A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 3 students.
Liven up your literacy rotations with Teach Starter’s beautifully designed and highly informative magazine, What’s Buzzing?
The magazine’s content has been specifically curated for Year 3 students. It uses age-appropriate vocabulary and a variety of text types to address a wide range of relevant and engaging topics. The articles contained within the magazine directly relate to learning areas such as Science, History, Geography, The Arts, and Health and Physical Education.
Some of the highlights of this issue include:
- “The Approach to Titan” (narrative)
- “How to Make a Newspaper Pirate Hat” (procedure)
- “Let’s Get Ready to Rock” (information report)
- “Water Overuse” (infographic)
- “Recess Rules: True Friends” (comic).
Task Cards
Five sets of task cards addressing the areas of writing, language, comprehension, reading strategies, and higher-order thinking skills have been developed to support and complement the magazine’s content. Download the What’s Buzzing? Task Cards.

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Year 3 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 2) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 2 of Teach Starter’s Year 3 magazine.

teaching resource
Year 3 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 3 students.
Digital version
If you are keen to save time, ink and paper, you can display a digital version of the magazine on your interactive whiteboard or one-to-one device using our online flip-book.
These magazines are amazing. Thanks for the effort that your team puts in!
Thank you so much for sharing this positive feedback with us, Phillip! These magazines are a huge team effort by the Teach Starter team, but we love making them for members like you! Have a wonderful day.