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English Year 5 Year 6 Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts

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592 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants

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

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  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    English Unit: Emotive Vocabulary

    This engaging unit of work guides students through the concept of figurative language, focusing on how authors use vivid and emotive vocabul...

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  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    English Unit: Characteristics that Define an Author’s Style

    This unit focuses on identifying and analysing the characteristics that define an author’s individual style. It includes versatile resources...

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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: 5

    English Unit: Using Knowledge to Write Less Familiar Words

    This resource supports students in recognising and spelling words with common letter patterns but varying pronunciations, such as 'ch', 'ea'...

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  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    English Unit: Comprehension Strategy - Monitoring

    This comprehensive unit plan for Year 5 focuses on teaching comprehension strategies, including monitoring, to build literal and inferred me...

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  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    English Unit: Comprehension Strategy - Predicting

    This comprehensive unit plan for Year 5 focuses on teaching comprehension strategies, including predicting, to build literal and inferred me...

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  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    English Unit: Comprehension Strategy - Visualising

    This unit is designed to help Year 5 students develop comprehension, through the skill of visualising. Students will create mental images, o...

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  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    English Unit: Monitoring Meaning by Skimming, Scanning and Confirming

    This comprehensive unit plan teaches students skimming and scanning techniques, using subject and technical vocabulary to navigate unfamilia...

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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: 6

    English Unit: News Report

    Explore how texts, including media, represent ideas and events, reflecting their context with this comprehensive unit. It includes an engagi...

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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: Word Etymology

    This unit helps students understand the etymological origins of common words by breaking words into roots and affixes.  

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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: 5

    English Unit: Irregular Plurals

    This unit incorporates activities aligned with the Australian Curriculum content descriptor ACELY1514. The unit contains a presentation that...

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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: 5

    English Unit: Interesting Idioms

    This unit plan guides students through the concept of idioms and why they are used in writing. The unit comes complete with a presentation,...

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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: 5

    English Unit: Strategic Spelling

    This comprehensive and detailed unit plan is designed to support students to learn spelling strategies associated with root words and affixe...

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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: Points Of View

    This comprehensive unit is designed to support teaching points of view in narrative texts.The included activities, games, worksheets and dis...

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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: 6

    English Unit: Prefixes and Suffixes

    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...

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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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  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    English Unit: Etymology

    This unit helps students understand the etymological origins of common words by breaking words into roots and affixes.

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  • Presentation Year: 6

    Emotive Vocabulary - Presentation

    This presentation introduces Year 6 students to figurative and emotive language, explaining key devices like metaphors, similes, personifica...

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  • Presentation Year: 5

    Using Knowledge to Write Less Familiar Words - Presentation

    This resource guides teachers in exploring English letter patterns with upper primary students. It includes a presentation covering common p...

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  • Presentation Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Monitoring- Presentation

    This resource introduces monitoring comprehension through interactive strategies, including visual analysis, group activities, and anchor ch...

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  • Presentation Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Predicting - Presentation

    This resource introduces predicting as a reading strategy for upper primary. It includes clear explanations, fiction and non-fiction example...

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  • Presentation Year: 5

    Visualising - Presentation

    This presentation resource introduces Year 5 students to the concept of visualising in reading comprehension. It includes engaging slides wi...

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  • Presentation Year: 5

    Monitoring Meaning by Skimming, Scanning and Confirming - Presentation

    This visually engaging presentation teaches students how to navigate and read texts for specific purposes. It covers skimming, scanning, and...

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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: 6

    News Reports - Presentation

    Explore the fascinating world of media texts with this visually engaging presentation! Designed for teachers, it delves into how media texts...

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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

    Step-by-Step - Word Etymology - Presentation

    This presentation introduces students to etymology. The presentation walks students through how they can use an understanding of Greek and L...

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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: 5

    Interesting Idioms - Presentation

    This engaging presentation guides students through the concept of idioms and why they are used in writing. The presentation covers many comm...

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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: 5

    Strategic Spelling - Presentation

    This comprehensive presentation has been created to guide students through spelling strategies associated with root words and affixes. The p...

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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

    Points of View - Presentation

    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...

