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English Year 5 Year 6 Creating Literature

Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language

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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...

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Unit Plan Year: 6

English Unit - Rhetorical Devices

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

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Unit Plan Year: 5

English Unit: Narrative Text

This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring and writing narrative texts. The unit comes with class displays, stu...

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Unit Plan Year: 5

English Unit: Informative Texts

This unit plan is a great way to support students in planning, drafting and publishing informative texts by using the correct text structur...

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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...

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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...

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Unit Plan Year: 6

English Unit: Multimodal Texts

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

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Unit Plan Year: 6

English Unit: Information Reports

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

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Unit Plan Year: 5 6

English Unit: Readers' Theatre

This unit is designed to get students to plan, rehearse and deliver readers’ theatre presentations to an audience.

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Unit Plan Year: 6

English Unit: Biography

This biography unit was developed to help students research interesting people while learning about the form of biography, and information r...

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Unit Plan Year: 6

English Unit: Poetry

This unit introduces students to a number of literary devices, develop their skills in writing poetry, while fostering an interest in its va...

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Unit Plan Year: 5

English Unit: Similes & Metaphors

This unit will help your students identify and experiment with similes and metaphors.

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Unit Plan Year: 5

English Unit: Proofreading

This unit helps your students better understand and develop the skills required to edit their own work using the COPS system.

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Unit Plan Year: 5

English Unit: Persuasive Writing

This unit plan has been created to support your students when learning about persuasive texts. The unit completes with class displays, stude...

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Presentation Year: 6

Rhetorical Devices - Presentation

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

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Presentation Year: 5

Narrative Texts - Presentation

This presentation is a handy resource to work through with your class when exploring narrative texts. The presentation guides you through th...

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Presentation Year: 5

Informative Text - Presentation

This presentation supports students in planning, drafting and publishing informative texts, using the correct text structure, language featu...

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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 ‘5 Star...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Presentation Year: 6

Creating a Multimedia Text - Presentation

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

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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...

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Presentation Year: 6

Information Reports - Presentation

This presentation is designed to help later years primary students develop their writing skills for information texts. It is part of a la...

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Presentation Year: 5 6

Readers' Theatre - Presentation

This presentation introduces students to readers’ theatre, and the steps that are involved in making a successful readers’ theatre performan...

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Presentation Year: 6

The Redfern Park Speech

This presentation is a copy of Prime Minister Paul Keating's historic 'Redfern Park Speech'. As one of more significant pieces of public spe...

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Presentation Year: 6

Biography - Presentation

This presentation introduces students to biographies, and gets them set up for the biography unit for year 6. This unit was developed to hel...

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Presentation Year: 6

Poetry - Presentation

This presentation will walk your students through year 5 poetry, showing them how to recognise the difference between different forms as wel...

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Presentation Year: 5

Similes & Metaphors - Presentation

The Similes and Metaphors presentation introduces students to both of these concepts. It includes a definition with examples, as well as a v...

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Presentation Year: 5

Proofreading - Presentation

This presentation will walk your year 5 students through the COPS (CUPS) method of proofreading their work. A perfect skill for NAPLAN. This...

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Presentation Year: 5

Persuasive Texts - Presentation

This presentation is a handy resource to work through with your class during the study and exploration of persuasive texts. The presentation...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Plan, Prove, Publish

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

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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....

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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...

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

The PEEL Method

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

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 6

My Year 12 Self - Future Letter Template

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 — using clear n...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 5 6

Letter to the Editor - Reading, Analysing and Writing Pack

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

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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....

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Resource Year: 6

Figurative and Emotive Vocabulary - Display

This set of A4 posters vividly illustrates key figurative language devices (simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, idio...

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Worksheet Year: 5 6

Grading Rubrics - Year 5-6

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

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Worksheet Year: 5 6

Blueback - Representing Themes

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

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Worksheet Year: 5 6

Blueback - Analytical Essay

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

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Continuing the Story

Encourage middle and upper primary students to plan and write a sequel to Blueback, focusing on narrative structure and conservation themes....

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 5 6

Diving into Different Viewpoints

Explore perspectives in Blueback with this worksheet for middle primary. Students analyse Abel’s encounter with a shark, answer scaffolded q...

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Worksheet Year: 5 6

Diving Deep into Language

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

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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...

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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...

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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....

