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Year 1 interactive game for spelling sight words. Set this as a main activity or use for fast finishers. Limited as based for non-Australian context (words may be unfamiliar), but could adapt resources and create game to suit current spelling words (TD).

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Practice spelling 1st grade sight words with this letter tile game. Drag and drop the letters to spell the word you hear!

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Grammar game examining punctuation. Use for EAL/D students, or lower primary years. Fast finishers activity or station during literacy rotations. Interactive and colourful; might best suit group work to compare/assess answers (TD).

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Punctuation Games for Kids

Check out this great punctuation game for kids. Have fun completing grammar practice exercises that help students learn about important English language punctuation such as the full stop, question mark, comma, apostrophe, exclamation mark and inverted commas. Read the sentences, aim the target and fire the correct punctuation where you think it should go in the sentence. Use the proper punctuation in the right location and you can move on to the next challenge, keep going and see if you can complete this interactive activity.

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Punctuation Game for Kids - Fun Grammar Practice Exercise Activity

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Punctuation Games for Kids Check out this great punctuation game for kids. Have fun completing grammar practice exercises that help students learn about important English language punctuation such as the full stop, question mark, comma, apostrophe, exclamation mark and inverted commas.

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Online games to support EAL/D learners. Could also be used for lower primary context during rotation activities. Emphasis on decoding, vocabulary, and sentence structures (TD).

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Free online ESL games to help students learn English in a fun and interactive way.

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General resource collation to support Indigenous students read. Range of websites linked, including government pages and teaching websites. Use this to guide at-home learning packs for Indigenous students, or when considering best strategies to engage these students in reading (TD/TP).

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Indigenous Kids Read is an Australian website that supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents with ideas to help their young children learn to read. It provides websites with good literacy resources, quick tips from a parent's viewpoint, community success projects, and family success stories.

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Resource to draw on when sending resources home for children. Offers range of engaging, fun activities parents can do at home with their children in relation to numeracy and literacy. Can self-select themes within literacy. Resource might also be useful for younger primary years educational games or activities for fast-finishers (TD/TU).

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Activities

There’s something in the letterbox!

Junk mail that arrives in your letterbox might look like rubbish to you, but children love it. Next time you find catalogues in the mail take some time to look at them with your child.

Let’s see what these are about. What can you see on this page?

You can use food catalogues to plan your meals for the week. Talk with your child about favourite foods and new foods.

What should we have for lunch tomorrow? Do you want strawberries or mangoes?

Use photos of your child and their adventures to make special books for them. Choose some photos together and print them out. Glue them on pages so they make a story. Your child can help to add decorations like stickers or drawings. Write the story in the book together and then join the pages with cable ties or ribbons. Your child will love hearing you read a story about them.

Getting the family to agree on what to eat can be tricky sometimes. Why not create a family cookbook to help everyone decide.

Gather the family together and talk about how you will organise the book and what you will put in it.

There are many different ways you could set up the cookbook. You could organise it by:

Reading can happen anywhere and everywhere. We read signs, recipes, information on packets and tins, bus timetables and menus. A love of words and language can be encouraged by reading books together.

Children love maps. If you have a street directory see if you can find where you live on the map for your suburb. Work out the different routes you could take to get to places like the shops, kindy, playgroup, friend’s places or Granny’s house. Older children might like to follow the way on the map or on the GPS if you have one in the car or on your phone. Talk about street and suburb names as you look at the maps or as you program the GPS. Talk about the symbols you see on the map. Try and predict what they might be.

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GreatStart activities - learning with your child

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Playing with a big block of ice can keep your child interested for a long time. Get a large container like a plastic basin and fill it three quarters full of water. Freeze it for about 12 hours. The next day take the ice out of the container and put it outside on cement, the deck or the lawn.

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Literature aligned to the Australian Curriculum and Indigenous priority area. Suggestions for activities attached to texts and ways of organising learning. Could use these texts as a prompt, and use attached lesson plans as a rough guide for lesson activities (TP/TA).