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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: 6

    Prefixes & Suffixes - Presentation

    This presentation will walk your students through a more advanced look at how we form words using prefixes and suffixes, including a look at...

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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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  • Presentation Year: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Persuasive Advertising Techniques - Presentation

    A fantastic picture presentation about the Persuasive Advertising Techniques used to persuade consumers to buy products. In this presentatio...

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Answer

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Cracking the Code - Symbolism Analysis

    This scaffolded worksheet helps Years 3-6 students identify and interpret symbols in visual and written texts, focusing on Leila and the Blu...

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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

    Silent Symbols

    This Years 3-6 worksheet guides students to identify and interpret symbolic elements in the short film Migrants. Through visual analysis, me...

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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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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Symbols in Stories

    This worksheet set helps students in Years 3-6 compare symbols from Leila and the Blue Fox with those in other texts or films. Through scaff...

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Symbol Spotters

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Teaching Notes

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Title Page

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

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Irregular Verbs Adventure - Board Game

    Irregular Verbs Adventure is a full-colour board game designed to strengthen students' understanding and use of irregular verbs through play...

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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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  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths

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

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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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  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +1

    Precise Verbs Monster Chain Activity + Banner

    This engaging grammar pack helps students expand their vocabulary by replacing common verbs with more precise alternatives. Students build c...

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  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Debate Team Roles & Name Cards - Classroom Pack

    This classroom-ready debate pack equips students with the tools to organise, structure, and participate in team debates. It includes debate...

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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: 5 6

    Metalanguage Poster

    This Metalanguage Poster is a visual reference tool that helps upper primary students identify and understand key literary and narrative ter...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Apostrophe Rules - Grammar Poster

    This printable Apostrophe Rules Poster helps students master the correct use of apostrophes in contractions, singular possession, and plural...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

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

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

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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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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Emotive Vocabulary Grading Rubric

    This grading rubric assesses students’ ability to identify and analyse figurative and emotive language, including metaphors, similes, person...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Emotive Vocabulary Assessment

    This resource assesses students' ability to identify and analyse vivid, emotive vocabulary and figurative language in texts. It includes mul...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Quiz- Emotive Vocabulary

    This quiz assesses students’ understanding of figurative and emotive language through a mix of true/false, multiple choice, and short answer...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Device Dash!

    This interactive board game reinforces figurative language and emotive vocabulary through quick-fire questions. Students identify devices, e...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Tuning the Tone - Task Cards

    Use these differentiated task cards to help students identify, interpret and apply emotive vocabulary in context. Tasks progress from basic...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Emotive Upgrade

    This scaffolded worksheet supports students in replacing weak vocabulary with powerful emotive alternatives and crafting emotion-rich paragr...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Literary Device Detectives

    This worksheet guides students in identifying and analyzing literary devices in poetry. Students examine metaphors, similes, and personifica...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Persuasive Power

    This worksheet develops students' ability to identify vivid and emotive vocabulary in persuasive texts. Through analyzing a book review, stu...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Figurative Language Fiesta

    This worksheet introduces students to figurative language, helping them identify metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery, and h...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Meaningful Metaphors

    This worksheet helps students transform literal sentences into meaningful metaphors, enhancing their descriptive writing skills. It includes...

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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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  • Resource Year: 6

    Emotive Vocabulary - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card clearly explains figurative language techniques like metaphors, similes and personification. With simple definit...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Characteristics that Define an Author’s Style - Grading Rubric

    This marking rubric provides a clear framework for assessing students’ understanding of an author’s style. It evaluates comprehension, use o...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Characteristics that Define an Author’s Style - Quiz

    This 10-question quiz assesses students’ understanding of an author’s style, covering key elements such as word choice, sentence structure,...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Author’s Style Gallery Walk

    Bring author’s style to life with this engaging carousel activity! Featuring vibrant colour and black-and-white templates, this resource all...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Picture This!

