English Teaching Resources for Foundation Year
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3 Billy Goats Gruff Retelling Activity Cards
Teach your students about retelling with this set of sequencing cards for 3 Billy Goats Gruff.
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Retelling Caterpillar Writing Template
Help students break down their retells with this cute caterpillar writing template.
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Foundation Magazine – What's Buzzing? (Issue 3)
Issue 3 of our beautifully designed, 16-page reading magazine specifically designed for Foundation students.
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Who Is the Main Character? Interactive Game
Practise identifying the main characters in nursery rhymes with this interactive digital activity.
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Th Word List and Flash Cards
Practice reading and spelling words with the Digraph TH with a list of 50 words and accompanying illustrated flash cards.
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Character or Not? - Interactive Activity
Explore the difference between characters and non-characters with this digital learning activity.
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Story Setting or Not? - Sorting Activity
Explore the difference between story settings and non-settings with this hands-on sorting activity.
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Mapping Tricky Words - Task Cards
Practise identifying the tricky parts in high-frequency words with these differentiated sets of tricky word mapping task cards.
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Picnic Phonemes - Phoneme Segmentation Interactive Activity
Practise breaking words into their phonemes with this fun picnic-themed interactive activity.
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Stomp the Sounds - Phoneme Segmentation Activity
Stomp the sounds in words with this multi-sensory phoneme segmentation activity.
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Phoneme Segmentation Activity - Hopping on Lily Pads
Jump the lilypads to practise segmenting 2, 3 and 4 phoneme words.
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Break It Up! 2-Phoneme Word Segmentation Task Cards
Practise breaking down words with 2 phonemes into their sounds with this set of 18 task cards.
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Phoneme Segmenting Activity – Feed the Elephant
Practise segmenting 2, 3 and 4 phoneme words verbally by feeding the elephant a peanut per phoneme.
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How Many Candles? Phoneme Counting Interactive Activity
Practise breaking words into their phonemes with this fun cupcake-themed interactive activity.
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Everyday Opposites - Antonym Game
Have some wordplay fun with an Everyday Opposites domino game!
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Narrative Features Worksheets - Hey Diddle Diddle
Identify characters, settings and parts of a story with early years reading worksheets featuring the Hey Diddle Diddle nursery rhyme.
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Which Phoneme Is Missing? Interactive Activity
Create word chains using CVC words with this engaging drag-and-drop phonics activity.
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English Assessment Tracker - Literacy (Australian Curriculum) Foundation to Year 7
An English assessment tool using the Australian Curriculum codes to track and monitor student progress in literacy.
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Spaceship Word Chains - Worksheets
Manipulate the individual phonemes in 3- and 4-letter words to create new ones with this set of word chain worksheets.
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Letter-Sound Correspondence Games - Alphabet Race Bundle
Consolidate letter-sound correspondence with a set of 26 Alphabet Race printable games.
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Building Sentences Earth Day Worksheet (F-1)
Build and write sentences about Earth Day with a printable Earth Day Worksheet for Foundation Year.
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Spring Writing Prompts
Celebrate Spring with Spring writing worksheets for the early years.
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I Love to Read Mini Book
Share the love of reading during Book Week with a printable reading habits mini-book.
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Narrative Characters Teaching Presentation - Humpty Dumpty
Engage young readers in texts and learn about characters with an instructional slide deck featuring the Humpty Dumpty rhyme.
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The Tap - Decodable Reader (Level 2)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Camping with Dad - Decodable Reader (Level 2)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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The Pit - Decodable Reader (Level 1)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Earth Day Write the Room - Kindergarten/Foundation
Help your young students learn and write about Earth Day with an Earth Day Write The Room Kindergarten Activity Pack.
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Story Basics: Narrative Features - Teaching Presentation
Use this interactive teaching presentation to introduce your early years students to the basic features of stories.
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Readers' Theatre - Itsy Bitsy Spider Read and Retell Activity
Engage young readers in texts with a dramatic reading of “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and accompanying story retelling activity.
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Initial Sound - Interactive Sorting Activity
Practise identifying initial sounds by working your way through each letter of the alphabet.
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Story Elements Interactive Activity
Introduce your kindergarten and first-grade students to the elements of a story using this interactive digital activity.