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Pitch Perfect Playoffs

This interactive speaking activity encourages middle and upper primary students to collaborate in delivering engaging group speeches. Topics...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Say it Like This

This interactive board game helps students practise vocal variations, such as pitch, tone, and pace, while reading sentences aloud. It promo...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Meaningful Feedback

This worksheet guides middle and upper primary students in rehearsing presentations with a peer and providing meaningful feedback on tone, p...

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Worksheet Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Paragraph Building Workshop

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

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Worksheet Year: 6

Rhetorical Devices Marking Rubric

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

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Worksheet Year: 6

Rhetorical Devices Assessment

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

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Resource Year: 6

Rhetorical Devices Quiz

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

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Resource Year: 6

Convince Me!

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

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Resource Year: 6

Race to Persuade

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

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Resource Year: 6

Persuade Me

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

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Worksheet Year: 6

Transform the Text- Social Media

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

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Worksheet Year: 6

Transform the Text- Vending Machines

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

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Worksheet Year: 6

Transform the Text- The Great Barrier Reef

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

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Worksheet Year: 6

Modal Verbs

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

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Worksheet Year: 6

The Pillars of Persuasion

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

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Resource Year: 6

Rhetorical Devices - Student Reference Card

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

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 5

Narrative Text Template

This template has been created for students to construct a narrative text. The second page has space for peer and teacher feedback. Perfect...

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Resource Year: 5

STEAL A Character

A handy display to encourage students to refer to when developing characters in storytelling. The acronym encourages students to build a ‘r...

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Worksheet Year: 5

Start with a Sizzle!

A great worksheet when exploring how to start a narrative off with a ‘sizzle’. These two worksheets include 4 story starters, encouraging st...

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Worksheet Year: 5

Narrative Plot Planning Pyramid

A great resource for your students to essentially plan out a narrative. Students are encouraged to brainstorm their ideas on this page accor...

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Resource Year: 5

Narrative Plot Pyramid Display

Display this handy resource when exploring the structure of narrative texts. A fantastic visual display for your students.

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Resource Year: 5

Narrative Plot Pyramid - Student Reference Card

Hand out these useful reference cards to your students when exploring the structure of a narrative. Students can glue this into their workbo...

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Worksheet Year: 5

Paragraphs to Persuade

This is a great activity to support your students when writing persuasive paragraphs using the TEEL or PEEL method. Students choose one of t...

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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,...

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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...

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Resource Year: 5

Australia Day Should Be Changed - Persuasive Text

This persuasive text is the perfect addition to your classroom resources when learning about the structure, language and devices of persuasi...

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Worksheet Year: 5

Can you Persuade? - Worksheet

This is a great activity for your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language. It has been created as part of our Per...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Halloween Writing Prompts - Middle Upper

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Resource Year: 5

The Sun- Informative Text

A versatile resource, this text about the sun can be implemented into your classroom in a variety of ways when teaching students about infor...

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Resource Year: 5

Paragraph Practise!

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

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Resource Year: 5

Fact Filler: Floods

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

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Resource Year: 5

Language Features - ‘How Do We Hear?’

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

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Resource Year: 5

Informative Text - Student Reference Card

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

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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...

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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,...

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Resource Year: 4 5 6

Editing and Proofreading - Year 4 - Assessment

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Resource Year: 4 5 6

Proofreading with Pat, Pam and Peter

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ‘5 Star Writing’ by l...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Literary Devices & Language Features - Poster Set

These posters were created to support student learning of Literary Devices and Language Features. They feature a description and a clear exa...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

iPad Bootcamp

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

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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....

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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...

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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...

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Resource Year: 6

Multimedia Text Rubric

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

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Resource Year: 6

Animal Infographics Resource

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

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Resource Year: 6

Understanding Infographics

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

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Resource Year: 6

Multimodal Texts - Student Reference Card

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

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Resource Year: 6

Multimedia - Student Reference Card

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

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Resource Year: 3 4 5

Paragraph Assessment

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

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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...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5

Imaginative Paragraph Practice

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

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Resource Year: 3 4 5

Imaginative Paragraph Planning

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

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Resource Year: 3 4 5

Peeling Paragraphs

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

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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...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5

TEEL Paragraphs

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

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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...

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Resource Year: 3 4 5

Paragraph Practice!

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

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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...

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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...

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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 informative, imagin...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Resource Year: 6

Report Rubric

This is an example of a rubric which could be used to assess information reports for Year 6. It is part of a larger unit on information r...

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Resource Year: 6

Information Report Checklist Bookmarks

These bookmarks, directly tied to the suggested unit rubric, can be given to students as they work on their information report to help them...

