The most recent research into the effective teaching of reading indicates that there are six interrelated components that contribute to learning to read, described as the BIG SIX . These six components are elements of the Simple View of Reading model (Gough and Turner, 1986).
Decoding x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension
What resources do you need to support the Big Six components?
Take a look below at the way Scholastic literacy resources have explicit teaching opportunities for the Big Six.
Shared Reading and Poetry are rich models of language.
The focus panels in the Key Links books prompt students to discuss what and how they read.
Systematic phonics taught through decodable readers.
hi-lo decodable phonics books to help older readers catch up.
books provide guidance for clarifying vocabulary, building fluency and reading for meaning.
explicitly model the use of comprehension strategies through peer group discussion.
Making reading fun and effective.
provide texts for close reading and deep comprehension.
READING GROWTH
LITERACY PRO IS POWERED BY THE LEXILE FRAMEWORK
The Lexile Framework ® has been developed by MetaMetrics Inc, based on 30-plus years of research.
The Lexile data in Literacy Pro measures two critical aspects relevant to reading comprehension development:
1. Student Reading Ability—through the Lexile test
2. Text Complexity—analysis of Lexile level of books and other texts.
Literacy Pro begins with an online, adaptive assessment to measure a student’s reading comprehension. It determines the level of text complexity a student can read and understand in the form of a student Lexile® .
Students search online for a good fit book. They:
• Search for books they CAN read in their Lexile® reading range
• Use interest categories to help them find a book they WANT to read.
MATCH
“Literacy Pro has been an absolute game changer in my classroom. Now, we can confidently select texts that build confidence, enhance skills, and match interests perfectly.”
Meaghan Price, Birdwood Primary School, South Australia
READ IN THE STUDENT’S LEXILE RANGE
MATCH STUDENTS TO GOOD-FIT BOOKS
To match students with books they can read and comprehend confidently, Literacy Pro uses the their Lexile range and interests.
Student Interests + Lexile Range = Good-Fit Books
A student’s Lexile range is from about 100L below their Lexile to about 50L above. If students read books within this range, research shows that they are expected to read and comprehend confidently and independently.
Another factor that enhances enjoyment of reading and comprehension is that the book being read is about a topic of student interest.
So, when students log into Literacy Pro, they will find a list of recommended titles within their Lexile range and interests on their Home page.
MATCH
Teachers may also match students to Literacy Pro eBooks to read by ASSIGNING them.
students to ‘good fit’ books
LITERACY PRO NEW RELEASE COLLECTION
CAREFULLY SELECTED BOOKS FOR CLASSROOM USE
The books selected for the Literacy Pro New Release Collection come from both local and international publishers. The books have been carefully analysed to ensure that the topics, themes and language match students’ interests and education level. All books have quizzes.
MATCH your students interests and reading ability to new titles each term.
Our research has shown that KIDS LOVE SERIES! You will find many great series represented within the Literacy Pro New Release Collection; Wings of Fire, Ninja Kid, the Bad Guys and Diary of a Wimpy Kid… your readers won’t have to wait long to sit quizzes for their favourite books.
To MATCH books to students, when selecting titles for the New Release Collections, Literacy Pro focuses on:
• Titles that help cover the Australian Curriculum
• Popular series
• Prominent authors—providing quality literacy to extend our readers
• Non-fiction and fiction titles
• Popular Australian & New Zealand authors
• Wide range of themes: family, pets and animals, sports, action and adventure, fantasy …
• Lexile range that covers all reading levels
• A selection of books to interest boys and girls alike.
LITERACY PRO eBOOK LIBRARY
Literacy Pro has a fully integrated eBook Library of over 2,500 eBooks. It includes a diverse collection of eBooks across a wide range of interests and Lexiles.
New eBooks are added regularly.
Interactive Read-Aloud lesson plans for teachers and Read & Think prompts for students help focus students’ reading.
INTERACTIVE READ-ALOUD lesson notes
Before You Read (optional worksheet to clarify vocabulary and topic)
As You Read (suggested questions to discuss while reading the eBook, along with possible answers)
After You Read (an open-ended discussion question is provided, along with a possible answer)
Optional Activities (a write and respond task is supplied, along with a vocabulary worksheet).
READ & THINK prompts for students
Before Reading (prompts to tune readers into the book)
During Reading (prompts to think about what is read)
After Reading (open-ended reflection)
TRACK AND ASSESS INDEPENDENT READING GROWTH
DATA TO INFORM TEACHING AND REPORTING
THE LITPRO TEST
The LitPro Test is an adaptive, online test of over 5,000 items. It assesses independent reading comprehension on the Lexile scale. It is often taken 3 to 4 times a year to track reading growth.
There are several reports that monitor student reading development at the year, class and/or student level.
These include:
the Lexile Growth Report, which compares the result of the first Lit Pro test to the most recent test
the Reading Proficiency Report, which compares students’ Lexiles with the reading expectations for their Year level
the Expected Lexile Growth Report, which compares each student’s current Lexile with their end-of-year Lexile and the year-level norm.
“Teachers can monitor student home reading in a way that is useful, as they have access to meaningful data, not just a meaningless list of books read and perhaps not even comprehended.” Danielle Howton, Honeywood Primary
Literacy Pro contains a database of over 13,000 Lexiled books, including 2,500 eBooks. Most of these books have online quizzes. New Lexiled books, eBooks and quizzes are added regularly.
MONITOR COMPREHENSION LITERACY PRO QUIZZES
DATA TO INFORM TEACHING AND REPORTING
COMPREHENSION QUIZZES
Literacy Pro Comprehension Quizzes are designed to help teachers and students keep up with how well readers comprehend what they choose or are assigned to read. There are thousands of quizzes in Literacy Pro, and more are added regularly.
TEACHER ASSIGNED QUIZZES
Teachers may assign and review student quizzes to monitor their comprehension.
MONITOR COMPREHENSION SKILLS
DATA TO INFORM TEACHING AND REPORTING
Literacy Pro Checkups monitor how well students use comprehension skills and conventions in the context of the eBooks they read.
Because eBooks are available to all users of Literacy Pro, the books and Checkups may be assigned to multiple users. So, teachers may choose to assign the eBooks and Checkups to one student or a whole class.
MONITOR
SKILLS
• Main Ideas/Details
• Plot/Events
• Character
• Setting
• Sequencing
• Summarising
• Text Structure
• Author’s Craft
Data from multiple Checkups aggregates over time to give teachers rich data that may be used for formative or summative assessment. The data reports by skill and convention as well as Content Descriptions from the Australian English Curriculum V9.
• Make Connections
• Comparing/Contrasting
• Inferring
• Synthesising
CONVENTIONS
• Literary Devices
• Grammar/Punctuation
• Vocabulary
• Non-text features
Students can elect to have Checkup questions read aloud to them by clicking on the audio arrow.
A wide variety of response types are included in the Checkups, similar to those encountered by students completing NAPLAN online.
MOTIVATE STUDENTS TO CONTINUE THEIR READING JOURNEY
RECOGNITION OF STUDENT DEVELOPMENT MOTIVATE
Reading should be enjoyable.
Teachers want confident, successful readers. So, Literacy Pro acknowledges students’ reading activities to motivate them to continue their reading journey.
The student Home Page is designed to present several metrics to students about their reading development. It is designed to acknowledge and reward progress.
Central to the page is an avatar, based on the student’s Lexile.
Students may change their avatar, and earn access to other avatars as their Lexile grows.
