The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...
This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...
This pack of 32 Fiction Task Cards is designed to deepen students’ comprehension, analysis, and reflection when responding to fiction texts....
This comprehensive unit helps students examine characters’ settings and plot in texts. The unit contains a presentation, student reference c...
Use this check-in to assess student understanding of the ways in which authors make stories engaging by the way they develop character, sett...
This 10-question quiz makes a wonderful whole class warmup, review or formative assessment tool to gauge students’ level of understanding ab...
Have students use this spinner activity to practice asking and answering questions about how authors make stories engaging through their dev...
Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Use these to help your students identify the story plot when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
In this activity, students are asked to: Identify the language authors use to create vivid descriptions of settings. Describe and...
Use this activity to help students describe and discuss how authors make the reader care about the decisions of characters and their consequ...
This activity is a great way to encourage discussions about characters in the class stories and novels your class is exploring. A discuss...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in writing and examining characters in reading. This worksheet provi...
These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with reference to remind them about...
This presentation explores how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions....
This unit is based around the text, Dreaming Soldiers. The text presents a variety of themes that have been addressed throughout the unit’s...
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 unit is an in-depth look at the Dr. Seuss story ‘The Sneetches’, which includes an analysis of Dr. Seuss’ style, and well as the themes...
In this worksheet, students replicate Dr. Suess’ rhyming style to find rhymes to common words, and then create a rhyming couplet. This wo...
This is a word-search activity that students from the book ‘The Sneetches’. This worksheet is a part of a larger in-depth look at the Dr....
In this activity, students rotate around the classroom writing their favourite things about each other their classmates. Encourage your stud...
In this worksheet, students use their imaginations to create creatures who live near the Sneetches, but don’t let their differences come bet...
In this worksheet, students write a dialogue of friendship between two sneetches who are different. This worksheet is a part of a larger...
In this worksheet, students imagine themselves as a Plain-bellied Sneetch and must write a persuasive text arguing for or against a suggeste...
In this worksheet, students imagine themselves as a Plain-bellied Sneetch from the Dr Seuss story ‘The Sneetches’, and write a journal entry...
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