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Move, Move, Move!

This persuasive digital text is for teachers to read aloud to students. This digital book uses persuasive language and images to highlight the benefits of being active. The resource includes a teaching sequence related to the Big Six components of literacy development (oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, ...

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Phonological and phonemic awareness lesson activities

This slide pack is a practical resource for use in the classroom and includes teacher scripts and visual slides to support phonological and phonemic awareness instruction. It is ideal to use as part of your phonics instruction using a systematic synthetic phonics approach.

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Phonics pair-game template

The pair games and activities in this document can be used as part of your systematic synthetic phonics program to encourage students to develop their phonics skills with peers during independent practice.

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Sample phonics worksheet (beginner)

This worksheet can be used as part of a phonics lesson for students at the beginning of their phonics learning. It is aligned with an explicit instruction model.

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Sample phonics lesson slides - beginner

This slide pack is a sample of a phonics lesson for students at the beginning of their phonics learning. It is aligned with an explicit instruction model.

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Progress monitoring tools Phases 6-10

These tools support teachers to monitor individual and whole-class student progress in Phases 6-10 of the Literacy hub phonics progression. Each phase has a student reference page and a teacher marking sheet, and instructional notes for the teacher are provided.

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Safe Crossing Creator - Minecraft: Education Edition

A game for students to understand how to be safe when using railway and tram crossings. Students will read stories of characters, interpreting the unsafe behaviour shown and creating/placing a sign to remind all crossing users of the safe behaviour. As a learning artefact students produce a report detailing the unsafe ...

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Formative assessment: scientific notation

This resource is an assessment task focussing on scientific notation. It consists of questions involving rational and irrational numbers, multiplying and simplifying numbers expressed as exponents, converting in and out of scientific notation, and performing operations on numbers in scientific notation. The resource could ...

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Practical numbers: Part 1

In this lesson, students explore standardised measuring systems. They encounter the challenge of a shopkeeper who must determine how to weigh different quantities of spices most efficiently. Working in a financial context, students model this scenario using fractions, percentages and ratios, and communicate their solution ...

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Patterns, rules and graphs

In this lesson, students play games and learn about space and location, the Cartesian plane, pattern recognition and reductive reasoning by playing games and thinking. Students create algebraic equations to describe their strategy. Follow this lesson with Graphs: formulas and variables, though both lessons can be taught ...

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Estimating and rounding decimals

In this lesson, students draw on prior knowledge of rounding whole numbers to develop their understanding and fluency when rounding decimals and are encouraged to reason and problem-solve through a variety of contextual activities. Students will also develop an appreciation of the role of estimation in mathematics and science.

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Fruit fractions: Fruit salad crafty creations

Students demonstrate knowledge of fractions through creating their very own simulated ‘fruit salad’. Pose the questions: if you were to create a fruit salad what would it have in there? In what ratios/proportions? Are there any fruits you wouldn’t want in there? Which fruits go/don’t go together? Showcase your understanding ...

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Practical numbers: Part 2

In this lesson we use the context of an ancient bazaar to investigate measurement systems. Students select a name and base number for their system of measurement, using weights made from clay or similar material. They divide their clay into possible unit fractions to generate their set of weights. They assign a fictional ...

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Today’s traffic tale

Students collect simple data from opportunities to observe events and display it in a picture graph.

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Fencing the yard

Students review and calculate perimeters and areas of rectangles.

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Smart shopping

Students compare and evaluate different shopping options.

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Ups and downs

Students position positive and negative whole numbers on a number line.

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Chances are!

Students calculate the sum of probabilities for a chance experiment and compare frequency predictions with actual data.

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Give it your best shot

Students calculate the mean, median and mode for sets of data and select the appropriate measure of centre.

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What are the odds?

Students calculate the probability for single-step events using sample spaces.