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Demonstration of a phonics lesson

This video provides a demonstration of a phonics lesson using explicit instruction principles. It is presented by literacy specialists Elaine Stanley and Rebecca McEwan.

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Paying It Forward

This resource is a cross-curricular suite of units for Years F-6. The units develop understanding of tax and superannuation while focusing on understanding civic values and the financial wellbeing of students. There are three units, one each for F-2, 3-4 and 5-6 classrooms. They include downloadable materials, links to ...

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Making a small wicking bed

Making and planting a small wicking bed is a fulfilling activity. It upcycles materials, building awareness of waste and reuse. The completed wicking bed can suit small spaces – such as a balcony – demonstrating that even small spaces can be used to produce food. Its small size allows children to take ownership of its maintenance. ...

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Spelling generalisations and SSP

This self-paced learning module outlines what makes English an opaque language and why it is valuable to teach students spelling generalisations. It explains how to support students to apply spelling generalsiations and how to incorporate them into your systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) lessons. The module contains two ...

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For school leaders: Leading effective practice

This webpage provides information for school leaders on how to drive quality instruction and improve student literacy outcomes. It recommends a range of resources that can be used to support leaders in coaching and mentoring staff in best practice literacy instruction.

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Phonics progressions and phonemic awareness: coaching webinar questions

Literacy specialists Rebecca McEwan and Elaine Stanley present this question and answer session about using a phonics progression and developing phonemic awareness.

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Year 1 Phonics Check and the Australian Curriculum

This document outlines how the types of words assessed in the Year 1 Phonics Check (a free 7-minute assessment to assess students' decoding skills across words of increasing complexity) align with descriptors in the Australian Curriculum V9 and with indicators of literacy development described in the National Literacy Learning ...

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How to use decodable texts

This video provides a demonstration of how to use a decodable book. It is presented by literacy specialists Elaine Stanley and Rebecca McEwan.

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Administering and analysing the Year 1 Phonics Check - Student 2

This short video (three minutes and 40 seconds) shows a teacher administering the Year 1 Phonics Check with a student who is given wait time to decode the words, followed by a teacher discussion about next steps for the student.

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The Big Six: a whirlwind tour

This one-hour webinar recording provides an overview of the Big Six components of literacy (oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). It includes theoretical understandings and practical ideas for the classroom. It is the first in a series of eight webinars about the Big Six ...

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Choosing and using decodable texts: Q&A

This video is of a Q&A session about choosing and using decodable texts in your classroom. It is presented by literacy specialists Rebecca McEwan and Elaine Stanley

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Explicit instruction for phonics overview

This video provides an overview of a phonics instructional model for reading and spelling. It is presented by literacy specialists Elaine Stanley and Rebecca McEwan.

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Administering and analysing the Year 1 Phonics Check - Student 1

This short video (four minutes and 11 seconds) shows a teacher administering the online Year 1 Phonics Check with a student who displays efficient decoding skills, followed by a teacher discussion about next steps for the student.

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Administering and analysing the Year 1 Phonics Check - Student 3

This three-minute video shows a teacher administering the paper version of the Year 1 Phonics Check with a student who displays efficient recall and application of simple and complex code, followed by a teacher discussion about next steps for the student.

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Phonics progressions and phonemic awareness: Q&A webinar questions.

This extract of a Q&A webinar answers questions from teachers and school leaders about using a phonics progression and developing phonemic awareness.

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Focus on China: Cross Curriculum Connections in Primary Schools

Ideas and resources that connect the learning of Chinese language with other learning areas.

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Assessment and intervention for an SSP approach

This self-paced learning module outlines the specific areas of knowledge and skills that are assessed for a systematic synthetic phonics approach to teaching reading and spelling. It explains how this approach to assessment is helpful to identify student needs across the Response to Intervention framework. It contains a ...

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Place value: Year 1 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 1 is for the topic of Place value. Students further establish part-part-whole when exploring one- and two-digit numbers. They use partitioning to think about and represent numbers in different ways.

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Addition and subtraction: Year 1 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 1 is for the topic of Addition and subtraction. Students build upon the foundations of additive thinking. They draw upon part-part-whole understanding of numbers to 10 as they explore addition and subtraction within 20.

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Mathematical modelling: Year 1 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 1 is for the topic of Mathematical modelling. Students use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive situations including simple money transactions.