Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
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This unit plan has been created to support your students when learning about persuasive texts. The unit completes with class displays, stude...
This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring and writing narrative texts. The unit comes with class displays, stu...
This comprehensive unit takes students through the purpose, structure and features of the different text types. The unit begins with a prese...
This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sent...
This item was created as part of a larger unit on the active and passive voice for year 5. This unit progressively walks your students throu...
This unit plan has been designed to support students’ understanding of main and subordinate clauses. This unit comes complete with a detaile...
This unit plan supports your students when learning about noun groups/ phrases and adjective groups/ phrases and how they can be expanded in...
This unit helps students understand the etymological origins of common words by breaking words into roots and affixes.
This unit should help students understand how possessives are signalled through apostrophes and how they’re use with common and proper nouns...
This comprehensive unit is designed to support teaching points of view in narrative texts.The included activities, games, worksheets and dis...
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...
This comprehensive and detailed unit plan is designed to support students to learn spelling strategies associated with root words and affixe...
This unit incorporates activities aligned with the Australian Curriculum content descriptor ACELY1514. The unit contains a presentation that...
Complex Sentences is a comprehensive unit plan for Year 6. Students will expand their knowledge of complex sentences by reviewing conjuncti...
This unit is designed to demonstrate to students the importance of word choice and its role in improving their writing.
This unit was designed to help students identify and explain how images can be used in a variety of texts to contribute to our understanding...
This item is a part of a larger unit on Commas for Year 6 that is available from Teach This.
This biography unit was developed to help students research interesting people while learning about the form of biography, and information r...
This unit helps students understand the etymological origins of common words by breaking words into roots and affixes.
This unit will walk your students through a more advanced look at how we form words using prefixes and suffixes, including a look at how we...
Enhance your students' critical thinking with our comprehensive unit on objective and subjective language and bias. This resource features e...
Enhance students' summarising skills with our comprehensive unit plan. Includes posters, a student reference card, worksheets, a quiz, and a...
This comprehensive unit plan enhances your students' understanding of cohesion. It includes posters, a student reference card, worksheets, a...
This comprehensive unit plan teaches students skimming and scanning techniques, using subject and technical vocabulary to navigate unfamilia...
Enhance students' questioning skills with our comprehensive unit plan, featuring posters, a student reference card, worksheets, a quiz, and...
This unit plan helps students move beyond simple assertions by encouraging critical thinking, considering differing opinions, and evaluating...
This unit is designed to help Year 5 students develop comprehension, through the skill of visualising. Students will create mental images, o...
This comprehensive unit plan for Year 5 focuses on teaching comprehension strategies, including predicting, to build literal and inferred me...
This comprehensive unit plan supports Year 5 students in using the comprehension strategy, making connections, to build literal and inferred...
This comprehensive unit plan for Year 5 focuses on teaching comprehension strategies, including monitoring, to build literal and inferred me...
This resource supports students in recognising and spelling words with common letter patterns but varying pronunciations, such as 'ch', 'ea'...
This unit focuses on identifying and analysing the characteristics that define an author’s individual style. It includes versatile resources...
This engaging unit of work guides students through the concept of figurative language, focusing on how authors use vivid and emotive vocabul...
This unit invites students in Years 3-6 to explore how imagery, symbolism and connotation shape meaning in stories. Using Leila and the Blue...
This presentation is a handy resource to work through with your class during the study and exploration of persuasive texts. The presentation...
This presentation is a handy resource to work through with your class when exploring narrative texts. The presentation guides you through th...
This presentation demonstrates the different text types, including their purpose, structure and features.
This presentation is a handy resource to work through with your class when exploring how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting po...
This presentation was created as part of the Active and Passive Voice Unit for Year 5. This presentation walks students through the skill...
This presentation is a great resource for teachers to use when introducing and revising independent and dependent clauses. The presentation...
This presentation has been designed to support students’ understanding of the difference between main and subordinate clauses. This presenta...
This presentation supports your students when learning about noun groups/ phrases and adjective groups/ phrases and how they can be expanded...
This presentation introduces students to etymology. The presentation walks students through how they can use an understanding of Greek and L...
This presentation is designed to introduce students to the rules around apostrophe of possession. It is part of a larger unit what should he...
This item was created as a part of a larger unit on narrative point of view, which was written for the year 5 Australian literacy curriculum...
This Presentation introduces your students to the structure of the hero’s story, in a simplified version of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. You...
This Rowan of Rin presentation was created with summaries, questions and activities for every chapter. It was designed to be a part of our...
This presentation is a great resource for teachers to use when introducing the reading strategy of making inferences. The presentation is pr...
This comprehensive presentation has been created to guide students through spelling strategies associated with root words and affixes. The p...
This presentation is designed to illustrate to students the difference between simple, compound and complex sentences. It is part of a large...
The Complex Sentences Presentation walks students through the structure of complex sentences and introduces the concept of embedded clauses....
This presentation is designed to help your students understand the importance of word selection for good writing. This was developed as part...
This presentation is designed to explain the key concepts of the unit to students. It is part of a larger unit designed to help students ide...
This item is a part of a larger unit on Commas for Year 6 that is available from Teach This.
This presentation introduces students to biographies, and gets them set up for the biography unit for year 6. This unit was developed to hel...
This presentation is a copy of Prime Minister Paul Keating's historic 'Redfern Park Speech'. As one of more significant pieces of public spe...
This presentation is designed to help later years primary students develop their writing skills for information texts. It is part of a la...
This presentation will walk your students through a more advanced look at how we form words using prefixes and suffixes, including a look at...
Dive into the world of language and bias with our interactive presentation. Explore objective vs subjective language through engaging exampl...
This visually engaging presentation guides students step-by-step to understand how cohesion is created through intentional repetition and wo...
This visually engaging presentation teaches students how to navigate and read texts for specific purposes. It covers skimming, scanning, and...
This visually engaging presentation guides students on the importance of questioning before, during, and after reading. It explores the Ques...
This presentation equips teachers with strategies to guide students in moving beyond making bare assertions. It focuses on fostering critica...
This presentation resource introduces Year 5 students to the concept of visualising in reading comprehension. It includes engaging slides wi...
This resource introduces predicting as a reading strategy for upper primary. It includes clear explanations, fiction and non-fiction example...
This resource helps upper primary students develop comprehension skills by making deep connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-...
This resource introduces monitoring comprehension through interactive strategies, including visual analysis, group activities, and anchor ch...
This resource guides teachers in exploring English letter patterns with upper primary students. It includes a presentation covering common p...
This presentation introduces Year 6 students to figurative and emotive language, explaining key devices like metaphors, similes, personifica...
Students cut and rearrange examples of persuasive texts to help cement their understanding of the structure of persuasive texts.
This collection of Easter activities is a great way of engaging students before the Easter break. This workbook covers a variety of topics f...
This is a great activity for your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language. It has been created as part of our Per...
This persuasive text is the perfect addition to your classroom resources when learning about the structure, language and devices of persuasi...
