Thanks to the popularity of shows such as ‘Dancing with the Stars’, dancing has seen a revival. It has become a hot topic, as families tune in to watch household celebrities tango, waltz and bolero their way across the...
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Silly Spelling Sentences
Effective learning should be fun and engaging for students. For teachers, this means constantly having to think of creative ways to liven up lessons. So, for those days where your teacher creativity is waning, don’t...
Word of the Day Vocabulary Activity
Learning new vocabulary is essential in developing communication and literacy skills. The wider a student’s vocabulary, the more able they are to express themselves. It will also allow students to make more sense of...
How to Write a Simple Narrative
To help you out we’ve broken down the story writing process into its major parts with some suggestions to help get your kids writing. Generate Ideas Before we even get into the actual story writing, we have to come up...
Similes – Methods to Support Descriptive Writing in the Classroom
This Simile activity sheet is an effective tool when teaching the concept of similes. Similes are an important skill to learn, as they can be used to add emphasis and make a description more vivid. Students are also...
Because and So
This worksheet on the difference between ‘because’ and ‘so’ will help remove some of the mystery around conjunctions. To cement your students’ understanding of how to use ‘because’ and ‘so’, you could have the class...
Keyboard Spelling Activity
Learning to spell is a fundamental skill for writing. However, we are now in an age where most writing is typed. And, as a result, corrected by that very helpful auto-correct tool. Many argue that our reliance on...
Spelling List Spiral
The need to communicate in written form is essential. Writing emails, communicating on social media or good old-fashioned letters, all require written communication skills. Therefore, most literacy curriculums around...
Secret Agent Coded Spelling
Have some fun in your literacy lessons with Secret Agent Coded Spelling. The activity is designed to train your students in becoming world class secret agents… and help them learn their spelling words, too. Learning to...
Lose or Loose?
In this literacy worksheet, students have fun filling in the correct word to match the variety of sentences. It’s a great activity for practicing these words that often can cause confusion in spelling and writing tasks...