Notes from the emu teacher
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Are your students struggling to write complete complex sentences?
These Complex Sentence Writing Photo Prompts provide meaningful practice with sentence structure, grammar and punctuation, helping students use subordinating conjunctions to combine ideas and write with confidence.
Using engaging photo prompts, writing checklists, differentiated writing supports and clear subordinating conjunction references, students apply grammar knowledge at the point of writing while developing stronger sentence construction skills and greater writing independence.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Daily sentence writing practice
🌿 Writing warm-ups and grammar lessons
🌿 Morning work or fast finisher tasks
🌿 Homework and skill consolidation
🌿 Literacy rotations or independent work
🌿 Small group intervention
🌿 Whole class modelling and explicit instruction
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
𓅦 40 Photo Prompt Cards
Independent writing and sentence starter versions
𓅦 Customisation Options
2 grammar terminology options
Independent clause & dependent clause
Main clause & subordinate clause
3 subordinating conjunction acronym options
AAAWWUBBIS
ISAWAWABUB
AWHITEBUS
2 writing checklist options
Subordinating conjunction
Subordinating conjunction or relative pronoun
𓅦 Multiple Formats
Print-ready PDF
Google Slides
Microsoft PowerPoint
Photo only presentation
𓅦 Editable Templates
Canva template
Microsoft PowerPoint template
𓅦 Student Writing Supports
Writing checklists included on every prompt card
Printable checklist strips for student workbooks
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS RESOURCE:
Designed to build confident, independent writers, these Complex Sentence Writing Photo Prompts help students apply grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and subordinating conjunction skills in meaningful writing tasks. Multiple terminology, acronym, checklist and format options make it easy to choose the version that best suits your curriculum, teaching preferences and student needs.
Looking for a purposeful way to help students tackle multiplication and division with confidence and understanding?
This resource is designed to explicitly teach students how to use bar models to represent and solve multiplication and division problems, supporting them to visualise quantities, relationships and unknowns through meaningful word problems.
Rather than relying on guesswork or disconnected procedures, students use bar models to represent part–part–whole and comparison relationships, helping them reason logically and choose efficient solution strategies. Each problem promotes flexible thinking, strong number sense and a deeper conceptual understanding of multiplication and division.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Explicitly teach and reinforce multiplication and division using bar models
🌿 Support students to visualise number relationships in word problems
🌿 Small group or guided maths instruction
🌿 Whole class rotations or maths stations
🌿 Relief-teacher-friendly lessons with minimal prep
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
𓅦 40x Word Problem Task Cards
𓅦 4x Levels of Number Complexity Differentiation
10x multiplication problems using 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10x tables
10x division problems using 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10x tables
10x multiplication problems using 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 11x and 12x tables
10x division problems using 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 11x and 12x tables
𓅦 2x Levels of Strategy Support Differentiation
Empty strategy model cards
Partially filled strategy model cards
𓅦 PDF Version
2x Colour options - minimal colour and black & white
Empty strategy model worksheet
2x recording sheets
Answers
𓅦 2x Digital Versions
MS Powerpoint
Google Slides
𓅦 2x Self-checking options - no teacher marking!
Provide access to the Google Form for checking answers
Print the self-checking cards double sided
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Explicit strategy support — builds confidence and number sense
🌿 Word problems that encourage thinking & reasoning
🌿 Minimal prep — just print and go or assign digitally
🌿 Works for whole class, small groups or interventions
🌿 Helps students see multiplication and division as strategic thinking
Are your students struggling to generate ideas for story writing independently?
This Generating Ideas Photo Prompts bundle provides a low-prep, highly structured approach to narrative and creative writing. Using the notice and wonder strategy, the connections strategy, and the someone, wanted, but, so and then strategy, students generate ideas, plan and write engaging stories with greater confidence and independence.
Engaging photo prompts, brainstorm boxes, writing checklists and structured story scaffolds help students generate and organise ideas at the point of writing, reducing cognitive load and supporting independent story writing.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE:
🌿 Daily narrative and creative writing practice
🌿 Stimulus for NAPLAN writing practice
🌿 Writing warm-ups, fast finishers or literacy rotations
🌿 Homework or consolidation tasks
🌿 Small-group intervention
🌿 Whole-class modelling and explicit instruction
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
𓅦 120 Photo Prompt Cards
Independent writing, completed brainstorm and sentence starter versions, or completed someone and wanted brainstorm versions
𓅦 Customisation Options
3 prompt card templates to choose from
𓅦 Multiple Formats
Print-ready PDF
Google Slides
Microsoft PowerPoint
Photo-only presentation
𓅦 Editable Templates
Canva template
Microsoft PowerPoint template
Insert your own images and customise the checklists
𓅦 Student Writing Supports
Writing checklists included on every prompt card
Printable checklist slips for student workbooks
𓅦 Resource Guide PDF
Setup instructions
Quick access links to Google resources and Canva templates
Teaching suggestions
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS BUNDLE:
Designed to build confident, independent writers, this Generating Ideas Photo Prompts bundle helps students generate, plan and write engaging narratives using the notice and wonder strategy, the connections strategy, and the someone, wanted, but, so and then strategy. Multiple brainstorm, checklist and format options make it easy to choose the version that best suits your teaching preferences and student needs.
EDITABLE TEMPLATES
Editable Canva and Microsoft PowerPoint templates allow you to:
insert your own images
customise the writing checklists
Please note: The page design, headings and instructional text are fixed.