Most students have some understanding that many animals in Australia are found nowhere else in the world. This unit allows students to explore the reasons why one group of these animals, the amazing marsupials, which are born still in an embryonic state, are so special. Students will be encouraged to pursue research projects and to understand the complex world of animal and habitat adaptation. Students will study a variety of marsupial creatures in some detail.

Australia is a country of distinct geographical features and landmarks, both natural and built. This unit begins by giving students an understanding of the physical shape of the country of Australia and its divisions into states and territories. Students will develop an understanding of floral and faunal emblems, the Coat of Arms, state flags and recognisable landmarks. The unit concludes with students being asked to select criteria for the choice of a capital city and defend their point of view.

Successful Spelling provides an integrated method of teaching phonics, spelling and vocabulary.

Successful Spelling provides an integrated method of teaching phonics, spelling and vocabulary.

Successful Spelling provides an integrated method of teaching phonics, spelling and vocabulary.

Natural Maths assessment Guides
are a companion series to Natural Maths Strategies and provides the
tools needed to make informed and accurate assessments of an individual
student’s level of mathematical competence.

The Teaching Guide includes teaching notes and activities on Reading Nonfiction and Writing Nonfiction for each title in the series.

Go Facts Readers introduce nonfiction features using a structured approach - they contain simple, accurate and easy-to-read examples of nonfiction.

The Teaching Guide has teaching notes for each of the twelve titles, Teaching focus, assessment checklist and student award.

Teaching Guide has teaching notes for each of the twelve titles and one BLM for each title.

The Teaching Guide includes teaching notes and activities on Reading Nonfiction and Writing Nonfiction for each title in the series.

The Ready-to-Go Open-ended Maths Investigations series provides teachers with open-ended problems that allow students to bring their own thinking and learning strategies to the task.

Wonderful Words is full of practical pages that will enhance a busy teacher’s English program.

A comprehensive Teaching Guide to complement the Lower Primary Go Facts Habitats set.

A comprehensive Teaching Guide to complement the Lower Primary Go Facts: How is it Made? set.

Go Facts: Changing Times takes readers on a walk through history, showing how our homes, clothes, tools and transport have changed through time.

This easy to use Teaching Guide will help you to get the most out of Sparklers Red set. The comprehensive range of activities reinforces essential reading skills and strategies in a variety of interesting ways.

Grammar with Grin is a compilation of jokes, riddles, silly stories and fun pictures to make teaching basic grammatical concepts entertaining, as well as challenging and stimulating.

The homework tasks in this book aim to encourage an interest in learning. They are varied to avoid boredom and open-ended to allow all students to complete the same task at their ability level.

Gigglers Purple Teaching Guide is a valuable teaching resource containing a comprehensive range of activities which reinforces essential skills and strategies in a variety of fun-filled, interesting ways.

The Teaching Guide provides a comprehensive range of activities which reinforces essential skills and strategies in a variety of fun-filled interesting ways.

Gigglers Bubblegum Teaching Guide is a valuable teaching resource containing a comprehensive range of activities which reinforces essential skills and strategies in a variety of fun-filled, interesting ways.

The Gigglers Blue Teaching Guide provides a comprehensive range of activities which reinforces essential skills and strategies in a variety of fun-filled, interesting ways.

The Teaching Guide focuses on building word families

Funny Photo Phonics Teaching Guide provides activities to do before, during and after reading and there are two photocopiable activity pages for each book.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

The Sparklers Blue Teaching Guide provides structured blackline masters

Sparklers are chapter books with great stories and wonderful illustrations

Each unit in The Teaching Guide covers each Big Book and its related small books.

The teaching guide covers each Big Book and its related small books.

Each unit in The Teaching Guide covers each Big Book and its related small books.

Each unit in the Teaching Guide covers each Big Book and its related small books - there are a number of supporting activities which present the mathematical content in a variety of ways.

Wendy Beckett is an international playwright whose plays are produced in Sydney, Paris and New York. Ordinarily she writes for adult audiences, but on this occasion she has turned her attention to writing comic plays for primary school children. As a former school teacher, she saw the need for children to connect with familiar reference points, so each work has a distinct Australian flavour.

Go Facts: Australia integrates reading and writing with the study of Australian history. The books are ideal for use as part of a literacy program or teaching of the Australian Curriculum: History.

Go Facts: Australia integrates reading and writing with the study of Australian history. The books are ideal for use as part of a literacy program or teaching of the Australian Curriculum: History.

Go Facts - Geography - Teaching Guide - Lower, Middle & Upper Primary

These books help teachers to introduce, and make explicit, mental computation strategies

Good Grammar makes it easy to improve your students’ written and spoken expression by focusing on grammatical accuracy and meaning.

Spelling Success presents user-friendly and practical activities for the classroom teacher.

Targeting Text contains structured teaching units for the most commonly studied text types.

Targeting Text contains structured teaching units for the most commonly studied text types.

Targeting Text contains structured teaching units for the most commonly studied text types.

