Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

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  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Persuasive Power

    This worksheet develops students' ability to identify vivid and emotive vocabulary in persuasive texts. Through analyzing a book review, stu...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Figurative Language Fiesta

    This worksheet introduces students to figurative language, helping them identify metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery, and h...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Meaningful Metaphors

    This worksheet helps students transform literal sentences into meaningful metaphors, enhancing their descriptive writing skills. It includes...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Figurative and Emotive Vocabulary - Display

    This set of A4 posters vividly illustrates key figurative language devices (simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, idio...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Emotive Vocabulary - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card clearly explains figurative language techniques like metaphors, similes and personification. With simple definit...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Emotive Vocabulary - Presentation

    This presentation introduces Year 6 students to figurative and emotive language, explaining key devices like metaphors, similes, personifica...

  • 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

    Context - Teacher Notes

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

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Months of the Year Colouring

    This fun and simple colouring worksheet brings the classic rhyme "Thirty Days Has September" to life! Students practise reading fluency and...

  • 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

    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

    Describe it!

    This worksheet builds students’ ability to use descriptive language in narratives. Kindergarten students identify adjectives, Year 1 student...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Synonym Poster

    This poster provides a clear and concise guide to synonyms, helping students understand how words that means precisely or nearly the same as...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Antonyms Poster

    This poster provides a clear and concise guide to antonyms, helping students understand how words with opposite meanings function in languag...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: ‘Blueback’ Tim Winton- Novel Study

    This Blueback unit provides engaging lessons for Years 3-6, aligned with curriculum codes, focusing on characters, settings, themes, and lan...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Grading Rubrics - Year 5-6

    This resource contains two five-point rubrics to support middle to upper primary teachers in assessing work based on Blueback. The analytica...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Blueback - Representing Themes

    This creative task for middle to upper primary students requires students to design a poster representing a theme from Blueback. Using drawi...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Blueback - Analytical Essay

    This task for middle to upper primary students involves writing an analytical essay on a key theme in Blueback. Students develop critical th...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Grading Rubrics - Year 3-4

    These comprehensive 5-point rubrics evaluate key elements of the Blueback-inspired short story and storyboard, including setting, character...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Blueback - Storyboard

    This resource tasks students with creating a storyboard inspired by Blueback by Tim Winton. It guides them to develop a simple narrative set...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Blueback - Writing a Short Story

    This resource engages students in writing a short story set in the world of Blueback. With structured planning prompts, students create a na...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Blueback- Task Cards

    This resource provides a series of engaging task cards based on Tim Winton’s Blueback. It encourages students to explore themes such as the...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Storytelling Through Drama

    Engage middle primary students in exploring Blueback through drama. This activity guides them to plan, draft, and perform a play, deepening...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Continuing the Story

    Encourage middle and upper primary students to plan and write a sequel to Blueback, focusing on narrative structure and conservation themes....

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Change the Plot

    This resource guides upper primary students in exploring Blueback by Tim Winton through imaginative ‘what if’ scenarios. By brainstorming ch...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Chart the Plot

    This resource helps upper and middle primary students analyse the structure of Tim Winton's Blueback. By breaking down the story's key event...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Diving into Different Viewpoints

    Explore perspectives in Blueback with this worksheet for middle primary. Students analyse Abel’s encounter with a shark, answer scaffolded q...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Lessons from the Sea

    This engaging worksheet for middle primary focuses on connecting literature to personal experiences. Using Blueback by Tim Winton, students...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Diving Deep into Language

    This activity engages students in analysing Tim Winton’s use of figurative language in Blueback, focusing on how similes, metaphors, and ima...

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