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Resource Year: 6

Information Report Perfect Paragraph Planner

This worksheet helps scaffold students as they lay out an information report paragraph. It is part of a larger unit on information report...

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Resource Year: 6

Information Report Road Map

This worksheet is an information report planning template to help scaffold your students as they write their reports. It is part of a lar...

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Resource Year: 6

My Information Report Research Register

In this worksheet, students lay out the facts they discover during their research into categories to help them sort it later for draft writi...

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Resource Year: 6

Narrowing Your Focus

In this worksheet, students are forced to come up with some specific search criteria to use online to reduce the amount of time wasted while...

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Resource Year: 6

Topic Brainstorming

In this worksheet, students work through series of brain storming steps to help them choose a topic that they’re not only interested in, but...

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Resource Year: 6

Opinion vs Fact

This worksheet can help students develop their abilities sorting facts from opinions. It is part of a larger unit on information reports...

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Resource Year: 6

Information Reports- Student Reference Card

This card is meant to serve as an individual reference for students to use while writing information reports. It is part of a larger unit...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Readers' Theatre - Crash Landing in Oz

This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text by L. Frank Baum. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts available on...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Readers' Theatre - Tiddalick

This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption from a traditional Australian Dreamtime story. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts avai...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Readers' Theatre - The Elves and the Shoemaker

This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text from the Grimms' Fairytales. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts a...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Readers' Theatre - Rikki-tikki-tavi

This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text by Rudyard Kipling. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts available...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Readers' Theatre - Man From Snowy River

This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text by Banjo Paterson. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts available o...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Readers' Theatre - A Christmas Without

This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text by Louisa May Alcott. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts availabl...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Readers' Theatre - Alice's Tea Party

This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text by Lewis Carroll. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts available on...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Readers’ Theatre Rubric

This rubric is an example of a rubric which could be used to assess your students’ readers’ theatre performances. It is designed to look at...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Readers Reflection

In this worksheet, students reflect on the readers’ theatre performance they have just given. This is not only helpful for them to develop t...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Know Your Role

This worksheet is made to help individual students prepare and analyse their part in a readers’ theatre piece. This resource is part of a...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Readers’ Theatre - Student Reference Card

This student card gives your students a few readers’ theatre tips and tricks for them to reference while preparing a readers’ theatre presen...

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Resource Year: 6

Roll While Researching

While students begin to research their biography subject, this dice rolling activity will help them see their subjects in a different light....

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Resource Year: 6

Graphic Biography

Graphic Biography

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Resource Year: 6

The Bellear Brothers - Extension Activity

This extension activity is written to work together with the Bellear Brothers Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to...

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Resource Year: 6

The Bellear Brothers Biography

This is a biography of Australian Aboriginal civil-rights leaders. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students rese...

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Resource Year: 6

Phar Lap Biography

This is a biography of the legendary Australian racehorse, Phar Lap. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students re...

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Resource Year: 6

Present a Person

This worksheet is designed to further scaffold students in biography writing, by prompting their research of a person in preparation for sha...

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Resource Year: 6

Ian Frazer Biography

This is a biography of Australian researcher, Ian Frazer. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students research inte...

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Resource Year: 6

Roald Dahl - Comprehension Activity

This extension activity is written to work together with the Roald Dahl Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to help s...

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Resource Year: 6

Athlete Research Report

Athlete Research Report

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Resource Year: 6

Donald Bradman Biography

This is a biography of Australian Cricketer Donald Bradman. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students research in...

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Resource Year: 6

Cathy Freeman - Extension Activity

This extension activity is written to work together with the Cathy Freeman Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to hel...

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Resource Year: 6

Cathy Freeman Biography

This is a biography of Australian Olympic champion Cathy Freeman. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students resea...

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Resource Year: 6

Fred Hollows Biography

This is a biography of Fred Hollows, a prominent Australian and New Zealand eye surgeon and humanitarian. This Biography is part of a larger...

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Resource Year: 6

Shared Birthday

This worksheet is designed to get students interested in researching and writing biographies, by finding a subject who shares their birthday...

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Resource Year: 6

Jane Goodall - Comprehension Activity

This comprehension activity is written to work together with the Jane Goodall Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to...

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Resource Year: 6

Jane Goodall - Biography

This is a biography of primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students...

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Resource Year: 6

Biography Subjects - Poster

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

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Resource Year: 6

Biography - Student Reference Card

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

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Resource Year: 5

Serious Spelling

In this worksheet, students help legendary bard William Spellspeare proofread one of his letters for spelling errors. This worksheet is part...

