Enhance your students’ reading comprehension and scientific understanding with this comprehensive resource, focused on A User’s Guide to the Brain from the School Journal Year 7-8 June 2026. This teaching tool is a great addition to your structured literacy program. It engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building, grammar, syntax, sentence structure, verbal reasoning,…
Enhance your students’ reading comprehension and scientific understanding with this comprehensive resource, focused on Cage Diving with Sharks from the Level 4 November 2023 School Journal. This teaching tool is a great addition to your structured literacy program. It engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building, grammar, syntax, sentence structure, verbal reasoning, and content…
This Whole-Class Novel Study breaks Children of the Rush by James Russell into six sections, each supported by a slideshow covering prior knowledge, vocabulary, comprehension, and key literacy skills. Students reinforce these concepts through follow-up activity sheets, culminating in a 2–3 paragraph narrative writing task where they apply their new grammar, figurative language, and vocabulary…
We’ve put together a set of reading response and writing activities for the School Journal Story Library text: Living the Dream – An Interview with Mana Vautier. This resource has everything you need to learn more about becoming an astronaut. This School Journal Story Library text covers content great for Year 6 and has a…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive whole-class teaching resource, focused on the article “The Future of Growing Kai” from School Journal Level 2 November 2023. Great as an addition to your structured literacy program. Enhance Your Students’ Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Principles. The Future of Growing Kai from School Journal Level…
This Kauri Gum Diggers Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curricular reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. Solve the mystery of the Fossil in the Frost! The task card scavenger hunt is designed so students must visit/read each of the ten fact cards! That…
Our Adverbs of Place Slides and Activities are a dynamic and effective tool for exploring word meanings. These slides, flashcards and visual aids are a great companion to your structured literacy programme. Expanding students’ vocabulary is crucial for improving their reading and writing skills. Studies have shown that students with larger vocabularies perform better in school, especially in reading. …
Explore the history of pā in New Zealand with this dynamic teaching resource. These print and digital independent activities are pitched at Year 5-8 learners and align with the Science of Reading and the principles of a knowledge-rich curriculum. In this History of Pā independent activities pack, you receive: 1. A set of…
Learn about the vibrant country of the Philippines with these print-and-go worksheets. This reading comprehension and literacy activities pack, pitched at Year 3-4 learners, includes activities for students to learn about the Philippines. In this reading pack, you receive: a reading passage suitable for Year 3 a reading passage suitable for Year 4 …
Embrace the multicultural classroom and improve reading comprehension with our Hanukkah-themed differentiated close reading texts and activities. This pack includes two non-fiction passages with six pages of unique and engaging text-dependent questions and higher-order thinking tasks. These activities are great for your guided reading program, or as homework tasks. This resource would also be…
We’ve put together a bundle of activities to reinforce spelling rules for Phases One to Three. This bundle includes all the spelling rules in the refreshed New Zealand curriculum for Year 0-Year 8. The resource bundle is organised and partitioned by spelling rules and phonics concepts so you can match these activities to your school’s…
Your search for New Zealand curriculum-aligned spelling activities ends here! Explore our comprehensive collection of activity sheets meticulously designed to enhance the teaching of 13 spelling rules at the Phase Three (Year 7-8) level. See the full list of included spelling rules below. The resource is organised by spelling rules and phonics concepts, so you…
Your search for New Zealand curriculum-aligned spelling activities ends here! Explore our comprehensive collection of activity sheets meticulously designed to enhance the teaching of 50 spelling rules at the Phase Two (Year 4-6) level. See the full list of included spelling rules below. The resource is organised by spelling rules and phonics concepts, so you…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the School Journal Year 7-8 June 2026. Our School Journal Year 7-8 June 2026 Activities resource includes everything you need to dive into the stories and articles in this publication. Both a paper-based and digital option are included, so you can use this in the…
Save your time and know that your students are completing follow-up activities featuring a range of reading and literacy skills. This resource provides games and activities for the Ready to Read Phonics Plus Kākano Seed Level reader: Pop and Mop found in New Zealand schools. ***This resource is provided in A4 paper size and British…
We’ve put together a set of reading response and writing activities for the School Journal Story Library text ‘Home: Stories from New New Zealanders” by Kate Paris. ‘Home: Stories from New New Zealanders” is a non-fiction text that shares the real-life migration stories and settlement experiences of four young immigrants and refugees adjusting to life…
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