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Minecraft Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions: Years 4 - 5
Your kids will love reading about Minecraft with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through what Minecraft is, the key features of the game, and why it’s so popular. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
1 page Lego reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each)
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
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Story Starter Pictures - Behind The Door
Unlock your children’s imagination with these fun story hooks. This resource will provide inspiration for them to write their very own story and can be a great hook for a big / independent write.
This pack contains 20 pictures of different doors to be used as story starters. The children can start writing imagining that they are stood in front of the door. We have got some clue cards to help those students that may need some direction when writing their stories.
We have had great success using this resources and seen some truly wonderful stories come from them.
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Summer Word Search
This summer word search is great fun and perfect to be used a filler activity towards the end of the term. It contains 12 summer themed words for your students to find.
The resource contains a printer friendly version as well as an answer key.
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Ocean Plastic Pollution Activities BUNDLE | Humans & The Environment
Explore the impact of ocean plastic pollution through science and literacy with this 5-resource bundle designed for years 4 to 6. Perfect for Earth Day, environmental science units, or reading comprehension practice, this bundle combines nonfiction texts, hands-on projects, vocabulary development, and critical thinking activities—all ready to print and use.
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Each resource supports students in understanding the causes, effects, and solutions to plastic pollution in the ocean while reinforcing key reading, writing, and STEM skills.
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What’s Included:
Cause and Effect Worksheets – Identify real-world cause and effect relationships related to plastic pollution
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Fact and Opinion Sorting Cards – Sort and evaluate 24 engaging statements with two levels of difficulty
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Ocean Plastic Clean-Up STEM Project – Design a tool to help clean plastic from the ocean using recyclable materials
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Reading Passage with Comprehension Questions – Nonfiction text with differentiated questions for inference and retrieval
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Fact Cards on Ocean Plastics – Quick-read information cards to use for games, displays, or review
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Skills Covered:
Reading comprehension
Cause and effect
Fact vs. opinion
Scientific literacy
Critical thinking
STEM problem-solving
Environmental awareness
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Perfect for:
Earth Day and sustainability units
Cross-curricular science and literacy lessons
Independent work or group tasks
Substitute plans
Early finishers or extension activities
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Alphabet Journey (Description, 5 Senses)
This is a great literacy game to send home with your children that is easy to prepare. Each child must go on a journey to try and find things that they can see, smell and touch for each letter of the alphabet.
Depending on ability, you may want to get children to write, draw, or write and draw the answers. Their journeys can be anything from their trip to school to a walk up a mountain! There are loads of fun challenges you can set with this activity.
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Renewable Energy Reading Comprehension: Wind Turbines
This reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your sustainability topic. This is a basic text that goes through what wind turbines are, how they work, and why they are an important energy source. Once they’ve read the passage they will use the text to complete the comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
Reading passage
Differentiated Comprehension Questions
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
Check out our ‘Renewable Energy Reading Comprehension’.
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Lego Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions: Years 4 - 5
Your kids will love reading about Lego with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through what lego is, how it has expanded throughout the years, and the benefits that Lego can have. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
1 page Lego reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each)
Answer key
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Space Themed Fact or Opinion Cut and Stick Activity
This space themed activity gets your children thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions and is perfect for this non-fiction text topic.
This is a no-prep cut and stick activity where students will read the statement, decide if it’s a fact or opinion, and stick it in the correct column.
This pack has a fun space theme with graphics for each statement.
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Figurative Language PowerPoint and Quiz
A 53 slide interactive PowerPoint and quiz on figurative language that looks at similes, metaphors, personification, and alliteration. Perfect for a lesson introduction or recap.
TOP TIP: Make the quiz interactive by getting the children to write their answers on whiteboards.
Contents
- Slides 1 - 4: Introduction
- Slides 5 - 10: Similes
- Slides 11 - 15: Metaphors
- Slides 16 - 19: Alliteration
- Slides 20 - 23: Personification
- Slides 24 - 52: Quiz
- Slide 53: Conclusion
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Famous Footballers Reading Comprehension: Cristiano Ronaldo
Your kids will love reading about popular footballer Cristiano Ronaldo with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through who he is, how he has become such a huge football star, and key points in his career. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
1 page reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each)
Answer key
Check out our Messi reading comprehension!
Check out our Neymar reading comprehension!
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Story Writing / Telling Game
Children will get lost in their imagination and creativity with this fun and engaging story telling / writing activity. It is a great way to practise creating exciting stories, thinking carefully about describing characters and settings.
The children must select one of each card (character, lives, problem, & solution) and base their stories around each of the cards. The children will absolutely love it!
We have used this very successfully for a few days worth of lessons. The children spend the first lesson playing with the cards and enjoying telling stories. They then choose four cards, stick them in their books, and do a big write based on those cards they have chosen.
We hope you enjoy them as much as we have!
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Adverb Worksheets & Board Game Printables
This is a great resource for the review and introduction of adverbs.
It contains 11 differentiated worksheets and activities that will help your children practice recognizing and using adverbs in a fun and practical way.
Enjoy!
