Graphic organisers and templates to use in your next Reading lesson!

Graphic organizers and templates to use in your next Reading lesson!

Forgot to get some new reading books for today's lesson? Use what you've already got at hand and smash out some book reviews!

After reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video, get your students to pull out 3 key pieces of information and record them in their own words. Extend out the activity by adding pictures and getting students to present their learnings.

Identifying Features of Non-Fiction Texts Worksheet

After you've looked at non-fiction text features, see if your students can identify examples of the text features independently. Grab an appropriate level non-fiction text and get started!

Before reading a non-fiction text or starting a new topic, find out what students already know (K) and want to know (W). The bang for your buck doesn't stop there though as your students later need to add what they learnt (L). 3 activities in 1!

Making Connections (Text-to-Self) Worksheet

Help your students get started with making text-to-self connections for fiction texts with these sentence starter prompts. Each page includes 2 copies so you can save on your printing budget!

Teaching synthesising always sounds like a bit of a challenge but it doesn't have to be. Here's a synthesising chart which keeps it reeeeaaal simple.

A blank Venn diagram worksheet. Simple but always handy. Use to compare characters or texts.

Build your students' vocabulary by creating their own word bank. Make sure that you have a dictionary - oh sorry *ipad* - at hand for them to find the actual definition.

Literacy

Reading

A blank Venn diagram worksheet. Simple but always handy. Use it for any subject you like!

Maths

Topic

Blank Venn diagram perfect for illustrating similarities and differences between two things.

Keep students busy indefinitely by creating word banks from various texts. Make sure that you have a dictionary - oh sorry *ipad* - at hand for them to find the actual definition.

A blank chart for students to create a word bank on. New vocabulary, what I think the word means and dictionary definition.

Build your students’ vocabulary by creating their own word bank from texts they’re reading. Make sure that you have a dictionary - oh sorry ipad - at hand for them to find the actual definition!

Generic prompts to scaffold students with practising the reading skill of synthesising. 

Prompts to scaffold students with practising the reading skill of synthesising. Includes WALT, Success Criteria and Key Words.

Sentence starter prompts to support students with making text-self connections.

Help your students get started with making text-to-self connections for fiction texts with these sentence starter prompts. Includes a definition, WALT, success criteria, key words and space to record three text-to-self connections.

Each A4 page includes two copies so you can save on your printing budget!

KWL charts are ideal to use in Reading lessons before and after reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video. You can also use them at the beginning of a Science, Humanities or Topic unit of work to gain insight into your students' prior knowledge.

Not to mention, it's a fantastic tool for your students! By prompting them to activate their prior knowledge, they'll be primed to connect existing and new knowledge and actively engage with the information that comes their way!

A blank KWL chart for to record what you Know, Want to Know and Learnt. 

A blank printable KWL grid for students to record what they Know (K), Want to know (W) and Learnt (L) about a topic.

A blank KWL chart for to record what you Know, Want to Know and Learnt. Landscape version.

A chart for students to record examples of non-fiction features from a text.

A lined template for recording 3 key pieces of information.

Writing

After reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video, get your students to pull out 3 key pieces of information and record them in their own words.

Includes lesson aim (WALT select and record facts), Success Criteria and Key Words as well as a Fast Finisher task.

A book review template for children aged 7-12. 

A printable kids book review template ideal for evaluating fiction texts. With space students to add a picture and fancy title, this makes for a great display on your classroom walls!

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Reading

Reading Resources Bundle

Venn Diagram

Word Bank Chart

Synthesising Chart

Making Connections Text-to-Self

KWL Chart (portrait)

KWL Chart (landscape)

Identifying Features of Non-Fiction Texts

Fact File Template

Book Review Template

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