Writing teaching resources for Australia
Poetry Terms Vocabulary Booklet – 8 Key Terms
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Students choose a theme, then write and illustrate an original example of each of eight poetry terms (alliteration, assonance, end rhyme, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, and simile), guided by a completed spring-themed sample booklet the teacher models first.
Author Grace Under Pressure
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Tags Poetry Terms, Figurative Language, Personification, Simile, Metaphor, Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance, Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole, Hyperbole Metaphor Personification Simile, Simile Clipart, Personification Alliteration, Metaphor Alliteration
Posters: Making Inferences
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A four-quadrant chart poses guiding questions about a character's actions, dialogue, feelings, and thoughts to support character inference.
Author Reading in the Middle Grade
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Tags Inferences, Character Interpretation, Reading Comprehension, Critical Analysis, Language Arts
R.A.C.E. Strategy Practice: Animals Worksheets
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Six short animal passages — leopards, dolphins, elephants, ants, sea turtles, and chimpanzees — each pair one open-ended question with a checklist for the R.A.C.E. citing-evidence strategy.
Author The Language of Learning
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Tags Writing Center, Writing Strategies, Animals, Informational Text, Text Evidence, Race Startegy, Race Stategy, Race Stratigy, Strategy Worksheet, Space Race Worksheet Pdf, Races Strategy For Writing, Simple Animals Worksheet Answers
Michael Jackson – Black History Reading Passage
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A short biography passage on Michael Jackson's life, from the Jackson 5 to Thriller, is followed by three text-based questions and a writing prompt. Students read a short Michael Jackson biography, answer three text-based questions and respond to one open writing prompt for Black History Month.
Author FlairSquare Educational Resources
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Tags Michael Jackson, Black History Month, Reading Comprehension, Language Arts, African-American Figures
Research-Based Writing Rubric – Class Ready
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A five-category rubric scores research-based informative writing on conventions, organisation, quality of information, citing reliable sources, and research notes, for a total of 30 points.
Author The Language of Learning
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Tags Research, Report, Writing, Rubric, Assessment, Research Rubric
Script Writing Template – primary Play Practice
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Character, Dialogue and Stage Directions columns structure a blank one-page table where students draft an original play scene.
Author Elementary Resources 4 U
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Tags Playscripts, Script Writing, Writing Template, Script Template, Graphic Organizer, Writing Chart, Reading Chart, Writing Process, Drama, Script Writing Templates
Sentence Starter Cards: Eight Writing Prompts
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Choose sentence openings such as If only and Swiftly from eight cut-apart cards to help begin or vary a piece of writing.
Author Elementary Resources 4 U
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Comic Strip Template with Speech Bubbles
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Plan a short comic using empty panels and speech bubbles.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Spider Diagram Template – Reading & Writing Sheet
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A single spider diagram gives students a central topic circle ringed by eight blank legs for brainstorming related ideas.
Author Elementary Resources 4 U
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Tags Spider Diagram, Reading Diagram, Writing Diagram, Writing Graphic Organizer, Literacy, Brainstorming Chart, Diagramming Worksheets, Simple Spider Diagram, Diagram Worksheet
Springtime Picnic Fun - Writing Prompt
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A spring picnic writing-and-drawing prompt asks students whether they've been on a picnic before, then has them draw a picture of their own.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Writing, Writing Prompts, Writing Activities, ELA, Writing Centers, Spring Writing, Spring Writing Prompts, Spring Writing Activities, Spring Coloring
Story Outline Skeleton Activity
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A story-planning template breaks narrative structure into a character's obvious and hidden needs, an inciting incident, three complications, help, and a resolution.
Author Educational Voice
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Tags Story Outline Skeleton Activity, Story Outline Skeleton, Story Outline, Story Outline Activity, Creative Writing, Outline, Skeleton, Writing, Story
The Graveyard Book Novel Study Chapter Quizzes & Writing Activities
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The printable sequence divides the novel into an early-chapter quiz and a later-chapter quiz. Visible items address inference, literary devices, vocabulary in context, symbolism, and comprehension, while a separate journal supports extended written responses. Instructions explain how teachers can copy and adapt digital forms and connect them with the student slideshow.
Author Creatively Gifted
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Tags Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, Comprehension, Essay Questions, Writing Prompts, Chapter Quizzes, Writing, Literary Analysis
The Outsiders Powerpoint, Research Projects, & Note-Taking Sheets
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The research list offers varied inquiry paths connected with the novel’s 1960s setting and continuing social questions. Each topic supplies an objective, guiding questions, and several possible products such as presentations, comparative analyses, visual collections, or annotated playlists. Opening course slides establish setting and major themes before expanding into historical background. Exact novel quotations, personal names, proprietary prompts, and protected passages are intentionally excluded from this record.
