Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose, audience and context, including tense and types of sentences
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This unit invites students in Years 3-6 to explore how imagery, symbolism and connotation shape meaning in stories. Using Leila and the Blue...
Engage your students with our comprehensive unit plan on factual recounts, autobiographies and sequential explanations. This resource inclu...
This comprehensive unit takes students through verb tenses. The unit begins with a presentation to assist teachers in demonstrating how diff...
This unit plan has been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and l...
This comprehensive and detailed unit plan is designed to support students when learning about the different types of verbs. The unit contain...
Use this engaging presentation on factual recounts, autobiographies and sequential explanations. Tailored for educators, it provides a conci...
This verb tenses presentation illustrates the verb tenses and how they are used in sentences to show if an event is taking place in the past...
This presentation has been created to support your students understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and...
This comprehensive presentation has been created to guide students through understanding that verbs represent different processes, for examp...
This presentation walks you through the definition of past, present and future tense and examples of how these are written within a sentence...
This Presentation was written to walk students through the skills they’ll need for persuasive texts for year 3. This is part of a bigger uni...
The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Suggested Answers booklet offers sample responses for all key activities across the unit. These includ...
This colour symbolism organiser guides students in recognising how specific colours are used in visual and written texts to suggest deeper m...
These differentiated worksheets help students explore how colour meanings change across different cultures. Using examples from Leila and th...
These differentiated graphic organisers support students in analysing how colour choices contribute to mood and meaning in visual and writte...
This comprehensive editing toolkit supports Years 3-6 students in polishing their symbolic writing and analytical responses. Whether student...
This flexible task sheet supports students in Years 3-6 to create a visual comparison of symbolism in Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants. S...
This toolkit includes four structured tools to support students in planning, drafting and refining a short story rich in symbolism, imagery...
These worksheets explore how word choices affect tone and meaning in storytelling. Designed for Years 3-6, the resource offers scaffolded ta...
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...
The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants unit title page introduces students to the theme of visual storytelling through rich imagery, symbolis...
This five-week persuasive writing unit explores Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle, guiding students through the analysis of...
The Yahoo Creek Suggested Answers booklet provides model responses for all key activities across the persuasive writing unit. It includes sa...
This poster helps students structure persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL method: Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link. It supports clear,...
This poster helps students build strong persuasive paragraphs using the hamburger method. Each layer of the burger shows what to include: op...
The Teaching Notes page supports implementation of the Yahoo Creek Persuasive Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the weekly lesson sequ...
The Yahoo Creek unit title page introduces students to the theme of persuasive writing through the lens of historical mystery and storytelli...
This five-week narrative unit explores Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths, engaging students in reading, analysing, and writing humorous stori...
The Suggested Answers booklet provides clear sample responses for all core activities in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It offer...
The Extension Task Cards provide engaging enrichment activities for the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. Each card offers a creative c...
These paragraph planners support students to structure clear, engaging paragraphs in prank narratives. They guide sentence order, voice, and...
This reflection sheet guides students to identify strengths and areas for growth in their writing, provide constructive feedback to peers, a...
The assessment rubric provides a 5-point scale for evaluating students’ summative tasks in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It cov...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
This worksheet helps students practice improving their stories by experimenting with different words and dialogue inspired by the Humour Hac...
This partner checklist supports peer feedback by prompting students to look for clarity, humour, and areas to improve in each other’s storie...
These tip sheets explain age-appropriate humour techniques to help students identify, discuss, and use them in their writing. Each chart sho...
This editing checklist helps students revise their prank stories for clarity, pacing, and humour. It guides them to self-assess sentence flo...
This worksheet guides students to explore how changing the narrator’s point of view can shift humour and meaning. Students practise rewritin...
This tip sheet guides students through the typical Just Tricking! story format. It breaks down the narrative structure into three clear part...
These scaffolded narrative planners helps students organise prank stories in the Just Tricking! style. It guides them to plan a clear orient...
This worksheet helps students explore the main character’s traits in Just Tricking!, compare motivations and choices, and write a diary entr...
This worksheet helps students identify and analyse different humour techniques in a Just Tricking!-style passage, rewrite it to increase its...