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Range of free resources engaging with literature. Organised by year level, theme, or author. Use this repertoire to guide resource selection and book purchasing. Also student-friendly so they can access it and use it independently on devices (TP).

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Amy and Louis are best friends. They live next door to each other. When they want to play they call to each other across the room, across the yard or across the fence using a special word Amy's mother taught her - Coo-ee. The games they play are richly imaginative.

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Posters and resources to help reading of literature. Creates a fun way to talk about texts students read (for competition or elsewhere). Also can be used for Literacy tasks (TA/TP/TU).

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Activity sheets

Avatar Bookmarks to Cut Out and Colour

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Avatar Colouring Sheets

Individual Avatar colouring sheets, great for younger children

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Videos

Why kids love the MS Readathon! Watch
what the kids from Beenyup Primary School thought - we love this!

A thanks you message from the kids who attended the MS Family Camps and Fun Days

What is MS and how does it affect people. This is a great vido for the kids to help with education. Specifically made for schools.

Posters

MS Readation Promotional Flyer/Poster - T-shirts

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MS Readation Promotional Poster 2021

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Forms

Sponsorship Form

Sponsorship form colour version, including $ per book

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Sponsorship form BW version

Sponsorship form to encourage more books read

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Reading Tally BW version

A form to record the name and number of books read

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Lesson Plans & Resources

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Pack of cards helping to develop student's understanding of rich texts and their features. Can be modified to suit upper or lower years. Questions can be adapted to make more challenging/open ended questions/closed questions (TP/TD).

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This teaching resource is for use with picture book texts in the classroom.

The set contains 14 cards, in six colour-coded categories, exploring:

Use these task cards to help students comprehend classic and contemporary children's literature.

You may like to print out these cards and laminate them for your students to choose from. These activities can be completed in groups or as a whole class activity.

Read more about our Literature Study Task Cards over on the Chalkboard blog!

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Useful in developing decoding skills for comprehension. Different levels to cater for diverse students. Also includes vocabulary section to introduce new words in context (TD/TP)

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ReadTheory | Reading Comprehension Exercises

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Reading comprehension exercises — online, free, & adaptive. Fits K-12, ESL and adult students. Easily track progress for the entire class.

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Guides writing of oral speeches and the language conventions they use. Focuses on informal and colloquial language. Interactive so can be used on devices, and activity can be made in pairs or groups (TU).

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Primary KLAs:

Creative and Practical Arts, English

Educational levels:

Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

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© State of New South Wales, Department of Education.

Do you think impromptu speaking is impossible? Learn how to captivate your audience and make the most of your speaking opportunities and how to deliver impressive impromptus.

NSW syllabus outcomes

(EN2-1A) communicates in a range of informal and formal contexts by adopting a range of roles in group, classroom, school and community contexts

(EN2-6B) identifies the effect of purpose and audience on spoken texts, distinguishes between different forms of English and identifies organisational patterns and features

(EN2-10C) thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts

(EN2-11D) responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own

(EN3-1A) communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features

(EN3-2A) composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts

(EN3-7C) thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts

(EN3-8D) identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts

Australian curriculum content descriptions

(ACELY1677) Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence

(ACELY1687) Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information

(ACELY1689) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences

(ACELY1699) Clarify understanding of content as it unfolds in formal and informal situations, connecting ideas to students' own experiences and present and justify a point of view

(ACELY1700) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements

(ACELY1816) Use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions such as voice volume, tone, pitch and pace, according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience

(ACELY1710) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis

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Resource type:

Interactive Resource

Audience:

learner, teacher

ScOT topics:

Speaking, Public speaking

Activities:

Interactives, Oral activity, Practical activity

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en-AU

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State of NSW, Department of Education

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State of NSW, Department of Education

Date created:

Thursday, 15 October 2020

Resource ID: 548c6d7e-a718-4d19-b2e6-8bcbb3ffbdd0

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Queensland State Library: English Resources

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Repertoire of resources for teaching how texts operate in contexts. Range of texts explored, including poems, songs, reports, picture books, historical recounts. This could be used in the classroom to focus on analysing and evaluating different perspectives, and social purpose of texts (TP).

