English Year 3 Year 4 Text Structure & Organisation

Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies

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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: ‘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: 3

    English Unit: Decoding Unknown Words

    Our Decoding Unknown Words Unit empowers students with essential strategies to decode unfamiliar words confidently. Through engaging activit...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Cohesive Devices

    This comprehensive unit plan is designed to explore the use of cohesive devices. The unit supports students in understanding that texts are...

  • 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: Helpful Homophones

    This unit plan has been created to support students to recognise and spell single- syllabic homophones. The unit comes complete with an enga...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4 5 6

    English Unit: Rowan of Rin

    This Rowan of Rin book unit was created around our Upper Primary Hero’s Journey resources, designed to help you with fantasy and Sci-fi book...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Making Inferences

    This is a progressive unit plan to assist students to learn the comprehension strategy of making inferences. The unit begins with a presenta...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4

    English Unit: Sneetches

    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...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Contractions

    This unit gives a great overview of contractions, providing a definition and plenty of examples to practise identifying and matching contrac...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    English Unit: Conjunctions

    This unit will give you a great overview of text connectives and how to identify them and use them within a sentence in order to connect two...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    The Emu and the Jabiru – Fix the Sentence

    The Emu and the Jabiru – Fix the Sentence presentation is an engaging literacy activity that helps students identify and correct errors in p...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2 3 +2

    The Emu and The Jabiru - Discussion Questions

    This resource provides thought-provoking discussion questions to guide students through an in-depth analysis of the Indigenous Australian st...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Decoding Unknown Words - Presentation

    Our comprehensive presentation explores the essential decoding strategies to bolster reading proficiency. Engaging visuals, examples, and in...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Cohesive Devices - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to supports students in understanding that texts are made cohesive through the use if linking devices whi...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Helpful Homophones - Presentation

    This engaging and useful presentation has been created to support students to recognise and spell single- syllabic homophones. It includes m...

  • 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.  It was designed to be a part of our...

  • 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: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Making Inferences - Presentation

    This presentation is a great resource for teachers to use when introducing the reading strategy of making inferences. The presentation is pr...

  • 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 ‘The Sneetches’....

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Contractions - Presentation

    Contractions - Presentation

  • 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

    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

    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

    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

    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...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek - Discussion Starters

    This set of discussion prompts supports students to explore ideas about evidence, belief and historical perspectives. The prompts encourage...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek - Debate Topics

    This set of debate prompt cards helps students develop persuasive speaking and critical thinking skills. Each card presents a topic related...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Historical Source Analysis

    These worksheets guide students in analysing historical sources from Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle. Year 3–4 students i...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Evaluating and Embedding Evidence

    This worksheet helps students evaluate the credibility of sources and use evidence effectively in persuasive writing. Using quotes from Yaho...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Back it up!

    This worksheet introduces students to using quotes as evidence in persuasive writing. Students read simple excerpts from Yahoo Creek: An Aus...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Make it Convincing!

    This worksheet helps students plan a persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the PEEL structure. Students choose their viewpoint, com...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Build Your Best Argument

    This worksheet guides students to plan a simple persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the Hamburger model. Students choose their op...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    PEEL-ing Apart Arguments

    This worksheet introduces students to the PEEL structure for persuasive writing. Students read and label the parts of a strong persuasive pa...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Persuasion Burgers

    This worksheet introduces students to the structure of persuasive writing using the Hamburger model. Students read examples of a strong and...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Fact or Feeling?

