English Foundation Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating

Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently

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  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2

    English Unit: B Year- K-2 Booklet- Imagery, Symbol & Connotation

    This set of worksheets helps students develop an understanding of imagery by exploring descriptive language that uses the senses to bring wr...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2

    English Unit: K-2 Booklet- Character

    This Character Workbook supports K–2 students in exploring how characters are developed, change and influence stories. Through differentiate...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2

    English Unit: K-2 Booklet- Representation

    This Representation Workbook supports K–2 students in exploring how ideas, people, places, animals, and events are portrayed across differen...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2

    English Unit: B Year- K-2- Context

    This Context Workbook supports K-2 students in understanding how context shapes stories, experiences, and environments. It includes differen...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2

    English Unit: B Year - K-2- Narrative

    This workbook is designed to support multi-age classrooms (Kindergarten, Year 1, and Year 2) in exploring narrative structure, language feat...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Comprehension Strategy: Text To Text Connections

    This wonderful unit focuses on the reading comprehension strategy of making connections and is a great way to introduce your students to mak...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Inferential Comprehension

    Dive into the captivating world of inferencing with our Inferential Comprehension Unit! This thoughtfully crafted unit equips young learners...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Literal Comprehension

    Step into the world of literacy discovery with our Literal Comprehension Unit! Written for Foundation students, this comprehensive unit take...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Inferring Character Traits

    This wonderful unit focused on Inferring Character Traits is the perfect unit to introduce your students to how they can begin inferring cha...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Comprehension Strategy: Text To Self Connections

    This wonderful unit focused on the reading comprehension strategy of making connections is a great way to introduce your students to making...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Comprehension Strategy: Visualising

    This wonderful unit focused on the reading comprehension strategy of visualising, is a great way to introduce your students to this reading...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Comprehension Strategy: Predicting

    This wonderful unit focused on the reading comprehension strategy of predicting, is a great way to introduce your students to making predict...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

    The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been a favourite with children for over 50 years. This unit is designed to help you bring an exciting range...

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    English Unit: Who Sank the Boat?

    This is a great literature unit on the book, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. The unit will assist in practising comprehension...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Comprehension Strategy: Text To Text Connections - Presentation

    Explore the world of storytelling with our engaging presentation on 'Text-to-Text Connections.' Designed for foundation year students, this...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Inferencing Investigation: Finding The Clues - Presentation

    This ‘Inferencing Investigation: Finding The Clues’ presentation, is a colourful and interactive guide to help students unveil the art of re...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Literal Comprehension: Finding The Clues - Presentation

    This ‘Literal Comprehension: Finding The Clues’ presentation, is a colourful and interactive guide to understanding stories. Students begin...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Inferring Character Traits - Presentation

    This Inferring Character Traits Presentation makes for a wonderful introduction to the idea that you can learn about characters by looking a...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Comprehension Strategy: Text To Self Connections - Presentation

    This Comprehension Strategy: Text To Self Connections Presentation is a fantastic way to introduce your students to this reading comprehensi...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Visualising – A Comprehension Strategy - Presentation

    This Visualising: A Comprehension Strategy Presentation is a fantastic way to introduce your students to this reading comprehension strategy...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Predicting: A Comprehension Strategy - Presentation

    This Predicting: A Comprehension Strategy Presentation is a fantastic way to introduce your students to this reading comprehension strategy....

  • Presentation Year: F

    The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Presentation

    In this presentation, students spend some time considering and discussing the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar in a new way. In it, they ar...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Presentation

    This presentation is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Think, Write, Draw Pack

    The Think, Draw, Write Pack includes 10 simple, black-and-white printable worksheets designed for Foundation students. Each worksheet featur...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    My Emotions

    This set of worksheets guides students to create their own mini emotion pages, inspired by how Sometimes I Feel... uses animals and imagery...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Silly Sounds!