Other metrics that are rewarded include:
Points earned from passing quizzes and checkups
Reading Goals
Time spent reading eBooks
Place in a Monthly Challenge compared to other students in the class
There are also other recognitions:
• Word Warrior acknowledges words read in the last 14 days
• Reading Streak acknowledges reading time
• Literacy Star recognises mastery of quizzes or checkups
• On Time Champion rewards completing assignments by due date
MOTIVATE
students to read more
Students are also able to track their detailed results through the My Results page:
• Lexile level
• Time spent reading eBooks
• Words read from quizzes and Checkups passed
• eBooks read
• Quizzes or Checkups passed
• Average score
MOTIVATE STUDENTS TO CONTINUE THEIR READING JOURNEY RECOGNITION OF STUDENT DEVELOPMENT
Students may also review the details of each title for eBooks read, quizzes and Checkups taken.
Certificates may also be awarded to students, based on criteria set by teachers for points earned or activities passed.
LITERACY PRO LEXILE LEVELLED READING MAP
Matching students to texts at appropriate levels helps to increase their confidence, competence, and control over the reading process. Lexile® * is a reliable and tested tool designed to bridge two critical aspects of student reading achievement—levelling text difficulty and assessing the reading skills of each student. The extracts below illustrate how texts gradually become more challenging, with regards to vocabulary, sentence length and sentence structure, as the Lexile® number increases.
The Wind in the Willows
‘Look here,’ he went on, ‘this is what occurs to me. There’s a sort of dell down there in front of us, where the ground seems all hilly and humpy and hummocky. We’ll make our way down into that, and try and find some sort of shelter, a cave or hole with a dry floor to it, out of the snow and the wind, and there we’ll have a good rest before we try again, for we’re both of us pretty dead beat. Besides, the snow may leave off, or something may turn up.’
Storm Boy
He went round and squatted on his haunches as he started to dig and scrape with his hands. The ground was too hot for his bare knees, but by whipping off the surface sand as quickly as he could and digging down deeper he could just bear it. Before long he had hollowed out a long trench in front of the two off-side wheels.
300 Minutes of Mystery
He had to get to that rooftop. But there were 20 terrifying metres of wire between him and it. ‘Take a step,’ he whispered to himself. ‘Do it.’ Just like in karate, he slid his front foot forward and then moved his back foot to catch up, sacrificing speed for stability. The wire bounced sickeningly beneath his feet.
Octopuses and Other Animals with Amazing Senses
Monarch butterflies use their sense of taste, too. They taste leaves with their feet to find a place to lay their eggs. The butterflies want to make sure the leaves are the right kind of food. When the eggs hatch, the babies will eat the leaves.
The Ant and the Dove
It was a hot day. Ant was very thirsty. She had walked a long way. Ant saw a lake. She was about to take a sip. Oops! She fell into the water. “Help!” Ant cried. Dove was up on a tree.
SCHOLASTIC DECODABLE READERS
According to the Simple View of Reading, beginning readers need both decoding skills and language understanding together to develop students’ reading. Scholastic Decodable Readers provide resources to support the systematic development of decoding skills:
• Carefully structured/ sequenced decodable texts
• A wide selection of diverse and inclusive stories
• Bright/contemporary illustrations.
guidance and support is included in every book.
DELIVERY!
FICTION (SET 11, BOOK 3)
Illustrations are fun and enhance the text to tell the story without providing cues for children to guess words.
UNUSUAL STRUCTURES
NONFICTION (SET 13, BOOK 2)
Language conventions and visual features of narrative and informative texts are clearly demonstrated.
Retell the story
Decoding
x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension (Gough & Turner)
SET 1: FICTION
Phonemes covered: s a t p I n m d
SET 2: FICTION
Phonemes covered: g o c k ck e u r h b f l
SET 3: FICTION
Phonemes covered: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz
SET 4: FICTION
Phonemes covered: qu ch sh th ng nk
SET 5: FICTION
Phonemes covered: ai ee igh oa oo oo
SCHOLASTIC DECODABLE READERS
FICTION
SET 6: FICTION
Phonemes covered: ar or ur ow oi ear air er
SET 7: FICTION
Covers adjacent consonants with short vowels
SET 8: FICTION
Covers adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels
SET 9: FICTION
Covers: ay (play), ou (cloud), oy (boy), ea (each), ir (bird), ie (pie), ue (blue), u (unicorn)
SET 10: FICTION
Covers: o (go), i (tiger), a (paper), e (he), a-e (snake), i-e (time), o-e (home), u-e (cute), e-e (these), ew (new), ie (shield), aw (claw)
SET 11: FICTION
Covers: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder), y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al (metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e (some), o (mother), ou (young), se (cheese), se (mouse), ce (fence), ey (donkey), ui (fruit), ou (soup)
SET 12: FICTION
Covers: or (word), u (full), oul (could), are (share), ear (bear), ere (there), au (author), aur (dinosaur), oor (floor), al (walk), tch (match), ture (adventure), al (half), a (father), a (water), a (want), ear (learn), wr (wrist), st (whistle), sc (science), ch (school), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa at the end of words (actor)
SET 13: FICTION
Covers: eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (grey), ea (break), gn (gnaw), kn (knee), mb (thumb), ere (here), eer (deer), su (treasure), si (vision), dge (bridge), ge (large), y (crystal), ti (potion), ssi (mission), si (mansion), ci (delicious), augh (daughter), our (pour), oar (oar), ore (more)
for beginning readers’ Book Bags—after they’ve been introduced to the focus sounds/letters.
SCHOLASTIC DECODABLE READERS
NONFICTION
SET 1: NONFICTION
Phonemes covered: s a t p i n m d
SET 2: NONFICTION
Phonemes covered: g o c ck u f e r h b k l
SET 3: NONFICTION
Phonemes covered: ss j v x ll w y z ff zz
SET 4: NONFICTION
Phonemes covered: qu sh th nk ch ng
SET 5: NONFICTION
Phonemes covered: ee igh oa ai ight oo (fool), oo (food), oo (look)
Decoding x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension
(Gough & Turner)
SET 6: NONFICTION
Phonemes covered: ar or air er ur ow ear oi
SET 7: NONFICTION
Covers: Adjacent consonants with short vowel sounds (lump, frog, still, cloth, went | drink, went, stuck, cross, help | flat, bench, plan, slug | jumping, cricket, frog, spring)
SET 8: NONFICTION
Covers: Adjacent consonants with long vowel sounds (starts, slurp, brown, perfect | street, bumper, complains, Oscar, Amber | stronger, Clark, Flora, flower | sleep, park, explains, Casper)
SET 9: NONFICTION
Covers: ay (day, away), ou (out), ea (sea, leaf, tea, each), ir (girl, first, birds), ue (blue, clue), u (unicorn), ie (lie), oy (Troy)
SET 10: NONFICTION
Covers: o (so, go, no), i (kind, behind, wild), a (lazing, baking, waving), e (she, be), a-e (cave, cake, make), i-e (bite, kite, five, mine), ie (Maisie), aw (lawn, saw), o-e (hope, note, strode), ew (flew, blew, news), ie (field, cookies) u-e (tune, duke), ie (cookies), e-e (athlete)
Ideal for beginning readers’ Book Bags—after they’ve been introduced to the focus sounds/letters.