    A set of differentiated worksheets supporting students to distinguish between fact, opinion and bias in historical sources about the Hairy M...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Voices from the Past

    A set of differentiated worksheets exploring whose stories are heard in history, using real excerpts from Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    The Power of Three

    A set of differentiated worksheets to help students learn about ethos, pathos and logos- three powerful persuasive techniques. Students expl...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Voices That Echo

    A set of differentiated worksheets introducing argument, persuasion and authority, using examples from Yahoo Creek and well-known figures. S...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Genre Scavenger Hunt

    This fun and interactive worksheet encourages students to explore different genres and text types by searching the classroom or library for...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Reading Bookmarks

    This set of colourful and motivational reading bookmarks includes themes such as I Love Reading, My Reading Goal, and Genre Explorer. Ideal...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Book an Adventure - Editable Display Set

    This full display set includes a bold “Book an Adventure” banner, bunting, and editable PowerPoint letters to create a vibrant classroom or...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Book an Adventure - Banner

    This bold and eye-catching classroom banner displays the slogan “Book an Adventure” and is ideal for Book Week celebrations or setting up a...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Book an Adventure - Bunting

    This printable bunting display features the slogan “Book an Adventure” and is perfect for classroom or library decoration during Book Week o...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Book Week Bingo - Middle Primary

    This engaging Book Week bingo resource encourages middle primary students to explore a wide range of reading experiences in a fun and intera...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Poetry Detective - Poem Analysis Pack

    This student-friendly worksheet pack supports students in analysing poems through the role of a “Poetry Detective.” Each page prompts close...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

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

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

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

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

    This 32-card task card set helps students explore, analyse, and respond to non-fiction texts in a flexible and engaging way. Students practi...

  • 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 5

    Book Tasting Pack

    This Book Tasting Pack is a beautifully designed and engaging way to introduce students to a variety of books across genres. Suitable for cl...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    My Spelling Tracker

    The Spelling Tracking Chart is a student-friendly tool designed to help learners set, track, and reflect on their spelling goals across a 10...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Homophones Matching Cards

    This engaging resource is designed to help Year 3 and 4 students master homophones in a fun and interactive way. The pack includes matching...

  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +4

    National Sorry Day - Classroom Display Banner

    A banner to support classroom discussions around National Sorry Day, recognising the Stolen Generations and fostering awareness about reconc...

  • 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

    Change the Plot

    This resource guides upper primary students in exploring Blueback by Tim Winton through imaginative ‘what if’ scenarios. By brainstorming ch...

  • 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

    Lessons from the Sea

    This engaging worksheet for middle primary focuses on connecting literature to personal experiences. Using Blueback by Tim Winton, students...

  • 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

    Character Study

    This worksheet explores characterisation in Blueback by Tim Winton. It includes text excerpts, questions with increasing difficulty, suggest...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Character Question Cards

    This resource helps upper primary students explore how Tim Winton uses language to portray characters in Blueback. Guided questions encourag...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Characters of the Bay

    This worksheet helps students analyse Blueback by Tim Winton, focusing on Dora, Abel, Costello, and Blueback. Students explore each characte...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Exploring Settings

    This worksheet helps middle primary students explore how settings influence mood and events in narratives. Using excerpts from Blueback, stu...

  • 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

    Comprehension Detective: Detective Kit

    These worksheets provide a set of comprehension passages, both fictional and non-fictional, accompanied by questions that encourage the use...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Comprehension Detectives

    This interactive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the ‘Comprehension Detective’ game, where they work in teams to solve compr...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Monitor for Meaning

    This resource helps upper primary students develop comprehension monitoring skills by identifying and addressing reading difficulties. It in...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Monitoring Graphic Organisers

    This set of graphic organisers supports students in monitoring comprehension. Tools like 3-2-1 Check-In, Challenge and Conquer, SQ3R, and Th...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    This Reminds Me…

    If you are looking for a fun, versatile resource to introduce making connections to your class, then this is the one for you. This resource...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Connection Quest

    Engage middle and upper primary students in making meaningful connections with this board game. Featuring 36 diverse text passages, a gamebo...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Exploring Connections

    This resource explores Bennelong's role as a cultural mediator between First Nations Australians and early English settlers. It includes a n...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Connecting - Graphic Organisers

    Use this comprehensive set of graphic organisers to enhance reading comprehension by helping students make connections. Includes Connection...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Prediction Pictures

