A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 3 students.
Liven up your literacy rotations with Teach Starter’s beautifully designed and highly informative magazine, What’s Buzzing?
The magazine’s content has been specifically curated for Year 3 students. It uses age-appropriate vocabulary and a variety of text types to address a wide range of relevant and engaging topics. The articles contained within the magazine directly relate to learning areas such as Science, History, Geography, The Arts, and Health and Physical Education.
Some of the highlights of this issue include:
- “Max’s One-Man Band” (narrative)
- “How to Build a Worm Farm” (procedure)
- “Species Snapshot – Naked Mole Rat” (information report)
- “Earth Watch – The Problem with Litter” (explanation)
- “Recess Rules – The More the Merrier” (comic).
Task Cards
Five sets of task cards addressing the areas of writing, language, comprehension, reading strategies, and higher-order thinking skills have been developed to support and complement the magazine’s content. Download the What’s Buzzing? Task Cards.
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I really like the magazines, as well as the task cards. I can print individual texts from the magazines to use during my literacy group rotations and I particularly like that all the magazines have the same text types, in the same order. I have a 3/4 composite class and I am using magazines from Year 2 to Year 5, allowing me to differentiate for my groups. Alternatively, I can print enough copies of a text for the whole class if I want to do a whole class literacy lesson. I would love to see a 2nd edition! Thanks.
Hi Kylie, Issue 2 is on its way! Check out our blog with the release schedule at https://www.teachstarter.com/au/blog/whats-buzzing-magazine-issue-2-schedule/
Is there any way you could remove the 'Year 3' from the cover? I'd like to use these within a Year 4 class, with my students who are reading at a lower level.
Thanks!
I download the year 4 booklet and just print the front page and then remove the front page from the year 3 booklet, and put in the year 4 one.
Hi, is there any way to get a cope of this with the 'Year 3' Removed? I
Hey Rachel, thank you for your feedback. That is a fantastic idea and one we are currently working on. We will update you when the additional files have been added to the website.
These magazines are great! When will the next edition be available?
Thank you for your kind comment! I am so glad you are enjoying our magazines. We don’t have any plans at this stage to create new issues; however, please feel free to vote for another addition or request a new version using our ‘request a resource’ widget, found here https://www.teachstarter.com/request-a-resource/.
A year 2 one would be amazing ðŸ˜
Hey Sarah, thank you for sharing your support with these magazines. The First Edition of our Year 2 Magazine is due to come out next week!
These magazines are great! Will you be adding a year 2 edition soon as my class would love these! Thanks :)
Hi Kimberley, Thanks so much for your feedback on the new What's Buzzing Teach Starter Magazine. We had so much fun making this and we have had such wonderful feedback that we are in the process of compiling other versions of the magazine to suit different age groups. Your comment has been passed onto our creative teams, keep visiting the site and you will be updated on the progress of future issues. If there is anything else I can assist you with, please don't hesitate to contact me.