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Reading strategies bookmarks for teachers and parents.

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Reading strategies bookmarks for teachers and parents.

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These bookmarks provide strategies for word reading, blending and word attack for educators and parents who are supporting beginning and more advanced readers.

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Reading Strategies Bookmarks - SPELD NSW

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SPELD NSW Literacy Resources support all students learning to read. These downloadable and printable bookmarks support word reading skills.

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Videos for early years parents. Activities for building foundational reading skills.

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Videos for early years parents. Activities for building foundational reading skills.

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Parent of a child with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) - DLDandMe.org

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Lily's story on DLD (The invisible disorder)

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Lily's story on DLD (The invisible disorder)

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Lily Farrington's Amazing Developmental Language Disorder Animation

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Wordwall "online" Vocabulary building activities -2022

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Wordwall "online" Vocabulary building activities -2022

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These online activities aim to promote growth in children's understanding and use of a wide variety of word meanings. Research has demonstrated that vocabulary has strong links to success in all areas of the curriculum.

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CCM Word wall activities for Vocabulary.doc

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"Wordwall" online Narrative or Story grammar development activities - 2022

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"Wordwall" online Narrative or Story grammar development activities - 2022

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These activities focus on building the child's students’ ability to retell or construct a story verbally. This has huge implications for their growth in writing and reading narratives.

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CCM Word wall activities for Story grammar.doc

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Wordwall "online" expressive language activities 2022

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Wordwall "online" expressive language activities 2022

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CCM Word wall activities for Expressive language (complex sentences).doc

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Pragmatics refers to how a person communicates in a variety of conversational settings, for example; staying on topic, taking turns, using/reading  body language and facial expression appropriately.

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Pragmatics refers to how a person communicates in a variety of conversational settings, for example; staying on topic, taking turns, using/reading  body language and facial expression appropriately.

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"Wordwall" online Pragmatic activities - 2022

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CCM Word wall activities for Pragmatics_social comm.doc

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Wordwall Receptive Language activities - 2022

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Wordwall Receptive Language activities - 2022

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The activities focus on developing the student's ability to understand spoken language for example; following instructions or the key ideas in a story.

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CCM Word wall activities for receptive language.doc

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Wordwall Phonological Awareness activities - 2022

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Wordwall Phonological Awareness activities - 2022

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The activities focus on developing the understanding of morphology or meaningful word parts eg; prefixes, suffixes and base words eg; un - tidy -ness.

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"Wordwall" online Morphology activities -2022

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"Wordwall" online Morphology activities -2022

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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You will notice some new activities that we've created using the "Wordwall" app. Families can access these app based activities on any home device. Each activity has a brief description along with a QR code which can be copied into the school newsletter for parents easy access. Schools also have the option of printing a PDF version of the activity if a paper based version is preferred.

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Wordwall - Create better lessons quicker

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Need a fresh teaching resource that fits your class and teaching style? Create a customized pack of interactive and printable activities in just one minute.

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These "Language Rich" read aloud stories provide excellent opportunities for parents and teachers to purposefully interact with their children. Each story also includes a number of  interactional learning activities.

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Phonemic blending and segmenting activities for home on video

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Phonemic blending and segmenting activities for home on video

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Reading Simplified - streamlined instruction, accelerated achievement

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Try these 2 fun games to improve your student'(s) phoneme awareness (perception of individual sounds in words). Then she will read better!

Game #1 Segmenting the Sounds

Phonemic segmentation (or separating a word into its smallest units of sound) is highly predictive of reading achievement. When our students can separate each individual sound (phoneme) in words, they are better able to connect these sounds to specific spellings (i.e., /sh/ /ow/= "sh" and "ow").

If your student isn't good at the skill of phonemic segmentation yet, no worries! It's easy to develop through activities like the one in this video below. Enjoy it for a few minutes when you're in the car or waiting in line with your child.

Game #2 Blending the Sounds Together

Now try the opposite of the above segmentation game!

Challenge your student(s) to listen carefully so he can blend the sounds together to hear a real word. This phonemic skill of blending is what he will need to read unfamiliar words.

Curious about next steps if you want to help your student(s) learn to read?

Try Build It (here), if your student does not know most letter-sounds.

Try Switch It (here), if your student does know more than 7 letter-sounds.

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2 Phonemic Awareness Activities to Boost Reading Ability - Reading Simplified

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Try these 2 fun games to improve your student'(s) phoneme awareness (perception of individual sounds in words). Then she will read better! Game #1 Segmenting the Sounds Phonemic segmentation (or separating a word into its smallest units of sound) is highly predictive of reading achievement.

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Using language to persuade, instruct and describe

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Using language to persuade, instruct and describe

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Phonics - Improving word reading activities.

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Phonics - Improving word reading activities.

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For every simple question you ask your child, ask two complex ones. For example;

Ø Simple question: What’s that a picture of? (This only requires a one word answer)

Ø Complex questions: Tell me how you made/drew that?, What do you think that character might be saying in this picture?, Why did the lady do that?

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Children's Chatter Matters  Story Grammar Activities 

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Children's Chatter Matters  Story Grammar Activities 

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10 activities to do at home.

