Reading Conventions. Developing Inferential Reading Skills and Australian Curriculum Focuses. Reading Conventions is an engaging series designed to assist teachers with improving students' reading and comprehension skills. It has a specific focus on inferencing. The aim of Reading Conventions is to systematically provide all students with interesting and achievable activities, based on fulfilling national comprehension and reading requirements. Every unit has a central focus built around persuasive, imaginative or informative texts. These focuses add another dimension to the series by spe... View More...
Reading Conventions. Developing Inferential Reading Skills and Australian Curriculum Focuses. Reading Conventions is an engaging series designed to assist teachers with improving students' reading and comprehension skills. It has a specific focus on inferencing. The aim of Reading Conventions is to systematically provide all students with interesting and achievable activities, based on fulfilling national comprehension and reading requirements. Every unit has a central focus built around persuasive, imaginative or informative texts. These focuses add another dimension to the series by spe... View More...
Grammar Conventions 3rd Edition is a unique series written by Australian teachers to provide stimulating activities that will develop students' language skills. It incorporates fun activities that address both traditional and functional grammar. The aim of Grammar Conventions is to systematically provide all students with interesting and achievable activities based on fulfilling rigorous Australian Curriculum grammatical requirements. An extensive number of graphics has been used to assist in the easier understanding of many concepts. As new concepts are introduced teachers are given speci... View More...
Grammar Conventions 3rd Edition is a unique series written by Australian teachers to provide stimulating activities that will develop students' language skills. It incorporates fun activities that address both traditional and functional grammar. The aim of Grammar Conventions is to systematically provide all students with interesting and achievable activities based on fulfilling rigorous Australian Curriculum grammatical requirements. An extensive number of graphics has been used to assist in the easier understanding of many concepts. As new concepts are introduced teachers are given specific ... View More...
Grammar Conventions 3rd Edition is a unique series written by Australian teachers to provide stimulating activities that will develop students' language skills. It incorporates fun activities that address both traditional and functional grammar. The aim of Grammar Conventions is to systematically provide all students with interesting and achievable activities based on fulfilling rigorous Australian Curriculum grammatical requirements. An extensive number of graphics has been used to assist in the easier understanding of many concepts. As new concepts are introduced teachers are given specific ... View More...
Grammar Conventions 3rd Edition is a unique series written by Australian teachers to provide stimulating activities that will develop students' language skills. It incorporates fun activities that address both traditional and functional grammar. The aim of Grammar Conventions is to systematically provide all students with interesting and achievable activities based on fulfilling rigorous Australian Curriculum grammatical requirements. An extensive number of graphics has been used to assist in the easier understanding of many concepts. As new concepts are introduced teachers are given specific ... View More...
Grammar Conventions 3rd Edition is a unique series written by Australian teachers to provide stimulating activities that will develop students' language skills. It incorporates fun activities that address both traditional and functional grammar. The aim of Grammar Conventions is to systematically provide all students with interesting and achievable activities based on fulfilling rigorous Australian Curriculum grammatical requirements. An extensive number of graphics has been used to assist in the easier understanding of many concepts. As new concepts are introduced teachers are given specific ... View More...
Grammar Conventions 3rd Edition is a unique series written by Australian teachers to provide stimulating activities that will develop students' language skills. It incorporates fun activities that address both traditional and functional grammar. The aim of Grammar Conventions is to systematically provide all students with interesting and achievable activities based on fulfilling rigorous Australian Curriculum grammatical requirements. An extensive number of graphics has been used to assist in the easier understanding of many concepts. As new concepts are introduced teachers are given specific ... View More...
Oxford Handwriting for Queensland is a complete handwriting program developed under the guidance of handwriting expert and author, Deborah Davis. This fresh modern series develops the building blocks of handwriting with correct posture and grip models and opportunities to model and practice accurate letter formation and joining techniques. Student Books F - 2: Patterns to introduce letter groups and develop fluency skills. Starting dots and direction arrows. Automated information of high-frequency Oxford Wordlist words. Self-assessment pages and 'track your progress' spreads. Links to Oxford L... View More...
The Australian Curriculum edition of the English Skills Builder series sees these best-selling skills resources fully revised to address the three English strands of Language, Literacy and Literature. Designed to complement any English program, this series will teach and reinforce the skills that students need at junior secondary level. Each workbook is divided into 50 units, and content explores different aspects of language use as well as different text types and genres. The English Skills Builder series are now accompanied by digital obooks for the first time. The obook is a cloud-based web... View More...
