The Persuasive Speech Toolkit is a comprehensive resource that guides students through writing and delivering compelling persuasive speeches. This toolkit simplifies complex concepts, making speech writing accessible and engaging for all learners. How It Works: This toolkit provides a structured, explicit, step-by-step approach to teaching persuasive speech writing. It breaks down the process…
Enhance Your Students’ Reading Comprehension with the Science of Reading Principles. This comprehensive resource, focused on the story “After the Fire” 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…
The Whaling and Sealing in New Zealand 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 First Mate’s Peril! The task card scavenger hunt is designed so students must visit/read each of the ten fact…
This resource is designed as a decodable text for older readers (year 4 – Year 8). It focuses on earthquakes and their impact on New Zealand. Focus Phonemes and Graphemes: It has a particular focus on v_e split digraph words, including a_e, e_e, i_e, and u_e split digraphs. Examples include earthquake, plate, magnitude, shake,…
Explore soccer star Lionel Messi with these differentiated reading passages and literacy activities. This football reading pack includes an informational nonfiction passage, reading and vocabulary questions, and higher-order thinking tasks. These activities are great for your guided reading programme or as homework tasks. When you download this resource, it comes in both US AND…
Explore soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo with these differentiated reading passages and literacy activities. This pack includes an informational nonfiction passage, reading and vocabulary questions, and higher-order thinking tasks. These activities are great for your guided reading programme or as homework tasks. When you download this resource, it comes in both US AND British English spellings…
This colourful set of 28 Compound Sentence Task Cards helps students understand one of the key sentence structures. Print and laminate these 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 to the Common Core…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 3 May 2016. 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…
This colourful set of 28 Homograph and Homonym Tasks Cards helps students to understand the meanings of words and how words function in sentences. Print and laminate these homophone task cards for regular use! These semantics activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR) and are a practical addition to your structured literacy programme. This…
Go paperless with our Autumn Digital Writing Prompts! Encourage independence with this easy to use writing activity pack featuring 30 autumn/fall writing prompts. This Google Resource will have your students writing persuasive arguments, narratives and explanations using Google Slides in no time! Each slide that features the word “fall” is also repeated with the word “autumn”…
Elevate your daily math block with these Year 5 (Phase 2) “Number of the Day” slides. Designed to challenge upper-primary students, this resource moves beyond basic whole numbers to tackle millions, decimals, and algebraic thinking. These 80 daily warm-ups are designed to build fluency with larger numbers and rational numbers, helping students switch seamlessly between…
Save time and deliver an outstanding descriptive writing unit with this resource, fully aligned with Phase 2 of Te Mātaiaho: NZ English Curriculum. This pack contains everything you need to guide your Years 4-6 students from initial concept to polished final piece. Everything You Need in One Resource Pack: Teaching and Learning: Full teaching…
Enhance your literacy teaching with these expertly designed teaching slides that focus on key spelling rules for Phase Two: During the Sixth Year. These slides are crafted to help you build strong literacy foundations through a structured literacy approach. These structured literacy spelling rules slides align perfectly with the Transcription Skills—Spelling strand of Te Mātaiaho…
This novel study accompanies novel Shadow by Michael Murporgo. Shadow is a powerful and emotionally resonant novel set in England. The novel tells the intertwined stories of a young Afghan refugee named Aman, his best friend Matt, and a brave dog named Shadow who changes their lives. The novel explores themes of friendship, war,…
Enhance Your Students’ Reading Comprehension with the Science of Reading Principles. This comprehensive resource, focused on the article “Hine-o-te-Rangi: The Adventures of Jean Batten” from the Level 3 November 2018 School Journal, will help you develop your students’ reading comprehension. It is a great addition to your structured literacy program and perfect to integrate with…
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