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This Blueback unit provides engaging lessons for Years 3-6, aligned with curriculum codes, focusing on characters, settings, themes, and lan...
This comprehensive unit plan equips teachers with engaging resources to teach students about using rhetorical devices, images, and modal ver...
This unit plan incorporates editing skills aligning with the Australian Curriculum content descriptors ACELY1695, ACELY1705 and ACELY1715. T...
In this unit, students learn to recognise, and interpret multimodal texts while making one of their own.
This unit on information reports was written to enhance students’ understanding and abilities in researching and writing information reports...
This biography unit was developed to help students research interesting people while learning about the form of biography, and information r...
This visually engaging presentation supports students in using rhetorical devices, images, and modal verbs for persuasive effects, targeting...
This presentation has been created to guide students through an introduction to editing their writing. It focuses on making writing ‘5 Star...
In this presentation, students look at the evolution of texts, including the introduction of multimedia. They then work through a series of...
This presentation is designed to help later years primary students develop their writing skills for information texts. It is part of a la...
This presentation is a copy of Prime Minister Paul Keating's historic 'Redfern Park Speech'. As one of more significant pieces of public spe...
This presentation introduces students to biographies, and gets them set up for the biography unit for year 6. This unit was developed to hel...
This reflective resource invites students in Years 3-6 to consolidate their understanding of symbolism and visual storytelling. Designed to...
These reflection worksheets support students in evaluating their symbolic storytelling, film analysis, or visual comparison in the Leila and...
These differentiated rubrics support summative assessment of narrative, analytical, or visual interpretation tasks in the unit. Each rubric...
This comprehensive editing toolkit supports Years 3-6 students in polishing their symbolic writing and analytical responses. Whether student...
This flexible task sheet supports students in Years 3-6 to create a visual comparison of symbolism in Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants. S...
The Migrant Messages toolkit equips students in Years 3-6 to analyse how the short film Migrants uses visual symbolism to convey emotion, mo...
This toolkit includes four structured tools to support students in planning, drafting and refining a short story rich in symbolism, imagery...
This worksheet guides students through the process of creating a symbolic visual storyboard for a new scene inspired by Leila and the Blue F...
These worksheets explore how word choices affect tone and meaning in storytelling. Designed for Years 3-6, the resource offers scaffolded ta...
This five-week persuasive writing unit explores Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle, guiding students through the analysis of...
The Yahoo Creek Suggested Answers booklet provides model responses for all key activities across the persuasive writing unit. It includes sa...
This reflection-based worksheet helps students explore how arguments shape our understanding of historical narratives. Using real quotes fro...
These reflection worksheets support students in evaluating their persuasive writing or presentation following a summative assessment based o...
These two 5-point grading rubrics are designed to assess persuasive writing for Years 3–6. The Years 3–4 rubric focuses on structure, opinio...
This worksheet set supports students in the final editing phase of their persuasive writing. Focusing on logic (does the reasoning make sens...
This resource builds advanced editing skills in persuasive writing. The editing checklist supports Years 3–6 students to review their drafts...
Designed for Years 5–6, this resource guides students through the full persuasive writing process, from selecting a topic to publishing a fi...
This peer feedback worksheet helps students review persuasive paragraphs using structured questions and the TAG (Tell, Ask, Give) strategy....
This resource helps students identify and apply three key elements of effective persuasive writing: clarity (clear ideas and language), cohe...
These differentiated editing checklists support students in revising persuasive writing with a focus on clarity, coherence and persuasive im...
This worksheet set helps Years 5–6 students write structured persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL method—Point, Evidence, Explain and Link....
This lesson introduces students to the fundamentals of structured debate. To be used in conjunction with Yahoo Creek: Debate Topics, student...
This poster helps students structure persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL method: Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link. It supports clear,...
This poster helps students build strong persuasive paragraphs using the hamburger method. Each layer of the burger shows what to include: op...
The Teaching Notes page supports implementation of the Yahoo Creek Persuasive Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the weekly lesson sequ...
The Yahoo Creek unit title page introduces students to the theme of persuasive writing through the lens of historical mystery and storytelli...
This printable letter-writing template invites Year 6 students to reflect on their current interests, goals, and friendships, and write a he...
