English Year 2 Creating Texts

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

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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- Perspective and Argument

    This Perspective and Argument Workbook supports K–2 students in exploring perspective and argument through creative, reflective, and text-ba...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Procedural Texts

    Unlock the art of procedural writing with our comprehensive unit! Tailored for grade 2 students, this journey encompasses engaging presentat...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Narrative Writing

    This comprehensive unit takes students through writing narratives. The unit begins with a presentation to assist teachers in demonstrating t...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Informative Texts

    This unit plan has been created to support your students to create short informative texts using a growing knowledge of the text structure,...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Exploring Persuasive Texts

    This unit plan has been created to support your students to identify the purpose and audience of persuasive texts and create short persuasiv...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Excellent Editing

    This unit plan is a great way to introduce students to editing skills aligning with the Australian Curriculum content descriptor ACELY1672....

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Recount Writing - Presentation

    This visually engaging presentation guides students in creating and editing short recounts for familiar audiences. It covers text structure,...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Procedural Texts - Presentation

    Dive into the world of effective procedure writing with our comprehensive presentation! Learn the key features, master the art of crafting d...

  • Presentation Year: 2 3

    Quotation Marks - Presentation

    This Quotation Marks Presentation guides students through the use of quotation marks in narrative writing. It unpacks all the common rules i...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Narrative Writing Presentation

    This presentation is an excellent resource for teachers introducing and revisiting Narrative Writing. The presentation begins by looking at...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Informative Texts - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to support your students to create short informative texts using a growing knowledge of the text structur...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Exploring Persuasive Texts - Presentation

    This presentation has been designed to support your students identify the purpose and audience of persuasive texts and create short persuasi...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Proofreading Passages - Year 2

    These proofreading passages can be displayed as a whole class activity, printed for literacy groups or used as fast finishers. For convenien...

  • Presentation Year: 2 3

    Excellent Editing - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to guide students through an introduction to editing their writing. It focuses on making writing β€˜5 Star...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2

    Creating Digital Texts - Presentation

    This presentation is an excellent way to introduce computer skills to Β your Foundation, Year 1 or Year 2 class. The progressive presentation...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Poetry - Presentation

    This series of Christmas-themed jokes can be printed and displayed as festive decorations around your room. Your students are sure to really...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2

    5 Senses Word Cline - Presentation

    A presentation to support the Teach This Word Cline lesson plan.Β  Use the presentation to support a lesson with your class about word cli...

  • Resource Year: 3

    TEST - Measurement - Mass Poster

    A clear classroom display explaining mass, including units, measurement steps, and comparison language. Supports understanding of grams and...

  • 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 β€” just like in My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks β€” 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 β€” 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.Β 

  • 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.

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Journal Sentence Starter Cards

    The Journal Sentence Starter Cards provide 45 engaging and imaginative prompts designed to help students get started with daily or weekly jo...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    How to Write an Invitation - Display Poster

    The How to Write an Invitation Display Poster breaks down the steps of writing a clear and friendly invitation, using a fun example and simp...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    What did you Think?

    In this final worksheet set, students reflect on their personal responses to The Patchwork Bike. They express opinions about what they liked...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Through Different Eyes

    In this worksheet set, students explore how the same story can change depending on who tells it. By reimagining The Patchwork Bike from diff...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    The Best Bike Ever

    This worksheet set invites students to reflect on why the patchwork bike is more than just something to ride. Through colouring, writing, an...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Our Patchwork Bike

    In this worksheet set, students explore the unique patchwork bike at the heart of the story. Through drawing, writing, and analysing, studen...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    The Story Through Their Eyes

    In The Patchwork Bike, the narrator shares a personal and joyful story about life, play, and invention near the no-go desert. This worksheet...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    The Patchwork Bike - Title Page

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

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    If it Happens to You…

    This worksheet set invites students to step into the story and ask themselves: What would I do if the chalk came to life? Through drawing, w...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    No Words Needed

    This worksheet set helps students explore how stories can be told without any words. Using Chalk, students learn to read visual cues, interp...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    What Might Happen?

