Libby Verner

Back to school activity. Students create a self portrait selfie and write about themselves.

This power point has 50 words taken from the NAPLAN writing marking tool that assesses spelling (3-7). These words are taken from the difficult-challenging section. Teaching students these words extends their vocabulary and when used correctly can increase their writing NAPLAN scores. Each slide has one word with part of speech and definition.

I was looking all over the net for photos of fruits, vegetables and herbs to decorate our schools kitchen area. I couldn't find a decent one so I decided to make my own. The pictures are A4 but you can print 2 pages per sheet to reduce them smaller. Photos include: alfalfa sprouts, apple, avocado, banana, basil, bean sprouts, beans, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, capsicum, carrot, cauliflower, celery, chives, coriander, corn, egg plant, garlic, guava, lemon, lime, mango, mint, onion (brown

Our school, along side a speech pathologist, have sorted the oxford sight words into sounds which support the jolly phonics program. There are 7 phases of words that can be sounded out and follow the introduction of sounds jolly phonics uses. There are 100 tricky words which can not be sounded out and follow different 'rule' patterns. I have also made flash cards in these colour sets which you can purchase from my store.

Australian curriculum year 3 mathematics content descriptors check list for year planning.

This check list/contents indicates the word sorts that have Australian (British English) supplements. I use it plan and to keep track of where students are up to and whats next. It is editable on a word doc. The books used are only the red- alphabetic spellers, yellow- within word patterns and green- syllables and affixes spellers.

I use this as a checklist of content descriptors with the achievement standard to identify which areas students are struggling to plan my small teacher groups during maths.

Australian curriculum History year 3 outcomes checklist for yearly overview planning.

Australian curriculum year 3 geography outcomes checklist for yearly overview planning.

Australian curriculum year 4 mathematics content descriptors checklist for yearly planning

Australian curriculum History year 4 outcomes checklist for yearly overview planning.

I use this as a checklist of content descriptors with the achievement standard to identify which areas students are struggling to plan my small teacher groups during maths.

Australian curriculum Science for year 3 checklist for yearly overview planning.

Australian curriculum year 4 mathematics content descriptors checklist for yearly planning

I use this as a checklist of content descriptors with the achievement standard to identify which areas students are struggling to plan my small teacher groups during maths.

I use this as a checklist of content descriptors with the achievement standard to identify which areas students are struggling to plan my small teacher groups during maths.

Australian curriculum year 4 Geography outcomes checklist for yearly overview planning.

Australian curriculum Science year 4 outcomes checklist for yearly overview planning.

Australian curriculum Science year 4 outcomes checklist for yearly overview planning.

First week activity. Students create a portrait of themselves.