This newspaper-themed A3 poster helps students understand how to structure a news article using the inverted triangle format, where the most...
This comprehensive Letter to the Editor pack supports students in reading, analysing, and writing persuasive opinion letters in response to...
This resource contains two five-point rubrics to support middle to upper primary teachers in assessing work based on Blueback. The analytica...
This creative task for middle to upper primary students requires students to design a poster representing a theme from Blueback. Using drawi...
This task for middle to upper primary students involves writing an analytical essay on a key theme in Blueback. Students develop critical th...
This resource provides a series of engaging task cards based on Tim Winton’s Blueback. It encourages students to explore themes such as the...
This resource helps upper and middle primary students analyse the structure of Tim Winton's Blueback. By breaking down the story's key event...
This activity engages students in analysing Tim Winton’s use of figurative language in Blueback, focusing on how similes, metaphors, and ima...
This activity helps students identify key events in Blueback, analyse their influence on the plot, and illustrate each moment. It encourages...
This graphic organiser supports students in exploring Tim Winton’s Blueback by identifying the main characters, setting, storyline, theme, a...
This resource supports teaching Tim Winton’s Blueback and includes a visually engaging title page to introduce the unit and teaching notes....
Build confident and capable writers with the Paragraph Building Workshop! This step-by-step resource helps students learn to construct stron...
This comprehensive 5-point assessment rubric is designed to support the unit of work on Rhetorical Devices, focusing on students' ability to...
This 2-page assessment task evaluates students' proficiency in employing rhetorical devices, images, and modal verbs to achieve persuasive e...
This quiz is a valuable tool for assessing students' understanding of using rhetorical devices and modal verbs for persuasive effects. With...
This engaging resource comprises a set of scenario cards designed to ignite creativity and persuasive skills in students. Ideal for pairs or...
A simple game where students move around the board, selecting a topic and rhetorical device to persuade others. Easy to set up and adaptable...
This engaging, low-prep game allows students to practice oral language skills by selecting topic cards and using rhetorical devices to convi...
Transform an informative text about social media use into a persuasive text using learned rhetorical devices. This worksheet includes sugges...
Transform an informative text about vending machine use into a persuasive text using learned rhetorical devices. This worksheet includes sug...
Transform an informative text about the Great Barrier Reef into a persuasive text using learnt rhetorical devices. This worksheet includes s...
This worksheet guides students through using modal verbs in persuasive writing. They fill in blanks, rewrite sentences incorporating modal v...
This worksheet introduces students to Aristotle's pillars of persuasion: pathos, ethos, and logos. Students will learn about each device and...
Equip your students with this handy reference card, aiding their understanding of using rhetorical devices, images, and modal verbs for pers...
Enhance your persuasive writing unit with our Rhetoric Devices posters! This set includes clear explanations, examples, and reasons for usin...
A fantastic set of 25 Persuasive Picture Writing Prompts which are great for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. In Set Two,...
This is the ultimate pack of 50 Picture Writing Prompts which are essential for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. Each writ...
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...
A fantastic set of 25 Persuasive Picture Writing Prompts which are great for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. In Set One,...
This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of ‘5 Star Writing’ when editing at a Year 4 level. It focuses on assessin...
Want a fun way to practise editing skills? Get Ready to Edit is an interactive and collaborative way for your students to practise the editi...
These proofreading passages can be displayed as a whole class activity, printed for literacy groups or used as fast finishers. For convenien...
Use these quick and fun erasers as warm up activities, fast finishers or rotational activities in literacy groups. Students can either edit...
Students will use their knowledge of ‘5 Star Writing’ to read over and edit Pat, Pam and Peter’s writing. On each re-reading they should foc...
This set of worksheets provides students with opportunities to practise some of the explicit skills required to edit texts in Year 4. Includ...
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...
Use these prompts to guide students when providing feedback to their peers. They scaffold students to write feedback on a:Glow- a positive a...
These feedback forms have been designed to use when students are required to provide feedback to their peers. They ask students to focus on...
These feedback forms have been designed to use when students are required to provide feedback to their peers. Students should focus on two s...
These feedback forms have been designed to use when students are required to provide feedback to their peers. Students should focus on two s...
This beautifully designed poster is part of the Excellent Editing units and is used to remind students that feedback given to each other sho...