    This worksheet set encourages students to make predictions based on visual clues in Chalk, a wordless picture book filled with suspense and...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    One Picture, Many Stories

    This set of worksheets explores how people can have different thoughts and feelings about the same visual text. Students will examine how Ch...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Drawn to Life

    This worksheet set supports students in responding to and interpreting visual texts, using the wordless picture book Chalk by Bill Thomson....

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Let’s Talk, Farmer Brown

    In β€˜Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type’, the animals persuade Farmer Brown through letters- Β but what if they had to talk to him instead? Thi...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Let’s Make a Deal!

    In β€˜Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type’, both the animals and Farmer Brown want different things. Neither gets exactly what they want β€” inste...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Who Said it Best?

    In β€˜Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type’, the animals and Farmer Brown go back and forth with persuasive letters. This worksheet set helps stu...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Moo Mail

    In β€˜Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type’, the cows use letters to make persuasive demands. This set of worksheets helps students explore how t...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    The Animals Ask

    In β€˜Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type’, the animals write letters demanding better living conditions from Farmer Brown. These worksheets hel...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    The Great Pet Debate

    This worksheet set builds students’ speaking and reasoning skills through structured debates. Using the familiar context of β€˜I Wanna Iguana’...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Using Emotive Language

    This set of worksheets is designed to help students identify and use emotive language to enhance persuasive writing. Activities are based on...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Crafting Persuasive Letters

    This set of worksheets guides students through the process of writing persuasive letters, inspired by Alex's letters to his mother in 'I Wan...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    For and Against

    This worksheet set helps students explore how arguments are used to present differing views. Through sorting, matching, and writing activiti...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Making a Request

    This set of differentiated worksheets introduces students to the concept of making a polite request through the context of asking for a pet,...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Different Eyes, Different Ideas

    This set of worksheets helps students explore how people can view the same situation differently. Through drawing, matching, writing, and re...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    My Thoughts on the Story

    This worksheet set helps students form and express their opinions about texts. Through drawing, writing, and reflecting, students learn how...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Using Strong Words

    This set of differentiated worksheets helps students recognise and use persuasive words that express strong feelings, needs, or preferences....

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    What do you Think?

    This worksheet introduces Kindergarten students to the idea of personal opinions. Students sort everyday picture scenarios into β€˜agree’ or β€˜...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Seeing Through Different Eyes

    This worksheet set helps students understand the concept of perspective by exploring how different people or characters can see the same eve...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Perspective and Argument - Teacher Notes

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

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Fractured Fairytales - Narrative Writing (Year 2)

    The Fractured Fairytales – Narrative Writing Worksheet provides Year 2 students with a structured framework to retell and reimagine a well-k...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3 4

    Group Reflection Worksheet

    The Group Reflection Worksheet is a guided self-evaluation tool designed to help students reflect on their experiences working in a team aft...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Indigenous Sentence Builder

    The Indigenous Sentence Builder is an engaging, hands-on literacy activity designed to support students in constructing meaningful sentences...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Using Our Senses

    This activity helps students explore how descriptive language creates imagery in poetry. They will identify sensory details in Triantiwontig...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2 3

    Story Board Creation Activity

    Encourage storytelling and sequencing skills with the Story Board Creation Activity! This resource features a variety of engaging story prom...