    Engage students in practising prediction skills with ‘Prediction Pictures’. Use the picture cards for a class competition or as an independe...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Prediction Paths

    Prediction Paths is an engaging board game that reinforces comprehension skills through interactive prediction exercises. Students move forw...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Prediction Passages

    Students will read character profiles, which include key traits and past decisions, and predict how these characters might respond in variou...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Predicting - Graphic Organisers

    This set of graphic organisers supports students in making predictions during reading. It includes tools like Prediction Pathways, Pause and...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Don’t Say It! - Game

    Use the ‘Don’t Say It!’ Visualising Card Game to engage students in practising visualising skills and reading comprehension. Players describ...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Visualise and Draw Relay

    Our ‘Visualise & Draw Relay’ is designed to help students build literal meaning through visualisation. It includes instructions for team-bas...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Transform the Text

    These differentiated worksheets help students visualise and transform non-fiction texts into diagrams. It includes three versions: the water...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Introduction to Visualising

    This resource introduces visualising as a comprehension strategy, guiding students to create mental images using their senses. It includes a...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Roll and Respond- Questioning

    This engaging activity is perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or as an extension task. Students use a dice to roll a question st...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Wonder Wheels

    This engaging activity is perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or as an extension. Students use a paper clip and pencil to spin u...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Questioning - Graphic Organisers

    These graphic organisers support the reading comprehension strategy of questioning, guiding students to ask questions before, during, and af...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Question Answer Response Display

    This series of posters outlines the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) and clearly explains the four question types. Perfect for classroom d...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Question Answer Response

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    States of Matter - Stimulus Sheet

    This engaging reading resource introduces students to solids, liquids, and gases, highlighting their observable properties and the arrangeme...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Introduction to Skimming

    This worksheet introduces your students to the fast-reading technique of skimming. It explains skimming, provides clear steps, and offers pr...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Teach This Newsletter

    This newsletter, designed to complement ‘Introduction to Skimming’ and ‘Introduction to Scanning’, provides a familiar resource for students...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Monitoring Meaning Display

    A set of vibrant posters designed to support Year 5 students in monitoring comprehension. Includes skimming, scanning, and clarifying techni...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Roll and Respond- Summarising

    Enhance students' summarising skills with this engaging literacy activity, perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or extensions. Af...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Summarising- Graphic Organisers

    This set of graphic organisers supports the comprehension reading strategy of summarising. It includes various organisers to help students r...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Reading Role Charts

    This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great display to work through before starting the Reciprocal Reading group process. The set...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Reading Role Cards

    This set of Reciprocal Reading Cards provides a valuable student reference for the Reciprocal Reading Roles, including Director, Predictor,...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Reading Comprehension Cards

    Enhance reading comprehension with these versatile question cards, suitable for any book. With 24 thought-provoking questions, students enga...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Speedsters Turbo Track Racing Drift Team

    Explore the evolution of advertising with this captivating poster! Designed for use alongside the 'Comparing Advertisements' activity, this...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Speedsters Turbo Track Racing

    This poster is a visual representation of advertising techniques used in the 1960s for a toy car. Designed to accompany the 'Comparing Adver...

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5 6

    Comparing Advertisements

    Explore the evolution of advertising with your students using these worksheets! Designed to accompany 'Speedsters Advertisements: Old and Ne...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Frosted Cocoa Crunch

    This poster showcases a vintage cereal advertisement, providing a visual aid for students and sparking discussions about the evolution of ad...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Dynamic Decoding Marking Rubric and The Enchanted Forest Expedition Assessment Sheet

    Our assessment item, the Enchanted Forest Expedition, immerses students in a captivating reading experience where they navigate through a my...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Nonsense Word Screening Tool & Student Sheet and Marking Sheet

    This Nonsense Word Screening Tool allows teachers to gauge the effectiveness of a student's grasp on phonics principles and their ability to...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Delightful Decoding Quiz