This worksheet is #20 in our series of 23 worksheets which focus on persuasive texts.
This is a great activity to support your students when writing persuasive paragraphs using the TEEL or PEEL method. Students choose one of t...
Hand out these useful reference cards to your students when exploring the structure of a narrative. Students can glue this into their workbo...
Display this handy resource when exploring the structure of narrative texts. A fantastic visual display for your students.
A great resource for your students to essentially plan out a narrative. Students are encouraged to brainstorm their ideas on this page accor...
A great worksheet when exploring how to start a narrative off with a ‘sizzle’. These two worksheets include 4 story starters, encouraging st...
A handy display to encourage students to refer to when developing characters in storytelling. The acronym encourages students to build a ‘r...
This template has been created for students to construct a narrative text. The second page has space for peer and teacher feedback. Perfect...
This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the difference between factual and fictions texts. Enlarge to A3 and...
This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the purpose, text types and features of the three texts types.
This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the structure of informative texts. Enlarge to A3 and laminate for mu...
This display provides a visual prompt for students when identifying the structure of narrative texts. Enlarge to A3 and laminate for mult...
Help Pat identify the three purposes of texts, their definitions and matching text types by cutting out and correctly assembling the puzzle...
Looking for a super fun way to reinforce Text Structure with your students? Students cut and paste the descriptions of the structure of a...
Looking for a super fun way to reinforce Text Structure with your students? Students will read each description or example, identify the...
Have students consolidate their knowledge of text purpose, structure and features by identifying and organising the structure of this text....
Use this fun resource to encourage students to match their style of writing to the intended purpose.
Use these quick check ins to assess student understanding of the purpose, structure and features of different texts types.
These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference to assist them when...
This display provides a visual prompt for students when learning about text types and genres.Enlarge to A3 and laminate for multiple uses.
Solve the joke by identifying the purpose of the different text types.
Use these texts to help students identify the different features of the three text types- persuasive, informative and imaginative.
Use this fun resource to encourage students to match their style of writing to the intended structure.
These hilarious scenario cards will have students creating some weird and wacky ways to convince you to buy their product. Students work...
This 10-question quiz makes a wonderful whole class warmup, review or formative assessment tool to gauge students’ level of understanding on...
Use these quick check-ins to assess student understanding of the purpose, structure and features of different text types.
This set of Genre Paragraph Writing - Posters was created to demonstrate how to write a paragraph in a variety of different text types. Thes...
Hand out these useful reference cards to your students when exploring common literary devices. Students can glue this into their workbooks f...
A handy worksheet to help your students consolidate their understanding of how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a s...
Use this worksheet to encourage students to improve their persuasive writing by integrating text connectives into their writing. Students wi...
A handy worksheet to help your students consolidate their understanding of how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a s...
A handy assessment you can use when exploring how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give...
This item was created as part of a larger unit on the active and passive voice for year 5. This unit progressively walks your students throu...
This item was created as part of a larger unit on the active and passive voice for year 5. This unit progressively walks your students throu...
This item was created as part of a larger unit on the active and passive voice for year 5. This unit progressively walks your students throu...
This item was created as part of a larger unit on the active and passive voice for year 5. This unit progressively walks your students throu...
This item was created as part of a larger unit on the active and passive voice for year 5. This unit progressively walks your students throu...
This item was created as part of a larger unit on the active and passive voice for year 5. This unit progressively walks your students throu...
This item was created as part of a larger unit on the active and passive voice for year 5. This unit progressively walks your students throu...
This assessment task is part of the Active and Passive Voice Unit for Year 5. It is a great summative assessment for students to demonstr...
Designed for upper primary students, Phrase or Clause Game challenged students to understand the difference between a phrase and a clause an...
Our 'Types of Sentences' resource is a set of charts created by request, that defines the following types of sentences: Simple Sentenc...
In this game, students are asked to distinguish between compound and complex sentences.
The 'Clauses Posters' define various clause types and show students not only how to use the clause types, but how they effect the expression...
This game is a fantastic small group activity. We like to place the cards in a pile face down and let students take turns picking up a card...
These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference to assist them when...
These handy reference cards can be used to support students when composing complex sentences. It provides a simple definition of a main clau...
This worksheet supports students when differentiating between main and subordinate clauses. It is one of our progressive worksheets as part...
This worksheet supports students to develop their understanding of subordinate clauses. It is one of our progressive worksheets as part of...
This worksheet supports students to develop their understanding of main clauses. It is one of our progressive worksheets as part of our Yea...
This worksheet supports students to develop their ability to create complex sentences. It provides opportunities for students to identify bo...
This worksheet supports students to develop their ability to create complex sentences. It provides opportunities for students to identify b...
These handy cards are a simple and easy way to reinforce the difference between main and subordinate clauses. This has been created to be us...
This resource has been created to assess your students’ ability to differentiate between main and subordinate clauses, as well as demonstrat...
Subordinating conjunctions are used in complex sentences to join a main clause to a subordinate clause. Use this classroom display poster as...
This board game is a great way for students to use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions to create compound and complex sentences....
This worksheet requires students to convert a sentence from active to passive voice. There are 2 differentiated pages so you can extend your...
This worksheet requires students to convert a sentence from passive to active voice. There are 2 differentiated pages so you can extend your...
Enhance language skills with a focus on understanding and using active and passive voice in communication. Students improve grammar and writ...
In this game, students will read a sentence out loud and identify the nouns and noun groups within the sentence. It is a simple game suitabl...
The Parts of Speech posters include the followingL Nouns, Noun Groups, Qualifiers, Adjectives, Verbs, Verb Groups, Adverbs, Adverb Groups, P...
The Sentence Builder Pack is a complete resource designed to help students create correct and engaging sentences. It includes four different...
Students will mix and match monster body parts before writing a detailed character description.
Students will explore how various types of phrases and word groups can be expended to provide a fuller description.
This resource is a must have for any primary school classroom. This activity will scaffold students to build better and more descriptive sen...
This student reference card is a handy tool to support you students when learning about noun groups and adjective groups. A great reference...
This useful worksheet will support your students in identifying and using adjective groups/ phrases to deepen their descriptive writing.
This useful worksheet will support your students to identify noun groups and create their own description that includes noun groups.
This useful worksheet will support your students in identifying and using adjective groups/ phrases to deepen their descriptive writing.
This useful worksheet will support your students to create their own sentences that include adjective groups. Students then create their own...
Students can use their own books to identify noun groups and adjective groups and then modify and/or change them to create their own.
A quick ten question quiz to consolidate your students’ understanding of noun groups and adjective groups.
A great tool to assess your students ability to identify and use noun groups and adjective groups to create more rich descriptions.
This card serves as a great personal reference for students to refer to after being introduced to word etymology.
These bright and informative posters show the link between some English words and their origins in Latin and Greek. The posters are not o...
This fun and engaging activity has been designed to get the whole class involved in the teaching and learning of Greek and Latin etymology. ...
This fun an engaging worksheet can be utilised in the teaching and learning of Greek and Latin etymology. Use the sheet when focusing on...