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Resource Year: 6

575 A Haiku Adventure

In this worksheet, students are scaffolded on the way to writing haiku. Encourage your students to share their work after they’re finished,...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Lean Your Limericks

In this worksheet, students are scaffolded on the way to writing limericks. Encourage your students to share their work after they’re finish...

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Resource Year: 6

You're a Poet and Didn't Know it!

In this worksheet, students are asked to write rhyming couplets using given sets of words. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces...

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Resource Year: 6

Onomatopoeia

In this worksheet, students lean about onomatopoeia. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces students to a number of literary devic...

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Resource Year: 6

Internal Rhyme

In this worksheet, students look for internal rhyme, including in Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Raven’. It is a part of a larger unit that intro...

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Resource Year: 6

Time to Rhyme

In this worksheet, students are asked to come up with three rhymes for a list of words these can be shared in groups or as a class at the en...

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Resource Year: 6

Finding the Rhyme

In this worksheet, students are asked to identify the rhyme scheme in a pair of poems. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces stud...

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Resource Year: 4 5 6

Finding the Rhythm

In this worksheet, students identify the rhythm in a pair of Robert Louis Stevenson Poems. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces...

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Resource Year: 6

Perfecting Personification

In this worksheet, students take a closer look at personification. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces students to a number of...

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Resource Year: 6

Poetry - Student Reference Card

This student card is designed to be a personal reference to students during the poetry unit and beyond. It is a part of a larger unit tha...

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Resource Year: 5

Assessment Similes & Metaphor

This worksheet can also be used as an assessment task, to check your students’ understanding of simile and metaphor. It is a part of a large...

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Resource Year: 5

Roll-A-Metaphor

This worksheet is designed to help students with similes and metaphors. It is a part of a larger unit designed to help your students identif...

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Resource Year: 5

Roll-A-Simile

This worksheet is designed to help students with similes and metaphors. It is a part of a larger unit designed to help your students identif...

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Resource Year: 5

Mighty Metaphors

This worksheet is designed to help students with similes and metaphors. It is a part of a larger unit designed to help your students identif...

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Resource Year: 5

Similes & Metaphor - Quiz

This worksheet is designed to help students with similes and metaphors. It is a part of a larger unit designed to help your students identif...

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Resource Year: 5

Super Similes

Unleash the power of figurative language with this engaging resource focused on similes.

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Resource Year: 3 4 5

Similes Match Game

This game is designed to help students with similes and metaphors. It is a part of a larger unit designed to help your students identify and...

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Resource Year: 5

Similes & Metaphors - Student Reference Card

This card is designed to be used as a personal reference for students throughout the year. It is a part of a larger unit designed to help yo...

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Resource Year: 5

COPS Practice - Little Women

In this worksheet, students work through the COPS system to find errors in a classic text. This worksheet is part of a larger unit that help...

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Resource Year: 5

COPS Practice - The Call of the Wild

In this worksheet, students work through the COPS system to find errors in a classic text. This worksheet is part of a larger unit that help...

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Resource Year: 5

COPS Practice - Anne of Green Gables

In this worksheet, students work through the COPS system to find errors in a classic text. This worksheet is part of a larger unit that help...

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Resource Year: 5

Proofreading for Punctuation in Wonderland

In this worksheet, students look for punctuation errors in a short sequence from ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. This worksheet is part...

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Resource Year: 5

Taking a Closer Look with COPS

This worksheet helps students work through the “Organisation” or “Understanding” step of the COPS or CUPS process. This worksheet is part of...

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Resource Year: 5

COPS Proofreading Checklist

This bookmark will remind students of the COPS process of proofreading. This resource is part of a larger unit that helps your students bett...

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Resource Year: 5

COPS Proofreading Bookmark

This bookmark will remind students of the COPS process of proofreading. This resource is part of a larger unit that helps your students bett...

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Resource Year: 5

Proofreading - Student Reference Card

This Proofreading card will serve as a personal reference for your students throughout the unit and into the future. This resource is part o...

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Resource Year: 5

Persuasive Writing - Student Reference Card

This item was created as part of a larger unit on persuasive texts for a year 5 level, but represents only a small fraction of the resources...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Figurative Language & Imagery Poster Set

This set of posters explains how to use figurative language and imagery to enhance description in writing.

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +4

Presentation Rubric

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

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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. Using the persuasive writing visual prompt, students writ...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

ANZAC Recruiting Nurses - Persuasive Writing Prompt

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

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Fractured Fairy Tales - Three Billy Goats Gruff

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

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Persuasive Writing - Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Three Billy Goats Gruff writing prompt is for class screen. Use along with the TeachThis ‘ The Three Billy Goats Gruff ’ read aloud....

