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Grub by Sandra Severgnini - 6 Worksheets - Vocabulary Activities
This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Grub by Sandra Severgnini. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are vocabulary activities (compound words, word building, tense and adjectives) plus two writing tasks.
One worksheet is provided in two versions - one with colour pictures and one with pictures in black and white for those teachers that may not wish to print in colour.
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If Tigers Disappeared by Lily Williams - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book If Tigers Disappeared by Lily Williams. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, vocabulary activities (compound words and suffixes and prefixes), writing activities and a poster designing task.
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Human Body Trivia Questions / Quiz - 30 Questions With Answers
This resource is a set of 30 Human Body trivia questions with answers. This PDF is 6 pages long with 10 questions per page.
The first three pages are for student use and the last three pages are the questions with the answers for the teacher.
This resource can be used as a fun research activity for students, a whole class game where students compete to get the most answers correct or as an assessment tool at the conclusion of a unit on the human body.
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Insect Trivia Questions / Quiz - 30 Questions With Answers - Insects
This resource is a set of 30 Insect trivia questions with answers. This PDF is 6 pages long with 10 questions per page.
The first three pages are for student use and the last three pages are the questions with the answers for the teacher.
This resource can be used as a fun research activity for students, a whole class game where students compete to get the most answers correct or as an assessment tool at the conclusion of a unit on Insects.
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Dear Greenpeace by Simon James - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Dear Greenpeace by Simon James. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, vocabulary activities (compound words and contractions), a making connections worksheet and two writing tasks.
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Giant Pandas by Gail Gibbons - 7 Worksheets
This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Giant Pandas by Gail Gibbons. There are seven worksheets included in this resource.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the text. There are comprehension questions and vocabulary activities (adjectives and adverbs). There is also a pre-reading activity and three writing tasks.
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A is for Australian Reefs by Frane Lessac - 21 Worksheets
This resource is a 22 page PDF document with activities to do based on the book A is for Australian Reefs by Frane Lessac. This document contains 21 worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text.
There is one activity for each alphabetical page mentioned in the book, with the exception of I & J (Irukandji and Jellyfish) which share an activity and also the letters K, Q, V, X, Y and Z which also share a page.
The activities are mostly writing activities. There are some pages which have comprehension questions. There are also adjectives activities for the eels and dolphin pages. There is a research page for molluscs and a drawing activity at the end of the resource.
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Insect or Spider Sort - Identifying Insects & Arachnids - Assessment
This resource is a PDF file of an Insect or Spider? sort where students have to sort out different types of insects or spiders and sort them into the two different groups.
This resource is four pages long. The first page provides the table for students to glue the pictures into. The second page contains all of the insect and spider pictures (black and white) the students need to sort. The third page has the same insect and spider pictures but this time in colour. The last page is an answer sheet for the teacher.
You can choose whether you would like to use the black and white pictures or the colour ones. We thought this would be helpful for teachers that don’t have access to a colour photocopier or may have limits on how much colour photocopying they can do.
This resource could also be used as an assessment activity.
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Giraffes by Laura Marsh - National Geographic Kids Reader
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the text Giraffes by Laura Marsh. This document contains six worksheets for students.
This text is a National Geographic Kids Reader. The book we used was Level 1 however we understand that some levels differ depending on the country where the text is published.
The activities allow the students to reinforce their understanding of giraffes by completing activities that work with this text. There are comprehension questions, writing activities and a true or false facts task.
Some of the activities in this resource may be suitable for teachers who are teaching students about giraffes but do not have this particular book to use.
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Ella and the Useless Day by Meg McKinlay - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Ella and the Useless Day by Meg McKinlay and Karen Blair. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, vocabulary activities (adjectives and verbs, adverbs and compound words) and writing activities.
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Kind by Jess McGeachin - 6 Worksheets - A Call to Care for Every Creature
This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Kind - A Call to Care for Every Creature by Jess McGeachin. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are vocabulary tasks (adjectives, rhyming words and a vocabulary search) and writing / sorting activities plus a worksheet where students design a poster.
There is one worksheet which is doubled-up. There is one version with colour pictures and another with the pictures in black and white for teachers that may not want to print in colour.
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Song of the White Ibis by Phillip Gwynne - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Song of the White Ibis by Phillip Gwynne and Liz Anelli. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, vocabulary activities (dictionary work, tense and true or false) and writing task plus a poster designing task.
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Swoop by Nicole Godwin - 6 Worksheets - Magpies
This resource is a nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Swoop by Nicole Godwin and Susannah Crispe. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, vocabulary activities (adjectives and verbs and tense) and writing activities plus an antonym puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle.
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Ladybugs by Gail Gibbons - 6 Worksheets - Ladybirds
This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Ladybugs by Gail Gibbons. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions and writing and drawing activities.
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Find Out About... Animal Babies by Martin Jenkins - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Find Out About… Animal Babies by Martin Jenkins and Jane McGuinness. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions and activities which relate to the animals mentioned in the book.
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Find Out About... Animal Homes by Martin Jenkins - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a nine page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Find Out About… Animal Homes by Martin Jenkins and Jane McGuinness. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions and writing activities which relate to the animals mentioned in the book.
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Big Red Kangaroo by Claire Saxby - Worksheets and Information Report Activities
This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Big Red Kangaroo by Claire Saxby and Graham Byrne. There are six worksheets / activities for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the text. There are some comprehension questions, index and vocabulary activities but most of the worksheets focus on using this book to teach students how to write information reports.
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If Sharks Disappeared by Lily Williams - 6 Worksheets
This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book If Sharks Disappeared by Lily Williams. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, a cause and effect task and writing activities.
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If Bees Disappeared by Lily Williams - 6 Worksheets
This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book If Bees Disappeared by Lily Williams. This document contains six worksheets for students.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions and writing activities. There is also a cause and effect activity and a design a poster task.
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Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies and James Croft - 8 Worksheets
This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies and James Croft.
The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the text. There are comprehension questions, index and vocabulary activities. There is also an information report writing activity and an activity where students need to identify different types of sharks.
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