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Written by Trish Woodman. Illustrated by Melinda Parker. (© Ready-Ed Publications 1998) This edition published by Ready-Ed Publications (2010) P.O. Box 276 Greenwood Western Australia 6024 Email: sales@readyed.com.au Website: www.readyed.com.au

COPYRIGHT NOTICE Permission is granted for the purchaser to photocopy sufficient copies for non-commercial educational purposes. However, this permission is not transferable and applies only to the purchasing individual or institution.

ISBN 978 1 86397 203 1

I devised these worksheets for use in my own classroom, because I wanted the children to do activities which had a purpose and combined several skills. Most of the booklets provide repetition of useful words and phrases. I hope they are also enjoyable.

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R Ask parent helpers to cut and assemble the booklets, but always provide an example. R Do all activities with the children. Some worksheets will require more than one session. R Modify! The printing style could be changed and glued over existing sentences. Enlarge or shrink pages on the photocopier. Add more text for more able students. Cover text and ask children to write their own words. Delete some words to make ‘cloze’ exercises.

R For covers use marbling or finger painting, etc. done in art classes. R

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Booklet 1: Starter Books

Booklet 2: Homes

Booklet 3: What is This?

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Booklet 4: Double Flip; Silly Sentences

Booklet 5: Animals

Booklet 6: My Teddy

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Booklet 9: Top and Bottom

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Booklet 1 staple

Use the blanks to adapt to needs of your class.

Instructions

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3 Cut a piece of card 7 cm x 21 cm for backing.

3 Staple the four beginnings to the left side of the card. 3 Staple the four endings to the right side. 3 Children illustrate the pages for each sentence.

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3 Cut along all black lines on the worksheet (right to the side edges).

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In the gar den garden

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Purpose: A fun way to practise new words or phrases.

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Purpose: Learning to match animals to habitats.

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1. Either photocopy the cover on page 9 to the back of one page (upside down);

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Make a cover using marbling or similar from an art lesson.

2. Photocopy two pages back-to-back; but one page must be upside down.

3. Put all the pages together, fold in the middle and staple at the top.

4. Children colour and cut the pictures then glue in appropriate place, (i.e. duck in the pond). 5.

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6. The second set of labels could also be added. (i.e. “It’s a paddock.”)

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Purpose: Learning to matching animals to habitats.

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“I do,” said the horse. r o e t s Bo r e “I do,” said the duck. p ok u S “I do,” said the mouse. “I do,” said the bird. “I do,” said the whale. © ReadyEdPubl i cat i ons said the fish. “I do •,” f or r evi e w pu r posesonl y• Optional

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r o e t s Bo r e p ok u InstructionsS

R Cut out booklet pages 1 - 5 and staple to cover above. You might like to photocopy covers onto card rather than paper. R Children cut out the words needed to make each answer and glue them in place. They can then colour in their booklet.

R Cover the pictures and names to re-use these pages, e.g. truck, car, bike, train, square, circle, triangle, etc.

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“Silly Sentences”

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Purpose: allows different sentence combinations.

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Instructions

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R This booklet needs a piece of backing card 22 cm x 10 cm.

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R Cut each sheet along dark lines (to edge) and down the middle. R Assemble the cards in order (from Sunday to Saturday). R Staple the seven beginnings to the left side of the card. R Staple the seven endings to the right side of the card. R Cut horizontal separating lines.

R Read booklet the ‘right way’ first. Then read pages in any combination to make silly sentences.

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Booklet 4

On Sunday we went to the farm

in a yellow bus.

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We saw 2 tigers tigers.. They said, “Grr”.

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On Tuesday in a green we went to boat. the beach r o e t s Bo r e ok We sawu 3p S They said, “ spotty fish.

On Thursday I rode my red we went to bike. © ReadyEdPubl i cat i ons the shops . w purposesonl •f o rr evi e y• m . u

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I saw 5 friends. They all said, “Hi.”

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Create your own story.

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Animals Purpose: To practise new vocabulary. To practise grammar, (i.e. I did, I saw, etc.).

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Cut across on all unbroken lines.

Cut the vertical lines as far as the dotted line.

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Assemble the 4 strips and staple together. Make the cover using coloured card. Children draw appropriate pictures.

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By lifting one box at a time, the sentences change.

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3 Cut across the 4 unbroken lines. 3 Cut the vertical lines to the dotted lines. 3 Staple the four strips together. Children illustrate. cut

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Create your own story. staple

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Pin-up Teddy Use on display board: each child positions their teddy and prints a sentence label for it.

Instructions:

Copy onto firm paper or card. Children colour teddy and cut it out. Use split pins to attach arms and legs. Add ‘googly’ eyes (from craft shop). Level of difficulty can be increased. i.e. My old yellow teddy is marching to school on Monday. My old yellow teddy is running to the park on Tuesday.

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Purpose: Vocabulary practice; movement study.

Instructions: 1. First make the large teddy (from previous page) in an art lesson. Use this to show what each teddy should look like for each page.

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2. Photocopy first and second page back to back, to become the cover and pages 1, 6 and 7.

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3. Photocopy third and fourth page back to back (pages 2, 3, 4 and 5). Staple together in the middle. My Teddy

4. Cut spare arms and legs, as needed, from this page. Glue in position on each page. [Pages 1, 2, 4 leg, arm; page 3, add ball; page 5, two legs; page 6, whole teddy.]

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5. Colour the teddy.

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My teddy is mar ching. marching.

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My teddy is sleeping.

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Instructions: Photocopy pages 28 and 29 back-to-back for each child and fold over.

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ABOUT MY DAD

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R Children can draw Dad on the cover of their booklet and write about their dad on the back page.

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Booklet 8

A Book About Babies

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1. Photocopy the pages back to back.

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2. Cut lengthways across each page.

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Either use as a booklet for reading or paste into Social Studies scrapbook when learning about families.

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3. Insert the top half inside the bottom half. Tie them together with wool or ribbon. Babies 4.

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Page 4: Children write the missing words.

Page 5: Children watch a friend crawling to see how to draw the arms and legs on the baby.

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your baby baby..

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for a girl or ....................................... for a boy boy..

I would like it to hav e ................................ hair have

and ............................. eyes eyes..

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Watch your friend cr awling, then dr aw legs crawling, draw crawling. and arms on this baby so it is cr awling.

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This baby is learning to cr awl. crawl.

If I had a baby I would call it ..........................

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Babies need ......................................................... .

Some get milk from their ................................ have Some times they hav e it in a bottle.

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A baby has no teeth when it’s born. It can’t eat food for a few months months..

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Purpose: A fun way to practise new words or phrases.

Instructions for ‘Top and Bottom’ booklets. Staple

Cut the first page into four questions and staple them to the top of a piece of card.

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Cut the second page into four answers, staple them to the bottom.

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Children will read the first top page followed by four answers, then the second top page followed by four answers, etc. Add cover.

Variations

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It’s a blue car.

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Glue under sentence. Add on.

It’s a duck and it’s yellow. It lives on the pond.

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Questions (Top)

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What can you see?

This is not a fox.

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Answers (Bottom)

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It’s a duck.

It’s a frog.

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Dinosaur Booklet Instructions Photocopy both pages. Cut and assemble cover and P 1 - 5. Page 1. R Make dinosaur using parts provided. Children add tail, spikes or a horn to their dinosaurs.

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Page 3. R Add head section. Draw a tree. Page 4. R Add legs to show dinosaur running. Page 5. R Write own sentence about the dinosaur.

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Page 2. R Cut out egg shape and glue in place only at the top (to form a flap).

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