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 Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Strategies Boost your learners’ reading comprehension skills using Science of Reading principles with this detailed resource, based on the article The Stars of Matariki from Junior Journal 67. Designed to complement your Year 3 structured literacy program, this whole-class teaching tool emphasises deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary development, sentence…
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:…
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…
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…
Engage your students with these easy-to-use year 4 reading packs. We’ve put together a bundle of fantastic reading comprehension activities exploring Extreme Sports, Ocean Creatures, the Pacific Islands, Celebrations Around the World, and Natural Disasters. These reading passages are pitched at Year 4 learners. The resources are provided in both print and digital form…
Our 48 engaging Parts of Speech challenges will grab your students’ attention and help to improve their vocabulary. These literacy cards include parts of speech: Nouns, Pronouns, Proper Nouns, Verbs, Verb Tenses, Adverbs, Adjectives, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Modal Auxiliary Verbs, Relative Pronouns and Relative Adverbs. They are great for end of year revision, test prep, early…
We’ve put together a Pacific Myths and Legends Shared Reading Activities Bundle featuring seven different resource packs! Each pack includes a shared reading passage, follow-up activities, and discussion questions. This bundle is suitable as an entry point to Polynesian history or a study on myths and legends from around the world. **This bundle features NZ/AU/UK…
Top Teaching Tasks