Time Travel Adventures—Take your students on the adventure of a lifetime with our Ancient Egypt Escape Room challenge! This integrated project will introduce your classroom to the amazing world of Ancient Egypt in an engaging and exciting way. Students complete challenges and collect golden coins to power up their time machine and get home. It’s…
We’ve put together a bundle of activities to explore, comprehend, and write poetry using emotions. This Poetry Activities bundle features: Poetry Comprehension Activities for NZ School Journal Poems – Print and Digital Six poetry comprehension activities Each resource features 8-10 questions. Six digital poetry comprehension activities Answers are included. Comprehension activities to use with…
This resource provides follow-up activities and home-learning tasks for six new (March 2026) Ready to Read Phonics Plus Māhuri Sapling Level readers found in New Zealand schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Texts Covered in this Resource: Lani in…
This resource is designed to give students extra fluency practice. Project the slides on your classroom projector or TV, and you are ready to go! A full teacher script is built into the slides to help guide you through the resource. The words used in this fluency resource are aligned to the scope and…
Develop deep reading comprehension skills with this engaging resource based on the personal narrative “Superhero” from the Level 3 November 2024 School Journal. Aligned with Science of Reading principles and the New Zealand English Curriculum, this comprehensive tool is perfect for structured literacy programs. The text explores themes of personal identity and belonging – great…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 4 November 2023. Our School Journal Level 4 November 2023 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 in…
We have created activities to accompany the Ready to Read Phonics Plus Big Books: The Boat Race and Frog Finds a Home. These books introduce the characters that will be found in many of the Kākano, Tupu, Māhuri and Rākau Ready to Read Phonics Books. We have created 24 follow-up activities for the two Ready…
Learn about the formation of clouds and their impact on our weather with these differentiated reading passages and science activities. This resource features a full digital pack – perfect for Google Classroom or Microsoft One Drive. This weather pack includes an informational non-fiction passage, reading and vocubulary questions, and higher-order thinking tasks. These activities…
Get your students’ imagination flowing and send them on an exciting overseas adventure. Students read NZ School Journal stories and articles that feature locations from around the world. They choose task cards to complete, earning passport stamps and money for tourist activities. This NZ School Journal Task Cards resource provides a fantastic entry point for…
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