SCHOLASTIC
NONFICTION
SET 11: NONFICTION
Covers: y (chilly, shiny, delivery, bumpy), wh (white, whirls, whipped), y (my), ow (snow, show, Willow), g (magic), le (crumble, gentle, inflatable), al (magical), c (icicle, circle, parcel, ice), ve (give, have), o-e (some, come), o (other, worry, mother), se (mouse, ease), ou (soup) ea (head), oe (toe), y (fly, try), g (gentle, giant), ph (trophy), ou (couple), ce (bounce), ey (Headley) ou (shoulder), y (Kyra), ph (Rapha), le (little), ve (serve), ui (fruit)
SET 12: NONFICTION
Covers: or (work), u (full), oul (would), ear (pear), tch (match), a (tomato, rather), a (want, was), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa unstressed vowel sound (manor, pasta, tractor, orchestra, Laura), al (palm), a (water), ear (heard), wr (wreck), st (castle), sc (scent), ch (echo, school, Zach), au (sauce, pause), oor (door), al (talked), ture (adventure), a (can’t), are (dare), ere (there)
SET 13: NONFICTION
Covers: aigh (straight), ea (great), kn (knot, knee, knight, knitting), mb (thumb), ere (here), si (television, mansion), ci (special), our (four), oar (soared), ore (before, chore, more), ey (they, grey), gn (gnome), dge (edge, ridge), ge (village), y (mystery), ssi (passion), eer (peered, deer), su (treasure), y (pyramids), ti (information), eigh (neigh), augh (daughter)
SCHOLASTIC DECODABLE READERS
Practise and apply early reading skills
Every Scholastic Decodable Reader has been meticulously structured to help children to practise and apply their decoding skills.
The series reinforces classroom learning, focusing on different phonemes within the current and preceding levels to foster fluency and phrasing skills.
Adjacent consonants with short vowel sounds (lump, frog, still, cloth, went | drink, went, stuck, cross, help | flat, bench, plan, slug | jumping, cricket, frog, spring)
Adjacent consonants with long vowel sounds (starts, slurp, brown, perfect | street, bumper, complains, Oscar, Amber | stronger, Clark, Flora, flower | sleep, park, explains, Casper)
ay (day, away), ou (out), ea (sea, leaf, tea, each), ir (girl, first, birds), ue (blue, clue), u (unicorn), ie (lie), oy (Troy)
o (so, go, no), i (kind, behind, wild), a (lazing, baking, waving), e (she, be), a-e (cave, cake, make), i-e (bite, kite, five, mine), ie (Maisie), aw (lawn, saw), o-e (hope, note, strode), ew (flew, blew, news), ie (field, cookies), u-e (tune, duke), ie (cookies), e-e (athlete)
y (chilly, shiny, delivery, bumpy), wh (white, whirls, whipped), y (my), ow (snow, show, Willow), g (magic), le (crumble, gentle, inflatable), al (magical), c (icicle, circle, parcel, ice), ve (give, have), o-e (some, come), o (other, worry, mother), se (mouse, ease), ou (soup) ea (head), oe (toe), y (fly, try), g (gentle, giant), ph (trophy), ou (couple), ce (bounce), ey (Headley) ou (shoulder), y (Kyra), ph (Rapha), le (little), ve (serve), ui (fruit)
12 or (work), u (full), oul (would), ear (pear), tch (match), a (tomato, rather), a (want, was), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa unstressed vowel sound (manor, pasta, tractor, orchestra, Laura), al (palm), a (water), ear (heard), wr (wreck), st (castle), sc (scent), ch (echo, school, Zach), au (sauce, pause), oor (door), al (talked), ture (adventure), a (can’t), are (dare), ere (there)
SET
13 aigh (straight), ea (great), kn (knot, knee, knight, knitting), mb (thumb), ere (here), si (television, mansion), ci (special), our (four), oar (soared), ore (before, chore, more), ey (they, grey), gn (gnome), dge (edge, ridge), ge (village), y (mystery), ssi (passion), eer (peered, deer), su (treasure), y (pyramids), ti (information), eigh (neigh), augh (daughter)
Help struggling readers gain their stride!
Based on a systematic synthetic phonics program which introduces sounds/letter combinations in a structured way: these books are designed for older children (middle and upper primary) who have not yet mastered the early levels of decodable phonics. There are 32 titles in total:
13 FICTION BOOKS have at least two chapters, and a character page to orientate the reader. There are four stories that build across the fiction series.
FOCUS SOUNDS FOUND IN EACH SCHOLASTIC SET:
PHASE 2 SET 1: s a t p i n m d (used as revision sounds only)
PHASE 2 SET 2: g o c k ck e u r h b f l
PHASE 2 SET 3: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz
PHASE 2 SET 4: qu ch sh th ng nk
PHASE 3 SET 5: ai ee igh oa oo
PHASE 3 SET 6: ar or ur ow oi ear air er
PHASE 4 SET 7: Adjacent consonants with short vowels
PHASE 4 SET 8: Adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels
PHASE 5 SET 9: ay (play), ou (cloud), oy (boy), ea (each), ir (bird), ie (pie), ue (blue), u (unicorn)
PHASE 5 SET 10: o (go), i (tiger), a (paper), e (he), a-e (snake), i-e (time), o-e (home), u-e (cute), e-e (these), ew (new), ie (shield), aw (claw)
PHASE 5 SET 11: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder), y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al (metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e (some), o (mother), ou (young), se (cheese), se (mouse), ce (fence), ey (donkey), ui (fruit), ou (soup)
PHASE 5 SET 12: or (word), u (full), oul (could), are (share), ear (bear), ere (there), au (author), aur (dinosaur), oor (floor), al (walk), tch (match), ture (adventure), al (half), a (father), a (water), a (want), ear (learn), wr (wrist), st (whistle), sc (science), ch (school), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa at the end of words (actor)
PHASE 5 SET 13: eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (grey), ea (break), gn (gnaw), kn (knee), mb (thumb), ere (here), eer (deer), su (treasure), si (vision), dge (bridge), ge (large), y (crystal), ti (potion), ssi (mission), si (mansion), ci (delicious), augh (daughter), our (pour), oar (oar), ore (more)
SET
SET
19 NONFICTION BOOKS are stand-alone titles. All of them contain a contents page and a summary page (or an index/glossary page at higher levels).
Easy to Read Typeface
Each reader uses fonts designed to be easily read for dyslexic readers—with subtly extended the tails, ascenders and descenders of letters to enhance identification.
KEY LINKS: SHARED AND EXPLICIT GROUP READING
BY JILL EGGLETON
KEY LINKS explicitly involves readers in thinking and talking about what and how they read, and making links to what and how they write.
COMPONENTS
• 24 x Shared Reading Big Books • 40 x Poetry Cards
• 212 x Explicit Group Reading Books • 9 x Teachers’ Toolboxes
SHARED READING (BIG BOOKS)
The 24 Key Links Shared Books are full of rhythmical, rhyming language and humour. Children are enticed to read and re-read these books over several days. Each day takes a different focus:
Day 1: Comprehension
Day 2: Vocabulary
Day 3: Flow, phrasing and fluency
Day 4: Phonic knowledge and phonemic awareness
Day 5: Oral, written and visual language.
“Time-poor teachers need the very best support to ensure reading success for all students. After working with teachers for many years, I know that teachers need more support today than ever before due to the pressures and challenges of today’s classrooms. Key Links provides teachers with explicit guidance on every page, in every book.” Jill Eggleton.
EXPLICIT GROUP READING
For Emergent to Early titles, the prompts in the Focus Panels for the Explicit Group Reading books from Magenta to Green invite students to preview, view and review these texts through active discussion. The focus is on ‘learning to read’, and the texts are tightly scaffolded to ensure early reading success.
As the focus shifts to ‘reading to learn’ for the fluency titles, students continue to be involved in thinking and talking about what and how they read. In addition, the titles from Orange to Sapphire provide models that help students understand the different types of text structures and writing techniques used by good writers.
