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Are you teaching advertising or persuasive writing? Want an engaging lesson that links to ANZAC DAY or remembrance day? This lesson is on a Google Slides in order to show your whole class. There are learning intention and prompting questions about the author's purpose for the adverts? Who was the intended audience (gender and age)? The first few slides are regular adverts for things and travel but most of the slides are propaganda used to convince people to join the war. There are 15 old adver

This is Google Slides/PowerPoint STEM Lesson that can be used all at once or as a series of lessons. This Lesson explains the learning intention as WALT (We Are Learning To). This Lesson uses the LAUNCH cycle for STEM and design. There are 6 video examples of a Rube Goldeberg Machine (including some from films to engage students) and a series of questions for teachers to prompt students thinking. There is also a link to a reading about Rube Goldberg Machines that could be used as a reading comp

The slides provided is an outline/template of an information report. It is one slide with links to 6 separate other slides for students to work in groups. On the first slide there are videos of how to use this one video for teacher usage and one for students. The next slide has a place for teachers to insert the students names and divide their class into groups. Each Group Number has a hyperlink to a separate Google Slides template of an information report including classification, description,

This is a great activity to help students learn when to use a new paragraph when writing any time of narrative or recount - including realistic fiction, historical narrative/fiction. Students highlight or underline (using the mnemonic TiP ToPs) to identify where to start a new paragraph.

Goal setting is a great way to start off a school year, a school term or new semester. Research says having the goals visible will help them achieve the goals more quickly.Here are some travel themed goal sheets for the students to decorate - make the airline their name or an alliteration with their name. This is a great talking piece to use with parents at meet the parent night or parent teacher interviews having the child share their goals with their parents. Alternatively you can have your c

This is a great task when teaching students how to paragraph when writing a narrative. It includes a visual if you do not have an anchor poster up in your class about TiP ToPs paragraphs and includes the learning intention

This checklist of success criteria is for students to use when writing their information report but also as a tool when they go back and check it over (to help them be more accountable and give them agency) I created this with my grade 3/4 class after teaching for 4 -5 weeks about the text type/genre information reports. When giving my students a success criteria for a marked piece of work, I find they produce better quality work.

This was a great resource when learning about Indigenous Australians history of significant events. I found photos to match each event and laminated a few sets. Then had students sort the photos, when they would say they were done I would ask them to explain how or why they sorted the images that way then would say can you sort them in a different way. On a different day I would give them the images again and the blurb about a historical event and see if they could match any. I continued this on

This is a Google slides lesson walking a class through the meaning of ethics with 3 learning intentions and an explanation of ethics written on one slide followed by a brief 4 minute Youtube video explaining Ethics and a prompt for think, pair share. There are then prompting questions and thoughts for pondering ALL linked with the 5/6 Australian curriculum for ethical capabilities. Then there follows with 24 slides of images to prompt discussion of whether they are ethical or not - Things for t

Teacher's here is a ready made mother's day card for your students to colour and write a letter or poem on the back. You can even use this as an invitation to a mother's day tea- which is what I do with it each year. You can also laminate it and have students cut it into puzzle pieces, cut it out and have on the gift tag write "I love you to pieces!"

These are 5 activities related to ANZAC day. One activity for each Daily 5 activity ready to present on a Google Slides presentation - to present to your class on an interactive whiteboard or to share via Google Classroom. There is an activity for read to self, read to someone, word work, listen to reading and work on writing activity that includes picture prompts. There is links to reading texts and an ANZAC word search for word work.

A coloring in of a poppy with the word Lest We Forget to do during ANZAC Day or Remembrance Day. A fast finisher activity, activity to do while listening to a story or an art activity.

A goal sheet for the start of the school year or start of term. For any year level. There is one with lines for the students to write their learning goals or one without so the students could draw a picture or draw a picture or write. This went with my class theme of Hollywood at the start of the year. I had the students include: 1-2 reading goals, 1-2 writing goals, 2 goals in mathematics, 1 social and emotional goal and one personal goal eg make a new friend or go up a level in swimming or pia

There is a Information Text on Dinosaurs and then there is a list of information report text features. Students need to locate those within the text eg bold font, diagrams, headings etc.

This is a persuasive text about embracing and celebrating diversity in a classroom/school. This is good if you are teaching about diversity OR you are wanting something for Harmony Day or cultural diversity week (MARCH) or something that is related to racism. You can use this as a mentor text or to deconstruct the text as a class, independently or students in pairs.

Learning Goal sheet with a place for the child to write their name eg Michelle's Learning Goals Theme of Dr Seuss's The Place You'll Go book. Used this at the start of the year after reading the book to my grade 5/6 class. This could be used for any age group. For students not writing yet, they could draw pictures in the hot air balloon.

Perfect ANZAC DAY activity for a reading and/or writing lesson for procedural texts. It comes with instructions for deconstruction/annotating the procedure AND reading comprehension questions (thin & thick) (closed & open ended questions) that are explained.

This activity has the learning intention, WALT identify reasons why someone migrated to Australia. There are 6 links to brief videos from ABC of why different people have migrated to Australia. Students then write about their learning in the boxes provided and then link this to their own learning and reflecting on their area where they live. This task could be done as homework, remotely or in class. Could be uploaded on Seesaw, Google Classroom or other platform you might use. If completed in c

A blank template to use as a pre assessment and/or post assessment of student's learning - students can draw and/or write in the boxes provided and can write dates or number to show sequencing.

This is an excellent task to help students learn when to start a new paragraph when writing narratives using a Mnemonic TIP TOP/S. Having a mnemonic helps all students remember when to start a new paragraph and help reduce Cognitive Load (for students who have learning difficulties or learning disabilities)