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…
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…
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…
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…
Your search for New Zealand curriculum-aligned spelling activities ends here! Explore our comprehensive collection of activity sheets meticulously designed to enhance the teaching of 50 spelling rules at the Phase Two (Year 4-6) level. See the full list of included spelling rules below. The resource is organised by spelling rules and phonics concepts, so you…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension and writing skills with this comprehensive resource, focused on the pūrākau (Māori legend) Paikea and the Whale. Great as an addition to your structured literacy program. Enhance Your Students’ reading comprehension skills with Science of Reading Principles. This reading and writing teaching tool engages students in deep comprehension strategies,…
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…
This resource is a comprehension, discussion and activity guide to accompany the novel Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. Through humour, exaggeration, and a fast-paced plot, the novel explores themes of bravery, leadership, fairness, survival, and standing up to injustice. Beneath its playful tone, Fantastic Mr Fox invites readers to think about power, greed,…
This resource is designed as a decodable text for older readers (year 4 – Year 8). It focuses on how we can reduce the amount of waste we produce. Focus Phonemes and Graphemes: It has a particular focus on: /s/ phoneme, represented by ‘s’, ‘ss’, ‘ce’, ‘se’ and ‘c’ This resource contains: Decodable text…
The Informative Speech Toolkit is a comprehensive resource crafted to guide students through writing and delivering compelling informative 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 informative speech writing. It breaks down the…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on Reawakening Hiapo from the Connected Phase 2 Year 5 and 6 2024 text. Great as an addition to your structured literacy program. Enhance Your Students’ reading comprehension with Science of Reading Principles. Excellent as part of a cultural study of Niue. This teaching…
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…
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…
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,…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 3 October 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…
This social sciences and literacy unit explores how, over time, various New Zealand governments have restricted voting rights, and how have people advocated for their rights. The bundle takes a specific focus on women and the vote, the women’s suffrage campaign, and its historic success and ongoing impacts. Clear links are provided to both the…
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