A digital / print collection of resources that can be used with any spelling program. Daily warm up activities, spelling activity templates, and endless ideas for classroom use.
Be consistent when assessing handwriting. Use this simple, easy to use rubric to assess writing posture, pencil grip, letter size, letter slope, letter positioning, letter spacing and cursive style (optional).
Read and Tick - Seventeen simple read and respond phonics worksheets. Students read a simple sentence and respond with yes or no. Suitable as an daily independent reading activity or work through with whole class.
A multi-level teaching and learning resource - Read through the Information text with the class, respond with a mini information report, a classification activity, or participate in an independent reading and response task.
A multipurpose teaching tool - Information Presentation on Red Pandas. Use as a whole class teaching resource followed with independent reading response activities.
A multi-level series of reading and response activities on Australia’s native animal - the platypus. Use the PowerPoint Presentation for initial introduction. Students then complete the scaffolded Platypus report and the platypus labelling / diagram activity. Students may participate in further independent research before writing their very own information report.
A read, respond, and write set of resources based on Crocodiles. Unit includes a pre-reading quiz, a presentation, a post reading quiz and further writing activities. Learning can incorporate basic classification, organising information under headings. Students can write a mini report on Crocodiles. Lesson suitable for years 2-4.
Display these alphabet cards in your classroom for students to refer to. Each letter comes with corresponding picture. Matching homework sheets are also available. Simple and attractive alphabet display.
Use the well-known hamburger model to teach your students how to write a juicy paragraph. PowerPoint presentation takes students on a step by step journey on writing comprehensive paragraphs.
A lesson series aimed at developing reading and comprehension strategies. Worksheets also include classification activities as a prepatory activity for more formal report writing. A template for a mini-animal report is included.
Prior to writing narratives, students can be scaffolded through the planning stages. These worksheets allow students to plan the characters of their narrative by identifying the characters physical features, behavioural characteristics, speech, and background.
Students are given opportunity to read and respond to a basic information text on Bengal Tigers. The PowerPoint provides scaffolded information and visual literacy opportunities for students to make inferences whilst reading. The lesson activities allow students to integrate reading comprehension skills with scientific classification to create simple information texts.