    This resource explores the vibrant illustrations of Lisa Kennedy in Welcome to Country and Wilam: A Birrarung Story. It guides students to a...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Brother Moon

    This worksheet, based on Brother Moon by Maree McCarthy Yoelu, helps students explore cultural themes, language reflecting connection to Cou...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Voices of Country

    This worksheet supports Year 6 students in analysing a text by a First Nations Australian author. It includes comprehension questions of inc...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Exploring Author’s Style

    This worksheet helps students explore the writing style of Emily Rodda through excerpts from Rowan of Rin and Deltora Quest. Students analys...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Style Detective

    This graphic organiser supports students in analysing and comparing the writing styles of any two texts. It provides a structured approach t...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Style Snapshot

    This worksheet helps students analyse an author’s style by identifying key characteristics such as word choice, sentence structure, and tone...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Dig Into the Details

    This worksheet guides students in analysing an author's style across ten key elements, including word choice, sentence structure, imagery, a...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    10 Characteristics that Define an Author’s Style - Display

    This resource includes ten engaging posters that introduce key elements of an author’s style. Each poster provides a clear definition, examp...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Characteristics that Define an Author’s Style - Student Reference Card

    This resource provides a concise reference card for students to understand and identify an author's style. It includes a definition, common...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Characteristics that Define an Author’s Style - Presentation

    This resource provides a structured presentation for teaching Year 6 students about an author’s individual style. It includes clear definiti...

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  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +4

    World Storytelling Day - Classroom Display Banner

    A banner celebrating the power of storytelling, encouraging students to engage in creative writing, oral storytelling, and imaginative expre...

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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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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Using Knowledge to Write Less Familiar Words - Grading Rubric

    This five-point rubric evaluates students’ ability to recognise and apply phonic, morphemic, and vocabulary knowledge. It assesses understan...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Using Knowledge to Write Less Familiar Words - Assessment

    This assessment includes varied questions focusing on common letter patterns with different pronunciations. It helps gauge students’ ability...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Using Knowledge to Write Less Familiar Words - Quiz

    This quiz tests students' knowledge of complex letter patterns ('ch', 'ea', 'ei', 'ou', 'ough', and ‘our'), focusing on recognising pronunci...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Pronunciation Pathway

    This game helps students practise recognising and categorising words with common letter patterns but different pronunciations. Players draw...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Word Trek

    This interactive word game helps students practise spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary knowledge by working with words that share common...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Pattern Detective

    This engaging worksheet helps middle primary students explore common letter patterns (‘ough,’ ‘ea,’ ‘ch’) by highlighting words, identifying...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Collect the Sounds

    This interactive game combines 'ou' and 'ough' word sorting to explore varied pronunciations. Students collect and categorise words into sou...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Sound Sleuths

    This resource includes five worksheets designed to help middle primary students explore letter patterns with varied pronunciations: 'ch', 'e...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Sound Detectives

    This set of worksheets engages students in identifying the various sounds of the 'ch' letter pattern to navigate through a maze. Students mu...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Sound Sorts

    This set of five phonics worksheets helps students explore the varied pronunciations of ‘'ch', 'ea', 'ei', 'ou', 'ough', and 'our' sounds. E...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Letter Patterns - Display

    These vibrant posters clearly illustrate the varied pronunciations of 'ch', 'ea', 'ei', 'ou', 'ough', and 'our' sounds, offering a visual ai...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Using Knowledge to Write Less Familiar Words - Student Reference Card

    A concise, easy-to-use reference card that highlights key letter patterns and examples of different pronunciations. Includes simple tips and...

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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: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Monitoring - Marking Rubric

    This 5-point marking rubric assesses students’ ability to monitor comprehension and build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate informati...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Monitoring - Assessment

    This engaging assessment task uses short-answer questions, based on a text, to develop student ability to monitor comprehension by questioni...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Monitoring - Quiz

    This resource provides a 10-question quiz to assess students' understanding of comprehension strategies, focusing on monitoring. It includes...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Comprehension Detective: Detective Kit

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Comprehension Detectives

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    What is the Idea?

    This resource offers differentiated reading texts that examine the economic, political, and social causes of British colonisation in Austral...

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Monitor for Meaning

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    What Doesn’t Make Sense?

    This worksheet helps upper primary students practise monitoring comprehension. Using a text on environmental issues, students identify chall...

