Literacy programs
Classroom reading
STEM
A simple and speedy systematic, synthetic phonics program, built by Australian educators, authors and speech pathologists to engage and excel all of your learners. Snappy Sounds addresses your phonics needs with a straightforward kit of components designed to have you and your students decoding from Week 1.
Deliver this key part of your literacy curriculum in an effective way through:
With its unique talk approach, Talk About Texts integrates the teaching of reading, vocabulary and oral language skills into one rich and effective program which will help you to save time and achieve more.
The Talk About Texts resources seamlessly integrate a number of oral language instructional strategies to teach the four elements of talk through your guided reading sessions: listening and responding, building vocabulary, having fluent conversations and questioning. Teacher Guides available.
160 Student books:
Teacher's Editions:
This outstanding series meets the ever-changing needs of today’s Year 1-4 classrooms.
The program helps teachers guide students to develop their literacy skills by encouraging them to listen to, read, view, speak about, write, create and reflect on a variety of text types.
Connect provides features such as:
TEACHER GUIDES
This bestselling series allows teachers to systematically develop students’ comprehension skills and strategies.
Print resources to assist the acquisition of skills in interpreting, evaluating and critiquing ideas, information and issues.
The carefully structured student books create an engaging learning framework that supports and challenges students.
The Springboard into Comprehension series is based on an explicit teaching framework.
STEP 1 Explicit instruction
STEP 2 Modelling the comprehension skill
STEP 3 Guided practice with the skill
STEP 4 Applying the skill
Written from a child's perspective, Learn-Abouts uses informative topics, engaging photos and interesting visual literacy features to captivate young students' minds, whilst providing ESL and 'at risk' students with additional support.
Developed with beginner readers' needs in focus, the books are levelled to Reading Recovery criteria, offering support and gradual challenges to students whilst also assisting with class planning.
The child-centred topics enable teachers to integrate Learn-Abouts into science and humanities teaching.
TEACHER SUPPORT
The supporting Teacher Notes provide:
A resource designed for YOUR classroom, so no matter where you are on your STEM journey, you can feel confident and supported. Explore the amazing world of STEM education with your students at the pace and depth of your choice.
You will be able to integrate STEM simply and easily using our reproducibles, templates, graphic organisers, glossary of STEM terms, vocabulary pre-teaching ideas and MORE.
WITH STEM INVESTIGATIONS YOU CAN TICK EVERY BOX:
✓ Highest quality
✓ Export authors
✓ Supports classroom differentiation
✓ Extremely good value
✓ Curriculum aligned
✓ For Middle and Upper primary.
Curriculum aligned, extremely good value!
STEM INVESTIGATIONS STUDENT CARDS
Each card presents a real-world situation and problem, and students work towards a solution to this problem through a guided inquiry approach. Every investigation requires the application of science, technologies and maths knowledge and skills, following a design thinking process, with a focus on literacy, particularly science literacy and vocabulary.
20 STEM investigations organised into five themes: