English Foundation Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts

Code VCELA145

Resources for this descriptor

86 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Comprehensive Informative Texts

    Comprehensive Informative Texts is a unit plan for Foundation. Students will recognise that texts can be interpreted differently when only t...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Wombat Stew

    This unit is great to use in conjunction with reading the text ‘Wombat Stew’. The unit includes numerous resources to practise sequencing, w...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Mrs Wishy-Washy

    This unit is great to use in conjunction with reading the text ‘Mrs Wishy-Washy’. The unit includes numerous resources, to practise sequenci...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Comprehensive Informative Texts - Presentation

    The Comprehensive Informative Texts Presentation walks students through examples of how words and images connect with each other to shape me...

  • Presentation Year: F 1

    The Gruffalo - Presentation

    The presentation is designed to be used along with a class reading of ‘The Gruffalo’. It introduces the author (Julia Donaldson), the plot o...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Wombat Stew Presentation

    Wombat Stew Presentation

  • Presentation Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy - Presentation

    Mrs Wishy-Washy - Presentation

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Describe it!

    This worksheet builds students’ ability to use descriptive language in narratives. Kindergarten students identify adjectives, Year 1 student...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Retell

    This worksheet can be coupled with the story mapping worksheets to assist students in writing a retell of the events in ‘Mrs Wishy-Washy’. S...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy: A Muddy Mess!

    This worksheet is a fun way to explore the verbs in the story of ‘Mrs Wishy-Washy’. Students identify the action of each character, and writ...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Cut and Paste

    This cut and paste worksheet makes great practise for word recognition and sentence structure. Students simply cut out the missing words and...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Wombat Stew Retell

    This worksheet can be coupled with the story mapping worksheets to assist students in writing a retell of the events in ‘Wombat Stew’. Stude...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Wombat Stew: Tricky Animals

    This worksheet requires students to recall the details from the story to correctly match up the animals and the ingredients they convinced D...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Wombat Stew Cut and Paste

    This cut and paste worksheet makes great practise for word recognition and sentence structure. Students simply cut out the missing words and...

  • Resource Year: F

    Comprehensive Informative Texts Assessment

    This assessment task is a great summative activity to identify student progress in the Comprehensive Informative Texts Unit. Students comple...

  • Resource Year: F

    Comprehensive Informative Texts Quiz

    This quiz will test your students’ knowledge on how words and images connect to create meaning. It contains 10 questions based on the conten...

  • Resource Year: F

    Roll a Funny Procedure

    The Roll a Funny Procedure worksheets require students to read, write and draw a series of steps. There are 4 different versions to choose f...

  • Resource Year: F

    Labelling Diagrams

    This worksheet requires students to cut and paste labels to correctly complete a diagram. There are 4 different animals to choose from and a...

  • Resource Year: F

    Pictures for Procedures

    The Pictures for Procedures worksheets require students to read a set of instructions and draw corresponding pictures. There are 6 worksheet...

  • Resource Year: F

    Comprehensive Informative Texts - Student Reference Card

    This handy reference card is a great way for students to refer back to the connection between words and images and how they shape meaning in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Comprehensive Informative Texts Display

    The Comprehensive Informative Texts Display is clear and easy to understand. It explains the connection between words and images in texts an...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Gruffalo Word Search

    This worksheet is a fun little puzzle to finish off your unit or use for fast finishers along the way. This resource is part of a larger...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Nut Hunt

    This worksheet is a fun little puzzle to finish off your unit or use for fast finishers along the way. This resource is part of a larger...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Gruffalo Puppet Show

    Have your students cut and colour these Gruffalo characters and glue them on skewers or paddle pop sticks to create Gruffalo puppets. They c...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Make a Gruffalo

    These Gruffalo pieces can be cut and pasted on a paper bag, paper plate, or piece of construction paper for your students to complete their...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Gruffalo Themed Writer’s Page

    This page can be used for any written work. This resource is part of a larger Gruffalo unit, which focuses on retell skills, rhyming and...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Make Yourself a Monster

    In the story of the Gruffalo, the little brown mouse creates the Gruffalo to scare away the other characters. In this worksheet, your studen...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Gruffalo Character Description

    In this worksheet, students match up the descriptions of the Gruffalo from the story with a picture through cutting and pasting. This res...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Help Them Home

    In this worksheet, students trace the interwoven paths of the characters from the Gruffalo, helping with their fine motor and handwriting....

