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Dive into the NZ School Journal Level 3 November 2024 with Our Reading Response Activities! We’re excited to introduce our School Journal Reading Response Activities for the NZ School Journal Level 3 November 2024! This comprehensive resource is perfect for unpacking this School Journal’s engaging stories and articles. With a focus on identity, resilience, and…
Empower your students’ learning with this comprehensive whole-class teaching reading comprehension resource based on The Great Rat Catching Competition from the Level 2 June 2024 School Journal. Ideal for enhancing structured literacy programs, this resource is built around the Science of Reading principles and promotes comprehension strategies, vocabulary enrichment, grammar, syntax, sentence structure, verbal reasoning,…
Our Daily Maths Review Slides are a dynamic and effective tool for enhancing memory, retention, and learning. By incorporating principles of spaced practice, interleaved practice, and retrieval practice, these daily reviews offer a comprehensive approach to reinforcing previously taught mathematics content. A great companion to your structured maths programme. Aligns with the refreshed New…
This resource provides follow-up activities and home-learning tasks for five new (June 2026) Ready to Read Phonics Plus readers found in New Zealand schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Texts Covered in this resource: Sam and Dad – Kākano Fun…
Our Daily Maths Review Slides are a dynamic and effective tool for enhancing memory, retention, and learning. By incorporating principles of spaced practice, interleaved practice, and retrieval practice, these daily reviews offer a comprehensive approach to reinforcing previously taught mathematics content. A great companion to your structured maths programme. Aligns with the refreshed New…
Enhance your literacy teaching with these expertly designed teaching slides that focus on key spelling rules for Phase Two: During the Fourth Year. These slides are crafted to help you build strong literacy foundations through a structured literacy approach. These structured literacy spelling rules slides align perfectly with the Transcription Skills—Spelling strand of Te…
The Persuasive Speech Toolkit is a comprehensive resource that guides students through writing and delivering compelling persuasive speeches. This toolkit simplifies complex concepts, making speech writing accessible and engaging for all learners. How It Works: This toolkit provides a structured, explicit, step-by-step approach to teaching persuasive speech writing. It breaks down the process…
Engaging Reading Response Activities for NZ Junior Journal 68 Explore our NZ Junior Journal 68 Activities and Lesson Plans, designed to bring the stories and articles in this publication to life! This comprehensive resource offers both paper-based and digital options, making it perfect for classroom use or distance learning. The texts in Junior Journal 68…
Learn about the 2026 New Zealand General Election and the processes of the New Zealand government. In this set of reading comprehension and literacy activities pack, pitched at Year 2-4 learners, students will learn what an election is and all about the 2026 New Zealand General Election. In this New Zealand General Election Reading…
Enhance your literacy teaching with these teaching slides that focus on key spelling rules for Phase Three: Year 7-8. These slides are crafted to help you build strong literacy foundations through a structured literacy approach. These Year 7-8 structured literacy spelling rules slides align perfectly with the Transcription Skills—Spelling strand of Te Mātaiaho – The…
Supercharge your reading programme with this engaging five-pack Reading Skills Check Mega Bundle! Designed for Year 7-8 learners, this resource uses high-interest themes – Food, Natural Disasters, Sports, Insects and Vehicles – to build comprehension, vocabulary, inference, and analytical skills in a structured, easy-to-implement format. Five weeks included! Each pack offers a week of…
Enhance your students’ reading comprehension and knowledge of NZ history content with this comprehensive resource, focused on Rise Up: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers from the Level 4 November 2018 School Journal. This teaching tool is great as an addition to your structured literacy program. This resource engages students…
Bring history to life with the Otago Gold Rush Scavenger Hunt! This engaging, cross-curricular reading comprehension activity invites students to move around the classroom, exploring reading passages and solving clues to uncover the mystery of the missing gold nugget. The scavenger hunt includes ten fact cards, each requiring students to read closely and revisit details,…
Spark excitement and develop persuasive writing skills in your classroom with these six sets of writing prompts and scaffolded writing activities. The activities cover argument writing (write to persuade). They include engaging writing prompts, mentor texts, scaffolded material, and planning graphic organisers. This writing resource also includes in-depth teacher notes. This resource aligns with…
This resource is a comprehension, discussion and activity guide to accompany the novel Cuz by Liz Van der Laarse. Cuz is a children’s novel that was published in 2018 and is known to be New Zealand’s version of Hatchet. The novel is a fast-paced survival story set in the wild landscape of Fiordland. It…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the School Journal Year 7-8 November 2025. Our School Journal Year 7-8 November 2025 Activities resource has everything you need to dive into the story and articles within this publication. Both a paper-based and digital option are included so you can use this in the…
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