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A full shared reading program for Stage 2-3. Approx ten lessons including introducing comprehension strategies, vocabulary, flow, phrasing and fluency, metaphors and similes, visual literacy, synthesising and creative arts. Includes video links, resources, links to art program and visual arts. File includes both PDF and Word documents. It also includes a short PowerPoint of news items about bushfires. I write my programs for inclusion in a program folder - detailed, clear, anyone could follow it

A full shared reading program for Stage 2-3. Approx ten lessons including introducing comprehension strategies, vocabulary, flow, phrasing and fluency, metaphors and similes, visual literacy, synthesising and creative arts. Includes video links, resources, links to art program and visual arts, similes and metaphors sort and art PowerPoint. File includes both PDF and Word documents. I have added a PowerPoint of images related to Cyclone Tracey and another of 5 pages from the book that I have remo

A full shared reading program for Stage 2-3 based on Drought by Jackie French and Bruce Whately. Approx ten lessons including introducing comprehension strategies, vocab, flow, phrasing and fluency, metaphors and similes, visual literacy, synthesising and creative arts. Includes video links, resources, links to art program and visual arts. File includes both MS Word and PDF documents. I write my programs for inclusion in a program folder - detailed, clear, anyone could follow it and easy for the

A full shared reading program for stage 2-3 based on The Little Refugee by Anh Do. Approx seven - eight lessons including introducing comprehension strategies, vocab, flow, phrasing and fluency, metaphors and similes, visual literacy, synthesising and creative arts. Includes video links and resources. I write my programs for inclusion in my program folder at school. I include LISC, plenty of resources and far too much info. But it looks great in a program folder. Please Note: you will need copie

Checklist for Stage 3 Maths Syllabus Outcomes and Content. This is the new syllabus being implemented from 2024 in Stage 3 classrooms. This includes only the Stage 3 content. Other stages are available. 14 pages - it's been formatted to reduce the number of pages. The type size is set to 9 points. Easy to create a record of student achievment.Taken from the most up-to-date curriculum (2025).Some words have been omitted or abbreviated to reduce the number of pages but the meaning remains. For ex

Checklist for Stage 2 Maths Syllabus Outcomes and Content. This is the new syllabus being implemented from 2024 in Stage 2 classrooms. This includes only the Stage 2 content. Stage 1 and Early Stage 1 are already available and Stage 3 is on the way. 14 pages - it's been formatted to reduce the number of pages. The type size is set to 9 points. Easy to create a record of student achievment.Taken from the most up-to-date curriculum (2025).Some words have been omitted or abbreviated to reduce the n

Checklist for Stage 3 English Syllabus Outcomes and Content. This is the new syllabus introduced from 2022 in Stage 3 classrooms. This includes only the Stage 3 content. Other stages are available. 10 pages - it's been formatted to reduce the number of pages. The type size is set to 9 points. Easy to create a record of student achievment.Taken from the most up-to-date curriculum (updated 2025).Some words have been omitted or abbreviated to reduce the number of pages but the meaning remains. For

Checklist for Stage 2 English Syllabus Outcomes and Content. This is the new syllabus being implemented from 2024 in Stage 2 classrooms. This includes only the Stage 2 content. Stage 1 and Early Stage 1 are already available and Stage 3 is on the way. 10 pages - it's been formatted to reduce the number of pages. The type size is set to 9 points. Easy to create a record of student achievment.Taken from the most up-to-date curriculum (2025).Some words have been omitted or abbreviated to reduce the

UPDATED A full shared reading program for Stage 2-3. Approx ten lessons including introducing comprehension strategies, vocabulary, flow, phrasing and fluency, metaphors and similes, visual literacy, synthesising and creative arts. Includes video links, resources, links to art program and visual arts. File includes both PDF and One Note documents. I have added a PowerPoint of images related to Cyclone Tracey and another of 5 pages from the book that I have removed the text from for one of the ac

A full shared reading program for Stage 2-3. 8-10 lessons including comprehension strategies, vocabulary, flow, phrasing and fluency, metaphors and similes, visual literacy, synthesising and creative arts. Includes video links, resources, links to art program and visual arts. File includes both OneNote and PDF documents. I write my programs for inclusion in a program folder - detailed, clear, anyone could follow it and easy for the powers-that-be to understand what I'm teaching. Always a helpful

