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Poetry Bundle — Aotearoa Edition (Years 5–8)

A 5-week poetry unit designed for Aotearoa classrooms, with 33 engaging slides and 9 printable worksheets. It covers similes, metaphors, personification, rhyme, non-sense, haiku & sensory poems, and performance tasks. Plus more! Students explore a range of poetic styles and study the work of well-known poets to inspire their own writing. Classroom-tested and ready to go — just follow the slides and print the matching worksheets when prompted.

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Descriptive Writing Bundle — Slides, Worksheets & Writing Prompts (Years 5–8)

This descriptive writing bundle gives you everything you need to teach and practise descriptive writing in one place. With clear teaching slides, scaffolded worksheets, and engaging writing prompts, it's designed to build confidence and improve student writing step by step. The slides introduce key concepts like show don't tell, similes, metaphors, and personification in a clear, student-friendly way. The worksheets provide structured follow-up activities with examples and support, while the prompts give students engaging images paired with four sentence starters to help them get ideas down and expand their writing. This bundle works across a range of levels — students who need support can use the scaffolds provided, while more confident writers can extend and build on their ideas independently.

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Explanation Writing Unit — Aotearoa Edition (Years 5–8)

This explanation writing unit is designed for Aotearoa classrooms, with 14 engaging slides and 27 printable worksheets, examples and scaffolds. Covers the structure and features of explanation texts, topic sentences, technical vocabulary, structure, and linking ideas — with real-life topics like Matariki, our native environment, and science. Students learn to explain how and why things happen using clear structure and subject-specific language. Classroom-tested and easy to follow — just work through the slides and use the worksheets when prompted.

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Narrative Writing Unit

A four-week narrative writing unit with mini-lessons, modelling slides, and printable planning sheets. Designed for Years 5 and 6, easy to stretch up or down.