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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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Emperor Penguins

This informative digital text about emperor penguins is for teachers to read aloud to students. The text is an information report that describes how these penguins survive in the freezing cold climate of Antarctica. The resource includes a teaching sequence related to the Big Six components of literacy development (oral ...

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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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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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Rocky the Neighbourhood Cat

This imaginative digital text is an illustrated recount for teachers to read aloud to students. It is about Rocky the cat and the places he visits when he is out and about in the community. The resource includes a teaching sequence related to the Big Six components of literacy development (oral language, phonological awareness, ...

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Morphology review slides

This example morphology review slide pack is ready for classroom use, and it contain notes for teachers. It can be edited to match any morphology lesson, and aligns with the Literacy Hub phonics progression.

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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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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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Spelling generalisations

This document outlines spelling generalisations included in the Literacy Hub phonics progression and explains teaching points relating to each one that may be used to support instruction in your systematic, synthetic phonics aligned classroom.

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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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Phonics lesson planner example and template

This Word document can be used to plan for the specific words and sentences teachers will use when teaching new phonics content. It includes a worked example of a completed lesson and a blank template.

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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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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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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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Phonics lesson slides: Spelling generalisation for letter-sound correspondences ai and ay

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use phonics lesson to teach the spelling generalisation for the ai ay spelling pattern, with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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Phonics lesson slides: Spelling generalisation for ff ll ss zz

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use phonics lesson to teach the spelling generalisation for the ff ll ss zz spelling pattern (sometimes known as the 'floss' rule), with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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Phonics lesson slides: Spelling generalisation for soft g and soft c

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use phonics lesson to teach the spelling generalisation for the soft g and soft c sounds (sometimes known as the ‘Gentle Cindy’ rule), with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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Phonics lesson slides: Syllable division: two-syllable words with a VC/CV pattern

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use phonics lesson to teach the syllable division for two-syllable words with a vowel-consonant/consonant-vowel (VC/CV) pattern, with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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Phonics lesson student worksheet: Spelling generalisation for letter-sound correspondences ai and ay

This worksheet is for independent student practice of concepts taught in the phonics lesson on the ai ay spelling pattern.

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Phonics lesson student worksheet: Spelling generalisation for ff ll ss zz

This worksheet is for independent student practice of concepts taught in the phonics lesson for the ff ll ss zz spelling pattern (sometimes known as the ‘floss’ rule).