The NSW DoE Continuums are designed as pathways - where students are now, what they need to do next. This is a huge table of those markers divided by main aspects(Reading Texts, Comprehension, Phonics etc.) to keep track of student achievement. it helps with updating PLAN data and considering what steps a child needs to take. It taken from the Continuum but the wording in some cases has been abbreviated to allow it to fit on 15 pages rather than 30 (because 15 is so much better). This is a Word

Simple card for helping students understand place value. In my classroom I have them laminated as 1/2 A4 (length-ways) size cards. I put large numbers on the IWB and students practice writing the numbers into each box on the cards. As I said - simple enough, but my students have been struggling with place value. I have other versions available on TPT. This version: the numbers are 1 000 000 - 1000ths including decimal point. Other versions available on TPT. A tip for writing on the cards: highli

Checklist for Stage 1 English Syllabus Outcomes and Content. This is the new syllabus being implemented from 2022 in Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 classrooms. This includes only the Stage 1 content. Other stages will follow. Check out my other products if you are after years 3, 4, 5 and 6. This curriculum has not changed yet. 8 pages - it's been formatted to reduce the number of pages. The type size is set to 9 points. Easy to see what you have covered each term/semester and what remains.Taken from

Checklist for Stage 2 Year 3 Mathematics Strands - NSW. 18 pages, formatted so that most units are on one page with the Numeracy Continuum alongside - for example Number and Algebra: Whole Number. Easy to see what you have covered each term/semester and what remains. Taken from the most up-to-date curriculum and continuum documents. Some words have been omitted to allow units to conform to one page but the meaning remains. There are a few little formatting issues that have come across in the PDF

A full shared reading program for Stages 1-2. 7-10 lessons including comprehension strategies, vocabulary, flow, phrasing and fluency, metaphors and similes, visual literacy, synthesising and creative arts. Includes: video links, resources, links to art program and visual arts.templates for activities (art, mind map, I used to think, speech bubbles), and PowerPoints for vocabulary, book covers review activity, adding calloutsFile includes both OneNote and PDF documents, plus MS Word and PowerPoi

The NSW DoE Continuums are designed as pathways - where students are now, what they need to do next. This is a huge table of those markers divided by main aspects(Reading Texts, Comprehension, Phonics etc.) to keep track of student achievement. it helps with updating PLAN data and considering what steps a child needs to take. It taken from the Continuum but the wording in some cases has been abbreviated to allow it to fit on 15 pages rather than 30 (because 15 is so much better). This is a PDF v

Checklist for Australian Curriculum Stage 1 Mathematics Strands - NSW. Please check my other products if you are after only Year 1 or Year 2. 17 pages - it's been formatted to reduce the number of pages. The type size is set to 9 points. Easy to see what you have covered each term/semester and what remains.Includes a one page summary of the Stage 1 progression (last page) - Numeracy Skills Framework/Numeracy Across the Curriculum. I have this separate in a sleeve in my program - just as a refere

The title is a bit of a mouthful. I have created a spreadsheet for calculating PAT data and effect sizes on one page. Input student names and raw scores for comprehension, spelling and numeracy and the spreadheet will do the rest, automatically caulculating stanines and percentiles. It will also calculate the Hattie effect size alongside the other data. An additional part of the table compares the start and end of year tests and all data is averaged at the bottom. The table provides a a clear an

The title is a bit of a mouthful. I have created a spreadsheet for calculating PAT data and effect sizes on one page. Input student names and raw scores for comprehension, spelling and numeracy and the spreadheet will do the rest, automatically caulculating stanines and percentiles. It will also calculate the Hattie effect size alongside the other data. An additional part of the table compares the start and end of year tests and all data is averaged at the bottom. The table provides a a clear an

Updated card. Simple card for helping students understand place value. In my classroom I have them laminated as 1/2 A4 (length-ways) size cards. I put large numbers on the IWB and students practice writing the numbers into each box on the cards. As I said - simple enough, but my students have been struggling with place value. I have other versions available on TPT. This version: the numbers are 10000 - 1. Other versions available on TPT. A tip for writing on the cards: highlighter is much easier