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Newspaper Report - Three Billy Goats Gruff

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

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

Narrative - Three Billy Goats Gruff

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

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Fractured Fairy Tales - Gingerbread Man Activities

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

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Persuasive Writing - Gingerbread Man Activities

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

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Newspaper Report Worksheet - Gingerbread Man Activities

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

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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.

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Narrative Writing Prompts

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

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 6

Migration Marathons

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

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Worksheet Year: 6

Super Tardigrade

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

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Parts of Poetry - Poster

Classroom posters highlighting the different parts of poetry, with examples of each poetry element. A great resource to accompany the Year 5...

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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.

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

Harmony Day Narrative Writing Prompt

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

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

Alliteration Side Show Alley

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

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Resource Year: 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...

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Resource Year: 6

Rhetorical Questions Poster

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

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Resource Year: 5 6

Take Your Turn - Metaphor, Simile

Students will differentiate between similes and metaphors in this rotation game. This game has been created in a style that allows for you t...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Take Your Turn - Idiom, Metaphor

Students will differentiate between idioms and metaphors in this rotation game. This game has been created in a style that allows for you to...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Simile Metaphor Personification Posters

This set of posters explains the meaning of similes, metaphors and personification and how to use figurative language to make comparisons be...

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Resource Year: 4 5

Poetry Posters

This set of posters explains the meaning of, and provdies an example of, an ode, anthem, song and shape poem.

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Resource Year: 5 6 H

Narrative Story Starters

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

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Resource Year: 5 6 H

Similes & Metaphors Bingo

This bingo game will help students differentiate between similes and metaphors that are used in everyday life. They will match meanings to e...

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +3

Editing Symbols Poster

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

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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...

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +2

Narrative Settings

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

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Resource Year: 3 4 5

Narrative Characterisation - Middle & Upper

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

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

Information Report Outlines

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

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Resource Year: 5 6 H

PEEL Sentence Starters - Poster

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

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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...

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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...

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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.

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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

Past & Present Tense Bunny Footprint Match

Students will understand that the processes verbs represent are anchored in time through tense.

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

Persuasive Outline - Landscape

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

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

Persuasive Outline

Students will use the Persuasive Outline to plan their own persuasive text.

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Resource Year: 5 6 H

Narrative vs Persuasive text type chart

Designed for upper primary, this chart provides a very clear comparison between the features of a narrative text and the features of a persu...

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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.

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Resource Year: 3 6

Poetry Purrfection Game

Poetry Purrfection is a rotation activity designed to consolidate the understanding of poetic devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration and...

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 5

Naplan Persuasive Writing Preparation

Naplan Persuasive Writing Preparation

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Resource Year: 4 5 6

Persuasive Words - Upper Primary Reference Card

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

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Resource Year: 5 6

Persuasive Words - Upper Primary

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

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Resource Year: 5 6

Persuasive Sentence Starters - Upper Primary

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Resource Year: 5 6

Poetic Devices Match

This game was created to assist upper primary students in consolidating knowledge of Poetic Devices. It is a group game for up to 5 players...

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 5 6

Personification

This 4-page worksheet provides a detailed explanation of personification in poetry along with student activities designed to reinforce under...

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

Persuasive Texts - #20 What Makes It Powerful

This worksheet is #20 in our series of 23 worksheets which focus on persuasive texts.

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Worksheet Year: 5 6

Metaphors

This worksheet explores the power of metaphors as a literary device. Answer sheet included.

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Worksheet Year: 5 6

Similes

This worksheet explains the concept of similes and includes simple exercises to consolidate knowledge. Answer sheet included.

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Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

Rhythm

This worksheet looks at how rhythm is used in texts to emphasise words and syllables. Answer sheet included.

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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...

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Resource Year: 4 5 6

Poetry Pack

This poetry pack is a resource that we know will become a huge favourite. It contains a 'how-to' guide on 6 different forms of poetry includ...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

Narrative Prompt Sheets

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

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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: • Capital Letters – A...

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +4

Typing Keyboard Colour

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

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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +4

Typing Keyboard BW

Typing Keyboard BW

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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)

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

Book Report

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

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

Animal Report - Junior

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Worksheet Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

Storyboard

Storyboard

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

Narrative Planner

Narrative Planner

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Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

Narrative Outline

Narrative Outline

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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