These Excellent Editing checklists have been designed as a handy reference tool for students to use whilst working through the Excellent Edi...
These colourful posters have been created to support students when editing their writing. It focuses on making writing ‘5 Star Writing’ by l...
This is the ultimate pack of 50 Picture Writing Prompts which are essential for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. Each writ...
This iPad Bootcamp is designed to teach your students a range of iPad, internet and media arts skills while completing a series of tasks. Ea...
In this activity, students complete a writing prompt based on one of the set’s character cards. This set is built around fantasy narratives....
In this activity, students use a series of landscape pictures and writing prompts to explore the importance of setting in narrative. Younger...
This rubric was created to assess the presentation created by your students and allow you to easily break it down into separate assessable u...
These displays were created to be used as examples of infographics you and your students can use in class. They are a part of a larger unit...
This poster introduces your students to the components common in many infographics, as well as a brief explanation on why infographics are u...
This reference card helps reinforce their learning as a part of a larger unit for Year 5 where students learn to recognise and interpret mul...
This reference card helps reinforce their learning as a part of a larger unit for Year 5 where students learn to recognise and interpret mul...
This is an example of a rubric which could be used to assess information reports for Year 6. It is part of a larger unit on information r...
These bookmarks, directly tied to the suggested unit rubric, can be given to students as they work on their information report to help them...
This worksheet helps scaffold students as they lay out an information report paragraph. It is part of a larger unit on information report...
This worksheet is an information report planning template to help scaffold your students as they write their reports. It is part of a lar...
In this worksheet, students lay out the facts they discover during their research into categories to help them sort it later for draft writi...
In this worksheet, students are forced to come up with some specific search criteria to use online to reduce the amount of time wasted while...
In this worksheet, students work through series of brain storming steps to help them choose a topic that they’re not only interested in, but...
This worksheet can help students develop their abilities sorting facts from opinions. It is part of a larger unit on information reports...
This card is meant to serve as an individual reference for students to use while writing information reports. It is part of a larger unit...
While students begin to research their biography subject, this dice rolling activity will help them see their subjects in a different light....
This extension activity is written to work together with the Bellear Brothers Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to...
This is a biography of Australian Aboriginal civil-rights leaders. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students rese...
This is a biography of the legendary Australian racehorse, Phar Lap. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students re...
This worksheet is designed to further scaffold students in biography writing, by prompting their research of a person in preparation for sha...
This is a biography of Australian researcher, Ian Frazer. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students research inte...
This extension activity is written to work together with the Roald Dahl Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to help s...
This is a biography of Australian Cricketer Donald Bradman. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students research in...
This extension activity is written to work together with the Cathy Freeman Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to hel...
This is a biography of Australian Olympic champion Cathy Freeman. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students resea...
This is a biography of Fred Hollows, a prominent Australian and New Zealand eye surgeon and humanitarian. This Biography is part of a larger...
This worksheet is designed to get students interested in researching and writing biographies, by finding a subject who shares their birthday...
This comprehension activity is written to work together with the Jane Goodall Biography. This sheet is a part of a larger unit developed to...
This is a biography of primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall. This Biography is a part of a larger unit developed to help students...
This poster suggests a number of diverse biography subjects for your students to reserach and write on. The poster is a part of a larger uni...
This student reference card was created as a part of the Biography unit plan. It can be stuck in their books and referred to throughout the...
A persuasive writing prompt of a poster to recruit Australian soldiers in WW1. Using the persuasive writing visual prompt, students writ...
A persuasive writing prompt to recruit Australian women as nurses in WW1. Using the persuasive writing visual prompt, students write a t...
Fractured Fairy Tale prompt and plan for The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Use along with the TeachThis ‘ The Three Billy Goats Gruff ’ read...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff writing prompt is for class screen. Use along with the TeachThis ‘ The Three Billy Goats Gruff ’ read aloud....
The Three Billy Goats Gruff newspaper report writing prompt is for use on a class screen, and newspaper template for the report. Use alo...
A writing prompt for The Three Billy Goats Gruff to be used on a class screen. Use along with the TeachThis The Three Billy Goats Gruff...