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Run Away!

    In this worksheet, students trace the getaways of the characters from the Gruffalo, helping with their fine motor and handwriting. This r...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    An Aussie Gruffalo

    In this worksheet, students translate ‘The Gruffalo’ from a British forest filled with woodland creatures, to a more familiar setting. Th...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Get Away From the Gruffalo

    This fantastic game is a great little fast finisher or rations activity for your students. Get Away From the Gruffalo is a straightforward d...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Gruffalo Rhyme Time

    In this worksheet, students match pictures of characters with rhyming words. This can be used on its own, or as a simpler alternative to ‘Gr...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Gruffalo Rhymes

    In this worksheet, students match up words that formed rhyming couplets in the story. For a simpler version of a rhyming worksheet for pre-r...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    My Favourite Part

    In this worksheet, students reflect on their favourite part of the story, retelling it through writing and drawing. This resource is part...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    What Happens Next?

    In this worksheet, students extend the story even further, writing and drawing what happens to Gruffalo after he flees the little brown mous...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    What Happened?

    In this worksheet, now that students have focused on the sequence of the story, they create their own retell of the beginning, middle and en...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Getting Things in Order

    In this worksheet, students sequence a series of scenes from the Gruffalo. This resource is part of a larger Gruffalo unit, which focuses...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    A Stroll Through The Woods

    This worksheet overlays the chronology of The Gruffalo on the mouse’s trip through the woods, helping kids visualise the retell. This res...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Who Do We Meet First?

    In this worksheet, students begin flexing their retell and comprehension muscles by putting the story’s character introductions in order....

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Who’s Who?

    In this worksheet, students cut the character names from the bottom sheets and match them with the characters above. Let them colour the cha...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    The Gruffalo Fast Finisher Colouring

    This colouring page will keep them busy for a while. Use it for fast finishers or for some quiet focus coming out of a break. This resour...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    The Gruffalo - Title Page

    This title page is a fun inclusion if you choose to reproduce this unit as a workbook for your students. This resource is part of a large...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    The Gruffalo - Student Reference Card

    This card reintroduces students to the characters in the storybook, and lets them colour and paste it into their books. This resource is...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Writing Word Prompts

    Encourage writing in your classroom with these word cards. These can be used in a variety of ways, ranging from a visual dictionary, as writ...

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Character Headbands

    This resource is a great resource for reflecting on the story and assisting with the retell strategy.

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Data and Graphing

    This resource is great for using the knowledge from the story to graph to then record data. Students will have the opportunity to practise t...

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Word Search

    This resource is a great for finding, reading and practising to say the main key words from the story, ‘Wombat Stew’.

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Mini-book

    This resource is a great resource for reflecting on the story and assisting with the retell strategy.

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Story Map

    This resource is a great resource for reflecting on the story and assisting with the retell strategy.

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Speech Bubble

    This resource is a great early inferencing activity, whereby students will need to use their prior knowledge and information from the story...

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Draw the Characters

    This resource is great for reinforcing knowledge of characters from the story, by drawing them. Students will have to think about what the c...

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Puppets and Scenery Colour

    These ‘Wombat Stew’ puppets are great for practising retell. Students may stick them to pencils, straws or paddle pop sticks to create puppe...

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Puppets and Scenery BW

    These ‘Wombat Stew’ puppets are great for practising retell. Students may stick them to pencils, straws or paddle pop sticks to create puppe...

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Sentence Builder

    These ‘Sentence Builder’ worksheets are great for reading and ordering words to create sentences that reflect events from the story. The wor...

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew Read and Trace

    These ‘Read and Trace’ worksheets are great to practise reading words from the story in a sentence, tracing and writing small words.

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Coloured Sequencing Cards

    These sequencing cards are great for practising the retell strategy after reading. Use these sequencing cards as a class, in rotation groups...

  • Resource Year: F

    Wombat Stew - Sequencing Activity

    These sequencing cards are great for practising the retell strategy after reading. Use these sequencing cards as a class, in rotation groups...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Character Headbands

    This resource is a great resource for reflecting on the story and assisting with the retell strategy.