    This worksheet set introduces alliteration and sound-based writing, helping students use repeated sounds to describe feelings, animals and a...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Colours and Feelings

    These worksheets support students in exploring how colour communicates emotion in picture books. Students will use images, drawings and writ...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    More Than Just a Thing

    This worksheet set helps students explore how everyday objects can represent feelings or ideas- just like in the mentor texts. Students are...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Sometimes I Feel…

    This worksheet set supports students in connecting emotions with animals to build emotional vocabulary and symbolic thinking. Inspired by th...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Sometimes I Feel… and The World Needs Who You Were Made To Be - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Imagery, Symbol & Connotation Workbook.

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    No Words Needed!

    This set of worksheets helps students explore how stories can be told through pictures alone- just like in Chalk. Students will practise dra...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    The Story Continues

    These worksheets help students use their imagination to predict what might happen after the last page of Chalk. Activities include drawing,...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    What Does it Mean?

    These worksheets help students explore how objects in Chalk act as symbols that tell parts of the story. Through identifying, matching and e...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Feelings in Colour

    These worksheets help students explore how colours can show feelings in the wordless picture book Chalk. Through activities like colouring,...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    What is Happening?

    This set of worksheets helps students develop storytelling skills using the wordless picture book Chalk. Activities include matching picture...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Silly Similes

    These worksheets help students create their own funny similes, inspired by the playful language in My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks. Activ...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Picture That Feeling

    This set of worksheets uses the playful language and fun comparisons from My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks to help students explore how em...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Words at Play

    These worksheets help students play with words — just like in My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks — by matching rhymes, using funny descripti...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Using Our Senses

    These worksheets help students describe objects using their senses, just like in My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks, where the author uses f...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Let’s Compare

    These worksheets help students compare characters to objects using funny similes — just like in My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks! Through...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Imagery, Symbol & Connotation Workbook.

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Drawing With Words

    This set of worksheets helps students develop imagery skills through drawing and writing activities. Students learn how to represent words v...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    The Mood of Words

    This set of worksheets helps students explore how words can have positive or negative feelings attached to them. Through matching, sorting a...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Feeling in Colour

    This set of worksheets helps students explore how colours can represent feelings. Through colouring, matching and writing activities, studen...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Symbols, Symbols Everywhere!

    This set of worksheets helps students explore how everyday symbols carry meaning. Through matching, drawing and writing activities, students...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    What is Imagery?

    This set of worksheets helps students develop an understanding of imagery by exploring descriptive language that uses the senses to bring wr...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Imagery, Symbol & Connotation- Teacher Notes

    This resource provides a brief overview and teaching notes for using the K-2 Multi-Age Imagery, Symbol & Connotation Workbook. 

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Imagery, Symbol & Connotation - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Imagery, Symbol & Connotation Workbook.

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Beyond the Last Page

    This set encourages students to imagine what could happen after the stories of Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten or The Fantastic Flying Books of M...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Books With Meaning

    This worksheet set explores the powerful symbolism of books in The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Students will use colour,...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character Chats

    This set helps students understand characters through what they say and how they interact. Students will practise matching and creating dial...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    From Grumpy to Great!

    This worksheet set explores the transformation of Mr Wintergarten throughout the story. Students will sequence events, identify the causes o...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Meet the Neighbours

    This worksheet set introduces students to the characters Rose and Mr Wintergarten. Students will explore their physical appearances and pers...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character Transformation - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Character Workbook.

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Advice for Billy

    This worksheet set encourages students to respond to Billy’s situation with empathy and insight. Students will give advice, explore strategi...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Worries Big and Small

    This worksheet set encourages students to think critically about how different characters experience and respond to worry. Students compare...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Billy Learns to Be Brave

    This worksheet set explores how Billy changes throughout Silly Billy, focusing on emotional growth and shifting perspectives. Students will...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Billy’s Big Feelings

    This worksheet set encourages students to explore and understand the emotions of the character Billy from Silly Billy. Through drawing, writ...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Silly Billy’s Worries

    This worksheet set helps students explore the character of Billy in Silly Billy and understand the concept of worry. Students identify what...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Silly Billy - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Character Workbook.

