The Targeting Handwriting QLD Year 4 Student Book focuses on consolidation of joining skills. Features include: extra attention paid to tricky joins like joining s and f, double letter combinations, students begin to assess their own letter size and spacing, spacing between words, and slope features progressive improvement check. The Years 4-7 Targeting Handwriting Student Books have been designed to make learning cursive handwriting as easy as possible for students. New skills and techniques are introduced sequentially, so that students build on skills one by one and aren't called on t... View More...
The full colour layout of Writing Time 3 is designed to teach, consolidate and extend handwriting knowledge. Writing Time 3 covers handwriting in a clear and structured way. The book includes: Revision of Queensland Beginner's Alphabet, Exits and Entries. Engaging comics that help make joins easier to understand. Teaching banners with directional arrows for each join. Clever handwriting practice activities to reinforce fluency and accuracy of joins. Fine motor art activities that provide challenging handwriting practice. Posture, paper position and pencil grip reminders to ensure correct... View More...
The full colour layout of Writing Time 4 is designed to teach, consolidate and extend handwriting knowledge. Writing Time 4 covers handwriting in a clear and structured way. The book includes: Australian Curriculum themed activities covering English, science and mathematics. Fine motor art activities that provide challenging handwriting practice. Revision of Queensland Beginner's Alphabet and Exits and Entries to reinforce basic skills. Clever handwriting practice activities to reinforce joining technique. Explicit teaching of fluency and legibility skills including slope and spacing. Po... View More...
The full colour layout of Writing Time 5 covers handwriting in a clear and structured way. The book includes: Australian Curriculum themed activities covering English, science and mathematics. Fine motor art activities that provide challenging handwriting practice. Revision of Exits and Entries to reinforce basic skills. Clever handwriting practice activities to reinforce joining technique. Practical techniques for improving fluency and legibility skills including slope and spacing. Alternative handwriting applications to help develop a personal handwriting style. Speed trials to practi... View More...
The full colour layout of Writing Time 6 covers handwriting in a clear and structured way. The book includes: Australian Curriculum themed activities covering English, science and mathematics. Fine motor art activities that provide challenging handwriting practice. Revision of Exits and Entries to reinforce basic skills. Clever handwriting practice activities to reinforce joining technique. Self-assessment for improving fluency and legibility including slope and spacing. Alternative handwriting applications to help develop a personal handwriting style. Speed trials to practise writing ... View More...
Bailey Beats the Blah helps children cope with Sad days. Bailey hates his new school. His tummy aches. He has no friends. His dog Fuzzy slobbers all over him. BLAH! How can Bailey change his BLAH to HA-HA-HA? Bailey is an empowering mental health picture book for children 4-8 years, spring-boarding discussion on emotions and action plans on how to lift a child's mood. Self-esteem and resilience skills for children, families, teachers, parents and counselors. Teacher resources and FREE activities available from website www.KarenTyrrell.com View More...
HALF BIRD. HALF GIRL. ALL SUPERHERO. Gondwana Rainforest is dying. Mythical creatures materialize. Kids disappear. Song Bird travels to when time began, to battle her enemies. Can Song Bird unlock the secret before the world ends? THEMES: Rainforests, Gondwana, Australian mythical creatures, environment, friendship, disability, STEM science, resilience. Supported by Queensland National Parks & Wildlife.
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Song Bird: Superhero: 'Empowering story about believing in yourself ... inspiring read.'--Disney Princess magazine 'Imaginative tale that flies high ... up... View More...
Yana, a refugee, arrives in the City of Logan with her family, feeling alone. She's not sure what children can do in Logan. Yana meets Bunji, an Aboriginal boy at a Logan City library. Bunji shows Yana the best places for kids to explore and play. Join Yana as she discovers Logan for the first time.
This is an Australian story, full of fun and innovation.
Ready. Set. Discover Logan! is an inspiring guide for children and families to explore the City of Logan. It promotes pride, awareness and recognition of Logan City.
The book characters, Yana and Bunji, bring Logan to life with pro-... View More...
