Reading and Viewing
Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects
- Plus Plan
Penguin Themed - Book Report Template and Poster
A fun penguin themed poster with 3 book report templates to use when responding to literature.
- Plus Plan
Viewing Response Template
A useful template to encourage students to make careful observations and interpretations while viewing visual prompts.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Draw Conclusions and Make Inferences
A comprehensive resource pack helping students draw conclusions and make inferences.
- Plus Plan
Novel Study Activity Resource Pack
A comprehensive resource pack to use with your class when studying a class novel.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Finding the Main Idea
A comprehensive resource pack helping students to learn how to find the main idea.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Recognising Cause and Effect
A comprehensive resource pack helping students to recognise cause and effect.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Summarising
An extensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of summarising.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Compare and Contrast
An extensive resource pack helping students compare and contrast information.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Understanding Sequence
A comprehensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of sequencing.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Recalling Facts and Details
A comprehensive resource pack helping students learn how to recall facts and details.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Author's Purpose
An extensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of author’s purpose.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion
A comprehensive resource pack to help students learn to distinguish between fact and opinion.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Distinguishing Between Real and Make-Believe
A comprehensive resource pack to help students distinguish between real and make-believe.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Finding Word Meaning in Context
A comprehensive resource pack to help students understand how to work out the meaning of words in context.
- Plus Plan
Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Making Predictions
An extensive resource pack helping students to learn how to make predictions.
- Plus Plan
Experimenting with Poetry Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the common elements of poetry and explores how these may be applied to shape poems, limericks, odes and simple ballads.
- Plus Plan
Writing Informative Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the informative text type; specifically, how to write a well-structured informative text.
- Plus Plan
Humorous Poetry - Limericks
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a limerick.
- Plus Plan
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.
- Plus Plan
Summarising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of summarising.
- Plus Plan
Narrative Poetry - Simple Ballads
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a simple ballad.
- Plus Plan
Introduction to Historical Recounts Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce the historical recount text type to older students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of factual historical recounts.
- Plus Plan
Inferring
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of inferring.
- Plus Plan
Making Connections
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.
- Plus Plan
The Poet's Lament
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore their preconceived ideas and attitudes towards poetry.
- Plus Plan
Historical Recounts - Literary vs Factual
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the difference between a literary historical recount and a factual historical recount.
- Plus Plan
Visualising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.
- Plus Plan
Questioning
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
- Plus Plan
Activating Prior Knowledge
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.
- Plus Plan
Forms of Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore some well-known and commonly used forms of fixed verse.
- Plus Plan
Sound Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate sound devices in poetry.
- Plus Plan
Historical Recounts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of historical recounts.