Sentence Starter Cards provide 45 engaging and imaginative prompts designed to help students get started with daily or weekly jo...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    How to Write an Invitation - Display Poster

    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...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Indigenous Sentence Builder

    The Indigenous Sentence Builder is an engaging, hands-on literacy activity designed to support students in constructing meaningful sentences...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Grading Rubrics - Year 3-4

    These comprehensive 5-point rubrics evaluate key elements of the Blueback-inspired short story and storyboard, including setting, character...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Blueback - Storyboard

    This resource tasks students with creating a storyboard inspired by Blueback by Tim Winton. It guides them to develop a simple narrative set...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Blueback - Writing a Short Story

    This resource engages students in writing a short story set in the world of Blueback. With structured planning prompts, students create a na...

  • 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

    Storytelling Through Drama

    Engage middle primary students in exploring Blueback through drama. This activity guides them to plan, draft, and perform a play, deepening...

  • 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: 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....

  • 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: 4

    Pulling Poems Apart - Checklist

    This has been created as a resource for students to utilise when examining poetry. Students work through the checklist, following the steps...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Poetry Quiz

    This poetry quiz makes for a wonderful whole-class review/formative assessment to gauge students’ abilities of the purpose, structure and fe...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Playful Poetic Devices- V2

    Playful Poetic Devices is a rotation activity designed to consolidate the understanding of poetic devices such as puns, neologisms and spoon...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Playful Poetic Devices- V1

    Playful Poetic Devices is a rotation activity designed to consolidate the understanding of poetic devices such as alliteration, nonsense wor...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Poetry Spinner Discussions

    Use this resource to generate discussions about poems that are being examined in your classroom. Students can work in partners or small grou...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Delicious Delights

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    The Rainbow Serpent

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Spelling Lesson

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Splendid Spoonerisms

    This worksheet provides opportunities for students to experiment with spoonerisms and asks them to explain how and why they are included in...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Tell me Why?

    This helpful resource is a great way for you and your students to identify and solidify important terminology related to poetry. Together wi...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Purpose, Structure and Features of Poems - Student Reference Cards

    Hand out these useful reference cards to your students when exploring the purpose, structure and features of poems.Β  Β 

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Poetic Text Review

    This helpful resource is a great way to check your students’ understanding of literary devices and deliberate word play, in literary texts....

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Poetry Analysis

    This helpful resource is a great way to check your students understanding of literary devices and deliberate word play, in literary texts. W...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Always Was, Always Will Be Poem

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Jabberwocky Poem

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Sound Play Worksheet

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Neologisms Worksheet

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Fun with Puns Worksheet

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Nonsense Words Poster

    A handy nonsense words display for your classroom when exploring word play in literacy texts! Β 

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Oxymoron Poster

    A handy oxymoron display for your classroom when exploring literacy devices!Β  Β 

  • Resource Year: 4

    Literary Devices - Student Reference Card

    Hand out these useful reference cards to your students when exploring common literary devices. Students can glue this into their workbooks f...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Make It Your Own!

    This task asks students to follow the process of writing a narrative to create their version of a familiar story. Students are provided with...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Text Connectives - Bookmarks

    Use these bookmarks are a handy reference for making text cohesive. Laminate and distribute for students to use when completing writing task...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Apostrophes

    This worksheet was created for students to develop and consolidate their skills using apostrophes, both of possession and in contractions.Β ...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Paragraphs with Pat

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students Β to accurately structure a paragraph when writing narrative texts. Students can choos...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Paragraphs with Paula

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students Β to accurately structure a paragraph when writing narrative texts. Students can choos...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Narrative Writing - Prompts for Planning Poster

    Print and display this narrative poster when introducing this concept to your class. The display provides prompts to guide students about th...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Narrative Texts - Student Reference Card

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Using Quotation Marks Assessment

    This Using Quotation Marks Assessment requires students to recall their knowledge on how to correctly use quotation marks. Students inven...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Using Quotation Marks Quiz

    The Using Quotation Marks Quiz requires students to recall and retrieve their knowledge on how to use quotation marks. Simply open the slide...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Create Your Own Story

    Students use this worksheet along with the β€˜Spin A Story’ resource to choose characters, a setting and problem to write about. Students are...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    What Would They Say?