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Monitoring Graphic Organisers

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

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Monitoring Annotations - Student Reference Card

    This close reading annotation reference sheet provides simple symbols for students to use while reading, helping them to ‘ink their thinking...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Monitoring- Student Reference Card

    This student reference card supports middle primary learners in monitoring and clarifying their reading comprehension. It outlines key strat...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    This Reminds Me…

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

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Connection Quest

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Exploring Connections

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Connecting - Graphic Organisers

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

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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: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Predicting - Marking Rubric

    This assessment resource guides upper primary students in using prediction strategies to build literal and inferred meaning. It includes an...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Predicting - Assessment

    This assessment on predicting includes an anticipation guide, comprehension questions, and a reflection task. Students use text evidence and...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Predicting - Quiz

    This resource provides a quiz for middle primary students, combining a variety of questions types about the comprehension strategy of predic...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Prediction Pictures

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

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Prediction Paths

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Predicting the Past

    This resource includes differentiated reading comprehension worksheets focusing on key historical figures and their impact on Australia's co...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Prediction Passages

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    What Will Happen Next?

    This engaging worksheet encourages students to predict logical outcomes for short, everyday scenarios, fostering critical thinking and creat...

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Predicting - Graphic Organisers

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

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Predicting - Student Reference Card

    This reference card introduces students to predicting strategies in reading. It includes a clear definition, steps for predicting before and...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Visualising - Marking Rubric

    This rubric assesses students' ability to use comprehension strategies like visualising to build literal and inferred meaning and evaluate i...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Visualising Assessment

    This assessment task encourages students to engage with the text actively through visualisation. By creating a mental image and reflecting o...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Visualising Quiz

    This resource contains a 10-question quiz designed for Year 5 students, focusing on using visualising to build literal and inferred meaning...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Don’t Say It! - Game

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

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Visualise and Draw Relay

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Transform the Text

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Visualise and Infer

    This worksheet helps students practise making inferences based on visualisation. It includes three short passages where students use context...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    What Am I?

    These fun and engaging activities encourage students to listen carefully and visualise as they draw a mystery creature based on descriptive...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Same but Different

    This resource features discussion questions and answers based on a descriptive passage about a vase and flowers. It encourages students to e...

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Introduction to Visualising

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Visualising - Graphic Organisers

    This resource provides teachers with a set of graphic organisers designed to support visualising as a reading comprehension strategy. Activi...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Visualising - Student Reference Card

    This resource provides a concise student reference card on visualising, designed for Year 5 students. It explains the concept, highlights it...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Monitoring Meaning by Skimming, Scanning and Confirming Marking Rubric

    This 5-point assessment rubric evaluates students' abilities to navigate and read texts for specific purposes, employing strategies such as...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Monitoring Meaning by Skimming, Scanning and Confirming Assessment

    This assessment evaluates students' ability to navigate and read texts for specific purposes, using skimming, scanning, and confirming meani...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Comprehension Strategy - Monitoring Meaning by Skimming, Scanning and Confirming Quiz

    This 10-question quiz helps students navigate and read texts for specific purposes, using skimming, scanning, and confirming strategies. Ide...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    States of Matter

    This worksheet, alongside the States of Matter Stimulus Sheet, challenges students to apply skimming, scanning, and confirming meaning strat...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    States of Matter - Stimulus Sheet

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Which Singer?

    This worksheet allows students to practise their scanning skills by finding key information about popular singers, including Ed Sheeran, Emi...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Introduction to Scanning

    This worksheet introduces students to the scanning technique, explaining its purpose and how to apply it. Paired with the ‘Teach This Newsle...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Skimming Scavenger Hunts

    This resource offers students a fun and interactive way to practise skimming techniques using scavenger hunts across various texts, includin...

