Aussie Inklings

Created by Aussie Inklings. This task needs Internet access and puts a new spin on simple 'read and respond' tasks. Utilising the kids news website www.dogonews.com, students select a news article to read. To assist with their complete understanding of the text, they draw on known reading strategies to help them. Reading strategies used within this task are: * Monitoring Meaning * Predicting * Making Connections * Inferring * Determining Importance * Synthesising * Questioning * Visu

Created by Aussie inklings. This bundle contains: Brain Waves and Music – A musical task to learn how we learn best! Brain Food / Water and Learning - A reading comprehension task involving determining main points via key words to text map a summary. My Amazing Brain – A second reading comprehension task involving determining main points via key words to text map a summary.

Created by Aussie Inklings. This task requires computer and internet access. During the task, students will need be able to: - Work as a pair - Navigate online shopping - List ingredients - Add money amounts - Estimate - Check calculations The task lends itself to practicing rounding to the nearest 10 cents or dollar as an extension activity. The websites referred to, are Australian sites using the Australian dollar. I am more than happy to adjust websites to suit. Note: In my class, eac

Created by Aussie Inklings. Create your own football stadium! A maths task requiring computer access and fraction knowledge! The opportunity is also available to extend some students with decimals and percentages. Be the first to know about future freebies and products ~ Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. This allows you to receive email updates about my store. ☺

Created by Aussie Inklings. The 4 C’s stands for: Care, Concern, Celebration and Compliment Care – What do you care about at the moment? Concern – What is concerning you at the moment? Celebration – Is there a celebration you are looking forward to or what are you celebrating? Compliment – Do you have a compliment for someone (in, or beyond the classroom)? Within my classroom, I have used these 4 words in the following way: Morning meeting – Students sit in a whole class circle or in smaller g

Created by Aussie Inklings. Product includes reading certificates to award great reading habits! 12 certificates, one for each of the months. Space provided to individually personalise. No two certificates are the same. Be the first to know about my freebies and products by clicking on the green star next to my store logo!

Created by Aussie Inklings this is a reading comprehension task aimed at small ability groups. It is not intended to be used as a whole class activity, although it can be. The student outcome will be to write an authentic summary after reading the provided text. Whilst reading, they highlight key words, fill in the text map with the most important points, look up unknown words and then rewrite their own ‘brain food and learning’ article.

Created by Aussie Inklings. A puzzle placemat that helps students introduce themselves. Copied onto enlarged paper and used for a bulletin board at the start of the year! Completed individually.

Created by Aussie Inklings. Learning how to blog – on paper first! A creative task that teaches students all about blogging and how to become a blogger. They also visit peer blogspots and have the opportunity to leave a comment! A great way for students to learn about each others passion and finished blogs look fantastic as a bulletin board! :)

For students to get the most out of their learning, they need to learn how to learn and what they can put in place to optimise their learning. First, read through the slides together whilst students take draft notes. Next, use “The Difference Between Music Genres” to listen to different music types - identify which brainwaves they would spark. Lastly, students create an information poster about brainwaves, music and learning.

Created by Aussie Inklings. A bundle of activities to use in the first few weeks of school. ‘Me’ placemat – Learning about each other ‘The 4 C’s’ – Confidence to speak in front of each other ‘My Paper Blog’ – Writing about a passion ‘The Future Me’ – My dreams and aspirations All tasks encourage students to identify elements about themselves that their peers (and teachers!) may not know!

Created by Aussie Inklings. This is a reading comprehension task aimed at small ability groups. It is not intended to be used as a whole class activity, although it can be. Student outcomes will be to write an authentic summary after reading the provided text. Whilst reading, they highlight key words, fill in the text map with the most important points, look up unknown words and then rewrite their own ‘my amazing brain’ article.

Created by Aussie Inklings. An opportunity for students to discover what job they’d like to do in the future! Involves a creative element by designing a poster. Includes a research component about their chosen career. Finished posters look fantastic as a display in the classroom!

Created by Aussie Inklings. A visual tool that assists students in building their vocabulary by linking root words to prefixes and suffixes. The vocabulary tree is made up of a trunk, branches and leaves. The trunk holds the root word, the branches hold words that contain the root word and the leaves are definitions of each word. Best used as a mini lesson first with the teacher and then in independent reading task time.

Created by 'Aussie Inklings' and designed to be used within a buddy program, which provides support between junior and senior students. The younger students feel safe and cared for, and older students feel valued and respected. It promotes social skills, communication and friendship between students and includes a compare and contrast graphic orgniser.