Understanding and Responding to Literature
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Year 5 Reading Worksheets - The Business of Bees
Read and learn about bees, pollination and honey production with a reading comprehension passage and worksheet pack.
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Write a Short Story – Adventure in Space
Get your students analysing and writing adventure in space stories with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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What Is Narrative Voice? Teaching Slides
Answer the question “What is narrative voice?” with this engaging slide deck that helps students understand first person, third person limited and third person omniscient narration.
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Biography of an Immigrant Writing Project
Uncover the untold stories of migrants with an enriching biography research project for upper primary students.
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Using Context Clues Worksheet
Try a ‘Using Context Clues’ Worksheet to help your students determine the meaning of unfamiliar words based on the surrounding text.
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Persuasive Letter Prompts Task Cards
Use these persuasive letter prompts to get your students writing convincing persuasive letters on a variety of topics.
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Comprehension Monitoring Strategies PowerPoint
Use this Comprehension Monitoring Strategies PowerPoint to guide students through the learning of self monitoring while reading.
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Read & Comprehend Worksheets - Celebrity Biography Passages
Download our celebrity biography reading comprehension worksheets to help your Year 4 and 5 students practise reading comprehension skills.
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The Olympic Games - Comprehension Task
Encourage students to apply a range of comprehension and writing skills when finding out interesting fun facts about the Olympics with a printable reading comprehension task.
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Comprehension Task Cards Summarising
Practise summarising text with these relevant events-based texts.
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Summarising Poster Set
Learn about how to effectively summarise a piece of text with this classroom poster set.
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Informative Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 5
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their informative writing.
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Making Connections Grid
A worksheet for students to practise making connections with a piece of text.
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The Secret Society of Vegetable Venerators – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 5 magazine (Issue 2).
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Sound Devices PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint to use when teaching sound devices to your students.
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Comprehension - The Great Wall of China
A comprehension activity about The Great Wall of China.
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Activating Prior Knowledge - Comprehension Strategy Poster
A poster explaining how to activate prior knowledge before reading.
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Biography Template Pack
Download this biography template pack to help students structure engaging biographies with differentiated layouts suited for various writing projects.
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Comprehension - Tia's Tantrum
A comprehension activity using a narrative text.
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Historical Context in Literature Graphic Organiser
Support students to explore historical context in literature with this two-page graphic organiser that helps them record key historical details from a piece of literature.
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Analysing Text Context Worksheet Pack
Explore text context using this engaging set of comics designed to help students uncover the historical, social and cultural meaning behind the texts they read.
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Context Clues Reading Comprehension Handouts
Use Context Clues Reading Comprehension Handouts to assess your student's ability to define unknown words using context clues.
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Finding Word Meaning In Text - Context Clues Activity Sheet
Use context clues to determine word meaning in text with a printable Context Clues Activity Sheet.
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Australian Conservationists: Miranda Gibson – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about Miranda Gibson and her conservation work with this 2-page reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.
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Paired Passage Worksheets - Thunderstorms
Use paired passages to help your student practise applying reading comprehension strategies.
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Inspiring Story Starters Task Cards
Get your students writing inspiring stories with this set of story starter task cards.
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Fennec Fox Adaptations - Close Reading Worksheets
Read and learn about Fennec Fox adaptations with a set of printable Reading Comprehension Worksheets for Year 5.
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Summarising Fiction Texts Teaching Slides
Build summarising skills with fiction texts using these teaching slides.
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Colour-Coding Summarising Fiction Text Worksheets
Practise summarising small fiction texts with this fun colour-coding set of worksheets.
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Australia's Voting System – Comprehension Worksheets
Explore the history and systems of voting in Australia with this differentiated reading comprehension activity.
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Earth, Sun and Moon – Comprehension Worksheet
Read about and compare physical characteristics of the Eath, sun and moon with this reading comprehension sheet.
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Figurative Language Flip Book
A flip book template for students to identify examples of figurative language.