Use this worksheet to provide students the opportunity to identify and colour common Latin and Greek roots or stems, in each of the words on...
In this fun and engaging worksheet, students need to match the root or stem to the provided definitions, and solve the joke at the bottom of...
An interesting worksheet for students to develop their curiosity about the origin of common words we use in the English language today. ...
An interesting and engaging worksheet where students will need to research the original definitions of the words to match them correctly....
This worksheet explores how words continuously change as time goes by. With the introduction of the internet the words on the worksheet have...
Consolidate knowledge of Latin and Greek roots with this fun, no prep game! Students work their way around the gameboard, landing on Greek o...
Consolidate knowledge of Latin and Greek roots with this fun, whole class activity! Included are 28 common Latin and Greek roots. A perfect...
This fun and engaging quiz includes questions to activate and test your student's knowledge of word etymology. The 15 questions provide defi...
This check in has been designed as a formative assessment tool to gauge how students are progressing in the understanding of common Greek an...
This Vivid Verb display provides students with numerous synonyms for 15 common verbs that can transform their writing to be powerfully descr...
A great game for upper primary, the "Possessive or Plural Game" challenges students to read a sentence and determine whether the apostrophe...
The Monster Punctuation Posters are a colourful and engaging set of visual aids designed to reinforce key punctuation rules in an easy-to-un...
This worksheet was created for students to develop and consolidate their skills with apostrophes of possesion. It is part of a larger unit w...
This student card is designed to be used a personal reference throughout the unit and afterwards. It is part of a larger unit what should he...
This worksheet was created for students to develop and consolidate their skills with apostrophes of possesion. It is part of a larger unit w...
This quiz can be used as an assessment piece to check the understanding of your students. It is part of a larger unit what should help stude...
Simply display a slide on the white board and ask students to rewrite the sentence in their neatest handwriting, with correct punctuation an...
This item was created as a part of a larger unit on narrative point of view, which was written for the year 5 Australian literacy curriculum...
This item was created as a part of a larger unit on narrative point of view, which was written for the year 5 Australian literacy curriculum...
This item was created as a part of a larger unit on narrative point of view, which was written for the year 5 Australian literacy curriculum...
This item was created as a part of a larger unit on narrative point of view, which was written for the year 5 Australian literacy curriculum...
Use this task as an assessment piece for the Points of View Year 5 assessment. Students read the prompt then write a short story in both the...
This fantastic Points of View poster has been designed to help students remember the differences between first, second and third person poin...
This worksheet teaches the use of first person point of view. It is a useful resource when teaching narratives and autobiographies.
This worksheet is a great introduction to the second person point of view. Read and answer the questions then create your own “Choose your o...
This worksheet explores the concept of writing in the third person point of view, useful in writing explanations, descriptions and factual r...
In this activity students will compare, sort and match corresponding phrases that are written in the 1st and 3rd person points of view. Enco...
This book search activity is a fun way for your class to learn about different points of view. Go to the library, copy down a sentence from...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This activity is a great way to encourage discussions about characters in the class stories and novels your class is exploring. A discuss...
Use this activity to help students describe and discuss how authors make the reader care about the decisions of characters and their consequ...
In this activity, students are asked to: Identify the language authors use to create vivid descriptions of settings. Describe and...
Use these to help your students identify the story plot when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Have students use this spinner activity to practice asking and answering questions about how authors make stories engaging through their dev...
Reciprocal Reading Cards are a fantastic prompt for students as they work their way through this highly valuable process. Using the cards, e...
This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great to display to work through prior to beginning the Reciprocal Reading group process. Pr...
This flowchart clearly explains the Reciprocal Reading Process. Provide each reading group with a copy of this chart and they will always kn...
This worksheet is a combination of a science lesson and a reading comprehension activity. Students read a short description of how animals u...
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...
Encourage and incentivise student reading with these colourful Reading Milestone Certificates. To support classroom or homework reading p...
This workbook introduces students to the “hero’s journey” structure of narrative storytelling in a simplified version of Joseph Campbell’s m...
This Rowan of Rin title page is a great way to kick off the unit with a bit of fun. It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of Rin book...
In this worksheet, students try and recreate Rowan’s magic map based on what they remember from the story. It was designed to be a part of...
In this worksheet, students plot the excitement level of the various chapters of the book, revealing how the author has to make choices abou...
In this worksheet, students design a new dust jacket for a new edition of the book they are studying in class. They illustrate a favourite s...
In this worksheet, students write descriptions of a handful of characters from the novel they are reading and then swap them with a friend....
In this worksheet, students create a character profile for one of the secondary characters in the story Rowan of Rin, using evidence from th...
This crossword puzzle is the perfect fast finishers activity for your Rowan of Rin book study. It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of...
This Word Search is the perfect fast finishers activity for your Rowan of Rin book study. It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of Rin...
Each activity is individually numbered and linked to Howard Gardner's 8 Multiple Intelligences. They are suited to ANY STORY and ALL YEAR LE...
These story prompt dice are designed to provide quick and easy prompts for students who struggle to find the right idea when writing narrati...
The 'Super 6 Comprehension Strategies' classroom display includes the following strategies: Predict Make Connections Visualise Questio...
The 'Easter Cloze Activity - Middle & Upper Primary' activity is suitable for Year 3 -6 students. It tells the Easter Story in simple, easy...
Students will understand how to use literal, evaluative and inferential comprehension skills to understand what they are reading.
Students will use technology to research the questions provided on their given card.
This set of 'Animal Reading Strategy Charts' was designed to help students identify the correct comprehension strategies to use to build lit...
When summarising a narrative (or story), follow these simple steps to ensure you have an accurate and appropriately detailed summary.
The 'Close Readers Poster' poster is designed to inform students about the habits of successful readers.
Students will roll dice to select comprehension questions to answer on various fiction or non-fiction texts they have read.
Students will roll dice to select comprehension questions to answer on various fiction or non-fiction texts they have read.
This worksheet is designed to get students to contrast and compare books they’ve read with their filmed counterparts. Students not only revi...
Spend the 12 days of Christmas encouraging creative, playful and immersive learning with your students. This variety of activities ranges fr...
This research resource provides students with a series of questions to guide them during their research of John Simpson Kirkpatrick. Student...
This poster was designed to provide students with an explanation of what it means to infer meaning when reading and how to make inferences....
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...
This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The worksheet provides sentence starters...
This useful worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet, contains...
This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet includes two fict...
This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet includes two non-...
These useful task cards have been designed to support students to make inferences using visual texts. The questions are prompts, to assist s...
This worksheet has been designed as an assessment tool at the completion of the Making Inferences Unit. The assessment includes a visual fo...
This resource can be used to show recognition to students who have been learning to make inferences and become reading ‘detectives’. These c...
This set of 25 charts was created to assist students in Year 1 and 2 to develop an understanding of vowel sounds. The charts include the fol...
With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...
With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...
With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...
With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...
With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...
With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...
With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...
With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...
With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...
Put this display up in your classroom for daily reference. A great way to encourage spelling and vocabulary knowledge in your students.