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Children's Chatter Matters Phonological Awareness Support Activities 

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Children's Chatter Matters Phonological Awareness Support Activities 

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Word Document
10 quick activities to do at home to develop sound awareness.

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Website Link
Free access to some great read-aloud books across a variety of topics and genres.

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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Free access to some great read-aloud books across a variety of topics and genres.

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This is also an excellent, highly evidence based site which has access to many resources and parent activities that support the 5 big ideas underpinning Literacy ie: Vocabulary, Phonological awareness, Letter-sounds
(phonics), comprehension, reading with children (fluency)

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Explore reading basics as well as the key role of background knowledge and motivation in becoming a lifelong reader and learner. Watch our PBS Launching Young Readers series and try our self-paced Reading 101 course to deepen your understanding.

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Copyright © 2019 Scholastic Australia. All rights reserved.

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Extensive research has shown that the  systematic teaching of phonics (sound-letter relationships) is essential in the early primary years and for the struggling reader/speller. 

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Extensive research has shown that the  systematic teaching of phonics (sound-letter relationships) is essential in the early primary years and for the struggling reader/speller. 

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These resources will promote students' use of longer and more complex sentences. There are activities that focus on elements of grammar, how sentences work and how to make them more interesting for both spoken and written language. 

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These resources will promote students' use of longer and more complex sentences. There are activities that focus on elements of grammar, how sentences work and how to make them more interesting for both spoken and written language. 

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Vocabulary refers to the words children need to know to understand what they hear and read, and to communicate. Vocabulary is the most powerful predictor of reading comprehension. Knowing what words mean is essential if your child is to understand what they have read.

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Catholic Education Sandhurst Speech Pathologists have developed this site for school communities to gain easy access to the "Children's chatter matters " resources.

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Catholic Education Sandhurst Speech Pathologists have developed this site for school communities to gain easy access to the "Children's chatter matters " resources.

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The activities are designed so they can be easily added to your weekly school newsletter, webpage, app  or other parent communication format.
We have placed these practical resources under key, evidence based language/literacy sub-skill areas. We have done this so schools can access those resources that best target their students' current needs.
If you have any questions or concerns contact your school's CES Speech Pathologist.

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Phonemic and phonological awareness are key foundation skills for literacy learning.

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Phonemic and phonological awareness are key foundation skills for literacy learning.

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The five from five website provides an excellent parent friendly explanation of these critical language and literacy skills. They will also find relevant videos and support resources.

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A simple example of phonemic awareness is to recognise words that start with the same sound. A more difficult phonemic awareness skill is to make new words by adding or removing sounds, for example: "What word does it make when I change the 'mmm' sound in man to a 'rrr' sound?"

Children with good phonemic awareness tend to learn to read more easily.

Beginning readers must develop an understanding that spoken words are made up of individual and distinguishable sounds, rather than thinking of each word as a single sound stream. Students and training need to be able to combine individual phonemes to construct a spoken word, and when given a spoken word, break it down into its phonemes.

By engaging your child in simple phonological and phonemic awareness tasks, you can give them a head start in success in learning to read. For example, singing classic nursery rhymes and new children's songs is a great way to practice phonological awareness through rhyme and alliteration.

This page has links to activities, videos, and online games and apps that have been carefully chosen to reflect scientific research findings on developing phonological awareness.

These simple activities will help develop your child's phonological awareness. Have fun - don't be afraid to make these games your own!

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Parent resources: Phonological and phonemic awareness - Five From Five

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A simple example of phonemic awareness is to recognise words that start with the same sound. A more difficult phonemic awareness skill is to make new words by adding or removing sounds, for example: "What word does it make when I change the 'mmm' sound in man to a 'rrr' sound?"

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Morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyses the structure of words and parts of words, such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes

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Morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyses the structure of words and parts of words, such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes

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Speech Pathology Australia's Book of the Year awards.

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Speech Pathology Australia's Book of the Year awards.

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The Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards aim to promote quality Australian books that help children get the best, most literate start in life.

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We speak and write for many reasons; To tell a story, to recount an event, to question, to argue, to socialise, to describe etc etc 

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We speak and write for many reasons; To tell a story, to recount an event, to question, to argue, to socialise, to describe etc etc 

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Children need to develop the skills to communicate for a wide range of purposes, verbally and in their writing, in order to succeed in life.

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Receptive language or the ability to understand what people are saying underpins all areas of the school curriculum including social and personal capabilities.

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Receptive language or the ability to understand what people are saying underpins all areas of the school curriculum including social and personal capabilities.

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The following activities will promote students’ abilities to:

Follow longer and more complex instructions/ information.

Develop concept knowledge, e.g. before/after, until, if.

Understand the language of literacy/academic vocabulary.

Show they understand or request clarification.

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Pragmatics and Social skills (aligned with Vic Curriculum's Personal and Social capabilities)

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Pragmatics and Social skills (aligned with Vic Curriculum's Personal and Social capabilities)

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These activities also target many skills from the Vic Curriculum, Personal & Social Capabilities; such as building resilience, identifying strengths and weaknesses and conflict resolution.