The Teaching Guide emphases phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge and letter-sound correspondence.  These are some of the essential skills we would like students to learn by the end of their first year at school

Maximising Test Results: NAPLAN*-style Numeracy Tests: Year 2 includes annotated activity pages that break down the key skills and knowledge assessed in a typical NAPLAN* numeracy multiple-choice test.

This series includes annotated activity pages that break down the key skills and knowledge assessed in typical Year 3 and 5 NAPLAN tests.

Popular themes presented in integrated teaching units.

Popular themes presented in integrated teaching units.

Full-colour maths centres and games that provide engaging, independent maths skills practice.

Full-colour maths centres and games that provide engaging, independent maths skills practice.

Full-colour maths centres and games that provide engaging, independent maths skills practice.

Blake's Learning Centres are a wonderful, fun way for students to practise important skills.

Blake’s Learning Centres are a wonderful, motivating way for students to practise important skills. The games in these books are self-contained and portable.

Blake’s Learning Centres are a wonderful, motivating way for students to practise important skills. The games in these books are self-contained and portable.

Blake’s Learning Centres are a wonderful, motivating way for students to practise important skills. The games in these books are self-contained and portable.

Targeting Maths offers activities, lesson plans and assessment support for all areas of the primary Maths curriculum.

Targeting Maths offers activities, lesson plans and assessment support for all areas of the primary Maths curriculum.

Targeting Maths offers activities, lesson plans and assessment support for all areas of the primary Maths curriculum.

Each title has supporting guided reading questions, activities, work sheets, comprehension and assessment

Each land comes with its own Teaching Guide that covers all 30 fiction titles, nonfiction titles and Readers' Theatre titles - a comprehensive resorce that will help you get the most out of Storylands.

STORYLANDS - Lost Island - Teaching Guide provides teachers with guided reading questions, activities, work sheets, comprehension and assessments.

Blake’s Learning Centres are a wonderful, motivating way for students to practise important skills. The 12 centres in this book are self-contained and portable.

Blake’s Learning Centres are a wonderful, motivating way for students to practise important skills. The 14 centres in this book are self-contained and portable.

The assessments in this book are written to fully support implementation of the Language Conventions Achievement Standards for Year 1 outlined in the Australian curriculum.

The assessments in this book are written to fully support implementation of the Language Conventions Achievement Standards for Year 2 outlined in the Australian curriculum.

The assessments in this book are written to fully support implementation of the Number and Algebra Achievement Standards for Year 1 outlined in the Australian Mathematics curriculum.

The assessments in this book are written to fully support implementation of the Number and Algebra Achievement Standards for Year 2 outlined in the Australian Mathematics curriculum.

The assessments in this book are written to fully support implementation of the Comprehension Achievement Standards for Year 1 outlined in the Australian curriculum.

The assessments in this book are written to fully support implementation of the Comprehension Achievement Standards for Year 2 outlined in the Australian curriculum.

The assessments in this book are written to fully support implementation of the Measurement & Geometry and Statistics & Probability Achievement Standards for Year 1 outlined in the Australian Mathematics curriculum.

The assessments in this book are written to fully support implementation of the Measurement & Geometry and Statistics & Probability Achievement Standards for Year 2 outlined in the Australian Mathematics curriculum.

The 40 colourful cards in each book provide comprehensive writing instruction for eight imaginative text types. These are: Anecdote, Cultural Folktale, Dramatic Play, Mystery, Science Fiction, Poetry, Traditional Fairytale and Modern Narrative.

Blake's Learning Centres are a wonderful motivating way for students to practise important skills. The 40 colourful cards in this resource provide comprehensive writing instruction for eight persuasive text types.

A Reader’s Theatre performance is a dramatic reading without the need for stage actions, or elaborate sets and costumes.

Blake's Learning Centres - Science Comprehension and Writing lower primary fully supports the new Australian primary Science Curriculum.

Australian Geography Centres Lower Primary

Australian Geography Centres Middle Primary

Australian Geography Centres Upper Primary

Eight real-life maths investigations screened in 3-minute episodes on a DVD player or an interactive whiteboard. A challenge problem for students is also presented at the end of each episode.

This book contains eight fun, yet challenging, English lesson starters that explore spelling, punctuation and grammar for lower primary. Each lesson is introduced to the students via a short, humorous video clip that presents the English task in a real-life setting.

This book contains eight fun, yet challenging, problem- solving scenarios that explore the three major strands in the Australian curriculum. The design of the video segments and the problems posed enable the busy teacher to fully implement the proficiency strands of; understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning.

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Meets the challenge of providing an integrated approach to the curriculum and provides a springboard for exploring everything Australian.

Each title has supporting guided reading questions, activities, work sheets, comprehension and assessment.

Each title has supporting guided reading questions, activities, work sheets, comprehension and assessment.

Natural Maths Strategies
provides the core knowledge and understanding of the “big ideas” or
concepts students require to become confident and enthusiastic maths
users.

Strategic Maths provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies.

Strategic Maths provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies.

Strategic Maths provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies.

The Writing fun CD-ROM has been written to assist students to write a wide variety of genres. It features Text Organizers, for 14 text types, which explain the purpose, structure and language features.