Put this display up in your classroom for daily reference. A great way to encourage spelling and vocabulary knowledge in your students.
Each activity is individually numbered and linked to Howard Gardner's 8 Multiple Intelligences. They are suited to ANY SPELLING LIST and ALL...
These charts were requested by our member, Rebecca, to help her Upper Primary class learn their spelling rules. There are 15 pages full of s...
The Super Speller Game requires students to move around a board of commonly misspelled words, identifying which word has the correct spellin...
Students will learn how prefixes affect meaning. They can also explore Greek roots and use prefixes to spell new words and they can build mo...
Students will learn how suffixes affect meaning. They can also explore Greek roots and use suffixes to spell new words.
This set of 37 spelling mnemonics charts help students learn tips and tricks for learning how to spell common tricky words that appear again...
This set of 12 spelling mnemonics charts help students learn tips and tricks for learning how to spell common tricky words that appear again...
Record your class weekly spelling results on the Spelling Champions poster. Add your students' names and award stickers or write results in...
Students will find 3 words that originated from the given base word.
Students will match prefixes and definitions in this colourful Chinese New Year oriental fan theme game. There are 60 pairs of prefixes and...
These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference for root words and...
This student reference sheet contains well known prefixes and their definitions as a resource for students to refer to throughout the unit....
This student reference sheet contains well known suffixes and their definitions as a resource for students to refer to throughout the unit....
In this worksheet, students look at words that have had affixes (prefixes and suffixes) added to them. They work through a variety of activi...
In this worksheet, students are required to identify prefixes that have been added to base and root words. Once they have identified the pre...
In this worksheet, students are required to identify suffixes that have been added to base and root words. Once they have identified the suf...
In this worksheet, students are provided opportunities to identify word parts such as bases, roots, prefixes and suffixes. This worksheet co...
In this worksheet, students are challenged to make as many new words as they can by adding prefixes and suffixes to the base and root words...
This worksheet provides student explicit practice for spelling the suffixes –ible and –able. Students revise the spelling generalisation and...
This worksheet provides students with explicit practise of the spelling sound /shun/ and nominalisation. Students first review the spelling...
This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of spelling strategies associated with root words and affixes. This resour...
Designed for upper primary, Planking Plurals helps students identify irregular plural matches through a simple, fun board game.
In this activity designed to introduce, consolidate and then assess learning of irrefular plural nouns, students will build knowledge of new...
'Penguin Plurals' explores regular and irregular plurals, where students understand how the root word is used to form the plural.
This selection of persuasive writing prompts are a great resource to display on the IWB for students to access as practise writing exercises...
This set of 15 persuasive writing prompts are a great resource to display on the IWB for students to access as practise writing exercises be...
Persuasion... this poster was created as a reminder when structuring a persuasive writing text. Students are reminded that successful persua...
This set of Persuasive Sentence Starters is designed for upper primary students providing them with some effective sentence starters to acce...
This chart provides a useful resource for students to access when structuring their persuasive writing texts. It features one page of positi...
This reference card is designed to give students easy access to a list of highly persuasive words when structuring their persuasive writing...
Students will investigate how the choice of conjunctions enables the construction of complex sentences to extend, elaborate and explain idea...
This card was written as a personal reference for students to refer to during, and after this unit. It is part of a larger unit that was wri...
In this worksheet, students sort sentences into simple or compound by looking for the FANBOYS conjunctions. It is part of a larger unit that...
In this worksheet, students sort sentences into compound or complex by looking for the sentences clauses. It is part of a larger unit that w...
In this worksheet, students create complex sentences through the use of conjuntions. It is part of a larger unit that was written to help st...
In this worksheet, students are asked to complete complex sentences with a sentence prompt and a given conjunction. It is part of a larger u...
In this worksheet, students are asked to create original complex sentences using a given subordinating conjunction. It is part of a larger u...
This worksheet can also be used as an assessment to check students understanding of simple, compound, and complex sentences. It is part of a...
An embedded clause is a special type of subordinate clause that is inserted into the middle of a main clause instead of at the start or end...
This handy reference card is a great way for students to refer back to complex sentences and embedded clauses. A great reference for the Com...
Develop understating of complex sentences and embedded clauses. Students read each sentence, then underline and write the embedded clauses....
Students must work together to “surgically" reassemble the sentence strips in the correct order to form a grammatically correct sentence wit...
Students will embed clauses in the provided simple sentences. A great way to demonstrate understanding of the Complex Sentences – Year 6 Uni...
This quiz will test your students’ knowledge on complex sentences and embedded clauses. It contains 10 questions based on the content taught...
In this assessment task students will identify and write complex sentences with embedded clauses. It is a great summative activity to identi...
This barrier game includes 4 different game versions and will challenge you in learning past tense verbs. There are 20 past tense verbs...
This Tense Times - Past & Future Tense Game is a self-correcting board game and is the perfect game for group work and rotations. Students w...
This class game features irregular past tense verbs and provides a great way for students to learn together in a group situation. It brings...
Not only is this a very colourful word wall for your classroom making a super quick and engaging display, but it is highly functional. Stud...
The 'Adverbs & Adverbial Phrase Posters' have been designed to clearly explain differentiate between the definitions of each grammatical fea...
This student reference card was created as a part of the Choosing Verbs & Adverbs unit plan. It can be stuck in their books and referred to...
This worksheet helps students explore word choice as they come up with different saying verbs. This was developed as part of a larger unit d...
In this worksheet, students search for a variety of speaking verbs. This was developed as part of a larger unit designed to demonstrate the...
This worksheet was designed to introduce students to a thesaurus and get them used to using it. It was developed as part of a larger unit de...
In this worksheet, students practice making better word choices by substituting boring verbs with more exciting choices. It was developed as...
In this worksheet, students look for adverbs in short sentences and try and identify the type of adverb they are looking at. It was develope...
In this worksheet, make sentences better by adding adverbs. It was developed as part of a larger unit designed to demonstrate the importance...
In this worksheet, Students try and chance the meaning of the sentence by altering the adverb or adverbial phrase. It was developed as part...
Students will match past and present tense irregular verbs in this colourful Chinese New Year oriental fan theme game. There are 60 pairs of...
Students are able to complete their mould growth experiment, recording their final observations, and answering questions.
This worksheet lets them compare their plant experiment’s measurements with the control group, as well as the other plants so that they can...
This student reference card was created as a part of the Images in Texts unit plan. It can be stuck in their books and referred to througho...
This worksheet was designed to show students how tables are often used in texts, in this case a newspaper article. It is part of a larger un...
In this worksheet, students choose a chart and use its information to write a persuasive text around it They can cut out the chart and glue...
In this worksheet, students learn how flowcharts work by cutting and pasting their own simple set of instructions. This worksheet is part of...
In this worksheet, students label illustrations of familiar subjects, and then draw their own illustration to label. This worksheet is part...
In this worksheet, students use logic to sequence illustrated instructions like those from familiar flatpack stores. This worksheet is part...