Key Links develops thinking readers!
KEY LINKS FOCUS PANELS
FOCUS PANEL: Unique to Key Links, Focus Panels provide easy-to-use samples of prompts that optimise teaching–learning opportunities. These questions merge oral language, reading and writing skills and strategies into engaging discussions for all readers.
The FOCUS PANELS for the Emergent/Early Levels of Key Links provide prompts to use for each page:
• PREVIEW—before reading
• VIEW—during reading
• REVIEW—after reading. The prompts focus on:
• comprehension strategies
• processing skills
• vocabulary and phonics in context
• oral language
• reading fluency and more … The FOCUS PANELS carefully and sequentially scaffold and reinforce skills and strategies used in previous books. They provide a link from classroom to home reading.
Prompts in the Fluency Levels of Key Links develop students’ understanding and use of:
• author’s purpose
• prediction
• clarifying vocabulary
• comprehensive connections
• reading on the lines, beyond the lines, between the lines
• question generation
• fact and opinion
• action and consequence
• plot development, character development, setting.
In Upper Fluency the FOCUS PANEL further develops students’ skills to:
• identify and discuss practices of good readers and writers
• examine the author’s craft and literary devices
• explore the use of vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure.
Emergent/ Early
Upper Fluency
Lower Fluency
Key Links Shared Reading using poetry, features rhythmic, rhyming, repetitive language that activates the brain. The brevity of text makes it easier for children to join in with the reading. This whole-group poetry shared reading time is multimodal, effective and fun.
Extend the Shared Reading activities of your Key Links program, with the addition of Jill’s Poetry.
Utilising the proven Shared Reading approach in Key Links
Reading, Key Links Poetry has been developed with a 5-Day lesson format to foster and nurture each child’s inquisitive instincts—and develop a love for poetry.
KEY LINKS POETRY CARDS
Key Links Poetry has been developed with a 5-day lesson format to foster and nurture each child’s inquisitive instincts—and develop a love for poetry.
Day 1: Comprehension
Day 2: Vocabulary
Day 3: Reading with Fluency
Day 4: Reinforcing Phonics/Phonemic awareness
Day 5: Creating.
KEY TARGETS:
• Promote and foster a love for poetry
• Help build a familiarity with the elements of poetry
• Encourage clear diction and fluency when reading aloud
• Increase and enrich vocabulary
EACH PACK FEATURES:
• 10 sturdy poetry posters for classroom display (419mm x 565mm)
• 5-day lesson plan for each poem (on the reverse of the poster)
• 10 digital versions of the poems for onscreen display, blackline masters and audio of Jill Eggleton reading the poems, with sound effects, helps develop thinking readers!
KEY LINKS POETRY CARDS 1
Poetry Cards 1 use simple, rhythmic language with engaging illustrations. Literacy skills focus on critical areas, including comprehension and phonemic awareness.
KEY LINKS POETRY CARDS 2
Poetry Cards 2 have an increased word count with longer sentences. The teaching activities consolidate previously-learned concepts in comprehension, vocabulary, phonics, and phonemic awareness.
KEY LINKS POETRY CARDS 3
Poetry Cards 3 use longer sentences, more words, and more sophisticated phonemic awareness activities.
KEY LINKS POETRY CARDS 4
Poetry Cards 4 include more challenging vocabulary, and explore how phonemes and syllabification can be used to support spelling.
Prompts for creative ways to innovate on the text, or to perform, are also included at this level.
KEY LINKS SHARED READING
BY JILL EGGLETON
Models for demonstrating concepts of language, literature and literacy
• Key Links Shared Reading Big Books provide a source of literature-quality text for beginning readers.
• They are language-rich, humorous and filled with lively, rhythmical, rhyming text.
• They also provide the opportunity for teacher-led demonstrations of reading concepts, skills and strategies, in context.
• These skills and strategies are reinforced and carefully scaffolded through the prompts in the Key Links’ Explicit Group Reading books.
There is a different focus for each day. The FOCUS PANEL provides prompts to support each focus.
Day 1: Comprehension
Day 2: Vocabulary
Day 3: Flow/Phrasing/Fluency
Day 4: Phonic Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness
Day 5: Oral, Written and Visual Language.
KEY FEATURES
• Specifically designed for ‘age’ not ‘stage’
• Strong characters
• Engaging visuals
• Humour
• Emotion
• Rich and descriptive language
Each title is written specifically for SHARED READING and is designed to:
• Inspire a love of reading, language and literacy
• Tap into children’s imaginations
• Trigger emotion
• Promote discussion
• Enable students to make connections
• Extend and enrich their vocabulary
• Enrich and extend students’ language experiences beyond their independent reading ability.
“Shared reading is where the language beats its way through the book, inspires children and motivates them to want to read.”
Jill Eggleton
Children will love reading them over and over. The FOCUS PANELS provide high-quality questions for teachers to use when revisiting the books for different purposes.
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Fish
The Cantankerous ... 100033761
These 20 emergent reading titles are carefully scaffolded to introduce core high-frequency words, repetitive text structures and beginning sound–letter relationships. The prompts in the FOCUS PANELS invite students to read, think about and discuss what they read. Through active discussion, students are introduced to:
• Core high-frequency words
• Simple letter–sound relationships
• Beginning comprehension and reading strategies.
MAGENTA TITLES F/ NF KL CODE
Monkey Fun F M1 100049297
I am a Robot F M2 100049298
What Next?
Sleeping Animals
NF M3 100049299
NF M4 100049300
Racing NF M5 100049301
What is Long?
Whiskers
NF M6 100049302
NF M7 100049311
No Bones NF M8 100049303
A Place to Live NF M9 100049304
Where can they Live? NF M10 100049305
Wheels
NF M11 100049306
Kind Bird F M12 100049312
Night in the Garden NF M13 100049307
Dinner for Baby F M14 100049308
Look at the Web F M15 100049309
Go Mouse F M16 100049310
The King’s Pants F M17 100049313
I am Wet F M18 100049314
Tricky Tiger F M19 100049315
Look Bee! F M20 100049316
EACH:
EXPLICIT GROUP READING BOOKS
BY JILL EGGLETON
These 24 early reading titles are carefully scaffolded to:
• Reinforce and introduce
• Build on and introduce students to letter–sound relationships including new phonemes, blends and digraphs
• Introduce new comprehension and reading strategies
• Involve students in active discussion about what and how to read.
YELLOW TITLES
YELLOW
Octopus is a Friend
These 24 early reading titles are carefully scaffolded to:
• Further develop students’ high-frequency word bank and high-frequency words
• Reinforce and extend students’ letter–sound knowledge, including word families
• Reinforce and extend students’ use of reading and comprehension strategies
• Encourage students to think ‘between’ and ‘beyond’ the lines
• Invite students to begin to discuss characters.
Y1 100049348
Greedy Rabbit F Y2 100049349
Crazy Cat Helps Out F Y3 100049350
Hippo's Egg F Y4 100049351
Animal Fathers NF Y5 100049352
Octopus Mothers NF Y6 100049353
Smoke Jumpers Help NF Y7 100049354
Going Under NF Y8 100049355 EACH: AUD $9.75 NZD $11.00
Yellow 1 Multipack (8 titles x 6 copies) 300004456
$440.00 NZD $500.00
Yellow 1 Single Pack (8 titles x 1 copy) 300004455
Yellow 2 Single Pack (8 titles x 1 copy) 300004457
$78.00 NZD $88.00
Big Bull F Y17 100049364
Cool Sails F Y18 100049365
Jake's Job F Y19 100049366
Big Dinosaur F Y20 100049367
Under the Ice NF Y21 100049368
Changing Colours NF Y22 100049369
Robot Crab NF Y23 100049370
Living in Space NF Y24 100049371
EACH: AUD $9.75 NZD $11.00
Yellow 3 Multipack (8 titles x 6 copies) 300004460
AUD $440.00 NZD $500.00
Yellow 3 Single Pack (8 titles x 1 copy) 300004459 AUD $78.00 NZD $88.00
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EARLY GREEN
Spider Gets Jealous
Moon Mouse
Mister Rooster
Tilly's Tantrum
Knut: A Pet or Not?