    This worksheet features visual scenarios for students to create character dialogue. Students are encouraged to think about what the characte...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Quotation Vacation

    All the quotation marks have gone on vacation! Students read and edit the sentences with direct speech to add in quotation marks. Β 

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Quotation Station Activity

    This Quotation Station Activity makes for a fantastic hands-on learning experience for students as they recall their knowledge on using quot...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Quotation Marks - Student Reference Card

    This Quotation Marks student reference card makes for a great reference for students to refer to for the correct use of quotation marks. It...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Quotation Marks Checklist Poster

    Display this Quotation Marks Checklist as a point of reference for students to use while writing. This poster makes for a great self-edit...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Instead of Said Poster

    This Instead of Said class display is a wonderful way to encourage your students to use words other than β€˜said’ in their writing. It feature...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Using Quotation Marks Poster

    This Using Quotations Mark class display is a simple yet effective display to remind students where to place their quotation marks for direc...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Procedural Texts Template

    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...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Procedural Texts

    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...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Procedural Texts Quiz

    The Procedural Texts Quiz requires students to answer a range of questions stemming from the Procedural Texts Unit to cover both text struct...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Improving Procedures

    This worksheet encourages your students choose a β€˜simple’ procedural text displayed on the worksheet to β€˜improve’ it, making it more detaile...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Language Features - Procedural texts

    This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and work with language features of a procedural text (verbs and adverbs). Students fill...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Parachute Procedure

    This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and identify language features of a procedural text. The procedural text, β€˜How to Make...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Sequencing a Procedure

    This worksheet encourages your students to correctly sequence the procedural text β€˜How to Make an Egg Parachute’. The procedural text, β€˜How...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    How to Make an Egg Parachute

    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...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Procedural Texts - Student Reference Cards

    These handy reference cards have been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structura...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Persuasive Texts Scaffold Template

    This helpful scaffold encourages and supports your students to compose a correctly structured persuasive text. It provides students with sec...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Persuasion Exploration

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    The Art of Persuasion Worksheet

    This handy worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language devices by matching each one liste...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Language of Persuasion Worksheet

    This cut and paste worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language features by categorising t...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Persuasive Text Template

    This helpful scaffold encourages and supports your students to compose a correctly structured persuasive text. It provides students with sec...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Language of Persuasion

    This cut and paste worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language features by categorising t...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Exploring Persuasion

    This worksheet has been created to support the text, β€˜All Children Should Learn to Swim’. The worksheet contains literal and inferential que...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Persuade Me

    This handy worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive devices by matching each one listed, to the...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Persuasive Text - β€˜All Children Should Learn to Swim’

    A great example of a persuasive text that can be used in multiple ways, within your classroom:Identify and annotate structural and language...

  • 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: 3

    Excellent Editing - Year 3 - Assessment

    This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of β€˜5 Star Writing’ when editing at a Year 3 level. It focuses on assessin...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Get Ready to Edit

    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: 3

    Proofreading Passages - Year 3

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

  • Resource Year: 3

    Editing Erasers - Year 3

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

  • Resource Year: 3

    Editing with Edward, Eva and Erin

    Students will use their knowledge of β€˜5 Star Writing’ to read over and edit Edward, Eva and Erin’s writing. On each re-reading they should f...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Excellent Editing - Skill Builders Year 3

    This set of worksheets provides students with opportunities to practise some of the explicit skills required to edit texts in Year 3. Includ...

  • Resource Year: 3

    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

    Informative Text Rubric

    Use this useful rubric as a guide to to assess your students understanding and ability to plan, draft and compose an informative text .Β  Β 

  • Resource Year: 3

    Text Features Hunt

    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...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Informative Text Checklist

    These handy student checklists are a great tool for your students to β€˜tick off’ as they write and review their informative texts. Cut eac...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Informative Text Template

    This helpful scaffold encourages and supports your students to compose a correctly structured informative text. It provides students with se...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Facts to Full Sentences Template

    This helpful scaffold encourages your students to write their research facts as full sentences in preparation for composing an informative t...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Ready for Research Template

    This helpful template will support your students when planning their informative texts. It provides space for them to add facts and details...

  • Resource Year: 3

    The Great Barrier Reef Informative Text

    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...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Informative Text Ideas

    This resource can be used to help students plan and organise an informative text. These slides include a topic for students to write about....

  • Resource Year: 3

    Fact Filler: Paramedics

    This resource set has been designed to support students to categorise groups of information when planning to write an informative paragraph....