The Australian Curriculum edition of the English Skills Builder series sees these best-selling skills resources fully revised to address the three English strands of Language, Literacy and Literature. Designed to complement any English program, this series will teach and reinforce the skills that students need at junior secondary level. Each workbook is divided into 50 units, and content explores different aspects of language use as well as different text types and genres. The English Skills Builder series are now accompanied by digital obooks for the first time. The obook is a cloud-based web... View More...
The Letters and Sounds My Beginner's Dictionary develops early spelling and dictionary skills. It assists young children with spelling and written language. Teaches alphabetical order. Develops dictionary skills to locate words. My Beginner's Dictionary includes letters and words in alphabetical order and allows each child to keep a record of their own frequently used words. In Part One, word lists appear in alphabetical order from A to Z. Listed under the letter on each page are a number of basic, most frequently asked for words. In Part Two, each page is associated with a theme fr... View More...
The Letters and Sounds Alphabet Song and Activities CD is a fun way for children to learn upper and lower case letters and their sounds. The songs are very catchy, making it easy for children to sing along while learning their letters and sounds. The CD also has fun listening activities that engage students with finger tracing, pencil tracing, colouring and clever read-along counting jingles. These activities are designed to: Promote active listening Assist students to identify key words and concepts Familiarise students with the concepts of rhyme and rhythm Develop enquiry ... View More...
The Letters and Sounds Beginner's Book Queensland is designed to assist children to learn literacy skills in a fun way, for parents to understand and help effectively and for teachers to consolidate the necessary language skills. The purposes of this book is to teach: Basic movements and patterns for handwriting. Names of upper case and lower case letters. Spatial awareness. Phonic awareness. Listening to verses and jingles. Initial sounds of letters. Reading (CD). How to write-tracing. Speaking. Recognition of numerals. Pronunciation. Reading jingles. Letter family groups. ... View More...
Letters and Sounds Book 1 is the second step of the Letters and Sounds integrated program. It has been designed to develop the language skills associated with reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing. Letters and Sounds Book 1 aims to teach: Letter/sound awareness (single letter sounds : initial, final, medial). Handwriting. In addition the following aspects of overall language development are introduced: Reading readiness. Left to right progression. Alphabetical order. Reading words from pictures. Vocabulary development. Creative language (spoken, written). Use of a di... View More...
Letters and Sounds Book 2 is the third step of the Letters and Sounds integrated program. It has been designed to develop the language skills associated with reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing. Letters and Sounds Book 2 aims to teach: Handwriting. Letter/sound awareness (consonant blends & digraphs, selected short and long vowels). In addition, the following aspects of overall language development are introduced: Word building. Word recognition. Comprehension. Use of illustrations and stimulation for creative language, spoken and written. Blends, jingles and songs.... View More...
Letters and Sounds Book 3 is the fourth step of the Letters and Sounds integrated program. It has been designed to develop the language skills associated with reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing. Letters and Sounds Book 3 aims to teach: Handwriting, Letter/sound awareness (consonant blends, long vowels, diphthongs). In addition, the following aspects of overall language development are included: Speech, Listening , Word recognition, Word building, Spelling, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary development, Creative language (spoken and written), Punctuation, Copy writing, ... View More...
This pack includes both the Letters and Sounds Beginners Book and the Letters and Sounds Alphabet Song and Activities CD. Letters and Sounds Beginner's book Queensland teaches: Basic movements and patterns for handwriting. Names of upper case and lower case letters. Letter family groups. Initial sounds of letters. Spatial awareness. Phonic awareness. Listening to verses and jingles. Reading (CD). How to write/tracing. Speaking. Recognition of numerals. Pronunciation. Reading jingles. The Letters and Sounds Alphabet Song and Activities CD is a fun way for children to learn upp... View More...
The full colour layout of Writing Time 1 is designed to teach, consolidate and extend handwriting knowledge. Writing Time 1 covers handwriting in a clear and structured way. The book includes: An engaging adventure context that makes handwriting fun. Colourful warm-up artwork activities to get little hands moving. Pre-writing patterns to develop fine motor skills. Teaching banners for reference and finger tracing. Visual discrimination activities to aid letter recognition. Sight words that put focus letters in appropriate contexts. Sentences to trace and copy to consolidate learning. E... View More...
The full colour layout of Writing Time 2 is designed to teach, consolidate and extend handwriting knowledge. Writing Time 2 covers handwriting in a clear and structured way. The book includes: Revision of Queensland Beginner's Alphabet including numerals and capitals. Differentiated activities that introduce and consolidate Exits and Entries. Engaging text types including sentences, poems and crosswords. Word study activities such as adding suffixes, finding rhyming words and building word families. Structured introduction to Joins in preparation for Year 3. Colourful art activities that... View More...