Let us save you time this St. Patrick’s Day with our St. Patrick’s Day Reading Comprehension pack! These Year Five and Six (Grade Four and Grade Five) St. Patrick’s Day-themed close reading passages will engage your students while reinforcing important reading skills – great reading comprehension activities for your guided reading program. This resource would…
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…
This resource is a comprehension, discussion and activity guide to accompany the novel The Dragon Defenders by James Russell. Paddy and Flynn live on The Island that holds an incredible secret: dragons live there! This book is action-packed, with themes of family, resourcefulness, problem-solving, teamwork and standing up for others and your own beliefs….
Liven up your classroom for Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga – Tonga Language Week with these engaging daily teaching slides! This comprehensive set of PowerPoint slides covers Monday to Friday, providing a full week of language and cultural immersion for your whole class. No prep needed – just project and go! What’s Inside? Each…
This resource is designed as a decodable text for older readers (year 4 – Year 8). It focuses on storms and contains factual information about what you may see in a storm, what to do and what could happen afterwards. Focus Phonemes and Graphemes: It has a particular focus on: /or/ represented by or…
This resource is designed as a decodable text for older readers (year 4 – Year 8). It is a narrative about going away on a camping trip with friends. Focus Phonemes and Graphemes: It has a particular focus on: /k/ phoneme represented by –ck, c and k /oa/ phoneme represented by oa, ow and…
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…
Go paperless with our Google Slides-ready Digital Season Writing Prompts BUNDLE! Encourage independence with this easy to use writing activity pack featuring 120 writing prompts. This Google Resource will have your students writing using Google Slides in no time! This Digital Season Writing Prompts BUNDLE features the following products: ⭐️Summer Digital Writing Prompts for Google Drive®…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Year 5 and 6 November 2025. This resource has everything you need to dive into the story and articles within this publication. There are some great articles and stories about identity within this School journal! Both a paper-based and digital…
Stop teaching literacy skills in isolation! This comprehensive unit brings a pivotal moment in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history to life while systematically building the reading and writing skills your students need. Grounded in the Science of Learning, this Women and the Vote unit is more than just a set of activities. It’s a carefully sequenced,…
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…
Introducing our comprehensive teaching pack all about commas – the ultimate resource for educators aiming to help students master one of the fundamental forms of sentence punctuation. This pack is loaded with engaging materials, equipping you with all the necessary tools to identify and use commas. Unlock the full potential of your lessons…
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