It’s the start of your literacy block, and you want those first ten minutes to actually teach something, not just keep students busy. That’s what these do.
Each set takes one skill a week and builds it across the week, a little more independent each day. The same calm routine runs Monday to Friday, so students spend their thinking on the skill, not on working out what a new worksheet is asking.
The weekly rhythm
- Monday: the skill is taught explicitly, with worked examples that step through each move, then the class practises together.
- Tuesday: a quick recap and guided practice, then students begin on their own.
- Wednesday: independent practice.
- Thursday: students apply the skill to a topic from your current science or HASS unit.
- Friday: a short revision of the previous week’s skill, so every skill comes back a week later.
- Week 5 pulls all four skills together for revision.
What’s included
- Project it on the board (students work in their notebooks) or print it. It’s your choice.
- The “Think it through” steps appear on every practice page, so students can work independently.
- Mapped to the Australian Curriculum v9, with the exact codes shown in the scope and sequence.
- Built-in spaced revision, so every skill is revisited twice across the set.
- Answers at the back, with every answer shown in blue, so marking takes seconds.
In this set: Set 4, Vocabulary & Word Meaning
Set 4 teaches students to choose words with care. Across the five weeks, students work on:
- Synonyms and antonyms: reading a sentence with a gap, choosing the most precise word to fill it, then writing their own sentence with the new word.
- Shades of meaning and connotation: finding a stronger or weaker word, and a word with a more positive or more negative feeling. Stubborn or determined?
- Homophones: given one word and its meaning, students write the word that sounds the same and what it means.
- Homographs: writing two meanings for words spelt the same, including ones that change their sound, like lead, tear and minute.
Week 5 revises all four.
This is for you if
- You teach Year 4 English and want a calm, consistent daily routine in your literacy block.
- You’re a homeschool parent who wants ready-to-teach vocabulary work without designing it from scratch.
- You’d rather download and teach than spend your weekend planning.
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About Sarah
Made by Sarah Hodgson, teacher librarian, with 12+ years in primary classrooms (Prep to Year 6) as a classroom teacher, curriculum coordinator and teacher librarian.
Your mornings are busy enough. I’ve done the planning so you can open it and teach.