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Introduction to Skimming

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Teach This Newsletter

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

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Monitoring Meaning - Student Reference Card

    Equip your students with this handy reference card, ideal for guiding them through navigating and reading texts for specific purposes. Featu...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Monitoring Meaning Display

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

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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: 6

    News Reports Assessment

    Evaluate students' proficiency in analysing texts, including media, to discern how they represent ideas and events, reflecting their context...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Teach This Daily- News Reports

    Explore news reports from different times with these worksheets, ideal for reflecting on how media texts represent ideas and events in conte...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    News Reports Assessment Rubric

    Assessment rubric for monitoring students' understanding of examining texts, including media texts, that represent ideas and events, and ide...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    News Reports Quiz

    This quiz contains 10 questions exploring how media texts represent ideas and events, reflecting their context. Ideal for whole-class warm-u...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Key Questions to Consider

    This set of question cards is an essential tool for exploring texts, including media texts, to uncover how they represent ideas and events a...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Roll and Respond- Texts Over Time

    Roll and Respond- Texts Over Time is a dynamic resource for analysing texts, including media texts, to discern how they represent ideas and...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Speedsters Turbo Track Racing Drift Team

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

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Speedsters Turbo Track Racing

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 4 5 6

    Comparing Advertisements

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

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Whole Grain Cocoa Crunch

    Explore how advertising for a cereal product has evolved to reflect changing consumer values. The Cocoa Crunch poster delves into a present-...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Frosted Cocoa Crunch

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    What Has Changed?

    This worksheet guides students in comparing two advertisements from different eras. It helps them identify changes over time and understand...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Advertising Over Time

    Explore how advertisements reflect their times with these worksheets! Students compare products from different eras, analysing how technolog...

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Texts Over Time

    Explore news articles about plastic from the past and present with these worksheets. Paired with thought-provoking questions, this resource...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    News Reports - Student Reference Card

    Equip your students with this handy reference card. It will aid their understanding of examining texts, including media texts, to identify h...

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  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Suffix Skyscraper

    This engaging resource encourages students to explore and apply suffixes creatively. With a hands-on approach, students construct a "suffix...

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  • Worksheet Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Prefix Palace

    This engaging Prefix Palace Craftivity helps students reinforce their understanding of prefixes by constructing a visually appealing palace....

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  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Reading Multisyllabic Words

    This bright and colourful poster is a valuable reference tool for students and teachers in primary school classrooms. It provides a step-by-...

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  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Prefix and Suffix Posters

    These vibrant posters showcase common prefixes and suffixes, featuring clear explanations and visual aids to help students grasp their meani...

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  • Worksheet Year: 4

    After Reading Spinner

    Have students use this spinner activity to practice asking and answering questions about how authors make stories engaging through their dev...

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  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Tension Detectives

    Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.  

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  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Tales of Tension

    Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.  

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  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Spot the Plot

    Use these to help your students identify the story plot when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.  

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  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Creating Engaging Settings

    In this activity, students are asked to: Identify the language authors use to create vivid descriptions of settings.   Describe and...

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  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Character Care Factor

    Use this activity to help students describe and discuss how authors make the reader care about the decisions of characters and their consequ...

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  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Questions About Characters

    This activity is a great way to encourage discussions about characters in the class stories and novels your class is exploring. A discuss...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Character Silhouettes

    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...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Unpacking Characters

    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...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Character Trading Cards

    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...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Point of View Book Search

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Point of View Match Up

    In this activity students will compare, sort and match corresponding phrases that are written in the 1st and 3rd person points of view. Enco...

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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

    Word Etymology - Check In

    This check in has been designed as a formative assessment tool to gauge how students are progressing in the understanding of common Greek an...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Etymology Super Quiz

    This fun and engaging quiz includes questions to activate and test your student's knowledge of word etymology. The 15 questions provide defi...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    I have, who has - Etymology

    Consolidate knowledge of Latin and Greek roots with this fun, whole class activity! Included are 28 common Latin and Greek roots. A perfect...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    What is the Word?

    Consolidate knowledge of Latin and Greek roots with this fun, no prep game! Students work their way around the gameboard, landing on Greek o...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    How has it Changed?

    This worksheet explores how words continuously change as time goes by. With the introduction of the internet the words on the worksheet have...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    What did it Mean?

    An interesting and engaging worksheet where students will need to research the original definitions of the words to match them correctly....

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Where did it Come From?