Fractured Fairy Tale prompt and plan for The Gingerbread Man. Use along with the TeachThis ‘The Gingerbread Man’ read aloud. Students pl...
The Gingerbread Man writing prompt for class screen. Use along with the TeachThis ‘The Gingerbread Man’ read aloud. Display the writing p...
The Gingerbread Man newspaper report writing prompt is for use on a class screen, and newspaper template for the report. Use along with...
A writing prompt for The Gingerbread Man to be used on a class screen. Use along with the TeachThis The Gingerbread Man read aloud.
30 images to be used as prompts for narrative writing. Display a visual prompt on your class screen. Students are required to write a na...
Included are 100 writing prompts. These are perfect for daily writing, early finishers, or literacy rotations. These cards would be the p...
Students investigate some the largest migrations in the animal kingdom, plotting them on a world map.
Students take what they’ve learned about the Tardigrade, and reimagine them in a super hero setting.
This persuasive writing prompt has been written specifically to support Harmony Day celebrations.
This narrative writing prompt has been written specifically to support Harmony Day celebrations.
This set of Genre Paragraph Writing - Posters was created to demonstrate how to write a paragraph in a variety of different text types. Thes...
This poster provides a definition for Rhetorical Questions and provides examples to help students consolidate understanding.
This set of Narrative Story Starters focuses on using: Dialogue Conversation Vivid Descriptions An Interesting Fact Onomatopoeia Aski...
The 'Editing Symbols Poster' displays a set of standard agreed-upon symbols that help students to edit their texts for meaning.
This poster sets out the steps involved in researching a topic in preparation for an information report. It provides a list of possible sour...
This set of information report outlines allows students to easily organise their information on animals, people, books, countries and athlet...
The PEEL Sentence Starters are a great reference tool for students to access to develop persuasive writing skills. This chart features a var...
Use the VCOP Openers resource to introduce students to different, and more interesting, ways they can begin sentences. This takes them past...
The 'Narrative Writing Prompts' have been created in a NAPLAN style of narrative prompt, to provide practise in interpreting and creating te...
This set of sentence starters can be displayed in the classroom as a prompt for students to access when creating a persuasive text.
The Narrative Structure was created as a visual prompt with relevant questions for each part of a narrative.
This reference card is designed to give students easy access to a list of highly persuasive words when structuring their persuasive writing...
This chart provides a useful resource for students to access when structuring their persuasive writing texts. It features one page of positi...
This set of Persuasive Sentence Starters is designed for upper primary students providing them with some effective sentence starters to acce...
Persuasion... this poster was created as a reminder when structuring a persuasive writing text. Students are reminded that successful persua...
This set of 15 persuasive writing prompts are a great resource to display on the IWB for students to access as practise writing exercises be...
This selection of persuasive writing prompts are a great resource to display on the IWB for students to access as practise writing exercises...
This bookmark was created to support the CUPS editing poster (Capital Letters, Understand, Punctuation, Spelling). The bookmark acts as a ha...
This resource is a remarkable addition to any classroom and assists students in writing narratives. Each page contains words and images to p...
The CUPS Editing Poster is a bright and student-friendly visual reminder for self-checking writing. CUPS stands for: • Capital Letters – A...
This keyboard features a visual display of correct finger positioning when typing.
Students can use this worksheet to guide them through the process of writing a recipe (instructional text)
This graphic organiser provides students with a simple framework to write a Book Report.
With visual prompting, this graphic organiser is provides an easy framework for young students to write a simple report about an animal.
These story wheels are designed to assist students in planning narratives, allowing students to spin each wheel to discover the narrative el...
These story prompt dice are designed to provide quick and easy prompts for students who struggle to find the right idea when writing narrati...
The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...
The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...
The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...
The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...
The following charts are highly visual and provide information on Habitat, Movement, Reproduction, Diet and Did you know? They are perfect t...
These charts include all the writing conventions for six of the most common text types along with an example of each. Designed to accompany...
This resource was requested by our member, Sarah, to provide descriptions of each of the 5 stages of The Writing Process - Pre-writing, Draf...
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...
This series of posters outlines commonly used types of punctuation with clear examples and explanations of their usage. A fantastic visual r...
These common proofreading symbols have been put into an easily understood table. Suitable for Upper Primary students, you can provide one fo...
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