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Fact Filler: The Daintree Rainforest

    This resource set has been designed to support students to categorise groups of information when planning to write an informative paragraph....

  • Resource Year: 3

    Fact Filler: Snakes

    This resource set has been designed to support students to categorise groups of information when planning to write an informative paragraph....

  • Resource Year: 3

    Language Features- Droughts

    This resource will help your students to identity and understand some language features found in informative texts. This informative paragra...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Language Features- Astronauts

    This resource will help your students to identity and understand some language features found in informative texts. This informative paragra...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Sequence The Structure- The First Fleet

    This four page resource assists students when learning to correctly structure an informative text. The topic for this informative text is Th...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Sequence The Structure- Surfing

    This four page resource assists students when learning to correctly structure an informative text. The topic for this informative text is Su...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Sequence The Structure- Plastic Pollution

    This four page resource assists students when learning to correctly structure an informative text. The topic for this informative text is Pl...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Get your Facts Straight!

    This fun worksheet will help your students differentiate between facts and opinions which essentially will help them when planning, Β researc...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Informative Texts - Student Reference Card

    This handy reference card supports your students when remembering how to correctly sequence an informative text. Β 

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Informative Texts Display

    This visual poster display will help support your students when remembering how to correctly sequence an informative text. Β 

  • 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: 4 5 6

    Rowan of Rin Wordsearch

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Rowan of Rin Crossword Puzzle

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    A Rowan of Rin Character Profile

    In this worksheet, students create a character profile for one of the secondary characters in the story Rowan of Rin, using evidence from th...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Character Description Swap

    In this worksheet, students write descriptions of a handful of characters from the novel they are reading and then swap them with a friend....

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    New Edition

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Rowan of Rin Rollercoaster

    In this worksheet, students plot the excitement level of the various chapters of the book, revealing how the author has to make choices abou...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Mapping the Quest

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Rowan of Rin Title Page

    This Rowan of Rin title page is a great way to kick off the unit with a bit of fun.Β  It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of Rin book...

  • 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: P F 1 2 +1

    A Sentence Has…

    This useful poster is a visual representation and great anchor chart explaining the basic features of a sentence. Display this in your class...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Paragraphs Exit Ticket

    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...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Factual Paragraphs

    This worksheet acts as a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write an informative Β paragraph. This is useful when plann...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Purr-fect Paragraphs

    This worksheet acts as a scaffold to support students to accurately structure an informative paragraph about cats. Students read the jumbled...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    TEEL Paragraphs

    This worksheet acts a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write a persuasive paragraph. The TEEL Paragraph method suppo...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    PEEL Paragraphs

    This worksheet acts as a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write a persuasive / informativeΒ Β paragraph. The PEEL Para...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Polluting TEEL Paragraphs

    This is a great persuasive paragraph sequencing activity on the topic β€˜Single Use Plastic’. Students read the jumbled persuasive paragraph a...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Polluting PEEL Paragraphs

    This is a great persuasive paragraph sequencing activity on the topic β€˜Single Use Plastic’. Students read the jumbled persuasive paragraph a...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Petrifying Paragraphs

    This worksheet acts as a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write an imaginative paragraph. Students are encouraged to...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Hamburger Paragraphs

    This worksheet acts as a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write an imaginative paragraph. The Hamburger method suppo...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Hero’s Journey Workbook

    This workbook introduces students to the β€œhero’s journey” structure of narrative storytelling in a simplified version of Joseph Campbell’s m...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Paragraph Assessment

    This assessment has been designed as a pre and post assessment activity as part of the Β β€˜Peeling Paragraphs’ unit. After studying and learni...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Perfect Paragraphs

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing imaginative texts. Students choose o...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Imaginative Paragraph Practice

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students Β to accurately structure a paragraph when writing imaginative texts. Students are giv...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Imaginative Paragraph Planning

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students Β to accurately structure a paragraph when writing imaginative texts. It is part of a...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Peeling Paragraphs

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students Β to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a p...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Puzzling Persuasive Paragraphs

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a pr...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    TEEL Paragraphs

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students Β to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a p...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    PEEL Paragraphs

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a pr...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Paragraph Practice!