    An interesting worksheet for students to develop their curiosity about the origin of common words we use in the English language today. ...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Record the Roots

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Find the Root

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Foldable Root Words

    This fun an engaging worksheet can be utilised in the teaching and learning of Greek and Latin etymology.  Use the sheet when focusing on...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Root Word Bunting

    This fun and engaging activity has been designed to get the whole class involved in the teaching and learning of Greek and Latin etymology. ...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Root Words - Poster Set

    These bright and informative posters show the link between some English words and their origins in Latin and Greek. The posters are not o...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Word Etymology - Student Reference Card

    This card serves as a great personal reference for students to refer to after being introduced to word etymology.   

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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: F 1 2 3 +3

    Word of the Week

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

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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

    Points Of View – Poster

    This fantastic Points of View poster has been designed to help students remember the differences between first, second and third person poin...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Modal Verbs - Wall Display

    Use this fantastic resource in your classroom when teaching about modality. This activity can be used as a class display for students to ref...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Word of the Day

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

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  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Partner and Group Discussion Guidelines

    This handy set of prompt cards are an ideal resource for partner and group work. A simple and effective way to guide students through group...

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  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Oral Language Posters and Prompts

    This set of posters and prompt cards are an ideal resource for interaction skills, discussions and oral presentations in Years 5 and 6. Incl...

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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: 4 5

    Including Idioms

    A great resource when learning about idioms and figurative language. Students apply their knowledge of idiomatic expressions and include at...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Inspiring Idioms

    A great resource when learning about idioms and figurative language. Students research the literal meaning of the idioms listed and then res...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Illustrate the Idioms

    A great resource when learning about idioms and figurative language. Students choose an idiom of their choice and use this template to visua...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Identifying Idioms

    A great resource when learning about idioms and figurative language. Students read each idiomatic expression and write what they believe the...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Iconic Idioms

    A great resource when learning about idioms and figurative language. Students match up the commonly used idioms and choose three to illustra...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Interesting Idioms - Student Reference Card

    This handy reference card is great for students to refer back to when including idioms in their writing. It provides a definition and some e...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Idioms Posters

    These posters have been designed to support students to develop the concept of idiomatic expressions. There are examples of commonly used id...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Commonly Misspelled Word Challenge 9

    With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Commonly Misspelled Word Challenge 8

    With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Commonly Misspelled Word Challenge 7

    With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Commonly Misspelled Word Challenge 6

    With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Commonly Misspelled Word Challenge 5

    With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Commonly Misspelled Word Challenge 4

    With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Commonly Misspelled Word Challenge 3

    With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Commonly Misspelled Word Challenge 2

    With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Commonly Misspelled Word Challenge 1

    With so much text-based interaction on social media and via email, spelling ability is on display everywhere. Focusing on the most common...

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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: F 1 2 3 +3

    Reading Milestone Certificates

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

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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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  • Resource Year: 5

    Strategic Spelling Assessment

    This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of spelling strategies associated with root words and affixes. This resour...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    /shun/ Words - Nominalisation

    This worksheet provides students with explicit practise of the spelling sound /shun/ and nominalisation. Students first review the spelling...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    -ible or –able?

    This worksheet provides student explicit practice for spelling the suffixes –ible and –able. Students revise the spelling generalisation and...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Wonderful Words

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Break it Down

    In this worksheet, students are provided opportunities to identify word parts such as bases, roots, prefixes and suffixes. This worksheet co...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Suffix - What does it mean?

    In this worksheet, students are required to identify suffixes that have been added to base and root words. Once they have identified the suf...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Prefix - What does it mean?

    In this worksheet, students are required to identify prefixes that have been added to base and root words. Once they have identified the pre...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Find Your Roots

    In this worksheet, students look at words that have had affixes (prefixes and suffixes) added to them. They work through a variety of activi...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Suffix Reference Sheet

    This student reference sheet contains well known suffixes and their definitions as a resource for students to refer to throughout the unit....

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Prefix Reference Sheet

    This student reference sheet contains well known prefixes and their definitions as a resource for students to refer to throughout the unit....

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Strategic Spelling - 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 for root words and...

