Dear Teacher
This year’s new products are a delightful mix of technology and paper-based resources to suit the full range of teaching and learning styles.
Maximise your Test Results: NAPLAN*-style numeracy and literacy tests
Get better results in the NAPLAN* tests! This series of six books provide your students with annotated practise tests to help familiarise them with the NAPLAN* tests’ format and content. Each book also has two full-length practice papers.
Comprehension & Writing Response Centres
Create your own classroom Comprehension Centre!
This full colour 3 book series is a spectacular addition to the Blake’s Learning Centres range. Written by Australian authors, Fiona Jackson and Victoria Hazell, this resource provides 40 levelled Text Cards from a wide variety of dynamic fiction and non-fiction text types. Remove and laminate these colourful Text Cards. All of the Text Cards have an Activity Card on the back with a variety of comprehension questions and writing activities, as well as work sheets. The books also include a disk that can be used to print additional cards or to display the Text Cards on an IWB.
View & Do — Visual Learning at its best!
Interactive Whiteboard Charts
Many classrooms now have interactive whiteboards. The View & Do range of interactive whiteboard charts provides you with relevant resources you can use instantly to engage your student’s full attention in the following subjects:
• Science
• Maths
• Grammar
• Music
• I.C.T
• Religious Education.
These interactive posters provide a bank of knowledge that can be installed on your school network, and used throughout the whole school. They include Fun Features and quizzes as well as printable Work sheets.
View & Do Maths Investigations 1, 2 & 3
Working mathematically with real-life scenarios.
These amusing 3 minute videos have been produced to be used as lesson starters to get students thinking about how to solve the problems posed in each real –life scenario. Each of the three books includes eight different investigations with teaching notes with several possible solutions and an A-E assessment rubric. The video footage is provided in DVD format with each book.
Ann and Johnny Baker have followed up their Natural Maths Strategies series with Strategic Maths: Number. A seven book series that provides explicit teaching of the Number Strand, with units of work supported by slideshows and self-regenerating games designed to help students really master key maths concepts. This series supports teachers with sequential lessons designed to follow a research-based developmental sequence. Read more ...
Terrific Australian Topics
We surveyed hundreds of Australian teachers before deciding which topics to include in this long-anticipated sequel to the ever-popular Terrific Topics series. This new improved format also includes a visual library with video footage to support the teaching of your favourite Aussie topics.
Don’t forget that I am always looking for high calibre material to publish. So if you think you’ve got what it takes to become a Blake author, I would love to hear from you.
Happy teaching!
Lynn Dickinson
Publisher: Primary Teacher Resource
* This is not an officially endorsed publication of the NAPLAN program and is produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.