Contents:
1 x Adverb Search: Finding adverbs within the sentence (highlighting)
2 x Sort It: Sorting adverbs from adjectives and their types (cut and
stick)
1 x Fix The Sentence: Inserting adverbs into sentences (cut and
stick)
2 x Space Trip: Inserting adverbs into sentences (written)
4 x Use That Adverbs: Writing sentences using adverbs (written)
1 x Board Game: Saying sentences containing adverbs
Answer Key
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Fact And Opinion Race Cards - Sorting Activity
This is a fun and active way to get students thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions as part of your non-fiction texts topic. This resource contains animal and space themed task cards which the students need to sort into facts and opinions.
There are two activities we enjoy using the cards for.
Activity 1: Put students into teams of 4 or 5. In an open space, designate an area for facts and an area for opinions. Give each team a pack of cards and make them stand a good distance away from the designated fact / opinion areas (15 meters works nicely). Each team must take the top card and decide whether it’s a fact or opinion. Then one player must run and place the card in the correct zone before running back to their team. Once they’re back at their team they can discuss the next card and the next player can run to put it in the correct zone. Do this until all of the cards are in the correct zones.
Activity 2: Designate an area for facts and an area for opinions (two sides of a playground work well). As you read out the task cards the students must decide whether it’s a fact or opinion and run to the correct area. If you want to turn this into a game, the last student to the correct zone is out.
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Global Warming Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions
This global warming reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your humans and the environment topic. This is a basic text that goes through what global warming is, what impacts global warming, and why they it is an important issue that we need to be aware of. Once they’ve read the passage they will use the text to complete the comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
Reading passage
Differentiated Comprehension Questions
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
Check out our ‘Sea-Level Rise Reading Comprehension’.
Check out our ‘Solar Energy Reading Comprehension’.
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Instruction Writing: Outdoor Magic Potions
It’s time to get messy writing instructions for and making potions! This fun activity is sure it be a hit with your class while the learn about the key features in instruction writing such as imperative verbs and time connectives. At the end of it all they will have their own set of instructions for their very own magic potion using natural materials.
Our teaching structure:
1: Show examples of instructions and highlight the features
2: Get the children to go outside to think about which natural resources they may want to use.
3: Fill in the planning sheet
4: Write the instructions
5: Swap the instructions and make the potions!
Contents
- Teacher’s Guide
- Instructions Checklist
- Potion Instructions Example
- Planning Sheet
- Differentiated Instructions Template
We hope you have as much fun as our class did!
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Wild Story Telling - Outdoor Story Writing
Wild story telling is a great way to let your students’ imaginations run wild as they use natural items they find in your outdoor space to plan and tell their very own wild story. It’s perfect if you’re looking at descriptive language or as a stimulus before they begin to write down their own stories. For this activity they will head outside and collect 6 items that will be used within their story. These items could be imagined into anything from characters in their stories to powerful magical items. Encourage them to collect varied items as this will help when planning their stories.
Once they’ve got their 6 items they can either tape or draw one item per box on the activity sheet. They must now think about what their item could be within their story. You can either get them to include the items in chronological order or allow them to use them randomly within the story. Once they’ve planned their story they can get into small groups and use their activity sheet and items to help them as they tell their wild story to others.
This activity is designed to be done verbally while in your outdoor area. They can plan their stories either individually or in pairs.
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First Holy Communion Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions: Grades 4 - 5
This is a great reading comprehension pack about the sacrament of first holy communion as part of your ‘Seven Sacraments’ topic. The text that goes through what first holy communion is, why people choose to get take the sacrament and the importance of receiving the eucharist. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
1 page reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (2 pages each)
Answer key
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Famous Footballers Reading Comprehension: Neymar
Your kids will love reading about popular footballer Neymar with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through who he is, how he has become such a huge football star, and key points in his career. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
1 page reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each)
Answer key
Check out our Messi reading comprehension!
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Instruction Writing - Treasure Hunt
For this instructions writing activity students will create a treasure hunt for their partner to follow. They will hide an object (name tag, stone with their initials on, etc.) and create a set of instructions to guide their partner to their object from a designated starting point.
Teaching structure:
Share different examples of instructions with your students. Get them to spot any key features. You may want to do a lesson on imperative verbs before this session.
Explain that they are going to hide an object and create a set of instructions for to get from the designated starting point (that you can decide) to their object.
Once they’ve written their instructions they can swap with their partner and see if they can follow them to find the hidden treasure.
This activity is perfect for introducing instruction writing, but can also be a great activity to link in with your measuring math topic.
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Setting Description Writing - Where Am I Game
Encourage your students to use all of their senses to help develop their descriptive writing.
For this activity your class need to be in pairs, where one will be blind folded and the other will safely lead them to an area in your school grounds or outdoor space (this activity is most effective when you have a variety of different places available for students to go).
The blindfolded student will then begin to describe what they can hear, smell, and touch while the other partner records what they are saying. The blind folded student will then be asked to guess where they think they are before removing the blindfold. Both students will then work together to describe and record what they can see.
Once they have finished, they can swap roles and do that activity again. Encourage students to think carefully about powerful descriptive language as they are describing the settings they have been taken to.
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