Use these Reading Comprehension Skills Posters to help teach important reading comprehension strategies. These eye-catching posters are provided in two formats: TItle + definition Title + definition + sentence starters Both posters also include a QR code that students can scan to see an additional video that explains the reading comprehension skill. The following…
Go paperless with our Google Slides figurative language digital activities bundle. These activities feature 102 interactive slides for students to work through. Due to their mostly open-ended nature, many slides can be used multiple times! Develop your students’ ability to use figurative language in their writing. Great for distance learning and at-home learning. These…
Go paperless with our Digital Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension bundle! This combo pack is great for digital guided reading! Learn about video games, Ancient Egypt, the world under the sea, and natural disasters with our differentiated reading passages and questions. Each of the four Google Slides resources includes four passages (at two levels) with at least…
This resource provides simple and practice activities to send home to emergent readers who follow the Ready to Read Phonics Plus scope and sequence. It covers Tupu—Seedling 1 readers. These resource sheets can be printed and glued in a home learning book to accompany the corresponding home reader from the Phonics Plus range. …
This novel study is a comprehension, discussion, and activity guide accompanying Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider. The book explores themes of family, friendship, bravery, gender roles, power and resilience and traditions. The Whale Rider Novel Study has been split up into sections. Each section varies in size due to the number of pages and…
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 Level 8 PM Readers found in New Zealand and Australian schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 3 June 2018. Our School Journal Level 3 June 2018 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…
Learn about the cheeky character of Maui the demigod with our Maui Myths Paired Texts from the Pacific and Polynesian islands of Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, and New Zealand. These fiction-to-fiction paired texts target reading comprehension using two different passages about Māui and his exciting adventures. In this Maui Myths Paired Texts pack you will receive:…
This resource is a comprehension, discussion, and activity guide accompanying the New Zealand CHAPTERS series. This series supports Year 3 students in transitioning to reading longer texts. The resource supports the teaching and reading of Library Magic by Melinda Szymanik. When Sefa and his friends visit the library, they are looking for books to…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 3 November 2023. Our School Journal Level 3 November 2023 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…
Learn about Matariki and the Māori New Year with this easy-to-use reading and literacy pack. In this set of Matariki Reading Comprehension and Literacy Activities pack, pitched at Year 4 learners, students will learn what Matariki is, and how, when, and why it is celebrated. This resource is provided in both print and digital form…
Learn about Matariki and the Māori New Year with this easy-to-use reading and literacy pack. In this set of Matariki Reading Comprehension and Literacy Activities pack, pitched at Year 3 learners, students will learn what Matariki is, and how, when, and why it is celebrated. This resource is provided in both print and digital form…
These Phonics and Structured Literacy teaching slides have been created to specifically support the teaching and learning of the suffixes -ing, -s, -es, and -ed. This 80-slide teaching tool could be used as a warm-up at the start of a structured literacy session, as revision or as a whole class lesson. Both PowerPoint and…
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