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Curriculum Connect provides free access to curriculum aligned teaching resources, lesson plans and activities, supported by State Library collections.

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Hands-on resource to map out grammar for lower years. Focuses on proper nouns, adjectives, common nouns, and verbs. Can be used to accompany reading/decoding of texts during literacy rotations (TD).

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Teaching parts of speech and ensuring that your students retain knowledge and an understanding of grammar can be an uphill struggle. Are you feeling it?

Look no further, the ultimate parts of speech teaching resource is here!. Our new Parts of Speech Flip Book is all of the following things:

easy to print and assemble

simple and effective

a hands-on interactive learning experience

reusable

flexible and adaptable.

For more must have grammar teaching resources, take a look at our Grammar Collection.

Learning Outcomes

It's shocking to think about how many elements of grammar our little people are expected to know at such a young age.

The good news is that students absorb new information like sponges as long as it's presented in an engaging and interactive way, logical, taught in context and revisited time and time again.

When expressing and developing ideas, students in year 2 are expected to understand that nouns represent people, places, objects and abstract concepts. What's more, they are expected to understand that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns and that phrases can be expanded using adjectives.

This teaching resource helps students learn about the following parts of speech:

Don' t miss out on our National Literacy Learning Progression Trackers to help you identify where an individual student is now and where the student needs to go next in their literacy development.

How to Create a Parts of Speech Flip Book

It's easy to create a Parts of Speech Flip Book. Delegate the cutting and gluing part to your students and make this a fun construction activity.

1. Print pages 1-4 (one per student or one or two per writing group).

2. Cut out the parts of speech definitions (page 4).

3. Match the definition to the parts of speech headings (page 2).

4. Glue the definitions onto page 2 in the correct boxes.

5. Apply glue along the strip marked glue on page 2 and 3.

6. Order pages 1-3 correctly and secure pages 1-3 together.

7. Cut along the horizontal dotted lines.

Parts of Speech Desk Companion

A Parts of Speech Flip Book is the perfect desk companion and a great learning tool to support writing. The A4 size of this Parts of Speech Flip Book is perfect to stick into the back of a writing book.

Top Tip: When sticking the Parts of Speech Flip Book into exercise books, do not cut the back page.

When your students have created the flip book, encourage them to refer to it and to draw on the information as a prompt and reminder for their writing.

Teaching Grammar in Context

We all know the importance of teaching grammar in context. That's why we have included a learning opportunity to explore grammar conventions in texts. On page 3 of the Parts of Speech Flip Book, you'll find an opportunity for your students to record grammatical features that they find in texts that they are reading.

During guided reading groups or literacy rotations, encourage your students, to identify specific grammatical features at word level. Next, discuss how grammar is used to construct a sentence or clause and to make meaning. To take it to the next level, experiment with replacing a verb or adjective and discuss the impact that this has on the overall meaning of the text.

For more brilliant grammar activities and information on the importance of teaching grammar in context, read my blog 20 Grammar Activities to Use in the Classroom.

Parts of Speech Communal Key Rings

I love a useful key ring, especially when parts of speech are involved! How cool is this idea! Create a communal classroom set for students to use and replace on wall hooks.

Provide extra copies of page 2 (cut into strips) and encourage students to add to your class bank of common nouns, proper nouns, personal pronouns, adjectives and verbs.

Parts of Speech Desk Key Rings

Your students will love to keep a parts of speech keyring in their desk for those times when they need a handy reminder. Create the key rings and use them to match your particular grammar focus.

Create a Parts of Speech Display

Go hula hula and create a bohemian classroom display in conjunction with an enlarged copy of our Parts of Speech Flip Book.

I used a hula hoop, feathers and our Rainbow Classroom Theme Pack to put together this eye-catching classroom display. Encourage your students to interact with the display by adding or changing up the words in the hoop as they encounter them in their reading and writing.

For more parts of speech teaching resource, take a look at our Parts of Speech collection.

Simple Yet Effective

Some teaching resources are all about the glamour, others are modest in appearance but deliver big results. The ultimate Parts of Speech Flip Book is the latter. It can be used over and over again and in multiple ways. It is super easy to assemble and is the perfect companion to teaching and learning parts of speech.