In this worksheet, draw a map illustrating a journey or world they know from stories and fairytales. This worksheet is part of a larger unit...
This reading comprehension activity has students complete a short reading on the reproductive rates of different living things so students c...
Students take what they’ve learned about the Tardigrade, and reimagine them in a super hero setting.
Students investigate some the largest migrations in the animal kingdom, plotting them on a world map.
Use this fantastic resource in your classroom when teaching about modality. This activity can be used as a class display for students to ref...
Comma Cues is a poster designed to illustrate where commas should be placed in text and to show the different uses of commas in text. Th...
This poster has been designed to show students that commas need to be acknowledged when they are reading a text, knowing that commas perform...
This item is a part of a larger unit on Commas for Year 6 that is available from Teach This.
This item is a part of a larger unit on Commas for Year 6 that is available from Teach This.
This item is a part of a larger unit on Commas for Year 6 that is available from Teach This.
This item is a part of a larger unit on Commas for Year 6 that is available from Teach This.
This item is a part of a larger unit on Commas for Year 6 that is available from Teach This.
Teams of students race against other teams to discover a numerical code by finding missing comma in sample texts. Which team has what it...
This item is a part of a larger unit on Commas for Year 6 that is available from Teach This.
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...
This mini book creates an understanding of the meaning of Harmony Day celebrations.
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...
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...
This is a biography of primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students...
This comprehension activity is written to work together with the Jane Goodall Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to...
This worksheet is designed to get students interested in researching and writing biographies, by finding a subject who shares their birthday...
This is a biography of Fred Hollows, a prominent Australian and New Zealand eye surgeon and humanitarian. This Biography is part of a larger...
This is a biography of Australian Olympic champion Cathy Freeman. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students resea...
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...
This is a biography of Australian Cricketer Donald Bradman. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students research in...
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...
This is a biography of Australian researcher, Ian Frazer. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students research inte...
This worksheet is designed to further scaffold students in biography writing, by prompting their research of a person in preparation for sha...
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...
This is a biography of Australian Aboriginal civil-rights leaders. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students rese...
This extension activity is written to work together with the Bellear Brothers Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to...
While students begin to research their biography subject, this dice rolling activity will help them see their subjects in a different light....
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...
This worksheet can help students develop their abilities sorting facts from opinions. It is part of a larger unit on information reports...
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...
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...
In this worksheet, students lay out the facts they discover during their research into categories to help them sort it later for draft writi...
This worksheet is an information report planning template to help scaffold your students as they write their reports. It is part of a lar...
This worksheet helps scaffold students as they lay out an information report paragraph. It is part of a larger unit on information report...
These bookmarks, directly tied to the suggested unit rubric, can be given to students as they work on their information report to help them...
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...
Students will use a dictionary to explore and use knowledge of word origins, using some Greek Roots, to spell words.
In this worksheet, students try to figure out the meanings of ancient base words using familiar words with the same base. It is a part of a...
In this worksheet, students use prefixes and suffixes to create new and familiar words. It is a part of a larger unit designed to help stud...
In this worksheet, students cut and paste prefixes and base words and fit them together to make new words. It is a part of a larger unit des...
This card serves as a great personal reference for students as they make their way through the unit. It is a part of a larger unit designed...
This card will serve as a personal reference for students throughout the unit. It is a part of a larger unit that will walk your students th...
In this worksheet students identify the root of a word and then create 2 new words using different suffixes. The worksheet is a part of a la...
In this worksheet fill in the blank with prefixes or suffixes to complete sentences. The worksheet is a part of a larger unit that will walk...
This is a review worksheet is designed to be a review of the unit, but also an assessment piece that can be used to check students’ understa...
These vibrant posters showcase common prefixes and suffixes, featuring clear explanations and visual aids to help students grasp their meani...
This bright and colourful poster is a valuable reference tool for students and teachers in primary school classrooms. It provides a step-by-...
This engaging Prefix Palace Craftivity helps students reinforce their understanding of prefixes by constructing a visually appealing palace....
This engaging resource encourages students to explore and apply suffixes creatively. With a hands-on approach, students construct a "suffix...
Enhance your persuasive writing unit with our Rhetoric Devices posters! This set includes clear explanations, examples, and reasons for usin...
Enhance reading comprehension with these versatile question cards, suitable for any book. With 24 thought-provoking questions, students enga...
Explore the power of language with our vibrant posters on objective versus subjective language and bias. Perfect for upper primary classroom...
Equip your students with this handy reference card on objective and subjective language and bias. Ideal for embedding critical thinking in E...
This interactive flip book on objective, subjective language and bias serves as an engaging resource for students to grasp key concepts inde...
This worksheet set prompts students to distinguish between objective and subjective language using categorisation and signal word identifica...
Engage your students with this interactive worksheet focusing on objective and subjective language. Through a game of Tic Tac Toe, students...
This worksheet is a valuable tool for prompting students to identify objective and subjective language, as well as bias, in texts. It includ...
This worksheet helps students identify objective and subjective language and bias, by examining different perspectives on updating the schoo...
This worksheet encourages critical thinking among students as they analyse two articles discussing the ban of phones in schools. It prompts...
In Bias Busters students move around the game board and answer questions about bias. This fun game helps students practise identifying bias...
This quiz on objective, subjective language and bias features multiple-choice and short-answer questions to develop students' skills in iden...
This assessment evaluates students' grasp of objective and subjective language usage and their ability to discern bias in texts. It includes...
This comprehensive assessment rubric supports the unit on objective and subjective language and bias. It is designed to evaluate students' g...
This set of Reciprocal Reading Cards provides a valuable student reference for the Reciprocal Reading Roles, including Director, Predictor,...
This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great display to work through before starting the Reciprocal Reading group process. The set...
Equip your students with this handy reference card on summarising. Print and paste it into their English books to provide a quick and easy t...
This set of graphic organisers supports the comprehension reading strategy of summarising. It includes various organisers to help students r...
This worksheet helps students learn about key words and their role in summarising. Using a text about whale sharks, students identify key wo...
This set of worksheets provides a structured, engaging way for students to practice note-taking and summarising, focusing on the causes of t...
This set of worksheets will help you guide your students in summarising nonfiction texts. Each worksheet provides a text and prompts student...
This series of worksheets helps students read a text about weathering and erosion, use graphic organisers to identify key features and summa...
These spinners are the perfect addition to the Summarising comprehension unit as they allow students to verbally discuss and summarise the k...
Enhance students' summarising skills with this engaging literacy activity, perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or extensions. Af...
Assess students' summarising skills with this comprehensive 10-question quiz. Explore the purpose and essential skills of summarising, concl...
This two-page assessment evaluates students' summarising skills as a comprehension strategy, focusing on identifying key words and main idea...
This 5-point assessment rubric supports the unit of work on summarising. It aligns with activities, worksheets, and assessments in the unit,...
Equip your students with this reference card to enhance their understanding of lexical cohesion through intentional repetition and word asso...
This set of posters explains how cohesion can be created through intentional repetition, synonyms, antonyms and word associations. With clea...