The Junk Raft Journey
The Battle to Breathe
A Real Tree House
The prompts in the FOCUS PANELS of these 24 Green early reading titles:
• Continue to reinforce high-frequency words and introduce more topical vocabulary
• PREVIEW and VIEW images and text together
• Discuss characters, settings, problems and solutions
• Extend students’ understanding of punctuation and visual features
• Use oral language for recounts and instructions.
G2 100049397
G3 100049398
G4 100049399
G5 100049402
G6 100049400
100049401
100049403
$11.00
Green 1 Multipack (8 titles x 6 copies) 300004469
I Dare You
Trouble
A Bag in the Jungle
G10 100049405
G11 100049404
Uncle Al F G12 100049406
A Snake Wrangler
Bully Bugs
Up Pops a Mushroom
Bug Hunters
G13 100049411
G14 100049408
G15 100049409
G16 100049410 EACH: AUD $9.75 NZD $11.00 Green 2 Multipack (8 titles x 6 copies) 300004471 AUD $440.00 NZD $500.00
Green 2 Single Pack (8 titles x 1 copy) 300004472
$78.00 NZD $88.00
Cousin Kate F G17 100049413
Baxter F G18 100049414
Uncle Al goes to Soccer!
Robot RG9 Takes Over!
A Battle in the Deep Sea
Lucky Water Buffalo Calf
Different, but the Same Too
The Stars Above
G19 100049415
G20 100049412
G22 100049416
G23 100049418
G24 100049419
EACH: AUD $9.75 NZD $11.00
Green 3 Multipack (8 titles x 6 copies) 300004473 AUD $440.00 NZD $500.00
The prompts in the FOCUS PANELS of these 24 fluency reading titles:
• Highlight the features of the type of text—imaginative, informative or persuasive
• Introduce a specific focus on a READING REVIEW and/or a WRITING REVIEW
• Highlight grammar through WORD SPOTTING
• Discuss vocabulary through WORD WORK
Students are actively encouraged to discuss the text type, and to think of ways they might write.
PURPLE TITLES
Banjo
KC Miggins
Fussy Ferret
Uncle Al—Surfer
Circus Performers
Inside-out Skeletons
The Hand of Nature
Spotlight on the People
The prompts in the FOCUS PANELS of these 24 fluency reading titles:
• Highlight the features of the type of text—imaginative, informative or persuasive
• Introduce a specific focus on a READING REVIEW and/or a WRITING REVIEW
• Highlight grammar through WORD SPOTTING
• Discuss vocabulary through WORD WORK. Students are actively encouraged to discuss the text type and use it as a model for their own writing.
Narrative 100057512
Narrative 100063403
Personal Nar 100062787
Personal Nar 100062783
Explanation 100061905
Explanation 100063405
Description 100061907
Description 100063406
A Trip to Space Camp Report 100061906
The Call of the Sea Report 100063404
Wild Life Detective Diary 100061908
Kids Speak Out
Persuasive 100076496
EACH: AUD $10.75 NZD $12.50
Purple Multipack (12 titles x 6 copies) 300004482
AUD $730.00 NZD $840.00
Purple Single Pack (12 titles x 1 copy) 300004483 AUD $129.00 NZD $150.00 GOLD
Into Cole Cave Narrative 100051891
The Secret Narrative 100076493
Perfectly Ridiculous
Changes
Over the Bridge
Personal Nar 100076494
Personal Nar 100061898
Explanation 100057513
On the Ball Explanation 100076495
Imagine Being There Description 100063398
The Nature of Things Description 100061897
A Mammoth Eclipse Report 100062744
Samso, the Green Dream Report 100061899
A Photographer’s Diary Diary 100063399
Tall Tales or True Tales?
Comprehending across a variety of text types
The prompts in the FOCUS PANELS of these 24 fluency reading titles:
• Encourage students to identify and discuss practices of good readers and writers
• Examine each author’s craft including using literary devices
• Explore the use of vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure. At the end of each book, students are actively encouraged to discuss the way the
is written and focus on ways they could improve the quality of their own writing.
SILVER EMERALD TITLES
EARLY FLUENCY
RUBY SAPPHIRE
The prompts in the FOCUS PANELS of these 24 fluency reading titles:
• Encourage students to identify and discuss practices of good readers and writers
• Examine each author’s craft including using literary devices
• Explore the use of vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure.
At the end of each book, students are actively encouraged to discuss the way the book is written and focus on ways they could improve the quality of their own writing.
RUBY TITLES KL CODE
Team Haircut
Narrative 100040471
Grandma Reanie’s Rockers Narrative 100040472
The Decathlon
Uncle Al–Chaperone
Built for Speed
Crazy Challenges
Personal Nar 100040473
Personal Nar 100040474
Explanation 100040475
Explanation 100040477
Shadows of the Past Report 100040478
On the Wings of a Bird Report 100040479
Lighting up the Dark Description 100040480
Between the Pages Description 100040481
Talent on Show
Blogger’s Babble
Persuasive 100040482
Persuasive 100040483
EACH: AUD $10.75 NZD $12.50
Ruby Multipack (12 titles x 6 copies) 300004550
AUD $730.00 NZD $840.00
Ruby Single Pack (12 titles x 1 copy) 300004551
AUD $129.00 NZD $150.00
SAPPHIRE TITLES
The Claw Narrative 100040484
Speak Like Us Narrative 100040485
Beaky McKay Personal Nar 100040486
Call Me Harry Personal Nar 100040487
World without Trees Explanation 100040488
Looking Back—Moving Forward Explanation 100040489
Hidden Horrors Report 100040490
Food for Thought Report 100040491
See Through Description 100040492
All the World’s a Stage Description 100040493
Beyond Our Planet Diary 100040494
Logging a Blog Persuasive 100040495
EACH: AUD $10.75 NZD $12.50
Sapphire Multipack (12 titles x 6 copies) 300004552
AUD $730.00 NZD $840.00
Sapphire Single Pack (12 titles x 1 copy) 300004553
AUD $129.00 NZD $150.00
Digging deeper into Explicit Group Reading and highlighting writing techniques
RUBY SAPPHIRE TITLES
TEACHERS’ TOOL BOXES
3-IN-1 RESOURCE FOR BENCHMARKING + CLASSROOM ORGANISATION + LEARNING CENTRES
1. Organisation and Management Support
• Practical ideas for teaching Shared and Explicit Group Reading
• Comprehensive targets for learning outcomes.
Ideas for organising Explicit Group Reading resources
2. Practical Learning Centre Activities
• Oral Language Learning Centre
• Library Centre
• Poetry Centre
• Shared Book Centre
• Writing Centre
• Word and Letter Centre
• Handwriting Centre
• Design Centre
• Science Centre
• Computer Centre.