    Prepare for decode mastery with our ‘Delightful Decoding' quiz! This engaging quiz tests students' understanding of the concepts behind deco...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Phonic Frenzy Bingo

    Phonic Frenzy Bingo transforms phonics practice into an exciting game where students decode words to win. Featuring a mix of real and nonsen...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Decode and Decide Game Pack

    Our "Decode and Decide" game pack features four captivating game boards where students decode words and discern whether they're real or nons...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Decoding Poster Design

    Our Decoding Poster Design Planning Sheet guides students in creating an informative poster on decoding strategies. This worksheet prompts s...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Real or Nonsense? Maze

    Our Real or Nonsense Maze activity challenges students to decode and navigate a maze filled with real and nonsense words to guide the puppy...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Decode and Decide

    Students use their decoding strategies to decode a pair of words to match the correct word to the image. This worksheet involves students pa...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Speed Read

    Our Speed Read worksheet offers three differentiated versions to cater to students' decoding abilities. Students challenge themselves to dec...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Decoding Detectives

    Our Decoding Detectives worksheets are an engaging resource designed to strengthen students' decoding skills while fostering phonemic awaren...

  • Resource Year: 3

    How To Decode Words - Student Reference Card

    This simple yet easy to understand student reference card is a great reminder for students to stick into their workbooks. The reference card...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Cohesive Devices - Poster Set

    These colourful and descriptive posters have been created to provide students with a simple visual to refer to when learning about cohesive...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Cohesive Devices - Check In

    This assessment has been designed to track students progress when identifying and writing cohesive devices in texts. This resource is part o...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Cohesive Devices – Quiz

    This quiz on cohesive devices is a versatile and handy resource that has been created to focus on text connectives used by Year 4 students....

  • Resource Year: 4

    Cool Cohesion

    This fun and engaging game encourages students to make their writing more precise, more interesting and more cohesive! Students are required...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Creating Cohesion

    Use this worksheet to encourage students to improve their persuasive writing by integrating text connectives into their writing. Students wi...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Cohesion with Cass

    Use this worksheet to provide your students opportunities to edit a piece of writing and improve it by adding in cohesive devices. This reso...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Make it One

    This worksheet provides students with practice in making their writing more precise and cohesive by combining sentences using appropriate te...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Cohesion with Cam

    This worksheet provides students with practice in making their writing more precise and cohesive by combining sentences using appropriate te...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Pronouns with Pete

    This simple worksheet encourages students to identify different pronoun types and the nouns that they refer to. This resource is part of a l...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Plenty of Pronouns

    This handy reference sheet is a list of all the types of pronouns- personal, demonstrative, indefinite, intensive, interrogative, and reflex...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Dealing with Determiners

    Use this worksheet to provide your students with practice in identifying and using determiners in their writing. This resource is part of a...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Cohesive Devices - Student Reference Card

    A simple reference card for students to utilise when learning about cohesive devices. It is designed to support a larger unit of work for Ye...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Homophone Quiz

    This quiz will help you assess your student's ability to draw on meaning and context to spell single syllabus homophones. It has been create...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Homophones Helicopters

    This engaging worksheet encourages students to draw on meaning and context to spell single-syllable homophones. They read the text and find...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Hidden Homophones

    This engaging worksheet encourages students to draw on meaning and context to spell single-syllable homophones. Students read each word arou...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Homophones with Henry

    This engaging worksheet encourages students to match the corresponding homophones and add in the missing letters. The worksheet focuses on s...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Helpful Homophones - Student Bookmark

    These handy bookmarks can be given to students to stick into their books and help them spell commonly used homophones. A great reference poi...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Word of the Week

    Put this display up in your classroom for daily reference. A great way to encourage spelling and vocabulary knowledge in your students.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Word of the Day

    Put this display up in your classroom for daily reference. A great way to encourage spelling and vocabulary knowledge in your students.  

