My Desktop Dictionary. A child's first dictionary. My Desktop dictionary is designed, written and illustrated for young children in their first years of learning. It is a student dictionary for children who are developing a written vocabulary and contains a wide range of commonly used words. Ample space is provided for recording new words that students may add to the dictionary. Features:- Designed, written and illustrated for young children. Contains a wide range of commonly used words, plus space for recording new words. A blank square at the top right-hand corner of ... View More...
Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in sweaters leaning against old brick buildings, girls running with lacrosse sticks across pristine athletics fields, everyone singing hymns in chapel. But as she soon learns, Ault is a minefield of unstated rules and incomprehensible social rituals, and Lee must work hard to find and maintain her place in the pecking order. About the Author: "Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of... 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...
PM Handwriting Queensland edition is a carefully sequenced handwriting program for Prep to 6, designed to enable students to master a fluent, legible and automatic handwriting style. The series provides instruction for correct letter formation and joining techniques in the Queensland Beginner’s Alphabet and Queensland Modern Cursive scripts. The workbooks feature high-frequency words, PM favourite characters, themes and topics from the PM readers, and purposeful digital extension activities accessed via QR codes. View More...
Written by Diana Rigg and a team occupational therapists, New Wave Pre-writing Patterns Workbook presents a systematic and fun approach for teaching the foundation skills that are essential for children to learn the pre-writing patterns used to make pictures and then combined to make letters and numbers.
Throughout the early years, children are encouraged to participate in a range of fine-motor activities that develop manipulative skills, a dominant hand and the ability to use both hands together. New Wave Pre-writing Patterns Write-on Posters are also available for additional practise.
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"Time for Handwriting Book P Beginner's Alphabet" is designed to help the teacher and child treat handwriting in the classroom. Stages and sequences for the teaching of handwriting have been set out in this book along with a variety of strategies along with a detailed Program of Achievement, Objectives and Lesson Register. The child is encouraged to practise basic movements, fluencies, letter shapes and families, as well as numerals.Letters are practised in the context of words. This is extended as skills develop in writing the alphabet. All lower case and capital letters use the strateg... View More...
The Sound Waves Student Chart is an A3 folded to A4 handy chart for students. It provides an easy reference for each student to use for decoding and encoding words. They are used to: Introduce and explore phonemes. Discover and identify graphemes. Play games to reinforce phonemes. Graphemes and spelling patterns. To provide a reference for spelling choices for sounds. View More...
This bestselling series has been revised to include full curriculum alignment. Teachers can feel confident when using this outstanding resource as it provides strategies to move spelling from the working memory to the long term memory - making spelling stick! This new edition of Spelling Rules! includes: - revisions by the same well regarded first edition authors - all the much loved practical features as well as the quirky and fun illustrations - updated weekly unit activities to meet curriculum requirements - scope and sequence charts that reflect Australian Curriculum descriptions - a new ... View More...
Isabell Shipard, one of Australia's most knowledgable and sought after authorities on herbs and author of the acclaimed books How can I use Herbs in my daily life? and How can I grow and use Sprouts as living food? says, "For many years I taught Herb Courses, covering many edible plants, and included a segment on survival foods and the importance of self-sufficiency for possible hard times. People often expressed that I should put this information into a book. With the economic squeeze in Australia, and severe drought experienced over large areas of farmland, just what will the future hold for... View More...
. . . A must for every school classroom! The Handwriting Rules! QLD edition fully integrates handwriting skills with other areas of the English curriculum: spelling and phonics, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and aspects of literature. Year F features: chant for each letter, based on an alliterative noun group patterns to develop fine motor control track and trace with start dots and directional arrows artwork to reinforce the focus letter teacher box with words to look for on the page or to link to in other English Curriculum work cognitive approach, including pat... View More...
The full colour layout of Writing Time F is designed to teach, consolidate and extend handwriting knowledge. Writing Time F covers the introduction to handwriting in a clear and structured way. The book includes: A unique, contextual code that helps students learn letter shapes. The Queensland Beginner's Alphabet font and lined guides for copying. Songs to focus and engage young students. Pre-writing patterns to develop fine motor skills. Colourful warm-up activities that practise handwriting movements. Teaching banners for reference and finger tracing. Track, trace and copy activities ... View More...
Stage one of the Oxford Atlas+ for Australian Schools series provides coverage of the Years F–2 Science and HASS Australian Curriculum content, and fosters the application of STEM knowledge and skills within and across content areas. The print atlas introduces students to the basics of mapping skills, and features highly engaging thematic spreads and world maps. The online Teacher Dashboard includes professional support notes, with teaching activities, ideas and experiments; assessment activities; videos; and digital interactives including coding and mapping skills and interactive maps. View More...
Foundation / Prep Level. New Wave Literacy is a developmental series of student workbooks focusing on the interactive processes involved in successful listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each book in the series identifies key literacy skills and presents them in the context of a theme or content-based module. New Wave literacy provides for a wide variety of classroom and home uses to assist in the development of literacy skills in young children. Why New Wave Literacy? Content themes based on interests of students at each level. Process themes are a sequential development of the reading ... View More...
Originally designed to 'step' teachers and students into the new Australian Curriculum, Stepping Stones has now been redeveloped to deliver comprehensive coverage of the F-6 Australian Curriculum - and even more! Ongoing practice pages are provided in each year level's Student Practice Book. View More...
This write-in student book is part of a complete handwriting program for Prep to Year 7 students in Queensland. The Prep book is the first of eight books in the Write for Queensland Prep Fourth Edition series and has a nursery-rhyme theme that is sure to appeal to Lower Primary students. Features of the series include: A different theme for each book. Fun, novel reinforcing activities specific to the letter shape or join focus. Reference cards. Engaging, full colour pages. Directional arrows and starting dots. Activities using appropriate spelling words. Comprehensive teacher's notes. Plenty o... View More...
For approximate age 4-7 years old. Foundation and Year 1 and Year 2. Full Page per week for recording students' progress. Unique stickers & award certificates for each level. All new graphics. The ideas in the journal are directed towards the parent. Parents are encouraged to take an active role in making sure the recording pages of the journal are filled out. Students love filling in the smiley faces, and may like to dictate a comment for the parent to write. Teachers are encouraged to regularly collect these journals to monitor reading participation at home. Benefits of u... View More...
Handwriting Conventions Queensland. Queensland Modern Cursive font combined with quality exercises. Handwriting Conventions Queensland has been designed and specifically written to address the teaching of Queensland Beginner's Alphabet and Queensland Modern Cursive handwriting style. Teachers and students love the creative and quirky artworks and engaging activities, which are included on every page. The series has been written by Stephen Murray, a very experienced primary school teacher who doubles as an award winning artist. Key Features: Written by an experienced Australian teac... View More...
The New Curriculum Edition of the Targeting Handwriting QLD Prep Student Book introduces Prep students to the Queensland Beginner's Alphabet using simple, flowing, natural hand movements, including gently sloped straight lines, anti-clockwise and clockwise rotations. The letters are grouped according to these movement patterns, with more complex movements introduced later in the book, allowing students to build on their knowledge. Features: Instruction and activities that are simple and repetitive, allowing concentrations on the writing task. Each letter is clearly represented on the top l... View More...
The “Time for Better English†series of books has been developed to assist in the understanding of the conventions in grammar, punctuation, spelling, writing and reading of various text types. These elements of English have been presented in units of work developed from a text type’s subject. Activities in reading have been developed around the NAPLAN framework while definitions and conventions follow the guidelines set out in the Australian Curriculum. Each unit addresses the conventions outlined above in the context of the text type subject.
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