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Data and Graphing

    This resource is great for using the knowledge from the story to graph to then record data. Students will have the opportunity to practise t...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Word Search

    This resource is a great for finding, reading and practising to say the main key words from the story, ‘Mrs Wishy-Washy

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Mini-book

    This resource is a great resource for reflecting on the story and assisting with the retell strategy.

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Story Map

    This resource is a great resource for reflecting on the story and assisting with the retell strategy.

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Speech Bubble

    This resource is a great early inferencing activity, whereby students will need to use their prior knowledge and information from the story...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Draw the Characters

    This resource is great for reinforcing knowledge of characters from the story, by drawing them. Students will have to think about what the c...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Puppets Coloured

    These ‘Mrs Wishy-Washy Puppets’ are great for practising retell. Students may stick them to pencils, straws or paddle pop sticks to create p...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Puppets B&W

    These ‘Mrs Wishy-Washy Puppets’ are great for practising retell. Students may stick them to pencils, straws or paddle pop sticks to create p...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Sentence Builder Animals

    These ‘Sentence Builder’ worksheets are great for reading and ordering words to create sentences that reflect events from the story. The wor...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Sentence Builder Pointing

    These ‘Sentence Builder’ worksheets are great for reading and ordering words to create sentences that reflect events from the story. The wor...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Sentence Builder Pig

    These ‘Sentence Builder’ worksheets are great for reading and ordering words to create sentences that reflect events from the story. The wor...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Sentence Builder Cow

    These ‘Sentence Builder’ worksheets are great for reading and ordering words to create sentences that reflect events from the story. The wor...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Read and Trace

    These ‘Read and Trace’ worksheets are great to practise reading words from the story in a sentence, tracing and writing small words.

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy Sequencing Cards

    These sequencing cards are great for practising the retell strategy after reading. Use these sequencing cards as a class, in rotation groups...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mrs Wishy-Washy - Sequencing Activity

    Mrs Wishy-Washy - Sequencing Activity

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    The Three Billy Goats Gruff Masks

    These masks are great for building on oral language and retell comprehension skills for The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Print this resource ont...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    Goldilocks and the Three Bears Masks

    Goldilocks and the Three bears MasksThese masks are great for building on oral language and retell comprehension skills for Goldilocks and...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    The Three Billy Goats Gruff Sequencing Cards

    These visual sequencing cards are a great resource for building on oral language and sequencing skills for The Three Billy Goats Gruff. This...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    The Three Billy Goats Gruff Sequencing Cards BW

    These visual sequencing cards are a great resource for building on oral language and sequencing skills for The Three Billy Goats Gruff. This...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    Little Red Riding Hood Sequencing Cards

    These visual sequencing cards are a great resource for building on oral language and sequencing skills for Little Red Riding Hood. This reso...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    Little Red Riding Hood Sequencing Cards BW

    These visual sequencing cards are a great resource for building on oral language and sequencing skills for Little Red Riding Hood. This reso...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    Goldilocks and the Three Bears Sequencing Cards

    These visual sequencing cards are a great resource for building on oral language and sequencing skills for Goldilocks and the Three Bears. T...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    Goldilocks and the Three Bears Sequencing Cards BW

    These visual sequencing cards are a great resource for building on oral language and sequencing skills for Goldilocks and the Three Bears. T...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    The Three Little Pigs Sequencing Cards

    These visual sequencing cards are a great resource for building on oral language and sequencing skills for The Three Little Pigs. This resou...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Emergent Readers - Sentence Matching Strips

    Through the use of the 'Emergent Readers - Sentence Matching Strips', students will recognise that words and groups of words make meaning. S...

  • Resource Year: F

    CVC Words in Boxes

    The CVC Words in Boxes activity was created for Foundation students. These cards provide practise in handwriting and constructing consonant-...

  • Resource Year: F

    CVC Words - Self-Correcting Puzzles

    There are 95 CVC words in total. On each card the CVC word is printed on the left side while a full colour, easily recognisable picture is p...

Subscribe to our newsletter

Get free, ready-to-use resources for Foundation to Year 6 classrooms delivered to your inbox. Printables, lesson ideas, and classroom activities, all in one place.