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students Β to accurately structure a paragraph when writing informative texts. Students can cho...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Interesting Informative Paragraphs

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing informative texts. The information i...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Informative Paragraph Planning

    This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing informative texts. It is part of a p...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Picking Paragraphs Task Cards

    This set of 12 task cards is a great writing resource for students to use within a rotational group setting to practice Β informative, imagin...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    TEEL - Student Reference Card

    A great reference card for students to have stuck into their writing books or laminated for easy access when writing informative, persuasive...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    PEEL - Student Reference Card

    A great reference card for students to have stuck into their writing books or laminated for easy access when writing informative, persuasive...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    TEEL Paragraph Writing

    This TEEL poster is a great classroom display, assisting in constructing paragraphs with appropriate paragraph structure. The paragraph stru...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Paragraph Structure - Informative Text Paragraph

    This poster is a great classroom display, assisting in constructing paragraphs with appropriate paragraph structure. This paragraph structur...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Hamburger Method Poster - Imaginative Text Paragraph

    This poster is a great classroom display, assisting in constructing imaginative paragraphs with appropriate paragraph structure. The hamburg...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +1

    Computer Posters - Important Keys for PC

    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...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +1

    Computer Posters - Important Keys for Mac

    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...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Computer Posters - Open & Save

    These posters remind students of the essential keyboard shortcuts they can use to open and save documents in most of the software they will...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    ANZAC Letter To A Loved One

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Fables Rubric

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Create Your Own Fable

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Think - Share - Compare - Lessons From β€˜The Giving Tree’

    In this worksheet, students try and identify the moral in the story β€˜The Giving Tree,' including evidence for their conclusion in the text....

  • Resource Year: 4

    Giving Tree Word Search

    This is a word search for Shel Silverstein’s story β€˜The Giving Tree’, including a key. Look for the words running on the horizontal, vertica...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Telling the Tale of β€˜The Lorax’

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Drawing Conclusions in β€˜The Lorax’

    In this worksheet, students use their own experience and insights to draw a series of pictures to explain the final message from the story β€œ...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Making Connections in β€˜The Lorax'

    In this worksheet, students look at the story β€˜The Lorax’ for connections between actions and consequences. It is a part of a larger fables...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Lorax Colouring Page

    This is a colouring page inspired by Dr. Seuss’ story β€˜The Lorax’. It is a part of a larger fables unit for students, where they learn to r...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Looking at the Lorax

    In this worksheet, students try and identify some of the lessons that are in the Dr. Seuss story β€˜The Lorax’. It is a part of a larger fabl...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Lorax Word Search

    This is a word search for Dr Seuss’ story β€˜The Lorax’, including a key. Look for the words running on the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal...

  • Resource Year: 4

    I Can Tell You - The Moral of the Story

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    A Fable Comic

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Fables Crossword

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Aesop’s Fables Booklet

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Fable - Student Reference Card

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Exciting Starts

    This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with exciting starts in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for using desc...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Spin A Story

    Spin A Story

  • Resource Year: 4

    Narrative Writing

    Narrative Writing

  • Resource Year: 4

    Narrative Assessment Rubric

    This β€˜Narrative Assessment Rubric’ is a comprehensive and Australian Curriculum aligned marking rubric, to be used when assessing a narrativ...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Narrative Writing Task

    This β€˜Narrative Writing Task’ lined story writing template can be used in conjunction with the narrative story writing prompts to write a na...

  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Story Editing Checklist

    This β€˜Story Editing Checklist’ is a great tool for practising self-editing skills. Encourage students to use this checklist at the completio...

  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Exciting Endings

    This β€˜Exciting Endings’ worksheet is great for describing the different types of endings that can be used within a narrative, by providing a...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Roll-A-Narrative

    This β€˜Roll-A-Narrative’ worksheet is a great writing prompt activity for brainstorming characters, settings and problems within your narrati...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Analyse a Narrative

    This β€˜Analyse a Narrative’ worksheet is a great tool for assisting with understanding the structure of a narrative and recognising it within...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Problem Prompt Cards

    These β€˜Problem Prompt Cards’ are a great tool for assisting with choosing a β€˜problem’ within a story and thinking of a suitable solution. Th...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Setting Planner

    This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with setting the scene. This worksheet provides opportunities to visualise the setting, in orde...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Imagery: Using Five Senses

    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...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Story Graph Planner

    Use this resource when planning to write a narrative. The planning includes all the necessary resources required to structure and write an e...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Narrative Planning Template

    Use this resource when planning to write a narrative. The planning includes all the necessary resources required to structure and write an e...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Narrative - Student Reference Card