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Mischief Maker

    This worksheet set encourages students to invent their own mischievous or naughty character. Students will describe what their character doe...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Hero or Villain?

    This worksheet set encourages students to reflect on the idea of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ characters in The Bad Guys. Through sorting, writing and d...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    How Does Pig Change?

    This worksheet set explores Pig the Pug's character arc. Students will observe and reflect on how Pig changes throughout the story- if at al...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Pig’s Personality

    This worksheet set helps students identify and describe the physical and personality traits of Pig the Pug. Students will explore what makes...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Pig the Pug, Pig the Rebel and The Bad Guys - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Character Workbook.

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    My Own Character

    This set of differentiated worksheets helps students explore how and why characters change over time. Through drawing, writing and comparing...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    How Characters Change

    This set of differentiated worksheets helps students explore how and why characters change over time. Through drawing, writing and comparing...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Say What?

    This worksheet set helps students explore what characters say and think, building an understanding of how dialogue and inner thoughts reveal...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character Clues

    This worksheet set helps students identify and understand how characters feel during a story. Through visual cues, story events and characte...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Meet The Characters

    This worksheet set introduces students to the concept of fictional characters and how we understand them through words and pictures. Student...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character - Teacher Notes

    This resource provides a brief overview and teaching notes for using the K-2 Multi-Age Character Workbook. 

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Character - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Character Workbook.

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Perform and Reflect

    This worksheet set encourages students to engage in performance and reflect on their experiences. By acting out lines from The Gruffalo Play...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Costumes and Props

    This worksheet set introduces students to the importance of costumes and props in bringing stories to life on stage. Using The Gruffalo Play...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Acting Out a Scene

    This worksheet set supports students in understanding how scenes from a play can be expressed through dialogue and visual representation. Us...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Characters on Stage

    This worksheet set explores how characters are represented on stage in The Gruffalo Play. Students investigate the role of characters, inter...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    What is a Play?

    This worksheet set introduces students to the concept of a play, using The Gruffalo Play as a reference text. Students explore the differenc...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Build Your Imagination

    This worksheet set encourages students to unleash their creativity by inventing buildings that solve problems or meet unique needs. Inspired...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    City or Country?

    This worksheet set helps students explore how architecture responds to place. Using Iggy Peck, Architect as inspiration, students compare bu...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Build it Your Way

    This worksheet set invites students to explore the work of architects by creating their own building designs. Inspired by Iggy Peck, Archite...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Buildings Tell a Story

    This worksheet set helps students explore how buildings are more than just structures — they tell stories about the people, cultures, and hi...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Architects at Work

    This worksheet set introduces students to the role of architects using the book Iggy Peck, Architect as a springboard. Students explore how...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Create a Cheeky Tale

    This worksheet set encourages students to use their imagination to create a story inspired by Go Home, Cheeky Animals!. By drawing on the bo...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    People and Place

    This worksheet set focuses on the people and community depicted in Go Home, Cheeky Animals!. Students will examine how characters are repres...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Mapping the Story

    This worksheet set helps students understand the role of setting in Go Home, Cheeky Animals! by exploring the link between places, events, a...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Animals With Attitude

    This worksheet set focuses on how animals are represented in Go Home, Cheeky Animals! and how their cheeky personalities contribute to the h...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Story Through Pictures

    This worksheet set explores how illustrations are used to reflect cultural identity and setting in Go Home, Cheeky Animals!. Students learn...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Showcase Your Species

    This worksheet set invites students to reflect on how animals are represented in the book A is for Australian Animals and to apply their und...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Where do They Live?

    This worksheet set helps students explore how animals and their habitats are represented in the book A is for Australian Animals. Students l...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Animal Fact Cards

    This worksheet set helps students explore the differences between realistic and illustrated representations of animals in the text A is for...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Amazing Aussie Animals

    This set of differentiated worksheets helps K–2 students explore how Australian animals are described using words and pictures. Students pra...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Real or Represented?