  • 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.  It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of Rin book...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Highlighting Homophones

    Highlighting Homophones

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Homophones in Hawaii

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use and identify some commonly used homophones. This Hawaiian themed activity sheet...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Haunting Homophones

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use a variety of commonly used homophones. The worksheet has two sides with a number...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Homophone of the Week

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use and identify some commonly used homophones.  This ‘Homophone of the Week’ can ea...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Where, Wear or We’? - Handy Homophones

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use the homophones, we’re, where and wear, correctly. It provides a brief explanatio...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    There, Their Or They’re? - Handy Homophones

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use the homophones, their, there and they’re, correctly. It provides a brief explana...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    There, They’re and Their Homophone Poster

    This handy poster assists students to use the correct there, they’re or their homophone in their writing! Display this in your class and use...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Hero’s Journey Workbook

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

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Reading Milestone Certificates

    Encourage and incentivise student reading with these colourful Reading Milestone Certificates. To support classroom or homework reading p...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Inference Detective Badges

    This resource can be used to show recognition to students who have been learning to make inferences and become reading ‘detectives’. These c...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Inferences Assessment

    This worksheet has been designed as an assessment tool  at the completion of the Making Inferences Unit. The assessment includes a visual fo...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Making Inferences Task Cards

    These useful task cards have been designed to support students to make inferences using visual texts. The questions are prompts, to assist s...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Difference With Inference

    This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet includes two non-...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Reading Between The Lines

    This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet includes two fict...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Puzzling Inferences

    This useful worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet, contains...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Interesting Inferences

    This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The worksheet provides sentence starters...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Making Inferences - Student Reference Card

    These student reference cards are designed two to a page and can be glued into student’s books as a reference. They provide students with an...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Making Inferences Poster

    This poster was designed to provide students with an explanation of what it means to infer meaning when reading and how to make inferences....

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Simpson And His Donkey Research Task

    This research resource provides students with a series of questions to guide them during their research of John Simpson Kirkpatrick. Student...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Lunar Holiday Homophones Worksheet

    A Chinese New Year themed worksheet, created for students to practice and consolidate their knowledge of homophones.

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Christmas Big Brain Builders

    Spend the 12 days of Christmas encouraging creative, playful and immersive learning with your students. This variety of activities ranges fr...

  • 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 ‘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 ‘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 ‘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 ‘The Sneetches’, it will help students identify wi...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contractions - Assessment

    This assessment is great for assessing your knowledge and understanding of identifying, writing, matching and using contractions in a senten...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contractions - Snakes and Ladders Game

    Contractions - Snakes and Ladders Game

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contractions - Quiz

    Contractions - Quiz

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contractions Story

    This is a great worksheet for matching the two words to their contraction.

  • Resource Year: 3

    Crazy Contractions

    Use this worksheet to practise rewriting the two words into the contraction and matching contractions.

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contractions Match

    This is a great worksheet for matching the two words to their contraction.

  • Resource Year: 3

    Robot Contractions

    This worksheet is great for rewriting two words into its contraction.

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contraction Capers - Board Game

    Contraction Capers - Board Game

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contractions - Student Reference Card

    Contractions - Student Reference Card

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contractions Poster

    Contractions Poster

  • 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: 2 3

    Villain Wanted Poster

    Villain Wanted PosterDraw on your character and fairy tale story knowledge to create a wanted poster about a villain. Think of the physical...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contractions - Snakes and Ladders

    This game was created to reinforce and consolidate the concept of contractions. 