This worksheet helps students identify repeated words or phrases in a non-fiction text, fostering their understanding of how repetition crea...
This worksheet features two difficulty levels, allowing students to experiment with synonyms and word associations to improve cohesion in th...
This engaging worksheet delves into the use of cohesion in a compelling text about the aid provided to Asia after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunam...
This worksheet helps students improve a fictional text by incorporating cohesive devices such as intentional repetition, synonyms, antonyms...
This worksheet challenges students to refine a non-fiction text by incorporating cohesive devices such as intentional repetition, synonyms,...
This worksheet allows students to practise creating cohesion through intentional repetition, synonyms, antonyms and word associations. Stude...
This fun and engaging game encourages students to make their writing more precise, more interesting and more cohesive! Students are required...
This quiz helps students revise how cohesion is created through intentional repetition, synonyms, antonyms and word associations. It's ideal...
This assessment monitors students' understanding of how cohesion is created through repetition and word associations. It includes multiple c...
This 5-point assessment rubric supports the unit on understanding how cohesion can be created through intentional repetition and word associ...
A set of vibrant posters designed to support Year 5 students in monitoring comprehension. Includes skimming, scanning, and clarifying techni...
Equip your students with this handy reference card, ideal for guiding them through navigating and reading texts for specific purposes. Featu...
This newsletter, designed to complement ‘Introduction to Skimming’ and ‘Introduction to Scanning’, provides a familiar resource for students...
This worksheet introduces your students to the fast-reading technique of skimming. It explains skimming, provides clear steps, and offers pr...
This resource offers students a fun and interactive way to practise skimming techniques using scavenger hunts across various texts, includin...
This worksheet introduces students to the scanning technique, explaining its purpose and how to apply it. Paired with the ‘Teach This Newsle...
This worksheet allows students to practise their scanning skills by finding key information about popular singers, including Ed Sheeran, Emi...
This engaging reading resource introduces students to solids, liquids, and gases, highlighting their observable properties and the arrangeme...
This worksheet, alongside the States of Matter Stimulus Sheet, challenges students to apply skimming, scanning, and confirming meaning strat...
This 10-question quiz helps students navigate and read texts for specific purposes, using skimming, scanning, and confirming strategies. Ide...
This assessment evaluates students' ability to navigate and read texts for specific purposes, using skimming, scanning, and confirming meani...
This 5-point assessment rubric evaluates students' abilities to navigate and read texts for specific purposes, employing strategies such as...
This series of posters outlines the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) and clearly explains the four question types. Perfect for classroom d...
Equip your students with this handy reference card on questioning. Print and paste it into their English books to provide a quick and easy t...
These graphic organisers support the reading comprehension strategy of questioning, guiding students to ask questions before, during, and af...
This worksheet helps students use the Question Answer Response model to develop a deeper understanding of fictional texts, encouraging them...
These worksheets guide students through reading a nonfiction text about cyclones and creating and answering thick (inferential) and thin (li...
This educational worksheet on cyclones offers comprehensive reading material perfect for literacy groups or rotations. Designed to deepen un...
This worksheet helps students classify questions based on the QAR model and apply strategies to find answers. It reinforces comprehension sk...
This worksheet introduces the Put the Question in the Answer (PQA) strategy, helping students respond to questions with detailed and descrip...
This International Space Station (ISS) worksheet is ideal for reading groups or literacy rotations. It includes engaging questions designed...
This engaging activity is perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or as an extension. Students use a paper clip and pencil to spin u...
This engaging activity is perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or as an extension task. Students use a dice to roll a question st...
Assess students' questioning skills with this 10-question quiz. Ideal for whole-class warm-ups, reviews, or formative assessments, it evalua...
This assessment helps students demonstrate their understanding of a text by answering a variety of question types. It gauges comprehension f...
This 5-point assessment rubric uses comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas. Studen...
This series of posters helps students understand how to move beyond bare assertions by considering differing opinions and authoritative sour...
Equip your students with the skills to move beyond bare assertions by considering differing ideas, opinions, and authoritative sources. This...
This worksheet set prompts students to distinguish between bare assertions and supported opinions using categorisation and signal word ident...
This worksheet helps students identify and use different types of support in arguments, including the impersonal “it”, general support, and...
This worksheet guides students in recognising and using various types of support, such as the impersonal “it”, anonymous support, general so...
This worksheet guides students in improving bare assertions by adding specific sources from reputable organisations. It encourages internet...
This interactive Tic Tac Toe worksheet helps students practise distinguishing between bare assertions and supported opinions. Perfect for gr...
This activity helps students practise transforming bare assertions into supported opinions. It covers three key techniques: using the impers...
This versatile board game helps students strengthen sentences by using impersonal language, providing general support, and citing specific s...
This 10-question quiz helps students learn to move beyond making bare assertions by considering differing ideas, opinions, and authoritative...
This assessment task evaluates students' ability to move beyond simple assertions by considering different ideas, opinions, and authoritativ...
This rubric supports students in moving beyond simple assertions by evaluating how well they consider differing ideas, opinions, and authori...
This resource provides a concise student reference card on visualising, designed for Year 5 students. It explains the concept, highlights it...
This resource provides teachers with a set of graphic organisers designed to support visualising as a reading comprehension strategy. Activi...
This resource introduces visualising as a comprehension strategy, guiding students to create mental images using their senses. It includes a...
This resource features discussion questions and answers based on a descriptive passage about a vase and flowers. It encourages students to e...
These fun and engaging activities encourage students to listen carefully and visualise as they draw a mystery creature based on descriptive...
This worksheet helps students practise making inferences based on visualisation. It includes three short passages where students use context...
These differentiated worksheets help students visualise and transform non-fiction texts into diagrams. It includes three versions: the water...
Our ‘Visualise & Draw Relay’ is designed to help students build literal meaning through visualisation. It includes instructions for team-bas...
Use the ‘Don’t Say It!’ Visualising Card Game to engage students in practising visualising skills and reading comprehension. Players describ...
This resource contains a 10-question quiz designed for Year 5 students, focusing on using visualising to build literal and inferred meaning...
This assessment task encourages students to engage with the text actively through visualisation. By creating a mental image and reflecting o...
This rubric assesses students' ability to use comprehension strategies like visualising to build literal and inferred meaning and evaluate i...
This reference card introduces students to predicting strategies in reading. It includes a clear definition, steps for predicting before and...
This set of graphic organisers supports students in making predictions during reading. It includes tools like Prediction Pathways, Pause and...
This engaging worksheet encourages students to predict logical outcomes for short, everyday scenarios, fostering critical thinking and creat...
Students will read character profiles, which include key traits and past decisions, and predict how these characters might respond in variou...
This resource includes differentiated reading comprehension worksheets focusing on key historical figures and their impact on Australia's co...
Prediction Paths is an engaging board game that reinforces comprehension skills through interactive prediction exercises. Students move forw...
Engage students in practising prediction skills with ‘Prediction Pictures’. Use the picture cards for a class competition or as an independe...
