Supercharge your reading programme with this engaging five-pack Reading Skills Check Mega Bundle! Designed for Year 5 learners, this resource uses high-interest themes – Food, Natural Disasters, Sports, Insects and Vehicles – to build comprehension, vocabulary, inference, and analytical skills in a structured, easy-to-implement format. Five weeks included! Each pack offers a week of…
Our comprehensive, no-prep Suffix Rules pack has everything you need to explicitly teach the three core suffix rules, perfectly aligned with the refreshed New Zealand Curriculum. This resource is designed to meet Phase One, Year Three and Phase Two, Year Four and Five English Curriculum: Writing – Transcription Skills – Spelling. We provide a clear,…
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,…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the School Journal Story Library text: In His Blood – The Bruce McLaren Story. This resource has everything you need to dive into the story of Bruce McLaren’s life! Rev your engines, motorsport enthusiasts! This School Journal Story Library text covers content great for…
Manu o te Wiki: Bird of the Week Reading Activities In this reading task for students working at phase two: year 4, 5 and 6; we have included: 5 x slideshows, each with their own Manu o te wiki and activities for each PowerPoint slideshows and Google Slides included 5 x worksheets for students…
Just Jokes – Working with Words Activities – Morphology, Syllables, Rhyme This activity is a fun way to explore parts of words: morphology (prefixes and suffixes), syllables, and also rhyme, synonyms and adjectives. In this Just Jokes activity, we have provided: 10-page set of worksheets Teacher’s guide for how this resource can be…
This Women and the Vote Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curriculum reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. Solve the mystery of the Suffragist’s Secret! The task card scavenger hunt is designed so students must visit/read each of the ten fact cards! That means…
Enhance your students’ reading comprehension and knowledge of NZ history content with this comprehensive resource, focused on Keeping Promises: The Treaty Settlement Process from the Level 4 November 2017 School Journal. This teaching tool is great as an addition to your structured literacy program. It engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building, grammar,…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on Tahu and the Dancing Feathers from the Connected Phase 2 Year 4 2024 text. 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,…
This comprehensive resource, focused on the article “For the Ancestors“ from the Level 3 November 2019 School Journal, will help you develop your students’ reading comprehension. It is a great addition to your structured literacy program and perfect for a study of the Sāmoan culture. This teaching tool engages students in deep comprehension strategies,…
Elevate your Phase 2 (Year 4-6) writing instruction with our comprehensive Writing to Inform: Explanation Writing Signal Word Activities. 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 Writing to…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on The Polish Refugee Children from the Level 2 November 2016 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,…
Enhance your students’ reading comprehension using Science of Reading principles with this engaging resource focused on the personal essay, “My First Ramadan,” from the Level 4 June 2024 School Journal. Perfect for supplementing your structured literacy program, this comprehensive teaching tool develops key comprehension strategies, vocabulary, grammar, syntax, sentence structure, verbal reasoning, and content knowledge….
Our Emotions Vocabulary Slides and Hands-On Activities are a dynamic and effective tool for exploring word meanings. These slides, flashcards and visual aids are a great companion to your structured literacy programme. Expanding students’ vocabulary is crucial for improving their reading and writing skills. Studies have shown that students with larger vocabularies perform better in school, especially in reading. …
Explore the significance of pā in New Zealand with this dynamic teaching resource. These print and digital independent activities are pitched at Year 5-8 learners and align with the Science of Reading and the principles of a knowledge-rich curriculum. In this Introduction to Pā independent activities pack, you receive: 1. A set of independent…
Explore the significance 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 Introduction to Pā History and Literacy skills Whole-Class Teaching pack, you receive: 1. A…
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