    This worksheet set helps students explore the differences between realistic and illustrated representations of animals in the text A is for...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Changing the Scene

    This set of worksheets helps students explore how the background or setting can change the way we understand a character, scene, or story. T...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Symbols Speak

    This set of worksheets introduces students to the idea of symbols and how they carry meanings beyond their literal representation. Students...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Words and Pictures

    This set of worksheets helps students understand how words and pictures can work together to represent characters, settings, and ideas. By l...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Media Magic

    In this set of worksheets, students will explore how the same story or concept can be represented differently across various forms of media,...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Seeing Things Differently

    This set of worksheets introduces students to the idea that the same thing can be shown in different ways, depending on who is telling the s...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Representation - Notes Page

    This resource provides a brief overview and teaching notes for using the K-2 Multi-Age Representation Workbook. 

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Representation - Title Page

    Aligned with the NSW English Year B Units and Australian Curriculum V9, this title page supports the Representation Workbook.

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Sentence Writing - Worksheet Pack

    This Sentence Writing Worksheet Bundle includes 5 scaffolded writing tasks that support Foundation students in building confidence with inde...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Sentence Scramble - Worksheet Pack

    This Sentence Scramble Worksheet Bundle includes 5 early years worksheets designed to help Foundation students practise sentence structure a...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Sentence Fluency - Worksheet Pack

    This Sentence Fluency Worksheet Bundle includes 5 engaging early writing worksheets designed to build sentence-level fluency in Foundation l...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Caring for Nature

    This set of worksheets helps students explore how they can care for nature. Through fun and meaningful activities, students will learn how s...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Helping Flowers Grow

    This set of worksheets helps students understand how pollinators like bees and butterflies help plants grow. Through engaging activities, st...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Plants Around the World

    These worksheets help students explore how different plants grow in different environments. They will identify, compare, and research plants...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Watching Flowers Grow

    These worksheets encourage students to observe flowers like scientists. They will practice drawing, describing, and experimenting with plant...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Nature’s Colourful Helpers

    This set of worksheets introduces students to the world of flowers, helping them explore their shapes, colours, and roles in nature. Through...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Seeing Through the Author’s Eyes

    This set of worksheets aims to help students understand and explore the author's perspective in the stories "The Patchwork Bike" by Maxine B...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    My Special Things

    This set of worksheets encourages students to make personal connections to the stories 'The Patchwork Bike' and 'Molly the Pirate' by reflec...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Lifestyles Around the World

    This set of worksheets encourages students to explore and compare different lifestyles, fostering an understanding of diversity and personal...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Creative Adventures

    This set of worksheets encourages students to explore how characters in 'The Patchwork Bike' and 'Molly the Pirate' use everyday objects cre...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Exploring Story Settings

    This set of worksheets helps students explore and understand the settings of stories, focusing on how environments influence narratives and...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Caring for Our Community

    This set of worksheets helps students explore what it means to be a responsible member of their community. Activities encourage students to...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Nature and Me

    This set of worksheets encourages students to explore their personal connection to nature and understand why protecting the environment is i...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Learning Through Stories

    These worksheets help students explore how stories teach us important lessons. Using The Little Corroboree Frog and Benny Bungarra’s Big Bus...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Caring for Country

    This set of worksheets helps students explore how First Nations peoples care for the land, reflecting on traditional knowledge and environme...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Protecting the Environment

    This set of worksheets encourages students to explore environmental protection, connecting with themes from The Little Corroboree Frog and B...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Our School Community

    This set of worksheets encourages students to reflect on their school experiences and how schools contribute to the community. Activities in...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Cultures and Traditions

    This set of worksheets helps students explore cultural symbols, traditions, and celebrations from around the world. Through drawing, writing...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Schools Around the World

