The above links provide additional resources, to the ones on English Curriculum Main Page.
Created by Merryn Whitfield - Spiderwick Chronicles is their Term 3 novel study. They will research fantastic creatures (boggarts, faeries, etc) and use these pokedex style templates for publishing information reports. Thanks Merryn : )
First Steps Third Edition materials are made up of four interwoven strands of literacy: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Viewing, which symbolise the interrelatedness of literacy learning. All strands are threaded with practical, accessible, classroom-tested teaching procedures and activities.
Inspire and motivate students by embedding food into your lessons. This post has great ideas.
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This teaching resource contains a variety of interactive activities that will engage your early years students with narrative and informative texts. Use its selection of enjoyable game-based learning experiences to explore text types, characters, settings, narrative sequencing, story mapping and strategies for adding meaning to texts.
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Test your understanding of audience requirements by turning a print narrative story, designed for 3- to 4-year-old children, into a digital book with illustrations and voice narration. Read a survey to find out what different age groups like to read and what kind of illustrations they enjoy. Select illustrations to suit the story and to match the preferences of 3- to 4-year olds. Listen to and choose voice narration that matches the story and the target age group. View and print a report of your results.
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Test your understanding of audience requirements by turning a print narrative story, designed for 3- to 4-year-old children, into a digital book with illustrations and voice narration. Read a survey to find out what different age groups like to read and what kind of illustrations they enjoy. Select illustrations to suit the story and to match the preferences of 3 to 4 year olds. Listen to and choose voice narration that matches the story and the target age group. View and print a report of your results.
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Wow is this a powerful resource for teaching concepts, point of view, prediction, inferring ........!!!!!! The Syrian conflict has torn the country apart, leaving thousands dead and driving millions to flee their homes. Many seek refuge in neighbouring countries but others pay traffickers to take them to Europe - risking death, capture and deportation. If you were fleeing Syria for Europe, what choices would you make for you and your family? Take our journey to understand the real dilemmas the refugees face. Let the your journey begin..... |
Great visuals to inspire your teaching.
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I created this document which has a variety of uses - creating word families, changing the "onset" and "rime", making spelling words and word building.
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Created and shared by Steph Westwood. Thanks again Steph.
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Goo Games - Ideal for ES1 - S1 students. Goo Games consists of 15 games which cover opposites, make believe/real, letter recognition, rhyming words, sounds, synonyms and more. |
Contains many familiar ideas + resources plus:
- A possible playlist of songs that you can safely analyse for values, attitudes and beliefs.
- Practice reading comprehension by watching the Minuscules TV Series, which is a wonderful as it has no words, and focuses on visuals and sounds.
- A possible playlist of songs that you can safely analyse for values, attitudes and beliefs.
- Practice reading comprehension by watching the Minuscules TV Series, which is a wonderful as it has no words, and focuses on visuals and sounds.
Children read, write and draw their way through
a series of challenges within Literacy, Art and Computing. |
Gaming fun to teach the Dewey System.
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Aus VELs resource, Victoria
A Victorian Reading resource which provides videos of students reading, that demonstrate student reading behaviours associated with the different levels. Provided are descriptions of students understanding of text level knowledge, word level knowledge and phonological knowledge.
Despite being a Victorian resource, this resource will facilitate professional discussions on consistent teacher judgement. |
This site contains a variety of ideas.
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First Steps materials are made up of four interwoven strands of literacy: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Viewing, which symbolise the interrelatedness of literacy learning. All strands are threaded with practical, accessible, classroom-tested teaching procedures and activities.
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Steph's great links and Angela's Super Heroes webquest equals inspiring learning.
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Focus on Reading Livebinder - Narelle Adams - Thank you for sharing Narelle.
Celebrate Dr Suess's birthday on March 2nd
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