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Year 3 Magazine – What’s Buzzing? (Issue 2)
PDF | 24 pages|Grade: 3A 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.
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.
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1678
Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive textsElaborationsidentifying the authorâs point of view on a topic and key words and images that seem intended to persuade listeners, viewers or readers to agree with t...
- ACELY1679
Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correctingElabo...
- ACELY1680
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language featuresElaborationsmaking connections between the text and students own experie...
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These magazines are amazing. Thanks for the effort that your team puts in!
Phillip Turtle · Aug 10th, 2020
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.
Stephanie (Teach Starter) · Aug 11th, 2020