Writing teaching resources for Australia
Animal Farm Post-Reading Creative Writing Assignment: What Would Old Major say?
, Not Grade Specific,
George Orwell's Old Major returns from the dead to react to the other animals' chapter-10 outcome in this creative writing assignment, letting students choose a letter, song, podcast, journal entry, or poem.
Author The Red-Haired Reader
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Tags Creative Writing, Character Analysis
Asking and Answering Questions Worksheet
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Asking and Answering Questions structures active listening during a presentation or oral explanation. Students first identify the speaker’s topic, then record a question that helps them gather information or resolve confusion. A paired area captures the answer they receive. The format emphasises that productive listening involves noticing gaps in understanding and seeking clarification rather than passively hearing words. It can also support discussion of relevant questions and complete, topic-connected answers.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Speaking And Listening, Prompts, Research, Why Questions Worksheet
Autobiography Worksheet
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The opening page defines autobiography as writing by an author about their own life and frames it as both reflection and self-discovery. Prompt areas ask for birth information, childhood memories, current enjoyment, an achievement, and a valued personal quality. Learners develop those notes into a short first-person account, with the second page providing continued writing space. The structure supports personal narrative organisation without prescribing any private detail beyond the listed categories.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Narratives, Autobiography Sentence Starters
Back-to-School Writing Paper: Ten Layouts
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Choose from ten writing-paper layouts with different line spacing, picture boxes and school-themed borders. Select the support that suits each writer.
Author Cherry Workshop
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BED Anchor Chart | Teaching B and D
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The BED Anchor Chart presents a mnemonic for a common letter reversal. When the word bed is written in order, the tall stem of b appears at the beginning and the tall stem of d appears at the end, with the middle letter forming the mattress-like centre. Learners can recall or gesture the whole word when deciding which letter they see or need to write. The single visual works as a desk reference, wall reminder, or decoding prompt.
Author First in Line
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Tags Letters, Alphabet, Reading, Anchor Chart, Reading Notebook, Bed Trick For B And D, Bed Charts, Bed Chart
Black History Month Creative Writing Prompts with Story Cards
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Twenty Black history figure cards combine with a story-planning organiser and sentence starter to generate original short stories, scored by a rubric.
Author Heather Huhman
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Tags Black History, Creative Writing, Writing, Early Writing, Elementary Writing, Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Mae Jemison, MLK
Capitalisation Practice and Activities, Year 3 Grammar Worksheets
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Each worksheet presents six lowercase or undercapitalised sentences for learners to rewrite correctly. Across the eight pages, examples cover names of people and pets, countries and cities, landmarks, bodies of water, historical groups, holidays, months, book titles, institutions, and other proper nouns. The consistent format provides substantial repetition while the varied contexts broaden rule application. Teachers can assign pages individually for focused review.
Author TeacherYouWant
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Tags Third Grade, Grammar, Worksheets And Activities, Home School
Catholic Prayer Copywork: Cursive Tracing and Writing
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Practise cursive with two tracing-line sizes and independent Catholic prayer-copywork pages. Blank lined pages and faith-themed illustrations are included.
Author Saintly Scribbles
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CHARACTER: The FIVE Elements of a Story Graphic Organisers
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Character graphic organisers for any story, from a character map and a trait chart with text evidence to a relationship web, Venn comparison and character sketch.
Author Ibby Resources
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Tags Study, Skills, Character, Literary, Device
Citing Evidence from the Text Worksheet
, Not Grade Specific,
The worksheet guides readers from identifying a book or article to writing an evidence-supported opinion about it. Dedicated fields capture the text's title, what it is about, the learner's position, supporting reasons, and a concluding restatement. Directions suggest connective words that link the opinion with reasons. The structure integrates reading and writing while leaving the choice of source and stance open for different classroom texts.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Essays
CLOTHES: Word Games with Puzzles Crossword Wordsearch Anagram
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Clothing word puzzles for 14 words, from shirt and skirt to sweater vest and beanie, practised through anagrams, a crossword, a matching page and a word search.
Author WORDS ASIDE
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Tags Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia, Literacy Center, Flash Cards, Anagram, Word Search, Wordwall, Community, Clothes, Words Aside
Concise Writing Practice
, Not Grade Specific,
Eight sentences riddled with wordiness or redundancy are rewritten and explained by students, with a full answer key providing one accepted revision per sentence.
Author ELA Resources
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Tags Writing Practice, Literacy, Sentence Writing, Editing, Revision
CONFLICT: The FIVE Elements of a Story Graphic Organisers
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Ten blank graphic organisers guide students through analysing a story's conflict from different angles, from a basic problem/solution chart to a chart classifying conflict as character-versus-nature, -self, -society or -character.
