Literacy Pack
Literacy pack - a pack full of our popular teacher resources!
Inside the Pack
- SMILE Writers' Aid Deskmat: Beginner's or Entries & Exits
- Comprehension Card Set
- Quick Reference Guides including:
- Reading Strategies: Decoding Strategies(A2)
- Reading Strategies: Comprehension Strategies (A2)
- Writer's Checklist (A2)
- High Frequency Rimes (A2)
- Spelling: Morphemes and Word Meanings (A1)
Contents of the resource pack (not to scale)SMILE Writer's Aid Deskmat
The A4 deskstrip features the 64 ways to represent the initial phonemes using single letters, blends and digraphs.
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Front side of the Deskmat - Alphabet)
Back side of the Deskmat - BlendsThe front side features the alphabet and student name strip, while the reverse features initial blends and digraphs. Both sides use images and colour to match the Phonemic Game Cards and assist children to consolidate knowledge.
Comprehension Cards
This glossy, celloglazed A4 card provides eight comprehension strategies to support individual or small group reflection and response.
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Comprehension card set - side 1)
Comprehension card set - side 2Simply cut the card along the lines indicated to make up 4 single cards with a different comprehension activity on each side. Designed to be generic and easy to use, these cards are great organizers for individual students or small groups. Use them to support shared texts, guided and independent reading.
Quick Reference Guides
Reading Strategies: Decoding Strategies/Comprehension Strategies
These A2 charts outline a comprehensive list of reading strategies for both decoding and comprehension. For educators across the primary years, Reading Strategies supports teachers as they plan for focused teaching-learning episodes.
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Quick Reference Guide: Reading Strategies: Decoding (A2 420 x 594))
Quick Reference Guide: Reading Strategies: Comprehension (A2 420 x 594)Writers’ Checklist
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Quick Reference Guide: Writers Checklist (A2 420 x 594)The Writers’ Checklist outlines key indicators for students to consider as they reflect on their own writing. By evaluating their own work in the areas of: Ideas, Organisation, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency and Conventions, this valuable wall chart will support students as they develop essential self monitoring skills.
High Frequency Rimes
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Quick Reference Guide: High Frequency Rimes (A2 420 x 594)Understanding the principle of generalization or analogy using high frequency rimes or word families, is vital when reading and spelling. This ability enables students to access new words quickly and easily when reading and to record new words with ease when writing. High Frequency Rimes provides educators with a comprehensive list of commonly used word families across the primary years, and outlines many examples of words within each group to support teaching.
Morphemes and Word Meanings
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Morphemes and word meanings (A1 594 x 841)
Morphemes and Word Meanings is a quick guide to commonly used bases and affixers encountered in the primary school. This guide makes it easy for teachers to quickly reference words to be deconstructed in reading and constructed when recording. Morphemic and etymological meanings and word examples are also provided. This poster is a large A1 size for easy reference to a large number of examples.
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