Learn about the popular New Zealand singer Benee with our differentiated reading passages and literacy activities. This resource features a full digital pack – perfect for Google Classroom or Microsoft One Drive. Great for New Zealand’s May Music Month! This Year 4, Year 5-6 and Year 7-8 pack includes a non-fiction passage, reading and…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 2 June 2018. Our School Journal Level 2 June 2018 Activities 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…
Support vocabulary development and extend students’ reading comprehension and writing skills by explicitly teaching morphology: Prefixes, Suffixes and Greek and Latin Root Words. These morphology 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 Learning Progressions,…
This colourful set of 142 Prefixes, Suffixes and Greek and Latin Root Word Task Cards help students to build word sense and improve literacy skills and reading comprehension. Print and laminate these cards for regular use! This Prefixes, Suffixes and Greek and Latin Root Word Task Cards Bundle includes the following three resources: 42…
The Day I… Creative Writing Activities Year 2-3 This activity focuses on creative writing, particularly on writing to entertain. This resource includes: six creative writing prompts a planning guide (graphic organiser) self-assessment activities an exemplar creative writing text Students complete engaging writing prompts, focusing on sharing what, where, and why something happened, and…
This resource has been produced to help students consolidate the skill of writing summaries. This Summarising Activities Pack includes: Two summarising posters Four summarising question worksheets for use with any fiction text Three summarising question worksheets for use with any non-fiction text GIST summarising tool graphic organiser (and explainer information) One summarising question worksheet…
Learn about the country of France with these print-and-go worksheets. In this set of reading comprehension and literacy activities, pitched at Year 2-4 learners, students will learn about the country of France – great in the lead-up to the 2023 Rugby World Cup and the 2024 France Summer Olympics. In this France Country Study…
Engage your students with these easy-to-use reading packs. We’ve put together a bundle of fantastic reading comprehension activities exploring Pets, Zoo Animals, Ocean Creatures, and Sports. These reading passages are pitched at Year Three (Grade 2 and 3) learners. The resources are provided in both print and digital form – great for Google Classroom or…
Master 4-digit numbers with these “Number of the Day” slides! Designed for Year 3 (Phase 1), this resource supports students as they transition from working with hundreds to thousands. These daily warm-ups provide structured practice to solidify place-value understanding up to 10,000 and improve mental math fluency. What’s Covered: Aligned with Year 3…
These Punctuation Power-Up activities are a great boost for those who need some extra practice of punctuation skills. This pack focuses on using speech marks. We’ve provided two levels, easily identified by the handwriting or standard lines on the worksheet. This resource includes 22 activity sheets: Using speech marks for enclosing direct speech…
Our engaging Punctuation challenges will grab your students’ attention and help to improve their writing. Enjoy the flexibility of both paper-based AND digital options! These English Language Arts Literacy cards include capital letters, periods/full stops, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, apostrophes, and quotation marks. Go paperless with our Google Slides-ready punctuation digital writing resource!…
Supercharge your reading programme with this engaging five-pack Reading Skills Check Mega Bundle! Designed for Year 3 learners, this resource uses high-interest themes – Big Cats, Cryptids, Ocean Creatures, Weather, and Space – to build comprehension, vocabulary, inference, and analytical skills in a structured, easy-to-implement format. Five weeks included! Each pack offers a week…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on Kupe and the Giant Wheke from the Level 2 May 2020 School Journal. Great as an addition to your structured literacy program. Enhance Your Students’ reading comprehension with Science of Reading Principles. This teaching tool engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building,…
Enhance Your Students’ Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Principles. Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on the Taking Off article from Junior Journal 68. Great as an addition to your Year 3 structured literacy program. The Taking Off article explores the history of aviation, from hot-air balloons through to…
Enhance your literacy teaching with these teaching slides focusing on key spelling rules for Phase One.These slides are crafted to help you build strong literacy foundations through a structured literacy approach. These structured literacy spelling rules slides align perfectly with the Transcription Skills—Spelling strand of Te Mātaiaho – The NZ English Curriculum. They emphasise oral language, reading (decoding), and writing…
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