Press download now, to make the most of this amazing teaching resource.

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Teaching pack to support grammar development. Provides useful templates for timetabling grammar activities across week (visual planner for teachers and for students). Can be used/modified to suit variety of Year Levels (TD).

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This teaching resource provides 50 activities that are focused on grammar in the classroom. This book is designed to have a grammar focus each week and 5 activities per week, for 10 weeks.

These topics include:

You can integrate these grammar tasks with your existing grammar and spelling rotations. At the end of each week, The Grammar Sentence Challenge worksheet is designed to be used as an end of the week summative assessment activity to see how students are putting their grammar into their writing.

This resource is aligned with Paragraph Study Interactive PowerPoint. Download and use the Glorious Grammar Volume 1: Teacher Notes for advice on how to use the two together in the classroom.

For more ideas about how to use this teaching resource, read the blog 50 Activities for Teaching Grammar.

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Glorious Grammar Volume 1 - Worksheet Book

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Provides worksheets for teaching grammar across different texts types. Can be modified slightly to make it visually appealing for students. Good for lower years or EAL/D students (TD).

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Quality Indigenous Literature: The Pearl Shell Diver

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Literature text from the Torres Strait Islands. Comes with a teaching resource pack/notes. Local languages can be decoded with the attached English form. Use to unpack themes, comprehension activity, or students respond to text to create own story (TP/TD).

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The Pearl-shell Diver is set in the Torres Strait in 1898 and tells the story of thirteen-year old Sario, who is forced to work as a swimming diver to support his family when his father is coerced into joining a pearling lugger by a white trader. The work is dangerous with sharks presenting a constant danger and the conditions under which the divers work are appalling.

This is a thrilling, adventurous story with a fast pace which will appear to readers aged from about 9 to early teens. The characters are very-well drawn and believable, and the environment is vividly described. The author's extensive research helps to create a vivid portrait of an important historical period in Torres Strait Islander society.

There are many ways this engaging text could be used in the classroom, but the most interesting, for me, would be to use it as the basis for an Inquiry Project on the Torres Strait Islands. I would start with establishing existing knowledge and then setting up a wonder wall of inquiry questions to research and answer. The project could be tailored to students' interests and could include a focus on history, culture, exploration, the pearl trade, the pearl shell industry, the development of diving suits to modern-day SCUBA equipment, etc.

This is a fine example of historical fiction and includes useful text features such as a map, a Torres Strait timeline, glossary of the Mabuiag language and author's notes. This could prompt a study of text types, comparing this with, say, a novel set in the modern day, or an historical novel set in Victorian England, for example, including an analysis of language, dialogue and place.
Anthea Barrett, Primary Teacher, DECV, VIC

A well-crafted novel for primary school readers that is both entertaining and informative. It reminded me of the Willard Price adventure novels I read as a child which I would read at one sitting. I cannot think of any other children's novels that cover this particular part of Australian geography or history and primary school teachers would be highly recommended to purchase this title for their history fiction collection.

The novel is easy to read and the story exciting enough to keep the fussiest reader engaged throughout. The story is based on historical events in the Torres Strait Islands in the late 1800's on a fictitious island. It gives a sense of the connection to land and culture that the Indigenous inhabitants had and also the massive changes for the traditional owners during this time.

I enjoyed this history and culture lesson very much and would recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about the early years of Australia. It is an action packed story with interesting characters and I do not hesitate to give it 5 out of 5 stars for content and readability and big thumbs up for the history lesson.
Gloria McCowan, Xavier Catholic College, NSW

