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Investigate: cane toads

This unit of work is designed to help students understand cane toads and their threat to the Australian environment and agricultural production. Why some animals are to be protected and others need to be eradicated. The resource includes a teacher guide, student learning journal and a PowerPoint presentation.

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Sample phonics lesson slides - standard

This slide pack is a sample of a phonics lesson for students who have progressed past the initial stages of their phonics learning.

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Phonemic awareness overview

This document outlines the continuum of phonological and phonemic awareness skills and provides evidence and advice on effective phonemic awareness instruction. It is essential information for teachers implementing phonics instruction using a systematic synthetic phonics approach.

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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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Morphology lesson slides: -un prefix

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use morphology lesson to teach adding the un- prefix, with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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Morphology lesson student worksheet: -un prefix

This worksheet for independent student practice accompanies the morphology lesson slides for adding the un- prefix.

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Morphology lesson slides: -s suffix for plural nouns

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use morphology lesson to teach adding the -s suffix to create plural nouns, with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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Morphology lesson student worksheet: -s suffix for plural nouns

This worksheet for independent student practice accompanies the morphology lesson slides for adding the -s suffix to create plural nouns.

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Aboriginal change makers

Aboriginal history, self-determination and identity are examined in this teaching and learning eBook. The book draws on the lived experience of First Nations peoples drawing on historical record, cultural protocols and community connections to explore perspectives on traditional culture and leadership in the face of colonisation. ...

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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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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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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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Put them together

Students rearrange the parts of an addition situation to show commutativity. They use appropriate thinking strategies to solve simple addition problems and record addition problems with numerals and symbols.

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Flying high

Students partition four-digit numbers into place-value parts.

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Cutting it up

Students represent fractions using linear materials and recognise key equivalent fractions. They share collections equally to solve simple problems (halves, quarters and eighths).

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Fill it up

Students establish a mental image of one litre and measure the capacity of everyday containers using litres.

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School challenge

Students represent four-digit numbers to 2,000 using materials. They read, write and compare three-digit and four-digit numbers.

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Skateboard skills

Students identify the components and properties of angles.

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Bright budgeting

Students make calculations with amounts of money and make financial decisions.

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Which has more volume?

Use this diagnostic task to assess what students know about volume and units to measure and compare volumes.