    This set of worksheets introduces students to how school experiences differ worldwide. Through matching, comparison, and research, students...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Being our Best at School

    This set of worksheets teaches students the importance of classroom rules and expectations. Through matching, writing, and guide creation, s...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Getting Ready for School

    This set of worksheets helps students recognise school essentials, practise list-writing, and compare school experiences. Activities develop...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Celebrations Around Us

    These worksheets introduce students to different social and cultural traditions. They will explore how people celebrate, dress, and share tr...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Then and Now

    These worksheets help students explore how things change over time. They will compare objects, places, and ways of living from the past and...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Story Settings

    These worksheets help students explore how the setting of a story influences its events and meaning. Students will identify, sort, and descr...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Where I Belong

    These worksheets This worksheet helps students explore personal context by reflecting on their home and favourite places. They will think ab...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Our World and Stories

    These worksheets help students explore how context influences meaning. Kindergarten students match images to different settings, Year 1 stud...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Context - Teacher Notes

    This resource provides a brief overview and teaching notes for using the K-2 Multi-Age Narrative Workbook. 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Easter Sentence Builder

    The Easter Sentence Builder is an interactive and engaging literacy resource designed to help students construct meaningful sentences while...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Create Your Own Story!

    This activity encourages students to use their imagination to create their own stories inspired by Possum Magic and Whoever You Are. Younger...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Different Ways to Tell a Story!

    This activity helps students compare the different storytelling styles used in Possum Magic and Whoever You Are. Younger students will focus...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Retelling the Story

    This activity helps students develop their understanding of story structure by retelling key events from Possum Magic and Whoever You Are. Y...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Cultural Connections

    This activity helps students understand cultural perspectives by exploring cultural symbols in illustrations, comparing family traditions fr...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Australia in Stories

    This activity helps students recognise Australian identity in stories by exploring the animals, places, and culture represented in Possum Ma...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    A Garden of Your Own

    This activity encourages students to use their imagination to create their own special garden. Inspired by The Secret Sky Garden and Florett...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    My Special Place

    This activity encourages students to connect their own experiences with The Secret Sky Garden and Florette. Students will reflect on places...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Painting Pictures with Words

    This activity helps students identify and use descriptive language in The Secret Sky Garden and Florette. Students will explore how sensory...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Growing Through Change

    This activity helps students explore how Funni and Mae change throughout the stories. Students will examine how challenges shape the charact...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Discovering Hidden Gardens

    This activity guides students through the themes and settings of 'The Secret Sky Garden' and 'Florette'. Students will identify and analyse...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Create your own…

    This activity encourages students to experiment with poetic language and structure. Students will use descriptive words and rhyme to create...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Story or Poem?

    This activity helps students understand the differences between poetry and narrative texts. They will explore the structure, language, and f...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    How Does it Make you Feel?

    This activity helps students explore how language in poetry creates feelings and emotions. They will identify emotions in Triantiwontigongol...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Change the Story

    This activity encourages students to think creatively by changing elements of the stories A Dark, Dark Tale and Hattie and the Fox. They wil...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Through Their Eyes

    These worksheets helps students understand how different characters experience the same events in a story. Students will explore the perspec...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    What Happens Next?

    This worksheet helps students develop prediction skills by using clues from illustrations, text, and foreshadowing in A Dark, Dark Tale and...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Spooky Settings

    This worksheet helps students explore how settings contribute to suspense in A Dark, Dark Tale and Hattie and the Fox. Students will identif...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Build the Suspense

    This set of worksheets introduces students to suspense in storytelling using A Dark, Dark Tale and Hattie and the Fox. Students will explore...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Plan Your Story!

    This worksheet supports students in planning a narrative by introducing basic story structure. Kindergarten students use drawings, Year 1 st...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Reading Comprehension Cards

    Enhance reading comprehension with these versatile question cards, suitable for any book. With 24 thought-provoking questions, students enga...