  • 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...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Recount Writing

    This unit plan equips students to create and edit short recounts for familiar audiences. It focuses on using appropriate text structures, si...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Recount Writing - Display

    This series of posters provides detailed instructions and examples on creating and editing short recounts for familiar audiences. Covering t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Marking Rubric - Recount Writing

    This 5-point assessment rubric evaluates students' abilities to create and edit short recounts for familiar audiences. The rubric assesses t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Recount Writing Assessment Task

    This assessment enables teachers to evaluate students' ability to create and edit short recounts using text structures suited to their purpo...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Recount Writing Quiz

    This 10-question quiz is a versatile tool for assessing students' knowledge of creating and editing recounts. Featuring a mix of multiple-ch...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Snapshot Moments

    This set of worksheets guides students through creating personal recounts of memorable events using a simple template. Ideal for topics like...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Imagination Station

    Combine English and art in this fun activity! Students write an imaginative recount and then illustrate their stories. Display the results t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Writing Recounts

    This recount writing template guides students in structuring their sentences to form a well-organised recount. Ideal for resistant writers,...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Fix my Structure - Recount Writing

    This worksheet helps students practise structuring recount texts by arranging cut-out sections into the correct order. It includes different...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Fix It! Sentences

    This resource provides students with opportunities to edit small writing passages for punctuation, spelling, and grammar. It’s designed to h...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Sizzling Sentences

    This worksheet helps students practise combining simple sentences to form compound sentences, showing them how to add detail and interest to...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Vivid Vocabulary

    This worksheet encourages students to experiment with vivid vocabulary, transforming simple descriptions into more engaging narratives. By f...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Verb Groups

    This worksheet helps students explore verb groups to accurately describe actions and events. Through guided exercises, students experiment w...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Noun Groups

    This worksheet helps students explore the use of noun groups to improve their descriptive writing. Through guided exercises, students learn...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Past Tense Verbs

    This worksheet offers students ample opportunities to practise converting verbs from present to past tense. It includes a variety of exercis...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Recount Writing - Student Reference Card

    Equip your students with this handy reference card, designed to help them understand the structure and features of a well-crafted recount. P...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Halloween Booklet - Lower Primary

    Dive into a world of Halloween excitement tailored for our youngest learners! This 40-page booklet is packed with spooktacular activities, i...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Easter Pack - Upper Primary

    Elevate Easter celebrations for upper primary students (Years 5-6) with our dynamic Easter Pack! Engage in challenging math puzzles, creativ...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Easter Pack - Middle Primary

    Unleash the spirit of Easter with our vibrant pack designed for students in Years 3-4! From egg-cellent word searches to math challenges wit...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Easter Pack - Lower Primary

    Dive into a world of Easter excitement tailored for our youngest learners! This pack is filled with delightful activities, including bunny m...

  • Worksheet Year: P F 1 2

    Friendship Story Starters

    This is a fun collaborative story builder activity, where students will each take turns to write a sentence in the box to begin building the...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Procedure Writing Marking Rubric

    Tailored for educators, this detailed tool evaluates clarity, sequencing, and language usage. From titles to punctuation, guide students to...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Procedural Texts Quiz

    Step into the world of procedural texts with Procedural Texts Quiz! This interactive experience is designed for the entire class to explore...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Procedure Writing Template

    Elevate procedural writing in your classroom with our versatile Procedure Writing Template! Tailored for teachers, this customisable resourc...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Fantasy Procedure Writing Adventures

    Embark on a journey of creativity with 'Fantasy Procedure Writing Adventures.' This imaginative resource inspires students to craft whimsica...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Method Mix Up

    Method Mix Up adds an exciting twist to procedural writing! Students rearrange jumbled steps to reconstruct a clear sequence. Students must...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Procedural Writing Feature Hunt

    Engage students in procedural writing with our feature-rich worksheet on 'How to Build a Cardboard Robot.' This hands-on activity challenges...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Crazy Creations Procedure Writing

    Fuel creativity in the classroom with our β€˜Crazy Creations Procedure Writing’ resource. This interactive resource challenges students to...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Write A Procedure: Whole Class Templates

    Discover our interactive whiteboard templates for shared and modelled procedural writing! Engage your class in collaborative writing session...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Writing A Procedure - Student Reference Card

    This simple to understand β€˜Writing A Procedure’ student reference card, makes the perfect visual reference to remind students of the core co...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Writing Procedural Texts Class Display

    Transform your classroom with our 'Writing Procedural Texts' display! This visually appealing resource showcases a model procedure with all...