This worksheet helps students identify and understand different types of humour used in Just Tricking!. Students practise rewriting a passag...
This worksheet helps students practise rewriting a prank scene from Just Tricking! in a completely different style. It teaches them to spot...
This set teaches students how to break down a narrative into key parts, rewrite scenes in a new style, and plan their own short stories insp...
This set supports students to collect and use key words from 'Just Tricking', building a rich word wall that enhances their funny storytelli...
This worksheet set helps students learn about Andy Griffiths (the author) and Terry Denton (the illustrator). Students discover how they wor...
This set of worksheets helps students examine the book cover and title of 'Just Tricking', encouraging them to make predictions about the pl...
The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...
This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...
A bright, easy-to-read classroom display poster introducing the concept of the author’s purpose using the PIE acronym – Persuade, Inform, En...
This 32-card task card set helps students explore, analyse, and respond to non-fiction texts in a flexible and engaging way. Students practi...
The Fiction Text Features – Posters set includes colourful, student-friendly visual explanations of key narrative elements, such as: • Ti...
This matching puzzle activity helps students connect titles, descriptions and examples of common non-fiction texts. It encourages understand...
These engaging puzzles help students match common features of fictional texts, such as characters, setting, dialogue and illustrations, with...
Encourage critical thinking with these vibrant magnifying glass templates! Teachers can print them on thick cards or let students cut them o...
This resource includes a checklist for fictional and non-fictional texts and printable B&W magnifying glass templates. Students assemble the...
This assessment focuses on students' comprehension of text elements in the life cycle of a tadpole. It gauges their ability to identify purp...
Enhance your English class with this comprehensive quiz on factual recounts, autobiographies and sequential explanations. Tailored for forma...
Engage students in active learning with our sequential explanation resource. Challenge them to unravel jumbled text, promoting comprehension...
As detectives, students uncover structural elements of sequential explanations, such as a title, a introduction, sequenced paragraphs, concl...
Engage your students with this sequential explanation on the life cycle of a butterfly. Structured with a captivating title, introduction, s...
Engage students in understanding autobiographical structure with our interactive activity. Foster comprehension as they identify and arrange...
Uncover the secrets of autobiographies with this resource. Designed to enhance students understanding of structure and features, they will a...
Explore the autobiographical journey of Ada Jasmine Jones, crafted with chronological precision, vivid details and subjective reflections. T...
Engage students in mastering factual recount structures with this interactive activity! Students identify and sequence key components, honin...
Uncover the secrets of factual recounts with this resource. Hunt down third person perspectives, past tense clues and objective language. Pe...
Engage students with a vivid factual recount of a school swimming carnival. This resource skillfully employs the third person, past tense, c...
Engage your students with our insightful series of posters. Tailored for educators, these visually appealing resources break down each genre...
Empower your students with a comprehensive reference card on factual recounts, autobiographies and sequential explanations. This invaluable...
Students complete four tasks to demonstrate their understanding of verb tense. This resource is part of a larger unit of work on Verb Tenses...
This Quiz makes for a wonderful whole-class review/formative assessment to gauge students’ abilities in their knowledge of verb tenses. A...
Use the colourful 1-page game for a quick, easy and fun way for students to practise their recall of the tense of common verbs.
Use these handy cards to help your students become familiar with the tense of various commonly used verbs.
Use these handy cards to help your students become familiar with the tense of various commonly used verbs.
Students will change the tense of the written sentences from one tense to another.
A fun worksheet that asks students to correct the incorrect verb use, then identify the circled letters and use them to solve the riddle.
These worksheets provide students with an opportunity to become familiar with common verbs written in the past, past perfect, present, prese...
Students must first ‘mark’ the work, deciding whether the past tense verb has been used correctly. They are then asked to cross out the inco...
Students are required to identify the verb tense used in each of the sentences to identify whether the event has taken place in the past, pr...
This Class Display makes a wonderful visual reference to demonstrate the different types of verb tense.
These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference to assist them when...
A handy student scaffold students can use, to provide structure when they are learning to write procedural texts. This can also be used as p...
This stimulus can be used as inspiration for students to write their own procedural texts. They can be printed or simply displayed on your i...