  • Resource Year: F

    'Who Sank the Boat?’ Retell Template

    This worksheet can be coupled with the story mapping worksheets to assist students in writing a retell of the events in ‘Who Sank the Boat?’...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    'Who Sank the Boat?’ Character Descriptions

    This set of worksheets further explores the characters in the story of ‘Who Sank the Boat?’ Students fill in the labels to describe the char...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    'Who Sank the Boat?’ Character Sort

    This worksheet tests student comprehension of the story ‘Who Sank the Boat?’ by asking students to sort the characters that got on the boat...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Baby Bear’s Bad Day

    This simple assessment will help you gauge student understanding of making text to text connections. Students listen or read the short passa...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Connecting with Messages

    This worksheet is to be used with the widely adored children’s story book ‘Pig The Pug’ by Aaron Blabey. Students uncover the moral of the s...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Connecting Events

    This worksheet allows students to make text to text connections between the events in stories. Students compare two story books that they ma...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Set The Scene

    This Set the Scene worksheet is all about exploring the settings in stories. Sometimes the setting of a story can remind students of another...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Connecting with Characters

    This Connecting with Characters worksheet is the perfect template to allow your students to make connection between two different characters...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Cool Connections

    This Cool Connections worksheet is an open worksheet that can be utilised with numerous different books in the classroom library! Simply cho...

  • Resource Year: F

    Text To Text Connections -Student Reference Card

    This easy to understand student reference card makes a wonderful prompt for students to make text to text connections. Simply paste the refe...

  • Video Year: F 1 2

    Wonder Words

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Inference Investigation

    This assessment is designed to challenge students' critical thinking abilities as they make inferences and answer inferential comprehension...

  • Resource Year: F

    Inferential Comprehension Quiz

    Let your students step into the world of inferencing with our Inferential Comprehension Quiz! Students put their detective skills to the tes...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Clue Collectors

    This set of worksheets are perfect for your students to practise their inferencing skills. Each worksheet comes with a short text for studen...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Lost and Found

    Oh no! There are so many bags left at the lost and found. Based off the items inside these bags, students can practise their inferencing ski...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Inferencing Investigation: What is Happening?

    Reading comprehension, inferential comprehension, words and pictures, comprehension strategy, comprehend, inference, inferencing, critical t...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Inferencing Investigation: Where Is Bear?

    Bear has gone on vacation and has sent postcards from all sorts of different location! Students must read the postcards and infer from text...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Inferencing Investigation: Who Am I?

    This worksheet encourages students to think critically and use context clues to identify hidden professions. Through engaging descriptions a...

  • Resource Year: F

    Inferencing Investigator - Student Reference Card

    This simple to understand student reference card explains what inferential comprehension is, in easy to understand terms, along with a short...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Clue Catcher Assessment

    This 'Clue Catcher' assessment tests students literal comprehension skills. Students are asked to highlight key information, and match sente...

  • Resource Year: F

    Literal Comprehension Quiz

    This interactive Literal Comprehension Quiz tests students’ abilities to grasp facts directly from stories. From identifying what literal co...

  • Resource Year: F

    Read and Respond: Literal Comprehension Cards

    "Read and Respond" cards are a valuable resource designed to help young learners develop and strengthen their literal comprehension skills i...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Fact Finder’s Challenge

    These ‘Fact Finder’s Challenge’ Worksheets include short, age-appropriate non-fiction text passages for students to read and practise their...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Read and Recall

    These ‘Read and Recall’ Worksheets include short, age-appropriate text passages for students to read and practise their literal comprehensio...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Is That True?

    These ‘Is That True?’ Worksheets include short, age-appropriate text passages for students to read and practise their literal comprehension....

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Clue Collectors

    These Clue Collectors Worksheets include short, age-appropriate text passages for students to read and highlight key information. This can b...

  • Resource Year: F

    Detective Badges

    Elevate reading excitement with our 'Detective Badges' resource! These enchanting badges are not just accessories – they are symbols of your...

