Would make a great tool to assess writing skills. These fun Writing Activities are ready to print. Includes fun and engaging task cards and worksheets which focus on holidays and travel. Proved very successful in getting reluctant writers to put pen to paper! Designed to appeal to different types of learners and to incorporate Higher Order Thinking Skills. Children can work independently or in pairs. Use as whole class, group work or as part of a writing centre. Great for consolidation of writing skills. Contents: • Favourite Destinations -10 task cards -10 corresponding worksheets – children can list, sort, explain, compare, identify advantages and disadvantages, design and create, plan and research. • Suggestions for Differentiation. • Holiday Destinations -10 task cards – covers imaginative, persuasive and informative writing – tasks include writing sentences, paragraphs, story endings, Who Am I and poetry (for completing in children’s exercise books.)

16 Ready to Print pages of grammar, writing and fun activities with a Christmas theme. No religious content is included. Print separately or all at once to create a Christmas booklet. For primary grades. Included: Activity 1: Rewriting sentences in past tense Writing - What Happens Next? Fun - Christmas Crossword Activity 2: Choosing the correct verb Drawing Activity Fun - Christmas Word Find + Adjusted Word Find (less words) Activity 3: Plurals Writing - using adjectives Fun - Unjumble the Words Activity 4: Using Vocab to fit the sentence Classifying Fun - 2 Christmas Mazes Activity 5: Word Building Writing sentences/paragraphs Fun - Christmas Jokes - Crack the Code

6 Focus Areas (22 ready to print activities) to help children practise skills for Narrative Writing. All based on topics about Australia. All are printable, include instructions and have answers where applicable. Use for whole class, group work, partner or individual work. Perfect for a Writing Centre. Also offered as part of a bundle ‘Australia – Writing Activities’ Includes: Clauses x2, Transition Words, Recount Skills, Writing a Description, Figurative Language Clauses - 2 printable worksheets with answers completing sentences and identifying clauses Clauses (printable cards to print and make sentences) (often with hilarious results) -very successful in motivating reluctant writers! Includes lesson notes on different ways the cards can be used and suggestions for differentiation. Transition Words 9 printable activities Choosing, identifying and using Transition words Writing a paragraph and introduction/orientation (includes peer/self-editing guidelines and a graphic organiser) Recount skills printable worksheet with answers printable modified worksheet with answers identifying when/who/where/why and arranging in sentences opportunity for extension from sentence to paragraph to narrative Writing a description 4 activities on a 2-page printable worksheet read and draw a character to match draw a face from options given study a face and describe it expanding characters information and writing an Introduction for a narrative (includes graphic organiser) Figurative Language – Australian Idioms 5 fun activities over 3 printable pages matching, interpreting, expanding sentences, completing sentences, writing a paragraph (scaffolded)

11 Activities - ready to print - which allow children to practise the skills needed for Informative writing. All based on topics about Australia. All are printable, have instructions and answers where applicable. Use for whole class, group work, partner or individual work. Perfect for a Writing Centre. Available as part of a bundle, ‘Australia: Writing Activities’ Includes: • Australian State or Territory rubric children choose 3, research and complete the rubric worksheet children also complete a scaffolded paragraph making a simple powerpoint is an extension activity suggested answers included • Who Am I? worksheet with instructions – children complete 3 Who Am I and use these as a model to write their own- - - lesson suggestions included highly scaffolded worksheet included • Plan a Holiday Itinerary worksheet with instructions highly scaffolded worksheet also included • Report Writing – Koala worksheet with instructions – jumbled report children unjumble, cut and rearrange in correct order Modified worksheet - reduced content worksheet with Report proforma answers included • Report Writing – Echidna worksheet – children classify statements into report paragraphs modified worksheet - reduced content children rewrite these onto report proforma (provided) answers included • Platypus Cloze worksheet – children complete a cloze in report format answers included • Platypus Differentiated Cloze differentiated worksheet – using same information as Platypus Cloze activity answers included • Report Writing Outline worksheet with instructions – children fill in facts into appropriate section scaffolded worksheet – questions provided to help with gathering information • Compare/Contrast (Platypus/Echidna) worksheet with instructions – children highlight facts for each animal then highlight common facts worksheet – Venn Diagram – children transfer information onto diagram answers included • Compare/Contrast (Emu/Cassowary) worksheet with instructions – Venn Diagram – children research and write facts directly onto sheet. • AFL (Australian Rules Football) instructions and information about the game of Aussie Rules Football worksheet to complete extension suggestion included 45 Vocab Flashcards included