The Procedural Texts Quiz requires students to answer a range of questions stemming from the Procedural Texts Unit to cover both text struct...
This worksheet encourages your students choose a ‘simple’ procedural text displayed on the worksheet to ‘improve’ it, making it more detaile...
This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and work with language features of a procedural text (verbs and adverbs). Students fill...
This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and identify language features of a procedural text. The procedural text, ‘How to Make...
This worksheet encourages your students to correctly sequence the procedural text ‘How to Make an Egg Parachute’. The procedural text, ‘How...
This is a great resource to have handy when exploring procedural texts with your students. We have some worksheets within our Year 3 unit pl...
These handy reference cards have been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structura...
This resource is a must have for any primary school classroom. This activity will scaffold students to build better and more descriptive sen...
This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of the different types of verbs. The assessment asks students to identify...
This fun and colourful game is a great way for students to become familiar with the tense of verbs! To navigate their way through the game t...
This series of worksheets focuses on the use of verb tense. There is one worksheet on each of the tenses- present, past and future tense to...
This worksheet focuses on the use of relating or linking verbs to link pieces of information together in a sentence. This worksheet is part...
This worksheet focuses on thinking and sensing verbs. Students are required to use and identify the correct thinking and sensing verbs in th...
This fun worksheet asks students to locate the thinking verbs in the word search. An answer sheet has been included for your convenience! Th...
This fun and colourful game is a great way for students to become familiar with a variety of saying verbs to use instead of ‘said’. Simply g...
This worksheet focuses on saying verbs and asks students select more precise verbs than ‘said’ to show how a character might say something o...
This worksheet focuses on doing verbs and asks students to use more ‘vivid verbs’ to describe characters and help create a picture in the re...
This fun worksheet asks students to identify the verb type (doing, saying, thinking or relating) and find them in the word search. An answer...
This fun worksheet asks students to identify the verb type (doing, saying, thinking or relating) and add the scoops to the correct ice-cream...
This fun worksheet asks students to colour the verb according to one of four verb types- doing, saying, thinking or relating. An answer shee...
These colorful posters are a great visual for students to refer to when remembering the different types of verbs- doing, saying, thinking an...
These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference for the different t...
The Look and Write resource cards have been created to encourage students to create extended noun groups, as well as extend their descriptio...
This collection of Easter activities is a great way of engaging students before the Easter break. This workbook covers a variety of topics f...
The Past, Present, and Future Quiz is an auto-timed quiz that requires students to identify adverbs. You can run this as an assessment acti...
This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. Practise the skill of identifying past, present and future tense...
This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. This hands-on and engaging worksheet gives you the opportunity to...
This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. This worksheet provides the opportunity to change the inflectiona...
This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. This worksheet provides numerous sentence cards to sort into eith...
This student reference card is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense and provides a definition and examples of the concept...
This resource is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. Use this Inflectional Endings mini book to practise using differen...
This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. Practise changing the inflectional endings of words in order to c...
In this game, players will read words and say the present tense form of the word. They will understand that the processes represented by dif...
In this game, players will read words and say the past tense form of the word. They will understand that the processes represented by differ...
Learn to differentiate between past, present and future tense with this poster that clearly illustrates the difference between each tense.
'Terrific Tenses' provide definitions of past, present and future tense.
Students will understand that the processes verbs represent are anchored in time through tense.
This set of Verb Types Posters explains the four different types of verbs. It provides a description along with examples, both written and v...
The Parts of Speech posters include the followingL Nouns, Noun Groups, Qualifiers, Adjectives, Verbs, Verb Groups, Adverbs, Adverb Groups, P...
This Tense Times - Past & Future Tense Game is a self-correcting board game and is the perfect game for group work and rotations. Students w...
This barrier game includes 4 different game versions and will challenge you in learning past tense verbs. There are 20 past tense verbs...
This resource includes descriptions of Conjunctions, Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives. These worksheets are suitable to hand to students as a gui...
This resource includes descriptions of Conjunctions, Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives. These charts are useful guides for students who are still...
Six A4 charts featuring Proper Nouns, Common Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs and Pronouns. Each chart provides a definition of the term al...
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