  • Resource Year: F

    Detective Handbook Guide: For Literal and Inferential Comprehension

    Uncover hidden clues, decode literal and inferential meanings, and become a skilled comprehension detective. With step-by-step directions, t...

  • Resource Year: F

    Literal Comprehension - Student Resource Card

    This Literal Comprehension Student Resource Card provides a simple and easy to understand explanation of literal comprehension for students...

  • Resource Year: F

    Literal and Inferential Comprehension Poster

    These Literal and Inferential Comprehension class displays are an engaging and colourful resource to help your students understand the diffe...

  • Resource Year: F

    Character Detectives

    Use this assessment to gauge student understanding of how to infer character traits. Students must recall what they have learnt about analys...

  • Resource Year: F

    Inferring Character Traits Quiz

    This Inferring Character Traits Quiz makes for a wonderful whole class activity to have open discussions around character traits and how we...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Character Collage

    A simple and hands on character collage template for students to cut out images from magazines, or to draw a character with a speech bubble....

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Describe The Character

    Students read or listen to the short story passages and make inferences about the character’s traits by reviewing the character’s actions, w...

  • Resource Year: F

    Guess The Trait

    Students read or listen to the short passages to infer the character trait based off the character’s words, actions, thoughts and feelings. ...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Match The Emotion

    Students read the small passages to cut and paste the correct character emotion to the passage. Understanding and being able to tell a chara...

  • Resource Year: F

    Infer The Character Trait Cards

    This wonderfully versatile resource can be used for individual learning, small group, or whole class lessons for students to practise inferr...

  • Resource Year: F

    Character Trait Match Puzzles

    This is a fantastic way for students to develop their understanding of character traits as they match the character trait to the trait descr...

  • Resource Year: F

    Inferring Character Traits - Student Reference Card

    This simple Character Traits student reference card makes for a great visual reminder for students that they can infer character traits base...

  • Resource Year: F

    Character Traits Class Display

    This simple Character Traits display includes some character traits as well as a simple, easy to understand trait description for students t...

  • Resource Year: F

    Inferring Character Traits Poster Set

    This set of 4 posters makes a fantastic visual reference for your students to understand how they can begin to make inferences about charact...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Text To Self Assessment

    Use this assessment to gauge students’ abilities to use the reading comprehension strategy of making connections, particularly, text to self...

  • Resource Year: F

    Text To Self Joint Class Display

    These Text To Self Joint Class Displays are a fun way to display student understanding and learning of the reading strategy ‘text to self co...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Pig The Pug

    This worksheet is to be used with Aaron Blabey’s text ‘Pig The Pug’. Students listen to the story and write about their text to self connect...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    That Reminds Me…

    This is an open ended worksheet that can be used with any book in the classroom. Students simply read or listen to a story, write about thei...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Making Connections

    Students simply read or listen to the short passage and look at the image to make connections to themselves. Students draw a picture to des...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Text To Self Selfie

    This is an open ended worksheet that can be used with any book in the classroom. Students simply read or listen to a story and draw a pictur...

  • Resource Year: F

    A comprehension strategy game: Hey That Reminds Me Of…

    This resource is fantastic for whole class, small group or independent learning. Students read the passage and look at the image to make a t...

  • Resource Year: F

    Text to Self Connections - Student Reference Card

    This simple and easy to understand student reference card reminds students of the reading strategy ‘text to self connections’.   

  • Resource Year: F

    Text To Self Connections

    This simple and easy to understand class display is a great visual reminder for students to make text to self connections during reading.  

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Rain Rain Go Away

    Students demonstrate their understanding of the visualisation reading strategy by reading and/or listening to the text passage. Students mus...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Vivid Visualisations

    Use this worksheet to reiterate the importance of how words can help form visualisations. Students fill in the blank spaces and give their w...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    A Picture In My Mind

    Use this worksheet with any text you are using in the classroom for students to draw their visualisations of the text you are reading. Stude...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    What Did You Visualise?