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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: 5 6

    Chinese New Year - Fan Prefixes Match

    Students will match prefixes and definitions in this colourful Chinese New Year oriental fan theme game. There are 60 pairs of prefixes and...

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Root Word, Prefix and Suffix Cards

    Students will find 3 words that originated from the given base word.

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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

    A Pirate Story Point of View Assessment

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    A Pronoun Problem

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Being First

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Subjective vs Objective

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Points of View - Student Reference Card

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Easter Booklet - Upper Primary

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

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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: 6

    Beginnings and Endings

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Fill in the -Fix

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Substituting a Suffix

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Prefixes & Suffixes - Student Reference Card

    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...

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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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  • Resource Year: 6

    Etymology - Student Reference Card

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Prefix Puzzles

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Adding to Words

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 6

    Finding Ancient Roots

    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...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Sequencing Persuasive Texts Level 4

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

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Camouflage

    This worksheet is a combination of a science lesson and a reading comprehension activity. Students read a short description of how animals u...

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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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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    How Many Babies?

    This reading comprehension activity has students complete a short reading on the reproductive rates of different living things so students c...

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  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Dancing Daisies Debrief

    This 2 page worksheet is designed to work hand in hand with the first presentation in this unit, and help students better understand the sci...

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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 6 H

    Harmony Day Booklet

    This mini book creates an understanding of the meaning of 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: F 1 2 3 +3

    Parts of Poetry

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

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Penguin Plurals - Finding Plurals Boardgame

    'Penguin Plurals' explores regular and irregular plurals, where students understand how the root word is used to form the plural. 

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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: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Vivid Verbs - Word Display

    This Vivid Verb display provides students with numerous synonyms for 15 common verbs that can transform their writing to be powerfully descr...

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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: F 1 2 3 +3

    Spelling Champions - Editable

    Record your class weekly spelling results on the Spelling Champions poster. Add your students' names and award stickers or write results in...

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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: 5 6

    Irregular Plural Noun Activity Set

    In this activity designed to introduce, consolidate and then assess learning of irrefular plural nouns, students will build knowledge of new...

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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: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Spelling Mnemonics - Portrait

    This set of 12 spelling mnemonics charts help students learn tips and tricks for learning how to spell common tricky words that appear again...

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  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Spelling Mnemonics - landscape

    This set of 37 spelling mnemonics charts help students learn tips and tricks for learning how to spell common tricky words that appear again...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Close Readers Poster

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

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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: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Technology Research Cards

    Students will use technology to research the questions provided on their given card. 

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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 +1

    Common Suffixes Posters

    Students will learn how suffixes affect meaning. They can also explore Greek roots and use suffixes to spell new words.

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  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Common Prefixes Posters

    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...

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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: 6 H

    Digging Up Root Words

    Students will use a dictionary to explore and use knowledge of word origins, using some Greek Roots, to spell words.

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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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  • FREE! Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Super Speller Game

    The Super Speller Game requires students to move around a board of commonly misspelled words, identifying which word has the correct spellin...

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  • Resource Year: 5

    Planking Plurals

    Designed for upper primary, Planking Plurals helps students identify irregular plural matches through a simple, fun board game. 

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  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Naplan Persuasive Writing Preparation

    Naplan Persuasive Writing Preparation

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  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Handwriting Lines 3 - with Cats

    Created by request, the Handwriting Lines 3 - with Cats provides a visual handwriting prompt and guide to students when writing.

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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: 2 4 5

    Vowel Sounds Charts

    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...

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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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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Second Person Point of View

    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...

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  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    First Person Point of View

    This worksheet teaches the use of first person point of view. It is a useful resource when teaching narratives and autobiographies.

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  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Third Person Point of View

    This worksheet explores the concept of writing in the third person point of view, useful in writing explanations, descriptions and factual r...

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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: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Reciprocal Reading FlowChart

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

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  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Reciprocal Reading Charts

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

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  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Reciprocal Reading Cards

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

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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: 3 4 5 6 +1

    Text Type Charts - Landscape

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

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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: 2 4 5 6

    Spelling Rules Charts

    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...

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  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Spelling Activities with Multiple Intelligences (90 cards)

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

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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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