Learn about the popular New Zealand band Six60 with our differentiated reading passages and literacy activities. This resource features a full digital pack – perfect for Google Classroom or Microsoft One Drive. Great for New Zealand’s May Music Month! This Year 4, Year 5-6 and Year 7-8 pack includes a non-fiction passage, reading and…
This resource provides follow-up activities for a selection of 12 Turquoise Level 17 PM readers found in New Zealand and Australian schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Save your time and know that your students are completing follow-up activities…
These unique alphabet puzzles feature a set of beginning sounds posters AND puzzle pieces that can be used to teach letter recognition, letter formation, and initial sounds. The beginning sounds puzzle posters will look great displayed around your classroom wall or bulletin, while the puzzle pieces are perfect for your literacy centres. is the cheapest…
This resource is designed as a decodable text for older readers (year 4 – Year 8). It focuses on Matariki, a public holiday marking the Māori New Year in New Zealand. Focus Phonemes and Graphemes: The text emphasises the following phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences: /or/ phoneme represented by or /ar/ phoneme represented by ar ‘er’ grapheme…
This resource provides follow-up activities for a selection of 15 Orange Level 16 PM readers found in New Zealand and Australian schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Save your time and know that your students are completing follow-up activities…
This resource is designed as a decodable text for older readers (year 4 – Year 8). It focuses on the Olympic Games and New Zealand’s involvement. Focus Phonemes and Graphemes: This text has a particular focus on v_e split digraph words, including a_e, e_e, i_e, and o_e split digraphs. Examples include athlete, compete, backstroke,…
Matariki resources for The Maori New Year. Let us save you time this Matariki season with our Matariki Activities Year 3 and 4 activities: a bundle of fantastic Matariki literacy resources featuring Reading, Writing, and other activities! Perfect for the Year 3 and 4 classroom and your literacy and social studies program. ⭐️This resource includes…
This resource provides follow-up activities for all of the current Ready to Read Phonics Plus Tupu Seedling Level 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. This Ready to Read Phonics Plus Tupu Seed Activities BUNDLE…
UPDATE: 20 additional pages have been added, plus answers. This Writing Skills Year 5 and 6 bundle features our Literacy Skills Activity Pack, Figurative Language Activities Bundle and our Literacy Skills Poster Bundle. Grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling and figurative language feature in this year-long resource. With activities and an assessment, you can cover the…
Take a trip back in time while improving reading comprehension with our differentiated Ancient Egypt Pyramids Reading Comprehension activities. This activity pack includes one Year 5-8 non-fiction passage (at two levels) with six pages of unique and engaging text-dependent questions and higher-order thinking tasks. Gain context with our bonus Ancient Egypt PowerPoint and Internet website…
Improve reading comprehension in your classroom with our differentiated myths and legends from around the world close reading passages and questions. This pack includes five passages with six pages of engaging text-dependent questions and higher-order thinking tasks. These activities are great for your guided reading program or as homework tasks. Learn more about Theseus and the Minotaur,…
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