This resource provides a quiz for middle primary students, combining a variety of questions types about the comprehension strategy of predic...
This assessment on predicting includes an anticipation guide, comprehension questions, and a reflection task. Students use text evidence and...
This assessment resource guides upper primary students in using prediction strategies to build literal and inferred meaning. It includes an...
This resource card supports students in making connections while reading. It outlines three types of connections—Text-to-Self, Text-to-Text,...
Use this comprehensive set of graphic organisers to enhance reading comprehension by helping students make connections. Includes Connection...
This resource helps middle and upper primary students deepen their reading comprehension by making meaningful connections with texts. It inc...
This resource explores Bennelong's role as a cultural mediator between First Nations Australians and early English settlers. It includes a n...
Engage middle primary students with this interactive reading comprehension activity. Featuring a poem, scaffolded questions, and a graphic o...
Engage middle and upper primary students in making meaningful connections with this board game. Featuring 36 diverse text passages, a gamebo...
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...
This quiz for middle primary students assesses comprehension skills using connection strategies (text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world)....
This assessment features a fictional narrative about a family during a cyclone. Students apply comprehension strategies to make connections...
This 5-point rubric evaluates students’ ability to make connections (self, texts, world) and build literal and inferred meaning. It offers c...
This student reference card supports middle primary learners in monitoring and clarifying their reading comprehension. It outlines key strat...
This close reading annotation reference sheet provides simple symbols for students to use while reading, helping them to ‘ink their thinking...
This set of graphic organisers supports students in monitoring comprehension. Tools like 3-2-1 Check-In, Challenge and Conquer, SQ3R, and Th...
This worksheet helps upper primary students practise monitoring comprehension. Using a text on environmental issues, students identify chall...
This resource helps upper primary students develop comprehension monitoring skills by identifying and addressing reading difficulties. It in...
This resource offers differentiated reading texts that examine the economic, political, and social causes of British colonisation in Austral...
This interactive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the ‘Comprehension Detective’ game, where they work in teams to solve compr...
These worksheets provide a set of comprehension passages, both fictional and non-fictional, accompanied by questions that encourage the use...
This resource provides a 10-question quiz to assess students' understanding of comprehension strategies, focusing on monitoring. It includes...
This engaging assessment task uses short-answer questions, based on a text, to develop student ability to monitor comprehension by questioni...
This 5-point marking rubric assesses students’ ability to monitor comprehension and build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate informati...
A concise, easy-to-use reference card that highlights key letter patterns and examples of different pronunciations. Includes simple tips and...
These vibrant posters clearly illustrate the varied pronunciations of 'ch', 'ea', 'ei', 'ou', 'ough', and 'our' sounds, offering a visual ai...
This set of five phonics worksheets helps students explore the varied pronunciations of ‘'ch', 'ea', 'ei', 'ou', 'ough', and 'our' sounds. E...
This set of worksheets engages students in identifying the various sounds of the 'ch' letter pattern to navigate through a maze. Students mu...
This resource includes five worksheets designed to help middle primary students explore letter patterns with varied pronunciations: 'ch', 'e...
This interactive game combines 'ou' and 'ough' word sorting to explore varied pronunciations. Students collect and categorise words into sou...
This engaging worksheet helps middle primary students explore common letter patterns (‘ough,’ ‘ea,’ ‘ch’) by highlighting words, identifying...
This interactive word game helps students practise spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary knowledge by working with words that share common...
This game helps students practise recognising and categorising words with common letter patterns but different pronunciations. Players draw...
This quiz tests students' knowledge of complex letter patterns ('ch', 'ea', 'ei', 'ou', 'ough', and ‘our'), focusing on recognising pronunci...
This assessment includes varied questions focusing on common letter patterns with different pronunciations. It helps gauge students’ ability...
This five-point rubric evaluates students’ ability to recognise and apply phonic, morphemic, and vocabulary knowledge. It assesses understan...
Explore perspectives in Blueback with this worksheet for middle primary. Students analyse Abel’s encounter with a shark, answer scaffolded q...
This task for middle to upper primary students involves writing an analytical essay on a key theme in Blueback. Students develop critical th...
This creative task for middle to upper primary students requires students to design a poster representing a theme from Blueback. Using drawi...
This poster provides a clear and concise guide to antonyms, helping students understand how words with opposite meanings function in languag...
This poster provides a clear and concise guide to synonyms, helping students understand how words that means precisely or nearly the same as...
This resource provides a structured presentation for teaching Year 6 students about an author’s individual style. It includes clear definiti...
This resource provides a concise reference card for students to understand and identify an author's style. It includes a definition, common...
This resource includes ten engaging posters that introduce key elements of an author’s style. Each poster provides a clear definition, examp...
This worksheet guides students in analysing an author's style across ten key elements, including word choice, sentence structure, imagery, a...
This worksheet helps students analyse an author’s style by identifying key characteristics such as word choice, sentence structure, and tone...
This graphic organiser supports students in analysing and comparing the writing styles of any two texts. It provides a structured approach t...
This worksheet helps students explore the writing style of Emily Rodda through excerpts from Rowan of Rin and Deltora Quest. Students analys...
This worksheet supports Year 6 students in analysing a text by a First Nations Australian author. It includes comprehension questions of inc...
This worksheet, based on Brother Moon by Maree McCarthy Yoelu, helps students explore cultural themes, language reflecting connection to Cou...
This resource explores the vibrant illustrations of Lisa Kennedy in Welcome to Country and Wilam: A Birrarung Story. It guides students to a...
Bring author’s style to life with this engaging carousel activity! Featuring vibrant colour and black-and-white templates, this resource all...
This 10-question quiz assesses students’ understanding of an author’s style, covering key elements such as word choice, sentence structure,...
This marking rubric provides a clear framework for assessing students’ understanding of an author’s style. It evaluates comprehension, use o...
This student reference card clearly explains figurative language techniques like metaphors, similes and personification. With simple definit...
This set of A4 posters vividly illustrates key figurative language devices (simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, idio...
This worksheet helps students transform literal sentences into meaningful metaphors, enhancing their descriptive writing skills. It includes...
This worksheet introduces students to figurative language, helping them identify metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery, and h...
This worksheet develops students' ability to identify vivid and emotive vocabulary in persuasive texts. Through analyzing a book review, stu...
This worksheet guides students in identifying and analyzing literary devices in poetry. Students examine metaphors, similes, and personifica...
This scaffolded worksheet supports students in replacing weak vocabulary with powerful emotive alternatives and crafting emotion-rich paragr...
Use these differentiated task cards to help students identify, interpret and apply emotive vocabulary in context. Tasks progress from basic...
This interactive board game reinforces figurative language and emotive vocabulary through quick-fire questions. Students identify devices, e...
This quiz assesses students’ understanding of figurative and emotive language through a mix of true/false, multiple choice, and short answer...
This resource assesses students' ability to identify and analyse vivid, emotive vocabulary and figurative language in texts. It includes mul...
This grading rubric assesses students’ ability to identify and analyse figurative and emotive language, including metaphors, similes, person...