    This β€˜Narrative Student Reference Card β€˜ is a great resource for students to glue in their book and refer back to when narrative writing. Th...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Lion Word Processing Document

    This file is designed to be used with the worksheet β€˜Wrestling With Word Processors’, where students will make a series of changes, edits an...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Wrestling with a Word Processor

    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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Icon-ography

    In this worksheet, students draw and define the common icons that they find in the tool bars of their preferred word processor. This worksh...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Word Processor Glossary

    In this worksheet, students complete a glossary of word processor terms, all of which are covered in the β€˜Working With Word Processors’ pres...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Wonderful Word Processor Word Search

    This worksheet is a basic word search of computer and word processing terms. Words appear horizontally, vertically and diagonally, both for...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Keyboard Shortcuts - Student Reference Card

    This student card is designed for students to use as a personal reference forΒ  keyboard shortcuts. This resource is a part of a larger unit...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Dr. Rhyme

    In this worksheet, students replicate Dr. Suess’ rhyming style to find rhymes to common words, and then create a rhyming couplet. This wo...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Sneetches Word Search

    This is a word-search activity that students from the book β€˜The Sneetches’. This worksheet is a part of a larger in-depth look at the Dr....

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Star or No Star

    In this activity, students rotate around the classroom writing their favourite things about each other their classmates. Encourage your stud...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    A Better Way

    In this worksheet, students use their imaginations to create creatures who live near the Sneetches, but don’t let their differences come bet...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Making Friends

    In this worksheet, students write a dialogue of friendship between two sneetches who are different. This worksheet is a part of a larger...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Plain Belly Persuasion

    In this worksheet, students imagine themselves as a Plain-bellied Sneetch and must write a persuasive text arguing for or against a suggeste...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Plain-Bellied Journal Entry

    In this worksheet, students imagine themselves as a Plain-bellied Sneetch from the Dr Seuss story β€˜The Sneetches’, and write a journal entry...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Reflections & Connections

    This worksheet is designed to be a comprehension and reflection sheet for students to complete after reading the story β€˜The Sneetches’. T...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Sneetch Star Stencils

    This worksheet walks you through an activity you can do with your students before reading β€˜The Sneetches’, it will help students identify wi...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Easter Booklet - Middle Primary

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

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    A Letter to the Wolf

    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...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Roll-A-Story Narrative Prompts

    Roll a dice three times to discover the character, setting and problem to prompt you when writing your own fairy tale story.

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Create Your Own Character

    Use the template provided to assist you in visualising your perfect fairy tale character. Brainstorm your character’s physical and personali...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    How to Write a Fairy Tale

    Create your own imaginative fairy tale text. Use the templates to plan out your characters and setting before writing your own fairy tale st...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Character Scrapbook - Assessment

    Character Scrapbook - Assessment

  • Resource Year: 3

    Character Elaboration

    This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Characterisation

    This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Character Brainstorm

    This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Act It Out! - Character Activity

    Engage students in a fun and interactive character activity with "Act It Out." This resource provides a collection of character scenarios an...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Character Emotions

    This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Character Emotions - Reference

    This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Memorable Characters

    This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Character Traits

    This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in narrative writing. This worksheet provides opportunities for usin...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Character Development - Student Reference Card

    Empower students with this handy character development student reference card.

  • Resource Year: 3

    Character Traits - Poster

    Decorate your learning environment with this vibrant character traits poster.

  • Resource Year: 3

    Exclamations - Assessment

    This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Excellent Exclamations

    This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Exclamations - Quiz

    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...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Exclamations Extravaganza

    This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Exclamations - Worksheet 2

    This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Exclamations - Worksheet 1

    This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Exclamations - Student Reference Card

    Empower students to express themselves with enthusiasm and emotion using the "Exclamations Student Reference Card."

  • Resource Year: 3

    Sequencing Persuasive Texts - Level 1

    Enhance students' ability to craft persuasive texts with this resource. This resource provides structured activities that guide students thr...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Persuasive Texts - Student Reference Card

    Equip students with the "Persuasive Texts Student Reference Card," a valuable tool that outlines the essential elements of persuasive writin...

  • 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: F 1 2 3 +1

    The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Nursery Rhyme

    A colourful class display of a short Β The Three Billy Goats Gruff poem. Β 

  • 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: F 1 2 3 +1

    The Gingerbread Man - Nursery Rhyme

    A colourful class display of a short Gingerbread Man poem.

