This comprehensive, ready-to-use vocabulary kit provides everything you need to target critical Who, What, Where, When, and Why questions, build descriptive language, and practice inferencing skills with your students. Based on six vibrant, high-quality “busy scenes,” this resource is great for oral language and vocabulary development. What’s Included in This Kit: 1. Six High-Quality…
The Informative Speech Toolkit is a comprehensive resource crafted to guide students through writing and delivering compelling informative speeches. This toolkit simplifies complex concepts, making speech writing accessible and engaging for all learners. How It Works: This toolkit provides a structured, explicit, step-by-step approach to teaching informative speech writing. It breaks down the…
This Women and the Vote 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 Suffragist’s Secret! The task card scavenger hunt is designed so students must visit/read each of the ten fact cards! That means…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on The Mysterious Stones of Tonga from the Level 2 August 2017 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 and knowledge of NZ history content with this comprehensive resource, focused on Keeping Promises: The Treaty Settlement Process from the Level 4 November 2017 School Journal. This teaching tool is great as an addition to your structured literacy program. It engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building, grammar,…
This comprehensive resource based on the report ‘Solar Power in Tokelau’ from Junior Journal 57, will develop your students’ reading comprehension while also developing key content knowledge. It is great as an addition to your Year 3 structured literacy program. You can also use this during Tokelau Language Week! Solar Power in Tokela –…
Enhance Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Principles Empower your students’ literacy skills with this whole class teaching structured literacy resource, tailored for teaching comprehension through The Art of Taiaha—a captivating article from the Level 4 June 2024 School Journal. This comprehensive resource integrates Science of Reading strategies, making it the perfect addition to your…
Boost Your Students’ Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Principles Empower your students with this comprehensive whole-class teaching resource, designed to enhance reading comprehension using proven Science of Reading strategies. Centred around The Extraordinary, Hidden World of Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae from the Level 3 June 2024 School Journal, this resource is an excellent addition to…
This resource is designed as a decodable text for older readers (year 4 – Year 8). It focuses on cricket and contains factual information about it and personal stories of the narrator and their love of the sport. Focus Phonemes and Graphemes: The text emphasises the following phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences: /k/ phoneme represented by -ck,…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 4 May 2015. 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…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 3 October 2015. 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…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 2 August 2015. 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…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 2 August 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 you…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the Connected 2016 Level 4: Getting the Message. This resource has everything you need to dive into the articles within this publication. The Connected series promotes content-based literacy. Students are exposed to scientific, technological, and mathematical vocabulary and contexts, and broaden their knowledge and understanding…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the Connected 2016 Level 2: Show and Tell. This resource has everything you need to dive into the articles within this publication. The Connected series promotes content-based literacy. Students are exposed to scientific, technological, and mathematical vocabulary and contexts, and broaden their knowledge and understanding…
This social sciences and literacy unit explores how, over time, various New Zealand governments have restricted voting rights, and how have people advocated for their rights. The bundle takes a specific focus on women and the vote, the women’s suffrage campaign, and its historic success and ongoing impacts. Clear links are provided to both the…
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