    Use this set of worksheets for students to practise listening or reading to text passages to pick up on key details to help them visualise a...

  • Resource Year: F

    What Do You See? - A Visualising Resource

    This ‘What Do You See?’ A Visualising Resource, requires students to use their prior knowledge and text clues to visualise an image in their...

  • Resource Year: F

    Visualising: Comprehension Strategy - Student Reference Card

    This easy to understand student reference card is a great reminder for students to use text clues and their senses when visualising an image...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Wild Waves At The Beach

    Use this assessment to gauge student understanding of the comprehension strategy of predicting. Students must use text clues and their topic...

  • Resource Year: F

    Prediction Pairs

    These prediction pairs are a fantastic resource for your students to practise using picture clues and their prior knowledge to match the ima...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    What Happens Next?

    These worksheets are a fantastic way for your students to practise evaluating text clues to make predictions on what could happen next. This...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Predicting Panda Booklet

    This booklet is your one stop shop for all your student needs to practise their predictions. This booklet includes opportunities for student...

  • Resource Year: F

    Predicting: Comprehension Strategy - Student Reference Card

    This Predicting student reference card is a simple visual reminder for students of the comprehension strategy of predicting. Simply glue thi...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Read & Retell Animal Displays

    These Read & Retell Animal Displays make responding to reading fun and creative. They also make a wonderful classroom display! Included in t...

  • Resource Year: F

    A Very Hungry Caterpillar Lifecycle Recount

    In this activity, students create a beautiful recap of the events of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, while learning a little about a caterpilla...

  • Resource Year: F

    A Very Hungry Caterpillar Lifecycle Recount - Teacher Sheet

    This teacher sheet will walk you through everything you need to prepare and cosider before completing 'A Very Hungry Caterpillar Lifecycle R...

  • Resource Year: F

    My Favourite Caterpillar Moment

    In this worksheet, students draw a picture of their favourite part of the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This activity was created as...

  • Resource Year: F

    The Very Hungry Caterpillar Sentence Maker

    In this worksheet, students trace, cut and paste scrambled words to create sentences about the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This ac...

  • Resource Year: F

    The Very Hungry Caterpillar Sequencing Challenge

    For this worksheet, students need to colour and sun out a set of scenes from Eric Carle’s ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and assemble them in the...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Facts About Japan

    This has been created as an informative text for young students to read and recall facts about Japan. Students will practise fine motor skil...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Puppets Colour

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Story Map

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Headbands

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Pictograph

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Mini-book

    This resource is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Wordsearch

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Speech Bubble

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Characters

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Read and Trace

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Puppets Black and White

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Sentence Builder

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Coloured Sequencing Cards

    This resource is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Sequencing Activity

    This worksheet is part of a literature unit, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’, written by Pamela Allen. This enjoyable literature unit will assist in...

  • Resource Year: F

    Little Red Riding Hood Puppets

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit, ’Retell Comprehension Strategy’ and provides an in-depth overview of the strategy ‘retell’. It incl...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Picture Sequence - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Jumbled pictures from  The Three Billy Goats Gruff story.  Students colour, cut and sequence the pictures to retell  The Three Billy Goat...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Picture Sequence - Gingerbread Man Activities

    Jumbled pictures from The Gingerbread Man story.  Students colour, cut and sequence the pictures to retell The Gingerbread Man story. 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Narrative Sequencing - Year 1 & 2

    Students will use comprehension strategies to understand narrative texts and knowledge of text structures to sort pieces into the correct na...

  • 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.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Animal Reading Strategy Charts - Comprehension Skills

    This set of 'Animal Reading Strategy Charts' was designed to help students identify the correct comprehension strategies to use to build lit...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Weather Puzzles

    The 'Weather Puzzles' were created by request for a Foundation teacher to link the sentences with the matching image. This forms part of...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Reading Strategies Chart

    The Reading Strategies Chart was designed for parents of early readers, showing them a number of useful reading strategies to encourage in e...

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