Ideas for Word and Letter Centre
Learning Centre Task Board ideas
3. Assessment and Benchmarking Resources
• Magenta: Pre-check and Post-check fiction book
• Red, Yellow, Blue and Green: Post-check fiction book and Post-check non-fiction card
• Orange, Turquoise, Purple, Gold, Silver and Emerald: Post-check fiction and non-fiction card
• Reading Record blackline masters
• Ideas for additional checks:
• High-frequency words
• Phonic knowledge
• Phonemic awareness
• Word power (writing words).
INTO CONNECTORS
BY JILL EGGLETON
Merging oral language and comprehension strategies through Reciprocal Reading
Into Connectors and Connectors by Jill Eggleton actively develop oral language skills and comprehension strategies for independent readers.
Students are engaged in reading short, topical texts that stimulate discussion
These texts have been specifically designed to be used with an approach based on Reciprocal Reading, which is well-researched and proven to improve comprehension.
COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES
For each text, students explicitly use the comprehension strategies used in Reciprocal Reading:
• Predict
• Ask Questions
• Clarify
• Summarise
AND in Connectors additional comprehension strategies are made explicit:
• Make Connections
• Visualise
• Form Opinions
• Make Inferences (Series 2)
Student-led Discussions
Students work in peer groups of six. Prompts and guidance are given to students on pages 2 and 3. Each student picks a coloured ‘smiley face’ icon. When a student’s coloured icon appears on a page, that student leads the discussion
Into Connectors icons
Connectors icons
What to Do’ from Connectors
What to Do’ from into Connectors
CONNECTORS
BY JILL EGGLETON
Students are actively involved in leading and participating in peer-group discussions
GROUP INDEPENDENT READING FOR AGES 8+
GROUP DISCUSSIONS
The double-page spreads in Into Connectors and Connectors titles have been specifically developed to:
• Be short and highly engaging
• Contain some challenging vocabulary
• Stimulate interest and discussion
• Have complementary visual support.
LOOKING BACK
After reading, students are invited to discuss and think about the whole book. A variety of graphic organisers are used in the Something to Think About section. These are available as Copymasters in the Teachers’ Resource book.
There are also suggestions for further investigation in the Want to Find Out More section.
Pages from ‘Stolen Baby’— Into Connectors Series 1
Pages from ‘Eye and Ear Pollution’— Connectors Series 2
INTO CONNECTORS: SERIES 1
INTO CONNECTORS SERIES 1 (6-packs) Middle Primary CODE
Digital Teachers’ Resource Book Series 1 100097476
AUD $39.95 NZD $46.00
Recommended for Middle Primary COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES
• Predicting
• Questioning
FICTION
• Clarifying
• Summarising
INTO CONNECTORS: SERIES 2
Recommended for Middle Primary COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES
• Predicting
• Questioning
• Clarifying
• Summarising FICTION
INTO CONNECTORS SERIES 2 (6-packs) Middle Primary
Abby’s Lesson (6-pack) 300004532
As Good as New—Almost (6-pack) 300004525
Bees in Trouble (6-pack) 300004524
Chicken Beat (6-pack) 300004520
Down the Drain (6-pack) 300004533
Dr Flockter (6-pack) 300004521
A Dream Comes True (6-pack) 300004510
Facing the Future (6-pack) 300004512
Giant Holes (6-pack) 300004517
The Gigantoraptor (6-pack) 300004513
Lucky Survivors (6-pack) 300004527
Marco’s Hero (6-pack) 300004531
Melting Ice (6-pack) 300004516
Mountain Cowboys (6-pack) 300004530
One More Time (6-pack) 300004519
Pirate Treasure Dreaming (6-pack) 300004523
Rumbling Giants (6-pack) 300004515
Sam’s Story (6-pack) 300004518
Shark Hunting (6-pack) 300004522
Sky Car (6-pack) 300004511
A Space Holiday (6-pack) 300004514
Strong Teams (6-pack) 300004528
A Taste of Terror (6-pack) 300004526
Too Wet—Too Dry (6-pack) 300004529
EACH: AUD $80.00 NZD $92.00
Into Connectors Series 2 Collection (Middle Primary) (24 titles x 6 copies + Teachers’ Resource) 300004588 AUD $1800.00 NZD $2070.00
Into Connectors Digital Teachers’ Resource Book Series 2 100090124 AUD $39.95 NZD $46.00
CONNECTORS: SERIES 1
CONNECTORS SERIES 1 (6-packs) Upper Primary CODE
An Idea Seed (6-pack) 300004399
Creatures of the Extreme (6-pack) 300004400
Dinosaur Discoveries (6-pack) 300004401
Disease Detectives (6-pack) 300004402
Extreme Scientists (6-pack) 300004403
Fact or Fiction? (6-pack) 300004404
Ice: A Cold Blanket (6-pack) 300004405
Invasive Species (6-pack) 300004406
Keeping in Touch (6-pack) 300004407
Living to Tell the Tale (6-pack) 300004408
Looking After Our World (6-pack) 300004409
Megacities (6-pack) 300004410
Nomads (6-pack) 300004411
Scams, Schemes, Cons and Hoaxes (6-pack) 300004413
The Deep Ocean (6-pack) 300004414
The Eye of the Law (6-pack) 300004415
The Right to Survive (6-pack) 300004412
The World Beyond Earth (6-pack) 300004416
Treasures (6-pack) 300004417
Unseen by the Eye (6-pack) 300004418
Up to the Challenge (6-pack) 300004419
Wildlife Detectives (6-pack) 300004420
The Wonder of the Winds (6-pack) 300004421
Wonders of the World— Megastructures (6-pack) 300004422
EACH: AUD $85.00 NZD $98.00
Connectors Series 1 Collection (Upper Primary) (24 titles x 6 copies + Teachers’ Resource) 300004585
AUD $1870.00 NZD $2150.00
Connectors Digital Teachers’ Resource Book Series 1 100092524
AUD $39.95 NZD $46.00
Recommended for Upper Primary/Senior School COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES
• Predicting • Clarifying • Questioning
• Summarising • Making connections • Visualising
• Forming opinions
NON-FICTION
CONNECTORS: FICTION SERIES 1 & 2
FICTION SERIES 1 (6-packs) Upper Primary CODE
Buried Treasure (6 pack)
Caught Out! (6 pack)
Everyone Off! (6 pack)
The Paper Pilot (6 pack)
Pontoon (6 pack)
The Prank (6 pack)
Rooster’s Return (6 pack)
Unbreakable (6 pack)
The Wrong Trolley (6 pack)
300012483
300016457
300016459
300016453
300016458
300016456
300016446
300012484
300016447
EACH: AUD $85.00 NZD $98.00
FICTION SERIES 2 (6-packs) Upper Primary CODE
Brodie’s Story (6 pack)
Carrying Lucille (6 pack)
Cotton Wool Kids (6 pack)
Game On! (6 pack)
Lesson from Lea (6 pack)
The Poisoned Pen (6 pack)
Thumb Wars (6 pack)
Trust (6 pack)
Uncle Al Disasters (6 pack)
300016460
300016452
300016454
300016469
300016444
300016451
300016450
300016455
300016445
EACH: AUD $85.00 NZD $98.00
Connectors Fiction Series 1 (9 titles x 6 copies) 300004554
Connectors Fiction Series 2 (9 titles x 6 copies) 300004556
EACH: AUD $765.00 NZD $879.00
Connectors Fiction Complete Collection (18 titles x 6 copies) 300004555
AUD $1370.00 NZD $1575.00
Recommended for Upper Primary/Senior School
COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES
• Predicting
• Summarising
• Forming Opinions
• Clarifying
• Making Connections
• Questioning
• Visualising
• Making Inferences (Series 2)
FICTION SERIES 1
CONNECTORS SERIES 1 Recommended for students 9+ years
FICTION
SERIES 2
CONNECTORS SERIES 2 Recommended for students 10+ years
EDUCATION
Engage FAST FINISHERS with quick comprehension activities and deepen children’s understanding of fiction and non-fiction text types. Designed for flexible classroom use. Suitable for independent practise (as meaningful extension work or as homework), small group work, or whole class activities.