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Comparing the Book to the Film

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

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5

    Chinese New Year - Reading Comprehension and Table Interpretation

    This reading comprehension activity teaches students about the Chinese new year, and checks their comprehension of the text as well as a tab...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Conjunctions - Assessment

    Evaluate students' understanding of conjunctions with the "Conjunctions Assessment." This assessment resource includes a variety of question...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Conjunctions Practice

    Reinforce students' knowledge and usage of conjunctions with the interactive "Conjunctions Practice" resource. This resource offers engaging...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Fanboys Sentences

    Explore the usage of FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So) in sentences with the engaging "FANBOYS Sentences" resource. This resource pr...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Fanboys Match

    Enhance students' understanding and recognition of FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So) with the interactive "FANBOYS Match" resource....

  • Resource Year: 4

    Conjunctions Worksheet

    Engage students in meaningful practice with the "Conjunctions Worksheet" resource. This worksheet offers a variety of exercises and prompts...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Conjunctions - Student Reference Card

    Equip students with the essential knowledge of conjunctions using the "Conjunctions Student Reference Card." This handy reference card provi...

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Sequencing Persuasive Texts Level 3

    Students cut and rearrange examples of persuasive texts to help cement their understanding of the structure of persuasive texts.

  • Resource Year: 3

    Homophones

    A colourful poster explains what a homophone is with some examples.  The poster will support the discussion surrounding the understanding...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Homophones - there, they're, their

    A colourful homophones poster explains their, there and they’re with an example of visuals and sentences to support understanding.  The p...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    The Easter Story - Reading Comprehension

    A short reading about The Story of Easter. From Palm Sunday, The Last Supper, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Pentecost. The students read an...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Storybook

    A read-aloud storybook of  The Three Billy Goats Gruff

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Picture Sentence Match - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Colour, cut, match and paste sentences to pictures. To be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Build com...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Reading Comprehension - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Reading comprehension questions to be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Cloze Passage - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    The Three Billy Goats Gruff cloze passage. Use the word bank to complete the sentences. Can be used in conjunction with the TeachThis ‘Th...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    The Gingerbread Man - Storybook

    A read-aloud storybook of The Gingerbread Man.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Picture Sentence Match - Gingerbread Man Activities

    Colour, cut, match and paste sentences to pictures. To be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Gingerbread Man. Build comprehensi...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Reading Comprehension - Gingerbread Man Activities

    Reading comprehension questions to be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Gingerbread Man

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Cloze Passage - Gingerbread Man Activities

    The Gingerbread Man cloze passage. Use the word bank to complete the sentences. Can be used in conjunction with the TeachThis ‘The Ginger...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Conjunctions

    Enhance students' writing skills with this informative resource on conjunctions.

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Your or You're? - Handy Homophones

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use the homophones, your and you’re correctly. It provides a brief explanation, exam...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Where OR We're - Homophones

    In this worksheet, students are required to differentiate between the homophones, where and we're.

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Their OR They're - Homophones

    In this worksheet, students are required to differentiate between the homophones, their and they're.

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Homophone Hunter

    Students will match homophones to the matching image as they move around the game board. 

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Read and Roll - Fiction & Non-Fiction

    Students will roll dice to select comprehension questions to answer on various fiction or non-fiction texts they have read. 

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Read and Roll - Fiction & Non-Fiction

    Students will roll dice to select comprehension questions to answer on various fiction or non-fiction texts they have read. 

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Article Attraction - a or an

    As students move around the board, they will be required to specify whether the correct article used in front of a particular noun should be...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contractions Commonwealth Games

    Contractions Commonwealth Games

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Elements of a Short Story - Lower

    Students will understand the structure of a short story, the features and develop an understanding of the function of each of the elements....

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Bookmark - Levels of Comprehension

    These bookmarks provide prompts for students to understand how to approach literal, inferential and evaluative questions that they encounter...

  • 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: F 3 4 5

    Book Review Organisers

    Our Book Review templates provide the structure needed for students to write detailed and informative reviews of books they have enjoyed. Us...

  • 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 +3

    Close Readers Poster

    The 'Close Readers Poster' poster is designed to inform students about the habits of successful readers.

