Year Five - Six

  • Writing Activities: Narrative, Informative and Persuasive Writing Volume 3

    Writing Activities: Narrative, Informative and Persuasive Writing Volume 3

    NZ$9.00

    Ignite enthusiasm and build essential writing skills in your classroom with these writing prompts and structured activities. Covering the genres of narrative (writing to entertain), argument writing (writing to persuade), and informative writing (writing to inform), this resource includes engaging prompts, mentor texts, scaffolded materials, and graphic organisers for planning. Comprehensive teacher notes are also…

  • The History of Pā in NZ – A Knowledge-Rich NZ History and Literacy Unit Years 5-8

    The History of Pā in NZ – A Knowledge-Rich NZ History and Literacy Unit Years 5-8

    NZ$7.50

    Explore the history of pa 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 History of Pā Whole-Class teaching pack, you receive:   1. A whole-class teaching set of…

  • School Journal Level 3 August 2015 Follow Up Activities

    School Journal Level 3 August 2015 Follow Up Activities

    NZ$7.50

    We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 3 August 2015. 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…

  • Connected 2016 Level 3 Picture This - School Journal Activities

    Connected 2016 Level 3 Picture This – School Journal Activities

    NZ$7.50

    We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the Connected 2016 Level 3: Picture This. This resource has everything you need to dive into the articles within this publication. 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…

  • Key Milestones in the Women's Suffrage Campaign - New Zealand History

    Key Milestones in the Women’s Suffrage Campaign – New Zealand History

    NZ$10.00

    The purpose of this resource is to explain the key women’s suffrage milestones in New Zealand from 1869 to the present day.   This Women and the Vote resource features:   Four timeline pages: key suffrage milestones from 1869 to the present day. These fit together to make one large timeline Reading Comprehension activity with…

  • Thesaurus Skills Task Cards

    Thesaurus Skills Task Cards

    NZ$4.00

    This set of 28 Thesaurus Skills Tasks Cards helps students to use a thesaurus to find synonyms and antonyms of words. Students will also practice putting words into alphabetical order and complete tasks where they need to choose the best synonym for a sentence’s context. Print and laminate these thesaurus skills task cards for regular…

  • Sale! NZ School Journal 2019 BUNDLE Level 2-4 - Paper-based and Digital Option

    NZ School Journal 2019 BUNDLE Level 2-4 – Paper-based and Digital Option

    Original price was: NZ$60.00.Current price is: NZ$48.00.

    We’ve put together a bundle of reading response activities for the 2019 NZ School Journals. This bundle has everything you need to dive into the story and articles within the May, August, and November 2019 Level 2, 3, and Level 4 School Journals. Both a paper-based and digital option are included so you can use…

  • Sale! Parts of Speech Task Cards PLUS Digital Task Cards BUNDLE

    Parts of Speech Task Cards PLUS Digital Task Cards BUNDLE

    Original price was: NZ$15.00.Current price is: NZ$12.00.

    Our engaging Parts of Speech challenges will grab your students’ attention and help to improve their writing. Enjoy the flexibility of both paper-based AND digital options! These literacy task cards include nouns, pronouns, proper nouns, verbs, verb tenses, adverbs, adjectives, modal auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, relative pronouns, relative adverbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases. Go paperless with…

  • Gumdigger Novel Study and Discussion Questions

    Gumdigger Novel Study and Discussion Questions

    NZ$6.00
  • Recount Writing Activities: Personal Narrative Writing for Phase 2-3 (Year 4-8)

    Recount Writing Activities: Personal Narrative Writing for Phase 2-3 (Year 4-8)

    NZ$7.50

    Spark excitement and develop recount writing skills in your classroom with these five sets of writing prompts and scaffolded writing activities. The activities cover recount writing – personal narratives (write to entertain). They include engaging writing prompts, mentor texts, scaffolded material, and planning graphic organisers. This writing resource also includes in-depth teacher notes.   This…

  • Spark Hunter Novel Study

    Spark Hunter Novel Study

    NZ$6.00

    This resource is a comprehension, discussion and activity guide to accompany the novel Spark Hunter.   Spark Hunter follows Nissa, a young Kiwi girl driven by a singular quest: to discover the source of the mysterious lights haunting the Fiordland bush. Weaving between past and present, this time-twisting adventure explores deep themes of friendship, environmental…

  • Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War Novel Study

    Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War Novel Study

    NZ$6.00

    This resource is a comprehension, discussion and activity guide to accompany the novel Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War by T K Roxborogh. This novel combines elements of Māori mythology with a modern setting and explores themes of family, friendship, bravery, and environmental awareness.. It would suit upper primary or intermediate-aged students.    The…

  • Women and the Vote: A History Mystery Scavenger Hunt Activity

    Women and the Vote: A History Mystery Scavenger Hunt Activity

    NZ$7.50

    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…

  • Whole Class School Journal Resource Year 5 - Papatūãnuku Kōkiri Marae

    Whole Class School Journal Resource Year 5 – Papatūãnuku Kōkiri Marae

    NZ$8.50

    Boost Your Students’ Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Principles Empower your students with this comprehensive whole-class teaching resource, designed to enhance reading comprehension using proven Science of Reading strategies. Centred around The Extraordinary, Hidden World of Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae from the Level 3 June 2024 School Journal, this resource is an excellent addition to…

  • Tier 2 Vocabulary Explicit Teaching Slides and Make Your Own Editable Slides Year 5

    Tier 2 Vocabulary Explicit Teaching Slides and Make Your Own Editable Slides Year 5

    NZ$10.00

    Our Year 5 Tier 2 Vocabulary Teaching Slides are an engaging and effective resource designed to deepen students’ understanding of word meanings. These slides complement structured literacy programs and are ideal for helping students expand their vocabulary, a crucial skill for improving both reading and writing abilities. Studies consistently show that a broader vocabulary is…

  • Decodable Text for Older Readers: Cricket

    Decodable Text for Older Readers: Cricket

    NZ$5.00

    This resource is designed as a decodable text for older readers (year 4 – Year 8). It focuses on cricket and contains factual information about it and personal stories of the narrator and their love of the sport.   Focus Phonemes and Graphemes: The text emphasises the following phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences: /k/ phoneme represented by -ck,…