Prepare your students for intermediate math with these 70 Year 6 (Phase 2) “Number of the Day” slides. Designed for the specific needs of Year 6 students, this resource connects complex place value concepts with fractions, decimals, and percentages. These daily warm-ups are rigorous and designed to build fluency across the full base-10 system—extending…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Year 4 November 2025. Our NZ School Journal Year 4 November 2025 Follow Up 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…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on The Problem with Wallabies from the Level 2 November 2023 School Journal. Great as an addition to your structured literacy program. Enhance Your Students’ Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Principles. This teaching tool engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building, grammar,…
This resource is designed to give students extra fluency practice. Project the slides on your classroom projector or TV, and you are ready to go! A full teacher script is built into the slides to help guide you through the resource. The words used in this fluency resource are aligned to the scope and…
Elevate your Phase 2 (Year 4-6) Writing to Inform: Explanation writing instruction with our Writing to Inform: Explanation Writing Teaching Slides. This writing resource is designed to support teachers to teach Writing to Inform: Explanations, from Phase 2 (Years 4, 5 and 6) of Te Mātaiaho: English in the New Zealand curriculum. This…
Enhance Your Students’ Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Principles. This comprehensive resource, focused on the Cook Islands’ traditional story Mariri, the Flying Man from Junior Journal 60, will develop your students’ reading comprehension. It is great as an addition to your Year 3 structured literacy program. Mariri, the Flying Man—Junior Journal 60: This…
Explore the structure and design of pā in New Zealand with this dynamic whole-class teaching resource. These whole-class teaching slides work for Year 5-8 learners and align with the Science of Reading and the principles of a knowledge-rich curriculum. In this Structure and Design of Pā Whole-Class teaching pack, you receive: 1. A…
Learn about soccer star Lionel Messi with these print-and-go worksheets. In this set of reading comprehension and literacy activities pack, pitched at Year 3-4 learners, students will learn about the famous football player, Lionel Messi In this pack, you receive: a reading passage suitable for Year 3 a reading passage suitable for Year 4…
Learn about soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo with these print-and-go worksheets. In this reading comprehension and literacy activities pack, pitched to Year 3-4 learners, students will learn about the famous football player Cristiano Ronaldo. In this reading pack, you receive: a reading passage suitable for Year 3 a reading passage suitable for Year 4 Each…
This colourful set of 32 Adjectives Tasks Cards helps students to understand one of the key building blocks of sentences. Print and laminate these adjectives task cards for regular use! These grammar-syntax activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR). This resource is a practical addition to your structured literacy programme. Activities link directly…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 4 November 2017. Our School Journal 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 way that suits…
The purpose of this resource is to provide 20 vocabulary cards to help students to understand important words and phrases relating to the women’s suffrage campaign in New Zealand. This Women and the Vote resource features: 20 vocabulary cards Each card features a definition The vocabulary words included are: suffrage franchise women’s suffrage…
Support vocabulary development and extend students’ reading comprehension and writing skills by explicitly teaching semantics: synonyms, antonyms, context clues, shades of meaning, homophones, homographs and homonyms. These semantics activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR) and are a practical addition to your structured literacy programme. Activities link directly to the New Zealand and Australian Literacy…
We’ve put together a bundle of reading response activities for the 2022 NZ School Journals. This bundle has everything you need to dive into the story and articles within the June and November 2019 Level 2, 3, and Level 4 School Journals. Both a paper-based and digital option are included so you can use this…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the Connected Level 2, Level 3, and Level 2018 texts. The Connected series promotes content-based literacy. Students are exposed to scientific, technological, and mathematical vocabulary and contexts, and broaden their knowledge and understanding of these areas. The NZ Connected Level 2 2018: Step by…
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