The Punctuation Cards – Upper Primary set includes 10 double-sided sentence correction cards designed to strengthen students' editing and pr...
This pack of 32 Fiction Task Cards is designed to deepen students’ comprehension, analysis, and reflection when responding to fiction texts....
This 32-card task card set helps students explore, analyse, and respond to non-fiction texts in a flexible and engaging way. Students practi...
This printable Apostrophe Rules Poster helps students master the correct use of apostrophes in contractions, singular possession, and plural...
This Metalanguage Poster is a visual reference tool that helps upper primary students identify and understand key literary and narrative ter...
This interactive Reading Comprehension Dice & Template Pack is designed to guide students through Before, During, and After Reading strategi...
This comprehensive Letter to the Editor pack supports students in reading, analysing, and writing persuasive opinion letters in response to...
This engaging grammar pack helps students expand their vocabulary by replacing common verbs with more precise alternatives. Students build c...
This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...
The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...
This set of worksheets helps students examine the book cover and title of 'Just Tricking', encouraging them to make predictions about the pl...
This worksheet set helps students learn about Andy Griffiths (the author) and Terry Denton (the illustrator). Students discover how they wor...
This set supports students to collect and use key words from 'Just Tricking', building a rich word wall that enhances their funny storytelli...
This set teaches students how to break down a narrative into key parts, rewrite scenes in a new style, and plan their own short stories insp...
This worksheet helps students practise rewriting a prank scene from Just Tricking! in a completely different style. It teaches them to spot...
This worksheet guides students to plan and write their own short prank story, following Andy Griffiths’ Just Tricking! style — using clear n...
This worksheet helps students identify and understand different types of humour used in Just Tricking!. Students practise rewriting a passag...
This worksheet helps students identify and analyse different humour techniques in a Just Tricking!-style passage, rewrite it to increase its...
This worksheet helps students explore the main character’s traits in Just Tricking!, compare motivations and choices, and write a diary entr...
These scaffolded narrative planners helps students organise prank stories in the Just Tricking! style. It guides them to plan a clear orient...
This tip sheet guides students through the typical Just Tricking! story format. It breaks down the narrative structure into three clear part...
This worksheet guides students to explore how changing the narrator’s point of view can shift humour and meaning. Students practise rewritin...
This editing checklist helps students revise their prank stories for clarity, pacing, and humour. It guides them to self-assess sentence flo...
These tip sheets explain age-appropriate humour techniques to help students identify, discuss, and use them in their writing. Each chart sho...
This partner checklist supports peer feedback by prompting students to look for clarity, humour, and areas to improve in each other’s storie...
This worksheet helps students practice improving their stories by experimenting with different words and dialogue inspired by the Humour Hac...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
The assessment rubric provides a 5-point scale for evaluating students’ summative tasks in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It cov...
This reflection sheet guides students to identify strengths and areas for growth in their writing, provide constructive feedback to peers, a...
These paragraph planners support students to structure clear, engaging paragraphs in prank narratives. They guide sentence order, voice, and...
The Extension Task Cards provide engaging enrichment activities for the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. Each card offers a creative c...
The Suggested Answers booklet provides clear sample responses for all core activities in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It offer...
This five-week narrative unit explores Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths, engaging students in reading, analysing, and writing humorous stori...
The Yahoo Creek unit title page introduces students to the theme of persuasive writing through the lens of historical mystery and storytelli...
The Teaching Notes page supports implementation of the Yahoo Creek Persuasive Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the weekly lesson sequ...
A set of differentiated worksheets introducing argument, persuasion and authority, using examples from Yahoo Creek and well-known figures. S...
A set of differentiated worksheets to help students learn about ethos, pathos and logos- three powerful persuasive techniques. Students expl...
A set of differentiated worksheets exploring whose stories are heard in history, using real excerpts from Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery...
A set of differentiated worksheets supporting students to distinguish between fact, opinion and bias in historical sources about the Hairy M...
This poster helps students build strong persuasive paragraphs using the hamburger method. Each layer of the burger shows what to include: op...
This worksheet introduces students to the structure of persuasive writing using the Hamburger model. Students read examples of a strong and...
This poster helps students structure persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL method: Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link. It supports clear,...
This worksheet introduces students to the PEEL structure for persuasive writing. Students read and label the parts of a strong persuasive pa...
This worksheet guides students to plan a simple persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the Hamburger model. Students choose their op...
This worksheet helps students plan a persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the PEEL structure. Students choose their viewpoint, com...
This worksheet introduces students to using quotes as evidence in persuasive writing. Students read simple excerpts from Yahoo Creek: An Aus...
This worksheet helps students evaluate the credibility of sources and use evidence effectively in persuasive writing. Using quotes from Yaho...
These worksheets guide students in analysing historical sources from Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle. Year 3–4 students i...
This reflection-based worksheet helps students explore how arguments shape our understanding of historical narratives. Using real quotes fro...
This set of debate prompt cards helps students develop persuasive speaking and critical thinking skills. Each card presents a topic related...
This set of discussion prompts supports students to explore ideas about evidence, belief and historical perspectives. The prompts encourage...
The Yahoo Creek Suggested Answers booklet provides model responses for all key activities across the persuasive writing unit. It includes sa...
This five-week persuasive writing unit explores Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle, guiding students through the analysis of...
Irregular Verbs Adventure is a full-colour board game designed to strengthen students' understanding and use of irregular verbs through play...
The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants unit title page introduces students to the theme of visual storytelling through rich imagery, symbolis...
The Teaching Notes page supports the implementation of the Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Imagery and Symbolism Unit for Years 3-6. It ou...
These worksheets explore how word choices affect tone and meaning in storytelling. Designed for Years 3-6, the resource offers scaffolded ta...
This Years 3-6 worksheet guides students to identify and interpret symbolic elements in the short film Migrants. Through visual analysis, me...
This worksheet guides students through the process of creating a symbolic visual storyboard for a new scene inspired by Leila and the Blue F...
This toolkit includes four structured tools to support students in planning, drafting and refining a short story rich in symbolism, imagery...
The Migrant Messages toolkit equips students in Years 3-6 to analyse how the short film Migrants uses visual symbolism to convey emotion, mo...
This flexible task sheet supports students in Years 3-6 to create a visual comparison of symbolism in Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants. S...
This comprehensive editing toolkit supports Years 3-6 students in polishing their symbolic writing and analytical responses. Whether student...
These differentiated rubrics support summative assessment of narrative, analytical, or visual interpretation tasks in the unit. Each rubric...
This scaffolded worksheet helps Years 3-6 students identify and interpret symbols in visual and written texts, focusing on Leila and the Blu...
These differentiated graphic organisers support students in analysing how colour choices contribute to mood and meaning in visual and writte...
These differentiated worksheets help students explore how colour meanings change across different cultures. Using examples from Leila and th...
This colour symbolism organiser guides students in recognising how specific colours are used in visual and written texts to suggest deeper m...
The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Suggested Answers booklet offers sample responses for all key activities across the unit. These includ...
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