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…
This Matariki Mystery 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 missing star. The task card scavenger hunt is designed so that students must visit/read each of the ten fact cards! That means they must…
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…
These Punctuation Power-Up activities are a great boost for those who need some extra practice of punctuation skills. This pack focuses on using apostrophes. We’ve provided two levels, easily identified by the handwriting or standard lines on the worksheet. This resource includes 16 activity sheets: Use Apostrophes in Contractions x 8 Apostrophes for…
These Punctuation Power-Up activities are a great boost for those who need some extra practice of punctuation skills. This pack focuses on eight comma rules. We’ve provided two levels, easily identified by the handwriting or standard lines on the worksheet. These worksheets have a food theme. This resource includes 26 activity sheets:…
Our Type of Sentences Grab and Go pack helps you to teach four sentence types (based on function): statement, command, question, and exclamation. We’ve included vibrant posters, ready-to-go activity sheets, and interactive digital resources. These activities have been crafted to engage New Zealand students with sentences brimming with Kiwiana, te reo Māori and…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 2 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…
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!…
This activity focuses on the use of capital letters and end-of-sentence punctuation in your learners’ writing. In this sentence writing task for students working at phase one: year 2 and year 3, we have included: 5 sentence writing activities to practice using capital letters and full stops/exclamation marks/question marks 1 demonstration sheet 1 answer…
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 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…
This resource is designed as a decodable text for older readers (year 4 – Year 8). It focuses on earthquakes and their impact on New Zealand. Focus Phonemes and Graphemes: It has a particular focus on v_e split digraph words, including a_e, e_e, i_e, and u_e split digraphs. Examples include earthquake, plate, magnitude, shake,…
Engage your students in the upcoming 2023 Rugby World Cup in France with our interactive scavenger hunt and puzzle pack! Your Year 3-4 students will learn about the Rugby World Cup, this year’s event, and the teams that are involved! Display the fact cards around the room, and hand out the puzzle pieces. Students…
This colourful set of 36 Homophone Tasks Cards helps students to understand the meanings of words and how words function in sentences. Print and laminate these homophone task cards for regular use! These semantics activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR) and are a practical addition to your structured literacy programme. This set of…
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