Develop deep comprehension skills
Each set of Fast Finishers task cards includes comprehension activities covering prediction, inference, character, setting, point of view, tone and much more.
Ages 6-7
Ages 7-8
Ages 8-9
Ages 9-10
Each box contains:
• 100 cards with a short passage of about 100 words along with 5 key comprehension questions
• Comprehension reference cards on topics covered in the box
• A teacher’s guide with sample responses for each question.
Ages 7-8
Ages 8-9
Ages 9-10
10-11
11 boxes: 5 x Fiction, 5 x Non-fiction, 1 x Inference
$1000.00 NZD $1150.00
For ages 10-11 Includes 3 boxes: Fiction, Non-fiction & Inferential
These MATHS CARDS are designed for fast finishers to consistently practise a wide range of problem-solving strategies in a fun way.
Each box of cards contains:
• Maths problem-solving strategies commonly used in Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea
• 78 problem solving cards and 12 content cards
• Worked answers for problems presented (available online, where applicable)
• A Teacher’s Booklet with ideas on how to use the cards flexibly in the classroom along with basic answers. Topics covered include: place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, measurements, time, fractions and much more!
SHORT READS
SHORT TEXTS | DEEP READING
Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text.
HOW DOES CLOSE READING WORK?
Close reading is the careful reading and re-reading of a short text passage several times, for different purposes. It develops in the reader deep comprehension and understanding of the text’s form, craft and meanings. Discuss THIRD READING
FIRST READING
Prepare & Read
• prompt questions to establish context
• independent/group reading
• questions and discussion points to unpack the text and its features
WHAT ARE SHORT READS?
• discussion questions to clarify understanding and use higher-order thinking skills
Short Reads boxes are available in both Fiction and Non-fiction collections. The cards in the boxes have texts that are deliberately short so students have time in one lesson to read, re-read, discuss and respond in writing to the text. The complete collection offers 400 short texts on sturdy, double-sided, full-colour cards which:
· Cater for all reading abilities
· Feature close reading questions and discussion and writing prompts
· Offer a diverse selection of quality reading on short, manageable, levelled texts.
Cards can be used for a variety of purposes:
· Small-group guided reading
· Modelled writing
· Study of text types and genres (including description, explanation, procedure, report and discussion)
· Comparison of texts
· Thematic research
· Independent reading.
Write
• writing tasks that require re-reading of the text
FICTION and NON-FICTION short texts for all reading abilities, with close reading activities to develop deep comprehension.
HOW LONG IS EACH LESSON?
The questions and discussion prompts in the Teacher’s Guide are designed to be used with teacher-led, small groups of students. Because the texts are short, your students should be able to read, re-read and discuss a card in one lesson.
WHAT MAKES SHORT READS DIFFERENT?
FAST
Texts are designed to be read and discussed within 20-30 minutes.
EFFECTIVE
In the activities, students will: • re-read the card deeply
• reorganise information to present it in
• form and articulate an opinion, based on evidence from the text.
• Proven teaching methods include: close reading, deep questioning, peer discussion and written responses to reading.
Teacher Reference Panel
• Skills-based activities explicitly link reading–listening–discussion–writing skills.
• Close reading questions cover: phonics, grammar, vocabulary, basic comprehension and higher-order thinking skills.
• Writing prompts involve students in identifying and reorganising information in the text, and in presenting and supporting their opinion about the text.
FLEXIBLE
Teachers select appropriate questions and prompts for their students from a concise double-page spread, which provides all teacher prompts for a card and guide where each answer is found in the text. Possible responses are provided for any challenging questions. The cards may also be used to model different writing styles, or for independent reading as part of Literacy Pro’s comprehension quizzes.
HOW DO SHORT READS ALIGN WITH THE AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM?
From our website, you can download a free, searchable spreadsheet that details how these cards support the Australian Curriculum: English (for years 2–8), as well as other learning areas and cross-curriculum priorities.
WHAT READING LEVELS ARE IN THE SHORT READS COLLECTION?
There are ten boxes in the Short Reads range offering both Fiction and Non-fiction cards for all reading abilities. The table below shows the levelling in each box.
READING LEVEL RANGES IN SHORT READS FICTION & NON-FICTION Reading Level Lexile Range Colour Wheel Bands
There are ten boxes of levelled cards. Each box contains: • 1 Teacher’s Guide • 40 Titles (6 copies of each)
BOXES 1 and 2 focus not only on close reading, but also on developing critical phonics and spelling skills and high-frequency sight words in a reading context.
SUPPORT
All cards are levelled and have a free quiz available for LITERACY PRO customers. See page 02
BOXES 3, 4 and 5 guide students carefully through an exploration of the text that involves re-reading it several times for a variety of purposes. 10 bonus writing lessons for each of the Fiction boxes are available on request after purchasing.
Every card in the collection is Lexiled.
FICTION and NON-FICTION short texts for all reading abilities, with close reading activities to develop deep comprehension.
EFFECTIVE FAST FLEXIBLE
WHAT ARE SCHOOLS SAYING ABOUT SHORT READS?
‘The staff and students love the Non-fiction and Fiction Short Reads, they are one of the most used resources across the school.’
Janelle Chapman—High Expectations Mentor—Brisbania Public School
‘Our school loves the Short Reads Non-fiction boxes! Topics covered are high interest and enable all our students to engage in meaningful reading tasks. Another fantastic aspect of the reading boxes is that every card is Lexiled, and for schools using Literacy Pro, every card has a quiz attached.’
Bronwen Loveday—Teacher Librarian—Cherrybrook Public School
Short Reads Fiction Box 1
Short Reads Fiction Box 2
Short Reads Fiction Box 3
Short Reads Fiction Box 4
Short Reads Fiction Box 5
EACH: AUD $429.00 NZD $499.00
Short Reads Fiction Complete Set: Boxes 1–5
Short Reads Non-fiction Box 1
Short Reads Non-fiction Box 2
Short Reads Non-fiction Box 3
Short Reads Non-fiction Box 4
Short Reads Non-fiction Box 5
Short Reads Non-fiction Complete Set: Boxes 1–5
AUSTRALIAN EDITION YEARS 1–6
PROVEN PEDAGOGY • PORTFOLIO OF RESOURCES • PRACTICAL PD
WHAT IS PR1ME MATHEMATICS?
It is a resource that synthesises WHAT and HOW to teach mathematics explicitly. It clearly sets out the learning intentions for students and models concept development through carefully crafted worked examples. It sequences lessons to regularly review and scaffold on prior learning.
Let’s Learn uses I Do / We Do to introduce new concepts.
Concrete Abstract
Links are immediate and explicit.
Fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and NSW Syllabus
Every page identifies the Content Description from the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics V9 and NSW Syllabus
Learning intentions are clearly stated.
Speech bubbles model mathematical thinking.
Pictorial
Active student engagement
Easy digital assessment
PROVEN PEDAGOGY
UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS
Consistent, whole-school approach
Explicit teaching for understanding & problem solving
Fully integrated PD
PR1ME’s pedagogy is based on the approach to teaching mathematics that is used in the topperforming nations in primary mathematics, including Singapore. Based on research, it uses the Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (C-P-A) approach. The approach makes immediate and explicit links to anchor students’ real-world, hands-on experiences to pictorial representations and abstract mathematical language. A spiral curriculum scaffolds new learning and so develops deep understanding.