  • Resource Year: 4

    VCOP Connectives

    This set of 'VCOP Connectives' teaches students how to improve their writing, making their text more cohesive and more interesting to reader...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Contractions Poster

    The 'Contractions Poster' provides a useful classroom reference chart for students to access when using contractions in their writing.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Animal Reading Strategy Charts - Comprehension Skills

    This set of 'Animal Reading Strategy Charts' was designed to help students identify the correct comprehension strategies to use to build lit...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 6

    Homonyms

    Enhance students' language skills and vocabulary with this comprehensive resource on homonyms.

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Contractions

    Enhance students' language skills and grammar proficiency with this resource on contractions.

  • FREE! Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Remarkable Readers

    The 'Remarkable Readers' poster provides students with a quick reference chart for comprehension skills including: Inferential Comrpehension...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6 H

    Comprehension Strategies - Upper

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

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Comprehension Strategies - Lower

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

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    An inference is

    This poster was designed to provide a simple definition for students to understand what is required of them when they are asked to make infe...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Easter Cloze Activity - Middle & Upper Primary

    The 'Easter Cloze Activity - Middle & Upper Primary' activity is suitable for Year 3 -6 students. It tells the Easter Story in simple, easy...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Pancake Pronouns

    In Pancake Pronouns, students will learn to identify the pronoun that is missing in each sentence as they move around the game board.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Super 6 Comprehension Strategies

    The 'Super 6 Comprehension Strategies' classroom display includes the following strategies: Predict Make Connections Visualise Questio...

  • Resource Year: 2 4

    Text Connectives Posters

    Our 'Text Connectives Posters' were created by request and include examples of connectives for students to use in their writing. These poste...

  • Resource Year: 2 4 5 6

    Conjunctions Posters

    This set of posters features a large collection of conjunctions to support students in their writing. They've been created to become a funct...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Contraction Bingo

    This bingo game makes learning contractions a lot of fun. It's a great activity to use in literacy rotations and works well as a parent help...

  • Resource Year: 1 4

    Perfect Pronouns

    Our Perfect Pronouns game has been created especially for Christmas with Christmas words and decorative images on the page. Students will id...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Jeep Contractions

    These jeep contractions cards allow students to identify the contraction of two words and check their answers as a self checking mechanism....

  • Resource Year: 3

    Sight Word Splat - Dolch Grade 3

    This game is lots of fun and works with the first set of Dolch Grade 3 sight words. It is an exciting game that motivates students of all ag...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Reciprocal Reading FlowChart

    This flowchart clearly explains the Reciprocal Reading Process. Provide each reading group with a copy of this chart and they will always kn...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Reciprocal Reading Charts

    This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great to display to work through prior to beginning the Reciprocal Reading group process. Pr...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Reciprocal Reading Cards

    Reciprocal Reading Cards are a fantastic prompt for students as they work their way through this highly valuable process. Using the cards, e...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Spelling Studio Game - Dolch Word List

    This spelling game is designed to be printed on A3 paper and used in conjunction with our sets of Dolch Flash Cards.   Students will h...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +1

    Grammar Charts - Black and White

    This resource includes descriptions of Conjunctions, Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives. These worksheets are suitable to hand to students as a gui...

  • Resource Year: 3

    First Second and Third Wordlist Bingo - Class Set

    Made by request, this is a whole class set of 26 bingo cards using the Dolch First, Second and Third Wordlists. Additionally, this set can b...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Text Type Charts - Landscape

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

  • Resource Year: 3

    Class Game - Contractions

    A really fun whole class game, which includes 31 student cards and 1 teacher's starter card. Once confident, students can race the clock and...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Reading Responses with Multiple Intelligences (48 cards)

    Each activity is individually numbered and linked to Howard Gardner's 8 Multiple Intelligences. They are suited to ANY STORY and ALL YEAR LE...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Dolch Grade 3 Flashcards

    This is the fifth list of words Edward W. Dolch put together comprising 220 commonly used words estimated to comprise approximately 50 - 75%...

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