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First steps in mathematics: Measurement – Book 1

The content of this book is organised into topics including understanding units, and direct measuring.

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Deadly data

Students select a suitable question for gathering data, they collect simple data and record responses, and then use a simple data display to represent, read and interpret data.

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No water today – with a puppet

In this lesson, students consider what would happen if there was no water. They explore how our actions can either waste water or save water.

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Phonics Check answer sheet

A downloadable answer sheet for the offline mode of the Year 1 Phonics Check (a free assessment of students' decoding skills).

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Student practice sheet for the Phonics Check

This student practice sheet for the Year 1 Phonics Check (a free assessment of students' decoding skills) provides teachers with examples of the real words and the pseudo words similar to those included in the Check.

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Phonics Check Student Materials

This resource contains the words for students to read when completing the Year 1 Phonics Check (a free assessment of students' decoding skills) in offline mode. Teachers can print this list and ask students to read from it.

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Phonics Check Scoring Guidance

This document provides guidance to teachers scoring the Year 1 Phonics Check (a free assessment of students' decoding skills) on acceptable pronunciations for pseudo words (not real words).

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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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Irregular words review

This slide pack can be used to help students review the irregular words they have already learned during systematic synthetic phonics lessons.

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Decodable words and sentences

This resource provides a bank of decodable words and sentences aligned to each phase of the Literacy Hub phonics progression to use as part of instruction or for independent student practice.

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Free decodable texts

This document summarises some of the free online decodable texts for Australian classrooms available on third-party websites.

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Sample phonics worksheet - standard

This worksheet accompanies the sample phonics lesson for students who have progressed past the initial stages of their phonics learning.

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Using decodable texts in the classroom

This infographic guides teachers on using decodable texts with students as part of your systematic synthetic phonics instruction.

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Word and code complexity continuum

This diagram shows the gradual progression of skills that students need to develop so they can read and spell words with increasing complexity.

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Fluency development slides

These example slides show a range of tasks for building fluency. The activities can be used for whole-class or small-group instruction, as well as for independent or paired practice.

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Unit for Reception to Year 2 Butterflies: Engaging with nature

This unit of work engages students in preparing butterfly gardens in their schoolgrounds. It explores the characteristics of living and non-living things, features of caterpillars and butterflies, the lifecycle of butterflies, survival requirements, and the characteristics of butterfly gardens. The unit includes worksheets, ...

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Progress monitoring tools Phases1-5

These tools support teachers to monitor individual and whole-class student progress in Phases 1-5 of the Literacy hub phonics progression, and instructional notes for the teacher are provided. Each phase has a student reference page and a teacher marking sheet.

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Progress monitoring tools Phases 21-24

These tools support teachers to monitor individual and whole-class student progress in Phases 21-24 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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Progress monitoring tool tracker Phases 1-5

This spreadsheet assists teachers to analyse the data collected in progress monitoring tools, to plan next steps for student learning. This file aligns with Phases 1–5 of the Literacy Hub phonics progression.