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Exploring all sounds: Fun ideas to kickstart your spelling lessons

Sound Waves Literacy

A sound exploration session is the perfect way to tune students’ ears and eyes to recognise phonemes (sounds) and focus on graphemes (letter/s). Before you introduce the week’s focus phoneme, conduct a quick and easy whole-class activity that explores a…
Make sense with marking on a Monday

Think Mentals

Using marking as a learning opportunity gives students time to reflect and consolidate what they’ve learnt, and tells you the level of students’ understanding.
What’s the difference? Understanding phonological awareness, phonemic awareness and phonics

Sound Waves Literacy

Updates to the Australian Curriculum are shining a spotlight on teaching phonological awareness (in particular, phonemic awareness) and phonics. So whether you’re a novice or have been teaching spelling and reading this way for many years, there’s never been a…
Different Strokes: Using differentiation in handwriting for student success

Writing Time

All students are different. Whether the difference lies in their rate of learning, approach to tasks or individual interests, every student will benefit from differentiation in the classroom.
Learning is child's play! Four fun phonics games no student can resist

Sound Waves Literacy

Wind back the clock a few decades and you’d be lucky to find more than a handful of teachers using games as serious (and seriously fun!) teaching tools.
The art in handwriting

Writing Time

When you think about it, handwriting is art. The act of handwriting is a combination of subtle shifts in pencil control, clockwise and anticlockwise movements, and the use of a variety of exit and entry angles.
Part two: Tips for developing your students' fine motor skills

Writing Time

Handwriting is a complex task that relies on both gross and fine motor skills. Let’s explore ways to develop fine motor skills. 
Part one: Tips for developing your students' gross motor skills

Writing Time

Do you sometimes see students slouched and fatigued at their desks? Do they complain that their hand is tired after a short writing task? The problem could be poor gross motor development.
Make handwriting meaningful for the upper years

Writing Time

The key to engaging upper primary students in handwriting practice is to make it both meaningful and manageable. Give them relevant and engaging practice activities rather than asking them to copy lengthy, meaningless texts.