English Teaching Resources for Foundation Year
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Community Helpers: Police Officer – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article from the Foundation magazine (Issue 1).
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Phonological Awareness Diagnostic Tool
Basic diagnostic tool to test your students' phonological awareness.
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Doctor's Office Imaginative Play Resource Pack
Support early years dramatic play with a doctor’s office imaginative play kit designed to build language, social skills, and confidence through role‑play.
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First 100 Fry Sight Words – Practice Mat
A hands-on resource to enable your students to practise reading and writing a range of high-frequency words.
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Food-Themed Syllable Puzzle
A fun food-themed phonics activity for lower years that helps to develop syllable recognition.
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Capital Letter, Finger Space, Full Stop – Desk Plate
A desk plate with helpful cues for beginning writers.
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Word Building Picture Reveal PowerPoint
An interactive PowerPoint that will energise your classroom word building activities.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 3
A sorting activity using word families.
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'Fly into a New Year' Bookmark
A bookmark to give your students at the start of the new year.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 2
A word family sorting activity.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 1
A sorting activity to practise identifying word families.
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Onset and Rime Match-Up Activity
Practise building words by matching the onset and the rime using this match up activity.
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Rhyme Time – Match-Up Activity
A set of 32 match-up cards for students to practise rhyming.
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Literacy Assessment Tracker (VIC) – Foundation
Foundation Victorian Curriculum assessment trackers to monitor student progress in literacy.
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Where Is My Hat? – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic from the Foundation magazine (Issue 1).
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True or False? Active Listening Exercises
Improve listening skills in the classroom with an engaging True or False Active Listening Activity.
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Decodable Sound Button Flashcards – Set 1
A set of over 100 decodable sound button flashcards.
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Rhyme and Shuffle – PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practise producing rhyming words.
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Musical Blending Active Game
An active game that allows students to practise using blends and digraphs.
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Last One Standing Active Game
An active game that allows students to build their vocabulary knowledge.
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Find and Sort Active Game
An active game that allows students to practise sorting word families.
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Alphabet Slap
A fun game for letter, consonant, and vowel recognition.
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Read Along Pocket Chart Cards – Dr. Mae Jemison
A set of pocket chart cards to use for reading and sight word practice.
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Initial Sound Peg Cards (Version 2)
An initial sound and fine motor activity for younger students.
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Wonderings – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article from the Foundation magazine (Bonus Issue).
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Segmenting and Blending CVC Words Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive PowerPoint for students to practise reading CVC words.
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Decodable Text to Picture Match-Up
Four sets of decodable sentences with matching pictures.
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That Time! – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic from the Foundation magazine (Bonus Issue).
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Messy Moments – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic from the Foundation magazine (Issue 3).
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Capital Letter Correction Match-Up Activity
A cute activity where students edit sentences with capital letter puppets.
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Recommended Books: Lower Years
A list of recommended books for lower years created by award-winning teacher-librarian Megan Daley.
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Mould It! Task Cards
A set of 28 playdough activity cards.