These teaching slides are created to help you teach the key spelling rules for Phase One: First Six Months – During Year 1. Transform your literacy lessons with the Structured Literacy Spelling Rules Slides: Phase One! Designed to align seamlessly with the Transcription Skills – Spelling strand of Te Mātaiaho – The English Curriculum, this…
This comprehensive resource provides tools to help explore, teach, and write poetry. Delve into the world of poetry, guided by the theme of emotions. This resource includes: Nine Poetry Planning Graphic Organisers Acrostic poem Cinquain poem Haiku Limerick Shape poem Diamante poem Tanka poem Quatrain List poem Eight Vocabulary Word Lists Emotions Action…
This colourful set of sentence-building cards helps students to understand the building blocks of sentences. Laminate these and create a hands-on sentence-building activity, a parts of speech identification activity, or a handy classroom display. Sentence-building cards can be a fun and interactive way to teach language skills, reinforce grammar concepts, or simply engage learners…
Introducing our comprehensive Subject, Verb and Object Teaching Pack – the ultimate resource to help students master one of the fundamental building blocks of sentences. Packed with engaging materials, this set of resources equips educators with all the tools necessary to understand the sentence structure of subject, verb and object. Unlock the potential of…
This digital slide deck is a specialised handwriting instructional tool for teaching the New Zealand Basic Script, a practical alphabet designed for speed, legibility, and automaticity. Optimised for short, 10–15 minute daily sessions, these slides guide students through the specific movements and patterns required to master handwriting. Note: These slides are also featured…
We have created activities to accompany the Ready to Read Phonics Plus Big Books: The Boat Race and Frog Finds a Home. These books introduce the characters that will be found in many of the Kākano, Tupu, Māhuri and Rākau Ready to Read Phonics Books. We have created 24 follow-up activities for the two Ready…
Embrace the multicultural classroom in style with our Diwali: Festival of Lights print and go worksheets. Just choose which resources you would like to use and print them out! Perfect to use in the classroom as an early finisher activity, as part of a literacy rotation, or for homework. In 2025, Diwali falls on Monday…
Introducing our comprehensive Adjectives Teaching Pack – the ultimate resource to help students master one of the fundamental building blocks of sentences. Packed with engaging materials, this pack equips educators with all the tools necessary to ensure a deep understanding of adjectives. Unlock the potential of your lessons with our thoughtfully crafted teaching slides,…
These activities have been created to specifically support the teaching and learning of three suffixes: -ing, -ed, -s With initial modelling and scaffolding, these activities are intended to be completed independently to build students’ skills in following instructions, fine motor skills and stamina to complete tasks. In this Phonics and Structured Suffixes Activities…
Save your time and know that your students are completing follow-up activities featuring a range of reading and fine motor skills. This resource provides follow-up activities for a selection of 8 Yellow/Blue Level 8/9 readers found in New Zealand and Australian schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and…
This superhero-themed pack includes eight Sight Word Snakes and Ladders Game Boards to cover the NZ High-Frequency Sight Word Levels: Magenta, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, and Orange. Help your students build their sight word fluency while also engaging them in this fun game. Sight word recognition improves reading fluency, allowing the student to focus their…
These teaching slides are created to help you teach the key spelling rules for Phase One: During the Second Year. These structured literacy spelling rules slides will transform your literacy lessons. Designed to seamlessly align with the Transcription Skills—Spelling strand of Te Mātaiaho —The NZ English Curriculum, this resource brings the principles of structured literacy…
We’ve put together a bundle of activities to explore, comprehend, and write poetry using emotions. This Poetry Activities bundle features: Poetry Comprehension Activities for NZ School Journal Poems – Print and Digital Six poetry comprehension activities Each resource features 8-10 questions. Six digital poetry comprehension activities Answers are included. Comprehension activities to use with…
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