These Punctuation Power-Up activities are a great boost for those who need some extra practice of punctuation skills. This pack focuses on eight comma rules. We’ve provided two levels, easily identified by the handwriting or standard lines on the worksheet. These worksheets have a food theme. This resource includes 26 activity sheets:…
We’ve compiled a set of reading response activities for the Connected Level 2 2023 – Settling In text. This resource has everything you need to dive into the articles within this publication. Connected supports Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories and Tīkanga ā-Iwi, social sciences, inclusion, and well-being – within integrated literacy programmes. When you purchase…
Practice decoding and spelling CVC words, CCVC words, and CVCC words using our Plant or Compost? game. This is a game to practice blending sounds into words. After reading the words, students decide if they are real or nonsense (made up). They ‘plant’ the real words in the soil, and place the nonsense words…
Practice decoding and spelling CVC words, CCVC words, and CVCC words using our car park game. Use this resource as a reading activity, with your guided reading group, or as a whole class activity to practice decoding and spelling CVC words, CCVC words, and CVCC words. This resource contains: 132 CVC words across…
Go paperless with our Vocabulary Digital Task Cards Mega Bundle. These Vocabulary Google Slides activities feature 346 interactive slides for students to work through and 60 teaching slides to introduce the concepts. This vocabulary resource bundle is suitable for Google Drive, Google Classroom, or Microsoft OneDrive (instructions included), and can be used on multiple…
Our 48 engaging Parts of Speech challenges will grab your students’ attention and help to improve their vocabulary. These literacy cards include parts of speech: Nouns, Pronouns, Proper Nouns, Verbs, Verb Tenses, Adverbs, Adjectives, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Modal Auxiliary Verbs, Relative Pronouns and Relative Adverbs. They are great for end of year revision, test prep, early…
Head back in time to the Jurassic Age and improve reading comprehension with our Dinosaurs Reading Comprehension activities. This activity pack includes FIVE Grade Five and Six (Year Five and Six) informational non-fiction passages with six pages of unique and engaging text-dependent questions and higher-order thinking tasks. These activities are great for your guided…
Christmas is an extremely busy time of year! Let us save you some time! This Christmas Reading Comprehension Bundle will engage your students while reinforcing important reading skills – great reading comprehension activities for guided reading! In this Christmas Reading Comprehension Bundle you will receive: Three Christmas Reading Packs (In total, you receive four texts…
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…
Our Daily Literacy 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 literacy content. Great as practice for the Common Assessment Activities (CAA’s). A great companion to…
Streamline your Year 7 math routine with these “Number of the Day” slides. Designed for Year 7 (Phase 3), this resource bridges the gap between arithmetic and early algebra, focusing on rigorous mental strategies for both whole numbers and decimals. This resource supports students in mastering the infinite nature of the base-10 system, from…
This Ready to Read Phonics Plus bundle provides simple, practice activities to send home to readers who follow the Ready to Read Phonics Plus scope and sequence. It covers all readers in this series, from Kākano through to Rākau. These resource sheets can be printed and glued in a home learning book to accompany the…
Supercharge your reading programme with this engaging five-pack Reading Skills Check Mega Bundle! Designed for Year 3 learners, this resource uses high-interest themes – Big Cats, Cryptids, Ocean Creatures, Weather, and Space – to build comprehension, vocabulary, inference, and analytical skills in a structured, easy-to-implement format. Five weeks included! Each pack offers a week…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on Running Wild from the Level 4 November 2024 School Journal. Great as an addition to your structured literacy program. This teaching tool engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building, grammar, syntax, sentence structure, verbal reasoning, and content knowledge—key elements of the Science of…
This resource teaches the skill of paragraphing in writing. This resource introduces younger students (working at levels 1 and 2 of the curriculum, or years 1-3) to what paragraphs are, why we use them, and when we use them. It is designed to help students learn, remember and practice when to separate their sentences…
Our Year 7 Tier Two Vocabulary Explicit Teaching Slides are an engaging and highly effective resource for exploring word meanings. These slides work perfectly alongside your structured literacy programme, supporting students as they build a stronger vocabulary. Expanding vocabulary is critical to improving reading and writing skills, and research shows that students with larger vocabularies…
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