  • Video Year: F 1 2

    Wonder Words

  • Resource Year: 2

    Predict the Room

    Use this resource in one of two ways to encourage your students to practise their prediction comprehension skills. Your class can either com...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Australian Animal Fact Files

    These Australian Animal Fact Files will be a versatile addition to your classroom. Featuring 4 different Australian animals, they have been...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Using Quotation Marks Assessment

    This Using Quotation Marks Assessment requires students to recall their knowledge on how to correctly use quotation marks. Students inven...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Using Quotation Marks Quiz

    The Using Quotation Marks Quiz requires students to recall and retrieve their knowledge on how to use quotation marks. Simply open the slide...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Create Your Own Story

    Students use this worksheet along with the β€˜Spin A Story’ resource to choose characters, a setting and problem to write about. Students are...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    What Would They Say?

    This worksheet features visual scenarios for students to create character dialogue. Students are encouraged to think about what the characte...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Quotation Vacation

    All the quotation marks have gone on vacation! Students read and edit the sentences with direct speech to add in quotation marks. Β 

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Quotation Station Activity

    This Quotation Station Activity makes for a fantastic hands-on learning experience for students as they recall their knowledge on using quot...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Quotation Marks - Student Reference Card

    This Quotation Marks student reference card makes for a great reference for students to refer to for the correct use of quotation marks. It...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Quotation Marks Checklist Poster

    Display this Quotation Marks Checklist as a point of reference for students to use while writing. This poster makes for a great self-edit...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Instead of Said Poster

    This Instead of Said class display is a wonderful way to encourage your students to use words other than β€˜said’ in their writing. It feature...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Using Quotation Marks Poster

    This Using Quotations Mark class display is a simple yet effective display to remind students where to place their quotation marks for direc...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Who Said That?

    Use these worksheets to help your students master the use of dialogue in their writing. In addition, each sheet provides the opportunity for...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Make It Your Own!

    This task asks students to follow the process of writing a narrative to create their version of a familiar story. Students are provided with...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Sizzle or Fizzle?

    Use these worksheets to tackle common problems in writing. The set included worksheets on:- Fragments- Run On Sentences- Boring Sentences

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Powerful Prepositional Phrases

    Students' complete sentences by adding an appropriate prepositional phrase.Β 

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Prepositions with Peter

    A fun worksheet that asks students to use prepositions to describe where the bee, could be, in relation to Peter. A fun way to introduce pre...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Powerful Prepositions

    This worksheet is designed to help students identify a range of prepositions. In addition, this reference can be used when students are requ...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Magnify the Moment

    Help students add more detail to their writing by making a moment EXPLODE! This worksheet outlines steps to gather all the details required...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Magnify the Moment - Planning Sheet

    Use this planning sheet to guide students when magnifying a moment in their writing.Β Β  Β Β 

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Said is Dead!

    Have students realise how many better words are out there than said! Encourage students to include better vocabulary when describing how the...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Begin with a Bang

    Sick of bland beginnings to your student’s narrative writing? Then start with a bang! This worksheet allows students to practice beginning t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Informative Introductions

    This worksheet can assist students in coming up with a range of introductions for narrative writing. In addition, students learn that brains...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Narrative Texts - Student Reference Card

    These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with references to assist them when...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Done writing - Now What?

    Use these bookmarks to prompt students after the completion of their narrative writing.Β 

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    What Did They Say?