Author Homeschool with Big Easy Homeschooling Mom
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Tags The Outsiders PowerPoint Lesson, The Outsiders ELA Unit, The Outsiders Homeschool Curriculum, S.E. Hinton Unit, Character Analysis, Novel Study, The Outsiders Class Activities, Novel Study Bundle, Literature Projects For High School, Critical Thinking Prompts For The Outsiders
The Peace Book | Classroom Community Book Writing
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The four-page set is designed as a companion response after sharing the peace-themed picture book named on the cover. It includes a class-book title page, an additional coordinated book page, and an individual sheet with a name line and open Peace is prompt. Learners can write or dictate a personal idea, then combine responses into a community book. The format supports early writing and classroom conversation about peaceful actions.
Author Kindergarten Cafe
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Tags Classroom Book, Classroom Community, Peace Book, Peace Writing, Cooperative Learning
"The Tell-Tale Heart" Booklet Project
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A cut-and-staple booklet project guides secondary students through post-reading literary analysis of Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' — narrator reliability, tone, theme, and symbolism — including a comparison task with Poe's 'The Black Cat.'
Author The Comprehensive Teacher
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Tags Booklet Project, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, Compare And Contrast, Edgar Allen Poe, Short Story, Literature, Tone, Themes, Symbols, Tell Tale Heart Book Cover
To Build A Fire by Jack London (Alternate Ending Writing Project)
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Alternative ending project for Jack London's To Build a Fire: students diagram the real plot, pick a point where events could change, plan a new plot diagram and write an ending of at least two pages in the third person.
Author Tpete's Supply Store
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Tags Writing Project, Alternate Ending, Creative Writing, To Build A Fire, ESL
Trace-A-Story Handwriting Practice
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Six fairy tales -- The Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears -- become stapled tracing booklets students complete a page at a time and illustrate as they go.
Author Simply Schoolgirl
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Tags Trace A Story, Handwriting Practice, Story Templates, Early Finisher Activity, Writing Center, Student Books, The Little Red Hen, Text Connections
Trace Numbers - Number Tracing 1-10 Worksheet
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Numeral tracing worksheets with a full practice grid for each digit, so students form the same numeral again and again across the page.
Author successful teachers resource
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Tags Number Tracing, Early Numeracy, Handwriting Practice, Motor Skills, Visual Comparison
tracing letter l worksheets for Pre-school (Early Years) - tracing letter l printable
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One page mixes several tasks around L and l: colouring the target, circling it among distractors, tracing repeated forms, and writing one of each case. A second page concentrates on repeated trace-and-write rows. The final page returns to capital-and-lowercase searches and adds a line-following activity through a mixed field of letters. Together, the pages move from recognition toward controlled formation without adding unrelated phonics claims.
Author successful teachers resource
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Tags Tracing Letter L Worksheets For Kindergarten, Tracing Letter L For Preschool, Letter L Tracing Worksheet For Preschool, Writing Letter L Worksheets For Kindergarten, Letter L Worksheets Writing, Tracing And Writing Letter L
Number Formation: Trace 1–30
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Practice forming numbers from 1 to 30. Model numerals and dotted examples guide students through five tracing worksheets.
Author EDITORIAL LAURA EDUCA
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TRACING VOWELS | 5 FREE PAGES
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Lowercase vowel formation is separated into five focused tracing sheets. Each page repeats one letter across several rows, allowing learners to follow the same stroke pattern before moving to the next vowel. The narrow a-e-i-o-u sequence keeps handwriting practice distinct from phonics identification or word reading. Repeated forms provide many opportunities to stabilise size and shape within a single page.
Author EDITORIAL LAURA EDUCA
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Tags FREE, FREE RESOURCES, TRACING, TRACING LINES, HADNWRITING, VOWELS
Transitions Practice Worksheets
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A modelled lightbulb-changing paragraph and a farm-versus-city comparison show time and compare-contrast transition words before students write their own using the same rules.
Author ELA Resources
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Tags Time, Transitions, Compare, Contrast, Writing, Reading, Comprehension, Literacy Station, Small Group
Unit Lesson Plan Template
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Unit Lesson Plan organises a themed sequence into three parallel planning strands. For each objective, the teacher can name an instructional activity and the assessment that will show whether the goal was met. Keeping objectives, learning experiences, and checks for understanding visibly aligned helps expose gaps before instruction begins. The single-page overview is useful for sketching a short unit, comparing the balance of its components, or discussing the plan with a teaching partner before creating daily lesson details.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Template
Verb Forms: Past, Present and Future
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Complete a chart with past, present and future forms of eight supplied verbs. Compare how each form changes the time of the action.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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