EN2-8B
identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
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Earth Day - Acrostic Poem Template Pack
An acrostic poem template to use in the classroom to celebrate Earth Day and National Poetry Month.
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Fluency Reading Passage - Sally's Bad Day (Year 4)
A fiction text to use when assessing students' fluency.
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Australia Day Cloze Worksheet
A cloze activity based on information about Australia Day.
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Plan Your Own Adventure - Writing Template
Students use a template to help them plan stories with alternative pathways for their friends to read.
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Three Levels of Reading Posters
Beyond the lines, between the lines and on the lines posters for the three levels of reading.
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Literacy Tasks - Posters
5 Literacy Task posters and 1 Guide poster.
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Choose Your Own Destiny - Writing Template
Students use a template to help them write stories with alternative pathways for their friends to read.
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Parts of Speech Card Game – Lower Years Classroom Game
A card game for nouns, verbs and adjectives.
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Novel Study Activity Resource Pack
A comprehensive resource pack to use with your class when studying a class novel.
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Readers' Theatre - Teaching Resource Pack
A comprehensive pack of 33 readers' theatre scripts, catering to a range of age groups and ability levels.
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Exploring Poetry - Year 3 and Year 4 Unit Plan
This English unit addresses common poetic devices such as sound play, word play and imagery and explores how these may be applied to narrative poetry.
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Developing Procedural Writing Skills Unit Plan - Year 3 and Year 4
This English unit addresses the purpose, structure and language features of the procedure text type.
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Developing Persuasive Writing Skills Unit Plan - Year 3 and Year 4
This English unit addresses the genre of persuasion; specifically, how to write a well-structured persuasive text.
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This English unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualising and summarising to upper primary students, with a focus on literary texts.
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Summarising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of summarising.
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Sound Play in Poetry - Alliteration
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore alliteration in poetry.
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Purpose, Audience and Context
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the purpose, intended audience and subject matter of a poem.
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Procedure Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of procedure texts.
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Exploring Poetic Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the common literary devices found in poetry.
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Modelled Writing - Improving Procedure Texts
A 60 minute lesson in which students will improve a procedure text by applying knowledge of procedure text structure and language features.
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Making Connections
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.
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Imagery in Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore imagery in poetry.
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Persuasive Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of persuasive texts.
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Sound Play in Poetry - Onomatopoeia
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore onomatopoeia in poetry.
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Visualising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.
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Questioning
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
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Activating Prior Knowledge
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.
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Building an Opinion Using Persuasive Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use persuasive devices to build a convincing opinion about an issue.
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Introducing Persuasive Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how persuasive devices can be used to strengthen a point of view.
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Word Play in Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore word play in poetry.
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Monitoring
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of monitoring.
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Storytelling Through Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore storytelling through poetry.