    Use these worksheets to help your students master dialogue in their writing. Students must first develop appropriate speech based on the pic...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Spin a Story - Narrative

    Have students use these fun and engaging spinners to plan for their next narrative writing piece. You can print one large copy to use with t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Narrative Writing Organiser - Plan and Prepare - Portrait

    Use the story writing templates to help students plan for writing or have them unpack narratives to see how all stories follow the same stru...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Narrative Writing Organiser - Plan and Prepare - Landscape

    Use the story writing templates to help students plan for writing or have them unpack narratives to see how all stories follow the same stru...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Narrative Structure Poster

    Print and display this simple narrative poster when introducing this concept to your class. The display provides a fun and memorable way to...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Create A Character - Set One

    This set of 30 Create A Character - Prompts are designed to encourage creative thinking and writing about characters. The prompts have been...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Look, Write & Colour - Writing Prompts Lower

    This set of 30 Look, Write & Colour - Picture Writing Prompts are designed to inspire writing in your classroom. The prompts have been desig...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Informative Texts Template

    This handy text scaffold supports students when creating informative texts. We also have a portrait version as another scaffold option. This...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Informative Texts Quiz

    This is a great consolidation activity that can be worked through as a whole class when learning about informative texts. It has been create...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Label the Diagram - Worksheet

    This worksheet supports your students to create labelled diagrams and understand diagrams as an important text feature when creating and exp...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Filling in Facts - Worksheet

    An engaging and fun worksheet to support your students when organising and structuring informative texts. The topic for this worksheet is ca...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Find the Facts! - Worksheet

    An engaging worksheet to support your students to differentiate between facts and opinions in preparation for creating their own factual tex...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Informative Texts - Student Reference Card

    A great resource to give to each of your students to support them when learning to create simple informative texts. It provides a text struc...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Persuasive Text Template

    This persuasive writing resource has been created to provide students with a scaffold when writing persuasive texts. A great way for student...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Would You Rather? - Worksheet

    This fun worksheet will get your students using persuasive language in the classroom! They read each scenario displayed on the page, colour...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Persuade Me Game

    Want to include an engaging and interactive resource into your study of persuasive texts? This game is for your classroom! This can be playe...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Fix My Structure! - Worksheet

    This worksheet will support your students to correctly structure a persuasive text. Students read each section, cut them out individually an...

  • Resource Year: 2

    For or Against? - Worksheet

    This worksheet will support your students to identify for and against statements when learning about persuasive texts. Students read each st...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Persuasive Texts Student Reference Cards

    This handy resource Β has been created as a student reference tool for persuasive texts. A great resource for students to stick into their wr...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Persuasive Texts Posters

    A great class display to have in your classroom when exploring persuasive texts. This Β display will support students to structure their pers...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Animal Information Report Posters

    Use these display posters for your students to refer to when writing Animal Information Reports. The symbols complement the Animal Informati...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Excellent Editing - Year 2 - Assessment

    This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of β€˜5 Star Writing’ when editing at a Year 2 level. It focuses on assessin...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Editing with Emma, Ella, Eve and Eric

    Students will use their knowledge of β€˜5 Star Writing’ to read over and edit Emma’s writing. On each re-reading they should focus on one of t...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proofreading Pencils - Year 2

    Use these quick and fun pencils as warm up activities, fast finishers or rotational activities in literacy groups. Students can either edit...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Powerful Proofreading - Year 2

    This is the perfect activity to use when practicing the skills that go with editing a sentence or piece of writing.Β  Your class will love...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Excellent Editing - Skill Builders - Year 2

    This set of worksheets provides students with opportunities to practise some of the explicit skills required to edit texts in Year 2. Includ...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Excellent Editing Chart

    This lower primary editing chart has been created for students toΒ edit and proofread their work by checking it for: Capitalisation P...

  • Resource Year: 2

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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 β€˜5 Star Writing’ by l...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Informative Texts Display

    This visual poster display will help support your students when remembering how to correctly sequence an informative text. Β 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Creating Digital Texts Rubric Editable

    This simple to use teacher rubric allows you to assess the progress of your class throughout the Foundation – Creating Digital Texts unit. T...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Story Time Assessment

    This interactive and editable PowerPoint presentation is the final assessment for the Foundation - Creating Digital Texts unit. Each student...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Drop Down Geniuses Activity

    This interactive and editable PowerPoint presentation is all about getting your students to use drop down menus. The class will learn how to...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Super Selectors Activity

