Whole Class Aotearoa New Zealand History Activities – The Lead Up to Te Tiriti – Phase 2

NZ$8.50

Description

Develop your students’ reading comprehension, writing, and literacy skills with this comprehensive whole-class teaching resource, centred on the events leading up to the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the Treaty of Waitangi—a foundational moment in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history.
 
This resource is a perfect addition to your structured literacy program, offering both rich historical content and effective learning strategies.
 
This teaching tool engages students through the principles of the Science of Reading, focusing on:
  • Deep comprehension strategies
  • Vocabulary building
  • Grammar and syntax
  • Sentence structure
  • Verbal reasoning
  • Content knowledge
Immerse your students in a key historical event while developing their reading, writing and literacy skills, and fostering a deeper understanding of Aotearoa New Zealand’s past.
How It Works:
This resource is designed for whole-class teaching. You receive a slideshow with 65 slides, additional support worksheets, and graphic organisers.
 
  • Simply display the teaching slides on your projector or TV screen and distribute copies of the text between 2-3 students. With the slides in Presenter View, you’ll have everything you need for a successful lesson—just click and go!
  • The resource divides the text into three manageable chunks to be read over three sessions, allowing plenty of time to dive deep into the vocabulary and content of the article.
  • Along with the text, we’ve included a set of discussion prompts to get your students talking and thinking critically about what they’re reading.
On days four and five, explore the text further with:
  • A GIST summarising activity
  • A text structure analysis graphic organiser (compare and contrast)
  • Critical thinking questions to encourage deeper connections and inferences.
 
Key Features:
  • Focus on monitoring comprehension, summarising, drawing conclusions, and using evidence.(aligns to the New Zealand English Curriculum for Year 5 and 6 students).
  • Comprehension activities that require students to do more than recall specific information.
  • Literacy activities that link to key writing skills
    • complex sentences
    • sentence combining
    • speech marks and commas
    • morphology: -un prefix
  • A GIST summarising activity, helping students condense the text into a 20-word summary, improving both their understanding and memory.
  • A Compare and Contrast text structure graphic organiser to analyse the structure of this text.
  • Explicit vocabulary instruction with definitions, examples, and semantic activities such as synonyms and antonyms.
  • 22 additional pages (text to print, teacher tips, graphic organisers, follow up activities)
 
Benefits of This Resource:
  • Promotes active learning and student engagement with a combination of reading, discussion, and critical thinking activities.
  • Designed to build vocabulary and improve comprehension strategies, making it ideal for a wide range of learners, including low-performing readers.
  • Helps students make connections between the text and their own experiences, deepening their understanding of the material.
  • Students learn about key moments in Aotearoa New Zealand History
 
Aligned with the New Zealand English Curriculum for Phase Two – During Year 5:
This resource supports teaching students how to:
  • Monitor and confirm comprehension by annotating, rereading, asking, answering questions, and visualising.
  • Summarise and draw conclusions, identifying key details supporting the text’s main message.
  • Make inferences using stated and implied ideas, drawing from prior knowledge.
  • Analyse text structure and the language used for effect with a text
  • Think critically about a text by analysing perspectives and making connections.
 
Tips for Use:
  • Use the PowerPoint in presentation mode for easy, seamless delivery.
  • Display the text on the screen and give students a copy to read together in pairs or small groups.
  • Follow the suggested activities over three sessions, with additional follow-up activities on days four and five to extend learning.
 
Why Choose This Resource?
 
Research shows that explicitly teaching comprehension skills significantly boosts students’ reading ability, especially regarding vocabulary and making connections between ideas. This resource provides a structured yet flexible approach to help students grow in these areas.

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