Let’s Practise is You Do. Students independently apply their new learning.
Do
Let’s Do activities are We Do. They apply new concepts from Let’s Learn.
Scaffolds guide students through concrete, pictorial and abstract items.
PROVEN PEDAGOGY
AUSTRALIAN EDITION YEARS 1–6
CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDINGS— PROBLEM SOLVING
PR1ME explicitly models the problem solving process and teaches problem solving strategies, including the Bar Model Method. It teaches solving both routine and non-routine problems.
Uses 4 ways to solve problems:
1. Models mathematical thinking
2. Features a range of problem solving strategies
3. Applies concepts taught
4. Models multiple ways to solve problems.
Teaches the Bar Model Method—as a pictorial strategy for representing number relationships—to support with problem solving.
There are a variety of challenges for students to apply their understandings.
Students are exposed to Mind stretcher problems that challenge and extend them.
Students are expected to think about and explain their mathematical thinking when challenged; and create their own problems.
PORTFOLIO OF RESOURCES
There are three resources that blend together to make up the PR1ME package:
1. Student Core Books
2. Online Teaching Hub
3. Digital Student Assessment.
1. STUDENT CORE BOOKS
The student books contain ‘core’ lessons that cover the Australian curriculum using the C-P-A approach and focus on problem solving. There are also some extension lessons that scaffold on students’ deep understandings. There are two books for each level.
The PR1ME Core Books use the PR1ME instructional design of activities for explicit teaching:
• Let’s Learn I Do / We Do new learning
• Let’s Do We Do / You Do guided learning
• Let’s Practise You Do independent mastery.
2. POWERED BY MATH PRO
MATH PRO has the PR1ME Core Books online, so they may be viewed on an Interactive Whiteboard.
It also has a wide range of additional downloadable resources using the PR1ME pedagogy, so teachers are able to provide differentiated resources to flexibly meet the needs of students. These include:
FOR TEACHERS:
• Video Demo Lessons
• Lesson Notes
• Topic Overviews
• Copy Masters
• Scope and Sequence.
FOR STUDENTS:
• Let’s Remember
• More Practice
• Think About It
• Create Your Own!
• Extension Lessons
• Paper-and-pencil Assessments.
3. DIGITAL ASSESSMENT
AUSTRALIAN EDITION YEARS 1–6
To save teachers hours of time, for each topic in PR1ME there are digital student assessments, all fully-aligned and reporting to the Australian Curriculum. The assessments may be used for formative or summative assessment. They are a comprehensive evidence-based resource for every student.
Teachers assign assessments to students. Students complete assigned assessments.
Teachers and students are able to view results and reports aligned to the curriculum.
Teachers may review responses.
To support teachers implementing the PR1ME pedagogy there are two practical resources for each lesson:
• a demonstration lesson video
• lesson notes.
1200+ DEMO LESSON VIDEOS
The Demo Lessons are ‘think aloud’ videos that model the PR1ME pedagogy for the concept being taught.
LESSON NOTES
The Lesson Notes provide practical teaching support for implementing the PR1ME pedagogy.
FOUNDATION YEAR
INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Scholastic PR1ME Mathematics K is based on a pedagogical approach and instructional design that:
• Builds deep conceptual understanding as children progress from concrete to pictorial to abstract thinking using manipulatives, models, drawings and numbers.
• Develops metacognition and collaboration skills, with students encouraged to work together on activities and discover, explain and reflect on their understanding.
• Creates a problem-solving mindset through the application of concepts to age-appropriate real-world scenarios via a series of engaging Big Books.
STUDENT BOOKS
There are two student books.
LEARN AND DO
• Each chapter comprises several lessons with each focusing on a concept. In each lesson, Let’s Learn introduces the concept using the concrete-pictorial-abstract approach to develop deep conceptual understanding.
• After a concept has been taught, Let’s Do provides guided practice and immediate formative assessment.
Student Book A 100058838
Student Book B 100058340 EACH: AUD $15.99 NZD $16.99
CONSOLIDATE
• The Chapter Workout and Activities serve to consolidate learning through discussions, games and individual activities.
Give your Foundation Year students a great start to numeracy understanding through the explicit teaching of concepts and problem solving. Full Teachers’ resources now available in the PR1ME K Teaching Hub.
TEACHER’S GUIDE *
These are only available digitally, after purchasing the Annual IWB Licence. * Please note: This is an AU-only offer. NZ customers please contact your Territory Manager for more info.
The Teacher’s Guide provides a comprehensive plan for each lesson which begins with a daily warm-up, followed by a lesson that introduces new concepts using engaging hands-on activities, and ends with a wrap-up activity.
20 big books
PROBLEM SOLVING
At the end of each topic a big book is used as a stimulus for a problem solving discussion. There are three problems for students to solve in each book and 20 big books. Then there are suggested learning-centre activities as follow-up and a topic wrap-up.
TEACHER’S NOTES
K Digital Teaching IWB Hub
Annual Licence
PR1ME is a comprehensive, proven mathematics program based on the world’s best practices. It provides flexible tools to teach mathematics explicitly and responsively – frequently monitoring students’ thinking and understanding of concepts.
• Supports learning to mastery for all students
• Integrates assessment for learning
• Offers a comprehensive, accessible suite of teaching and learning resources
• Digital resources provide real-time data for effective planning and instructions
The central focus of the PR1ME Mathematics Framework is problem solving. Learning progressions ensure focus and coherence in content using an instructional design that incorporates the Readiness-Engagement-Mastery model.
PR1ME Mathematics incorporates world-class best practices from top performing nations, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea.
✓ Learning experiences designed on the Readiness-Engagement-Mastery instructional model
✓ Development and communication of mathematical thinking and reasoning
✓ Focused and coherent curriculum based on learning progression principles
Learning mathematics via problem solving: UPAC+ TM
A unique 5-step Understand-Plan-AnswerCheck-Plus problem solving process that ensures students’ problem solving efforts are consistently scaffolded and students develop critical and creative thinking skills.
Learning mathematics by doing mathematics: Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) Approach
PR1ME Mathematics provides a hands-on, teacher-facilitated experience of concepts through the CPA stages.
Concrete Use manipulatives to construct meanings and understandings of concepts
Pictorial Use pictorial representations to see the connections between mathematical ideas and concrete objects
Abstract Use numbers and mathematical symbols to represent concepts
TEACHER RESOURCES (PRINT MATERIALS)
Teacher’s Guide
Comprehensive lesson plans support instruction for each lesson in the Coursebooks.
STUDENT RESOURCES (PRINT MATERIALS)
Coursebook
Serves as a guide for carefully constructed, teacherfacilitated learning experiences for students.
Practice Book
Correlates to the coursebooks and contains exercises and reviews for independent practice and formative and summative assessments.
TEACHER DIGITAL RESOURCES
MATH PRO Lite and Premium
Teaching materials such as point-of-use virtual manipulatives, concept videos and worksheets.
Includes PR1ME Professional Learning Now (PPLN) Provides video tutorials and related quizzes for teacher professional development.
When upgraded to MATH PRO Premium it offers:
• Meaningful insights into students’ learning through real-time reports.
• Further digital practice and assessment.
STUDENT DIGITAL RESOURCES
Math Pro Student Hub Learning materials including PR1ME mathematics e-books, videos, digital manipulatives and additional resources
• Digital practice and assessment at every stage of learning
• Results keep track of their progress and performance.
Contact your local Territory Manager for more pricing information specific to your school setting.
