Resources

Includes: a template and exemplar

Focus: vocabulary building

Includes: a collection of fun writing ideas for the beginning of the year

Focus: holiday memories and getting to know students

Includes: a desk and table mat template and exemplar

Focus: introducing students and setting goals

Includes: a template and two exemplars

Focus: reflecting on the year and recording interesting learnings

Includes: a template with six kindness coupons

Focus: showing gratitude and fostering generosity

Includes: two elaboration prompts posters

Focus: supporting students to explain their thinking and add detail to their ideas

Includes: a three page resource containing activities for using the Question dice and Detail dice. 

Focus: questioning and identifying evidence in texts, and adding detail to writing

Includes: a Partner-check card for junior students

Focus: editing writing

Includes: a publishing mobile template and student exemplar

Focus: publishing writing

Includes: retelling talking strips at two levels in te reo Māori

Focus: retelling

Includes: PDF of printable tiles for narrative retelling

Focus: narrative retelling

Includes: ideas for different ways to retell a story

Focus: narrative retelling

Includes: a template and an exemplar

Focus: creating meaning using a selection of random words

Includes: a Word-building template and an exemplar

Focus: adding affixes to base words

Includes: Venn diagram template and two exemplars

Focus: comparing and contrasting

Includes: a template with 3 bookmarks

Focus: to review and recommend books

Useful links and resources to support The Reading Book

Includes: a note-taking poster

Focus: explicitly teaching students note-taking skills

Includes: a writing lesson plan, YouTube video link and two video talk strips (for juniors and seniors)

Focus: describing an event from the perspective of a character

Useful links and resources to support The Writing Book

Useful links and resources to support The Oral Language Book

Includes: a two talking strips

Focus: oral presentations

Includes: two writing templates (junior/senior version) and a senior example

Focus: descriptive writing

Includes: a lesson plan (slide presentation)

Focus: adding details

Includes: a YouTube video link and a student exemplar

Focus: providing motivation for writing

Includes: a lesson plan and student exemplar poems about mum and dad

Focus: poetry

Includes: two writing/publishing templates

Focus: writing a four sentence/paragraph recount

Includes: a super sentence book cover, page and student exemplar

Focus: reviewing and improving a sentence

Includes: drama activity cards/poster

Focus: using drama to enhance speaking and listening

Includes: Self-check and Partner-check signs

Focus: designating time for self-checks and partner-checks during writing

Includes: an adjective word wheel

Focus: synonyms for big, small, fun and nice

Includes: a display resource

Focus: establishing clear criteria for emergent and early writers

Includes: two retelling talking strips

Focus: retelling

Includes: a lesson plan and two prompts (for juniors and seniors)

Focus: creating hook sentences

Includes: a lesson plan (slide presentation), prompt cards and wall display pack

Focus: building complex sentences by adding conjunctions

Includes: a lesson plan, YouTube video link, student planning sheet and exemplar

Focus: structuring and ordering events in a narrative (story)

Includes: a lesson plan, supporting images and a student exemplar

Focus: talking and writing about personal experiences

Includes: a lesson plan and a student exemplar

Focus: providing a shared experience for writing

Includes: a lesson plan, two exemplars (written and published)

Focus: activating memories and writing descriptively

Includes: a writing template, a completed example and a follow-up Quick Write lesson plan

Focus: labelling and writing an explanation

Includes: a lesson plan and two student exemplars

Focus: writing reviews

Includes: a poster and an information sheet

Focus: grouping students

Includes: an anchor chart for early writers in Cook Island Māori

Focus: Adding details to writing

Includes: two templates (for planning and writing) and a completed example

Focus: labelling and writing an explanation

Includes: two versions of the conversation prompt chart presented in The Oral Language Book and The Reading Book

Focus: to support whole-class, group or partner discussions