Enhance your students’ reading comprehension and scientific understanding with this comprehensive resource, focused on A User’s Guide to the Brain from the School Journal Year 7-8 June 2026. This teaching tool is a great addition to your structured literacy program. It engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building, grammar, syntax, sentence structure, verbal reasoning,…
Enhance your students’ reading comprehension and scientific understanding with this comprehensive resource, focused on Cage Diving with Sharks from the Level 4 November 2023 School Journal. This teaching tool is a great addition to your structured literacy program. It engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building, grammar, syntax, sentence structure, verbal reasoning, and content…
This Whole-Class Novel Study breaks Children of the Rush by James Russell into six sections, each supported by a slideshow covering prior knowledge, vocabulary, comprehension, and key literacy skills. Students reinforce these concepts through follow-up activity sheets, culminating in a 2–3 paragraph narrative writing task where they apply their new grammar, figurative language, and vocabulary…
This Kauri Gum Diggers Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curricular reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. Solve the mystery of the Fossil in the Frost! The task card scavenger hunt is designed so students must visit/read each of the ten fact cards! That…
Streamline your Year 7 math routine with these “Number of the Day” slides. Designed for Year 7 (Phase 3), this resource bridges the gap between arithmetic and early algebra, focusing on rigorous mental strategies for both whole numbers and decimals. This resource supports students in mastering the infinite nature of the base-10 system, from…
Bring the fascinating world of New Zealand’s native creepy-crawlies into your classroom! This beautiful printable set features 24 unique NZ minibeasts, each with its name in English and Te Reo Māori, plus a short poem. It includes full-colour and ink-friendly black-and-white versions. This resource is a must-have for any Kiwi classroom, blending science, literacy,…
Explore the history of pā in New Zealand with this dynamic teaching resource. These print and digital independent activities are pitched at Year 5-8 learners and align with the Science of Reading and the principles of a knowledge-rich curriculum. In this History of Pā independent activities pack, you receive: 1. A set of…
Embrace the multicultural classroom and improve reading comprehension with our Hanukkah-themed differentiated close reading texts and activities. This pack includes two non-fiction passages with six pages of unique and engaging text-dependent questions and higher-order thinking tasks. These activities are great for your guided reading program, or as homework tasks. This resource would also be…
We’ve put together a bundle of activities to reinforce spelling rules for Phases One to Three. This bundle includes all the spelling rules in the refreshed New Zealand curriculum for Year 0-Year 8. The resource bundle is organised and partitioned by spelling rules and phonics concepts so you can match these activities to your school’s…
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 13 spelling rules at the Phase Three (Year 7-8) level. See the full list of included spelling rules below. The resource is organised by spelling rules and phonics concepts, so you…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the School Journal Year 7-8 June 2026. Our School Journal Year 7-8 June 2026 Activities resource includes everything you need to dive into the stories and articles in this publication. Both a paper-based and digital option are included, so you can use this in the…
Enhance your students’ reading comprehension and scientific understanding with this comprehensive resource, focused on The Best Fish and Chips in the World from the School Journal Year 7-8 June 2026. This teaching tool is a great addition to your structured literacy program. It engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building, grammar, syntax, sentence structure,…
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