The Pearl-shell Diver by Kay Crabbe throws light on an area of Australia that many people can name, but have very little knowledge. This is the Torres Strait- the stretch of water between New Guinea and Australia. A scatter of islands that have been visited by seafarers for centuries. The reader is taken into the lives of the saltwater people and given a rich insight into the family-oriented islands. Their language, customs and beliefs are all exposed in a story of survival, friendship and family love. The novel would provide an interesting vehicle for senior primary to junior high school students to explore the history and social intricacies of these people. The History syllabus (HT3-1) (develop knowledge and understanding about the nature of history and key changes and developments from the past) would be one outcome that could be met by the reading of this book. The other, is following the tale of Sario and the realisation that he alone possesses the ability to swim against the tide of change in an attempt to keep his family together. Some racial hostilities are exposed, but nothing that Sario or the reader will succumb to. This is a novel that needed to be written to expose the mainland Australians to their northern cousins.
Steven Marvell, Cranbrook Junior School, NSW

The Pearl-shell Diver is set in the Torres Strait around the time of Australian Federation. Crabbe describes in engaging detail the traditional life of 13 year old Sario. The simplicity of his traditional life, with most of the day being focussed on the catching and preparing of food and the making of tools, is key to understanding the vulnerability of this remote community. The mentioning of missionaries that came before give further insight into the gradual encroachment of western society and its values on these communities. The balance between traditional life and the white man's ways is an ongoing source of conflict within the clans.

Islanders are hired to dive on the pearl luggers with promises of white man's money but Sario's two cousins have not returned from their lugger. The level of discrimination the Islanders are subjected to and the low value placed on their lives is thoroughly explored. They are force to dive long hours in dangerous conditions and are treated much worse than the Japanese divers on the boats.

The Pearl-shell Diver is suited to late primary or early secondary readers, but adults will also enjoy it. The audience is treated to a fast-paced book, experiencing the excitement, frustration and thrill of danger as they follow Sario's journey. The novel would be well suited to a cross-curricular unit; Ausvels 5 History includes the examination of the daily life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and how the environment changed. Crabbe has included a detailed glossary and a map to assist the reader.
Sue Nash-Skinner, Santa Maria College, VIC

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The Pearl-shell Diver: A Story of adventure from the Torres Strait

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Range of resources to use throughout NAIDOC Week and beyond, prompting students to have discussions, contribute ideas, and ask questions (lower primary). Can also be used for reading comprehension tasks + decoding strategies (TP/TA)

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This NAIDOC Week teacher resource is structured around the 2019 theme of 'Voice, Treaty, Truth'. Explore key Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander perspectives, peoples, histories and stories in this in-depth guide, featuring;

Discussion questions;

Practical activities;

Plentiful resource links and suggestions;

Clips for classroom viewing;

Quality, robust structures for exploring Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander perspectives year round.

SBS Learn is Official Education Partner for NAIDOC Week (2019 & 2020).
Caution: SBS Learn would like to advise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that this resource may contain images, audio visual materials and/or the names of people who have died.

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Resource showcasing Australia's diverse Indigenous languages. Can be used when expanding vocabulary (attaching English word to Indigenous language) and discussing songlines (TD/TU)

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The diverse languages of black Australia from Anmatyerre to Arrernte, from Yankunytjatjara to Yorta Yorta - one word at a time.

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Focuses on vocabulary development through common noun suffixes. Can use resources when holding a discussion about how suffixes change the meanings of words. Useful stimulus for the creation of a word/vocab wall (TD)

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Many words in English are formed from the same root or base word. By adding different suffixes, a range of new words can be formed.

A suffix is a letter or a group of letters that are added to the end of a word to make a new word. Generally, suffixes have a particular meaning. When a suffix is added to a base word and that base word becomes a noun, it is called a noun suffix.

Here are some rules:

Adding a suffix usually changes the class of the word (for example, verb to noun).

For example:

Root/Base word: Entertain (verb)

Suffix: -ment

New word: Entertainment (noun)

Adding a suffix can mean the class of the word remains the same but the meaning of the new word changes.

For example:

Root/Base word: quest (noun)

Suffix: -ion

New word: question (noun)

Adding a suffix can cause a spelling change.

For example:

Root/Base word: supervise

Suffix: -or

New word: supervisor

Here are some commonly used noun suffixes and what they mean:
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What are noun suffixes? How can they be used to expand our vocabulary or help work out the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary?

