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This website gives you information on fishing regulations in WA. It then helps you write an exposition. Really good IWB whole class activity to model expositions.

A range of interactive Literacy games and activities to improve English Skills (focusing on writing genres: fairytales, procedural text, letters, recounts, similies, narratives, dialogues, plays, poetry, newspapers, proverbs)

This programme consists of nine short drama sequences that can be used in the classroom to stimulate creative writing amongst primary pupils. Each story start presents a different scenario and characters which are open to interpretation by pupils and teachers. Each individual story start ends on a cliff-hanger, encouraging pupils to continue the story from this point.

Spelling activities - online and also printable resources. Games and activites as well as information sheets.Also includes links to grammar, reading, writing and listening activities. (UK site, so some UK references).

Help to write articles for a local newspaper. Investigate community attitudes to a development planned for a local park. Look at development plans for the site. Interpret graphs showing results of a public opinion poll. In this scenario, the community is in favour of the proposed development. This learning object is one in a series of five objects.\n\nThe purpose of this learning object is for:\n\nStudents to decode a range of texts which state a position on the same topic. \nStudents to construct literal and inferential meaning from exposition texts. \nStudents to consider the position taken by a range of texts on the same topic. \nStudents to identify how textual choices contribute to how texts convey a point of view. \nStudents to identify bias and author's viewpoint in texts. \nStudents to use logical reasoning to match an author with a particular text.\

Learn how to write an exposition about the culling of koalas

Use visual representations of two fractions to find a common denominator. Write the two fractions as equivalences with the common denominator. Place the fractions on a number line. Find new fractions between the two original fractions.

BBC - Skillswise Words - Improving your punctuation and writing using apostrophes\nQuiz & interactive game of varying levels of difficulty

Place value game. Students have a short time limit (depending on the level) to correctly answering the question about which column each number falls into. Children also have to correctly write the numbers up to 6 digits.

Great website for literacy activities - suitable for Prep -6

Access videos of current and past episodes of Behind the news

Great child related, child language current affairs program. Short, interesting and detailed news reports. Great for note taking and reporting composing.

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This programe features seven video clips that are designed for teachers to use on their interactive whiteboard when teaching literacy. Suitable for Years 1 - 7, each of the short clips sets up an environment or a narrative that can be used to fire the children's imagination. An alluring jewellery shop, a ghostly graveyard and a tunnel with a warning are just three of exciting story starts included.

The English Developmental Continuum P-10 provides evidence based indicators of progress , linked to powerful teaching strategies, aligned to the progression points and the standards for the English Domain of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. These teaching strategies are designed to support purposeful teaching of individuals and small groups of students with similar learning needs. It is intended that teachers use the strategies in the context of their own classrooms, text or topic being taught.

Activity - could be discussed with whole class, in small groups or independently. Great for reviewing sentence structure.

Read some classic fairytales that have been re-told from a different perspective e.g. from the perspecitive of the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood

Some useful lesson ideas for Roald Dahl author study

Quick and easy to access website to assist in the brainstorming, discussion and learning of prefixes and suffixes.