    This interactive and editable PowerPoint presentation is all about getting your students selecting objects. The class will learn how to sele...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Superb Scrollers Activity

    This interactive and editable PowerPoint presentation is all about getting your students scrolling. The class will learn how to scroll using...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Typing Titians Activity

    This interactive and editable PowerPoint presentation is all about getting your students typing. The class will learn how to type letters, w...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Creating Digital Texts - Student Reference Card

    Print these reference cards for your students so they can easily refer back to the key computer skills of scrolling, selecting and typing. E...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Creating Digital Texts Class Display

    This class display is a great way to introduce or reinforce typing, selecting, scrolling and drop down menu computer skills. The displays pr...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Look and Write Cards - Narrative Prompts

    The Look and Write resource cards have been created to encourage students to create extended noun groups, as well as extend their descriptio...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +1

    A Sentence Has…

    This useful poster is a visual representation and great anchor chart explaining the basic features of a sentence. Display this in your class...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +1

    Computer Posters - Important Keys for PC

    This poster set reminds your students of the groups of keys on their keyboard and what they all do. There is a similar set of posters featur...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +1

    Computer Posters - Important Keys for Mac

    This poster set reminds your students of the groups of keys on their keyboard and what they all do. There is a similar set of posters featur...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Computer Posters - Open & Save

    These posters remind students of the essential keyboard shortcuts they can use to open and save documents in most of the software they will...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Poetry Templates

    These poetry templates are designed to be used as part of a larger unit on poetry to assess knowledge and understanding of poetry at the con...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Poetry Assessment - Task Sheet, Checklist & Rubric

    This poetry assessment is part of a larger unit on poetry. Use the task sheet, checklist and rubric to test knowledge and understanding of a...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Write Your Own Limerick

    This Limerick Poem worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifyi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Finish The Limerick

    This Limerick Poem worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifyi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Flower Cinquain

    This Cinquain worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifying th...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Nature Cinquain

    This Cinquain worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifying th...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Cinquain

    This Cinquain worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifying th...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Acrostic Poem

    This Acrostic poem worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide opportunities to practise writing acrostic poems...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Nature Walk Acrostic Poem

    This Acrostic poem worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide opportunities to practise writing acrostic poems...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Winter Tanka

    This Tanka Poem worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifying...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Nature Tanka

    This Tanka Poem worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifying...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Tanka

    This Tanka Poem worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifying...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Shape Poem

    This Shape poem worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide opportunities to practise writing shape poems with...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Summer Haiku

    This Haiku worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifying the s...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Nature Haiku

    This Haiku worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifying the s...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Haiku

    This Haiku worksheet is part of a larger unit on Poetry. The worksheet will provide examples and opportunities to practise identifying the s...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Create Your Own Character

    Use the template provided to assist you in visualising your perfect fairy tale character. Brainstorm your character’s physical and personali...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    How to Write a Fairy Tale

    Create your own imaginative fairy tale text. Use the templates to plan out your characters and setting before writing your own fairy tale st...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Word Cline Worksheet

    Worksheets to support the Teach This Word Cline lesson plan.Β  Use these worksheets to have a go at creating word clines. Students will le...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    5 Senses Word Cline

    A lesson plan designed to teach your class about word clines.Β  Use the lesson plan to support a lesson with your class about word clines....

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    The Easter Story - Cut and Paste

    Students colour, cut, sequence and paste the pictures from The Story of Easter to match the sentences. Β  Β 

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Narrative - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    A writing prompt for Β The Three Billy Goats Gruff to be used on a class screen. Use along with the TeachThis Β The Three Billy Goats Gruff...