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How to Use Chopsticks: Writing a Procedural Text

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Focuses on procedural text and supports students use texts in context. Useful for EAL/D students and can be used to create a visual planner to hang in classroom (TU)

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Have you written down a recipe or provided step by step instructions to someone on how to use something before? This is known as a procedural text and it is very useful in daily life. In this lesson, learn how to explain to someone how to use chopsticks correctly.

What is a procedural text?

A procedural text gives you a set of instructions on how to do something. There are a few different types of procedural texts you might come across in your daily life:

Example: How to make a vegie pastie

Example: How to build a garden shed

Example: How to draw an Australian animal

Example: How to use chopsticks

Why do we need to know how to write a procedural text?

It's important to know the structure of a procedural text because you'll use it very often in your daily life. You might have to write down a recipe for someone or you might have to explain how to do a particular task at work.

One way to practise using this structure is to watch a video about something you want to make or use, and then write down what you need to do.

What's the structure of a procedural text?

A procedural text follows this general structure:

Title/Goal: This tells you what this procedure is about

For example: How to use chopsticks correctly

Materials: What items or ingredients you need to achieve this goal

For example: chopsticks, food

Steps: What do you need to do step by step in order to achieve this goal

The following words and phrases can be used to indicate the order of the steps:

To signal the first step, you can say:

-Firstly

-Step 1

-The first step is...

To signal the next step, you can say:

-Next

-Then

-Secondly/Thirdly

To signal the final step, you can say:

-Lastly

-At the very end

-Step 5 (if there 5 steps in total)

Evaluation/Conclusion: checking if the result is correct

Example: Were you able to use chopsticks correctly to eat your food?

In the video above from the Chopsticks or Fork series, Jennifer Wong and Lydia Feng talk about how to use chopsticks correctly. Listen carefully and take note of the steps Lydia goes through.

Here are the 5 steps you need to follow to use chopsticks correctly. Did you get them all while listening to the video?
Step 1: Pick up the chopsticks as though you're picking up a pen or a calligraphy brush Step 2: Ensure the ends of the chopsticks are levelled
Lydia says if the chopsticks are not levelled, gently tap on the table to level them.
Step 3: Fingers holding the chopsticks should be two-thirds of the way from the eating end
Lydia recommends this because holding chopsticks this way will way provide the user the best leverage and manoeuvre.

Step 4: Hold the bottom chopstick by wedging it at the end of the thumb and the index finger, and resting it on top of the ring finger
Lydia says the bottom stick is the stabilising stick. The top stick moves according to how to first three fingers on one's hand move - these are most flexible fingers. This way, the chopsticks can be moved around easily to pick up the food you want.
Step 5: Time to eat... and practise!
Lydia says the more you use chopsticks, the better you will get at using it.

After explaining what one needs to do to use chopsticks correctly, Lydia shares some tips below:

Chopsticks always need to be levelled

Don't suck on your chopsticks

Be sure about what food you want to eat and do not hover around the dining table with your chopsticks

Don't drop your chopsticks

Don't be scared when using your chopsticks

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Have you written down a recipe or provided step by step instructions to someone on how to use something before? This is known as a procedural text and it is very useful in daily life. In this lesson, learn how to explain to someone how to use chopsticks correctly.

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Phonological awareness sets a strong foundation for phonics skills like blending, segmenting, and decoding. However, this phonological awareness begins developing before your kids even start school and is something they will use in later elementary grades and beyond.

This set of rhyming dominoes is designed for preschoolers and kindergarteners working on phonological awareness. As such, there are no written letters/words (which are related phonics). In this activity, we want children to focus on the auditory aspects of the rhyming words.

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Rhyming Dominoes
GETTING STARTED
Print out the dominoes. If you are going to make multiple sets, you may want to print them on colored paper or put a stamp/sticker on the pieces of the set to avoid mixing them up.

Laminate for extended use.
HOW TO PLAY
Your kids will start with the green dot card.

Find the domino with the rhyming object and place it in line with the first object.

Then, continue to match the dominoes end to end by rhyming pictures.

The activity is finished when they end up at the red dot.

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There are audio cues to help students identify the words included.
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