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Spoonerism Board Game

    Use this bright one-page game as a funΒ and interactive way for students to learn more about the literary device of spoonerisms.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Wonder Wall

    The Wonder Wall display header has been developed to be used as a word wall display to introduce vocabulary associated with various units of...

  • 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: 2 3

    Once Upon a Time - Narrative Scenery

    The narrative scene can be displayed in the classroom as a prompt for imaginative writing.Β 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Parts of Poetry

    This resource was created to define and provide examples of the various language devices used to create poetry and prose.Β 

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Draft Writing Poster

    The 'Draft Writing' poster provides the steps required to turn an idea into a piece of text.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Punctuation Poster

    The Punctuation Monster Chart was designed to provide a simple reference tool for the purpose of punctuation in writing.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Editing Symbols - Handout

    The editing symbols handouts can be attached within writing books or attached to student desks for easy reference when editing.Β 

  • 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: 1 2 3 5

    Monster Punctuation Posters

    The Monster Punctuation Posters are a colourful and engaging set of visual aids designed to reinforce key punctuation rules in an easy-to-un...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Punctuation Monsters

    The Punctuation Monsters were designed to provide a simple reference tool for the purpose of punctuation in writing.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Punctuation Monster Chart

    The Punctuation Monster Chart was designed to provide a simple reference tool for the purpose of punctuation in writing.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +2

    Narrative Settings

    This set of '35 Narrative Settings' hasΒ been developed to allow students to experiment with descriptive words and phrases as they accurately...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Narrative Characterisation - Middle & Upper

    Students Β will examine character descriptions that include appearance and behaviour, understanding how the character's development is eviden...

  • 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: 4 5 6 H

    Microsoft Word Shortcuts Posters

    Encourage students to refer to this set of Microsoft Word Shortcuts to build confidence and efficiency in their work. Β 

  • 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...

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Figurative Language

    Learn about figurative language with this comprehensive worksheet.

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Exclamation Mark

    This exclamation worksheet is great for practising your knowledge and understanding of exclamation marks and the correct way to use them in...

  • 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: F 1 2 3 +3

    Better Word Choices - Feelings

    These charts have a myriad of uses in the classroom. They can be used to help students express their own emotions.Β The visual aspect of thes...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Persuasive Outline - Landscape

    This landscape presentation of theΒ Persuasive Outline provides an alternative planning style for students to use as they plan their own pers...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Persuasive Outline

    Students will use the Persuasive Outline to plan their own 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: 1 2 3 4 +1

    Narrative Outline

    The 'Narrative Outline' classroom resource provides a one-page outline of a narrative (or imaginative text), with each subsequent page provi...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Spoonerisms Posters

    SpoonerismsΒ  are devices used in deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts. They are included in Year 4 of the Australian Engl...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    More Poetic Devices Posters

    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...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Persuasive Writing Needs Strong Words - Lower Primary

    Persuasive Writing Does Need Strong Words so we decided to create a simple classroom poster for lower primary students that says just that!...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Persuasive Words - Top 5 - Middle Primary

    This chart provides a very simple resource for students to access when structuring their persuasive writing texts. It features 5 positively...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Persuasive Words - Middle Primary Reference Card

    This reference card provides a very simple resource for students to access when structuring their persuasive writing texts. It includes a se...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Persuasive Sentence Starters - Middle Primary

    Persuasive Sentence Starters is made up of 6 sentence beginnings designed primarily to make persuasive writing simple for Year 3 students. S...

  • 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

    Poetic Devices Posters

    These posters were created to support student learning of poetic devices. They feature a description and a corresponding example in bright a...

  • 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...

  • 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

    Farm Animal Report

    This Animal Report was designed for students studying farm animals. Β  With visual prompts throughout and a space for drawing or gluing a p...

  • 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

    Proofreading Symbols - Lower Primary

    These common proofreading symbols have been put into an easily understood table. Β  Suitable forΒ Lower Primary students, you can provide o...

  • 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: 1 2 3

    Fact Tree

    Fact Tree

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +1

    Recount Writing Prompt Sheets

    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...

  • 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: 2 3 4 5

    Story Starters - 66 Cards

    These story starters are a lot of fun and will definitely lead to some truly imaginative storylines. They are designed to stimulate the mind...

  • 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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