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…
Enhance Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Principles Empower your students’ literacy skills with this whole class teaching structured literacy resource, tailored for teaching comprehension through The Art of Taiaha—a captivating article from the Level 4 June 2024 School Journal. This comprehensive resource integrates Science of Reading strategies, making it the perfect addition to your…
Our Tier 2 Vocabulary Explicit Teaching Slides for Year 8 are a dynamic and effective tool for exploring word meanings. These explicit teaching slides 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…
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…
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 4 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…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the Connected 2016 Level 4: Getting the Message. 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…
Take a trip back in time while improving reading comprehension with our Ancient Egypt Reading Comprehension Bundle. This bundle includes informational non-fiction passages, unique and engaging text-dependent questions and higher-order thinking tasks. In addition, introduce your classroom to the amazing world of Ancient Egypt with our Ancient Egypt Escape Room. Students complete challenges and collect…
Spark excitement and develop writing skills in your classroom with these five sets of writing prompts and scaffolded writing activities. The activities cover writing to inform: information reports, explanation writing and biography writing. They include engaging writing prompts, mentor texts, scaffolded material, and planning graphic organisers. This writing resource also includes in-depth teacher notes….
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on Winning Ways: Presenting Scientific Data from the Connected Level 4 2016 text. Great as an addition to your structured literacy program, especially in the lead-up to your class or school Science Fair. Enhance Your Students’ reading comprehension with Science of Reading Principles. This teaching…
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…
Enhance your students’ reading comprehension and knowledge of NZ history content with this comprehensive resource, focused on Valley of the Whales from the Level 4 June 2023 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, syntax, sentence…
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…
Liven up your classroom for ‘Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki ‘Āirani – Cook Islands Māori 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!…
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