Author Ibby Resources
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Tags Study, Skills, Character, Graphic Organizer, Story Elements
COPS Editing Strategy | Class Posters for The Writing Process
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C.O.P.S. self-editing — Capitalisation, Organise Sentences, Punctuation, Spelling — is unpacked on an overview chart plus four single-letter posters with checkmarked reminders for each editing step.
Author The Language of Learning
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Tags Editing, Proofreading, Writing Process, Grammar, Posters
Correcting Punctuation Worksheet
, Not Grade Specific,
The learner encounters punctuation and capitalisation errors inside a full personal letter rather than separate sentences. Corrections include sentence beginnings, proper nouns, contractions, possessives, address punctuation, and the closing. Editing connected text requires readers to preserve meaning while noticing conventions across multiple paragraphs. The corrected-letter reference presents the edited passage for review, while public-facing copy avoids repeating the letter's names, locations, brands, or exact content.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Capitalization
Creative Writing Checklists
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A single page repeats the same story-structure and C.O.P.S. proofreading checklist four times for cutting into individual strips.
Author The Language of Learning
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Tags Creative Writing, Student Editing, Peer Editing, Writing Checklist, Language Arts, Writing Checklist For Students, Writing, Creative, Editing Checklist
Cursive Letter Connections
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Cursive letter connections — joining a capital to a small letter, and one small letter to the next — are practised on 30 reproducible tracing pages for Foundation–Year 3.
Author Classroom Complete Press
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Tags Writing Worksheet, Handwriting
Cute Cat Cards 5x7 Envelope Template Included
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Valentine's Day cards in eight designs, including cute cats, sized 5x7 and double-sided, with a matching envelope template for students to cut out, assemble and personalise.
Author Homeschooling Dietitian Mom
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Tags Valentine's Day Templates, Valentines Day Projects, Valentines Day Writing Prompts, Valentines Day Crafts, Cute Bulletin Board, Valentines Craft Preschool, Social Skills Centers
Describe the Picture: Spring Writing Prompts
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Look closely at four spring scenes and write complete sentences about the details you can see. Each colour picture has ruled writing space.
Author Teach To Heaven, Reoulita.com
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Digital Graphic Organisers: Argumentative Writing
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Thirteen argumentative writing graphic organisers cover claim, reasons, evidence, counterclaim and rebuttal, each supplied as a printable page and an editable slide. Eight horizontal and five vertical organisers guide students from claim through reasons and evidence to counterclaim and rebuttal, on paper or as editable slides.
Author Fairways and Chalkboards
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Tags Graphic Organizers, Handouts, Printables, Writing, Argumentative Writing, Free Argumentative Graphic Organizer, Argumentative Essay Outline Graphic Organizer, Argument Graphic Organizer, Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer, Graphic Organizer Argumentative Essay, Argumentative Graphic Organizer Pdf, Graphic Organizer For Argumentative Essay, Digital Graphic Organizer, Argument Essay Organizer, Writing Graphic Organizers 3rd Grade, Argumentative Essay Organizer, Argumentative Graphic Organizer
Digital Pumpkin Carving
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A digital pumpkin-decorating slideshow links to typed writing slides where students compose a short story about their pumpkin, paired with matching printable lined writing templates.
Author Creativity Overload
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Tags Digital, Pumpkin Carving, October, Autumn, Story Writing, Digital Pumpkin
Digital/Printable TED Talk Worksheets (Editable in Google Slides)
, Not Grade Specific,
Four response-worksheet styles pair with any TED Talk, from a purpose-and-opinion format to a four-quadrant reflection grid, available in matching printable and digital-fill versions.
Author Roombop
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Tags Ted Talk, Google Slides, Listening Comprehension, Note Taking, Digital Resources
Editing Checklist for Self and Peer
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A self-and-peer editing checklist has writers check their work against spelling, punctuation, capitalisation, grammar, and formatting guidelines before a peer completes a second review.
Author Resource Garden
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Tags Language Arts, Writing Skills, Peer Review, Self-Assessment, Critical Thinking
Editing Sentences Worksheet
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The learner page omits capitals or final marks from statements, questions, and exclamations. Students correct the printed sentences, paying attention to sentence beginnings, days, months, organisations, locations, and other proper nouns while selecting an appropriate period, question mark, or exclamation point. A completed conventions reference provides the edited set for review.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Capitalization, Printable Editing Marks, Sentence That Needs Editing, Editing A Sentence, Editing Worksheets For High School, Editing Worksheet Middle School, Editing Writing Worksheets, Editing Sentence, Editing Essays Worksheets, Editing Worksheet, Edit This Sentence, 4th Grade Editing Worksheets, Sentence Correction Worksheets 3rd Grade, Editing Practice Worksheets