Rosella Bird’s nightly dreams are filled with flying. Too bad her waking hours are a living night-mare: Her flying inventions crash. Her kooky parents are overprotective. Her singing shatters windows. The principal bans her from the science fair. Worst of all, she lives next door to Frank Furter, an evil boy-genius whose sights are set on seeing her fail! Rosella is the girl least likely to soar, and yet when she learns to sing something incredible takes flight. Rosella becomes Song Bird, a flying superhero who saves the day. Can Song Bird defeat Frank Fur-ter’s evil bullying ways? S... View More...
'Friends who stand together ALWAYS have Super powers.' – Jackie French: Song Bird 2 “A superstorm destroys Rosella Ava Bird’s flower garden. All the bees are disappearing. A giant sinkhole cracks open beneath Rosie’s school bus, and mysterious voices rise up from the depths. A giant tornado blasts the house of Frank, Rosie’s sinister next-door neighbour, threatening Rosie’s family. And Rosie’s sister, Raven, has gone missing. Should Rosie lead a mission into Bug World to rescue Raven? Or stay home and save her family?†Rosie’s side-kick, Amy, wheelchair bound, shows g... 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...
. . . 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 1 features: focus letter clearly modelled trace a pattern to warm up track and trace with start dots and directional arrows write words, with start dots to guide spacing write sentences self-assessment teacher box with links to grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary, and literary elements. 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 2 features: review of the Queensland Beginning Alphabet trace a picture to warm up trace a noun/verb/adverb alliterative label trace and write letters, words and sentences practice sentences connect to other elements of the English Curriculum self-assessment encourages students to think about their own learning teacher box w... 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 3 features: focus on diagonal, and horizontal joins and increasing fluency clear instruction box for each new join helpful tips in speech bubbles variety of activities, including writing own texts focus on building fluency and legibility self-assessment encourages students to think about their own learning teacher box with l... 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 4 features: clear instruction box for each new join helpful tips in speech bubbles a variety of activities provide English Curriculum context for handwriting, as well as encourage student engagement, interest and motivation focus on building fluency, legibility and speed extra challenges, such as writing without guidelines and new s... View More...
The Australian Curriculum Edition Targeting Maths Year 1 Student Book has been specifically written to meet the Australian Curriculum requirements of primary school Year 1. Features of the Targeting Maths program include: Australian Curriculum Alignment Complete coverage of all Year 1 Content descriptions for mathematics. Targeting Maths App for iPad The Targeting Maths Year 1 Student Book is fully cross-referenced to the Year 1 Targeting Maths App. Children will benefit from the combination of book-based and digital learning this program provides. Fully integrated Problem-solving Program A... View More...
The Australian Curriculum Edition Targeting Maths Year 2 Student Book has been specifically written to meet the Australian Curriculum requirements of primary school Year 2. Features of the Targeting Maths program include: Australian Curriculum Alignment Complete coverage of all Year 2 Content descriptions for mathematics. Targeting Maths App for iPad The Targeting Maths Year 2 Student Book is fully cross-referenced to the Year 2 Targeting Maths App. Children will benefit from the combination of book-based and digital learning this program provides. Fully integrated Problem-solving Program A... View More...
My Wellbeing Journals are personal spaces for students to express their feelings, fears, goals, struggles and opinions without fear of judgement from others. They are tools children can use to help get their private thoughts out of their minds and onto paper, while simultaneously learning techniques and strategies to cope with life’s challenges. It is widely acknowledged that mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, affect one in seven primary-aged children, and an estimated 50% of all serious mental health issues in adulthood begin before age fourteen (beyondblue.com.au).
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My Wellbeing Journals are personal spaces for students to express their feelings, fears, goals, struggles and opinions without fear of judgement from others. They are tools children can use to help get their private thoughts out of their minds and onto paper, while simultaneously learning techniques and strategies to cope with life’s challenges. It is widely acknowledged that mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, affect one in seven primary-aged children, and an estimated 50% of all serious mental health issues in adulthood begin before age fourteen (beyondblue.com.au). Throu... View More...
My Wellbeing Journals are personal spaces for students to express their feelings, fears, goals, struggles and opinions without fear of judgement from others. They are tools children can use to help get their private thoughts out of their minds and onto paper, while simultaneously learning techniques and strategies to cope with life’s challenges. It is widely acknowledged that mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, affect one in seven primary-aged children, and an estimated 50% of all serious mental health issues in adulthood begin before age fourteen (beyondblue.com.au). Throu... View More...