  • 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.Β 

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Wonder Wall

    The Wonder Wall display header has been developed to be used as a word wall display to introduce vocabulary associated with various units of...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Recount Explanation Aeroplane Poster

    The Recount Explanation Aeroplane Poster provides a simple structure of a recount text. It is a perfect resource to provide desk groups o...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Once Upon a Time - Narrative Scenery

    The narrative scene can be displayed in the classroom as a prompt for imaginative writing.Β 

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Draft Writing Poster

    The 'Draft Writing' poster provides the steps required to turn an idea into a piece of text.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Punctuation Poster

    The Punctuation Monster Chart was designed to provide a simple reference tool for the purpose of punctuation in writing.

  • Resource Year: 2

    Story Map Narrative Mapping Ver. 2

    Further refine students' narrative skills with this second version of the narrative mapping resource. Students deepen their understanding of...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Story Map Narrative Mapping

    Develop students' storytelling skills with this narrative mapping resource. Students learn to structure and organise their narratives, enhan...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Editing Symbols - Handout

    The editing symbols handouts can be attached within writing books or attached to student desks for easy reference when editing.Β 

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +3

    Editing Symbols Poster

    The 'Editing Symbols Poster' displays a set of standard agreed-uponΒ symbols that help students to edit their texts for meaning.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Punctuation Monsters

    The Punctuation Monsters were designed to provide a simple reference tool for the purpose of punctuation in writing.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Punctuation Monster Chart

    The Punctuation Monster Chart was designed to provide a simple reference tool for the purpose of punctuation in writing.

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Information Report Outlines

    This set of information report outlinesΒ allows students to easily organise their information on animals, people, books, countries and athlet...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Better Word Choices - Feelings

    These charts have a myriad of uses in the classroom. They can be used to help students express their own emotions.Β The visual aspect of thes...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Words I am Learning - Spelling Book

    Words I am Learning - Spelling Book - This book has been created to support lower primary students in their writing throughout the school ye...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Persuasive Outline - Landscape

    This landscape presentation of theΒ Persuasive Outline provides an alternative planning style for students to use as they plan their own pers...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Persuasive Outline

    Students will use the Persuasive Outline to plan their own persuasive text.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Lower Primary Editing Chart

    Lower Primary Editing Chart is developed for lower primary toΒ edit spelling, spacing, capital letters, full stops and reading to check if it...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Super 'W' Questions

    This classroom display features 5 super 'W' questions students should ensure they have answered when constructing texts.

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Persuasive Writing Needs Strong Words - Lower Primary

    Persuasive Writing Does Need Strong Words so we decided to create a simple classroom poster for lower primary students that says just that!...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Descriptive Writing Cards 2

    Use these charts to help guide students through descriptive writing or oral presentations, including Show and Tell. There is one chart for e...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Descriptive Writing Cards

    Use these charts to help guide students through descriptive writing or oral presentations, including Show and Tell. There is one chart for e...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Narrative Prompt Sheets

    This resource is a remarkable addition to any classroomΒ and assists students in writing narratives. Each page contains words and images to p...

  • 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:Β  Β β€’Β Capital Letters – A...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +4

    Typing Keyboard Colour

    This keyboard features a visual display of correct finger positioning when typing.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +4

    Typing Keyboard BW

    Typing Keyboard BW

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Farm Animal Report

    This Animal Report was designed for students studying farm animals. Β  With visual prompts throughout and a space for drawing or gluing a p...

  • 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)

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Proofreading Symbols - Lower Primary

    These common proofreading symbols have been put into an easily understood table. Β  Suitable forΒ Lower Primary students, you can provide o...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Book Report

    This graphic organiser provides students with a simple framework to write a Book Report.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Animal Report - Junior

    With visual prompting, this graphic organiser isΒ provides an easy framework for young students toΒ write a simple report about an animal.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Keys to Successful Writing

    Requested by Tara, this is a fabulous resource for beginner writers. It is a visual step-by-step support system showing students how they ca...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Ready to work Prompt

    This is an old favourite for teaching students the good practice involved in early writing. A highly visual resource to act as a prompt for...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Storyboard

    Storyboard

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Narrative Planner

    Narrative Planner

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Narrative Outline

    Narrative Outline

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Fact Tree

    Fact Tree

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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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