Foundation Year Teaching Resources
Teach Starter has an extensive collection of Foundation year resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum. They have been created for primary school children aged four through to six years, featuring simple and clear layouts, minimal text, interactive elements, appealing images and colourful illustrations. The collection encompasses a range of resource types and student activities including worksheets, posters, educational games, interactive PowerPoints, engaging widgets and so much more! Using Teach Starter resources in your classroom will help your foundation students communicate with peers, teachers and known adults, assisting with the development of independence, speaking, listening, language and comprehension skills as they begin the smooth transition to the early years of school life. In their first year of education, a child should develop understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning, and observe and explore the world around them.
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Fine Motor Skills - Dinosaur Tracing Lines Worksheet
A dinosaur-themed tracing lines worksheet.
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Scissor Cutting Skills - Dinosaurs
A set of 6 different dinosaurs to assist in developing students’ scissor skills.
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Read, Find and Colour – CVC Words
Consolidate your students' decoding skills with this set of search and find worksheets.
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We’re a Rainbow of Possibilities Classroom Display
Start the new year with this back-to-school boho-rainbow classroom door display.
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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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Capital Letter, Finger Space, Full Stop – Desk Plate
A desk plate with helpful cues for beginning writers.
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Alphabet Display Poster
A bright and colourful poster to display when introducing the letters of the alphabet.
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Mood Tracker Templates
A collection of 12 different mood tracker templates for children to track their emotions.
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Add and Reveal the Picture PowerPoint – Addition Practice (Basic)
An appealing PowerPoint for students to interact with when practising addition facts.
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Half Mask Template
A half-mask template to decorate.
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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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A Very Special Object – Worksheet
Explore the role that objects play in communicating the stories of our past with this simple worksheet.
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Decodable Text Worksheets – Single Graphemes (Set 2)
A set of 10 decodable text worksheets for early readers.
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Mindfulness - Learning From Home Pack
A collection of mindfulness related teaching resources and activities for parents to use with their children or teachers to send home with students during unexpected school closures.
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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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Hygiene Poster – Wash, Wash, Wash Your Hands
A poster designed to help students understand the amount of time needed to properly wash their hands.
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Tracing and Drawing 2D Shapes Worksheet
A simple trace and draw worksheet for 2D shapes.
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Social Stories – Preventing the Spread of Germs
A social story to assist students in preventing the spread of germs.
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Sorcerer Supplies – Happy Birthday Chart
Display all of your students’ birthdays on this Sorcerer Supplies themed classroom birthday chart.
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Foundation/Prep School Closure - Learning From Home Pack
A collection of age-appropriate Foundation/Prep teaching resources and activities to help parents homeschool their children or for teachers to send home with students during unexpected school closures.
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Count and Graph – Fruity Treats
A fruit-themed hands-on activity to introduce graphing skills.
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Animals With Scales, Fur, Shells and Feathers Worksheet Pack
Investigate different animal body coverings by sorting and colouring animals with feathers, fur, scales and shells.
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Who Am I? Icebreaker Game
A fun icebreaker game to play at the beginning of the year.
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Yes or No? Questions – Flashcards
A set of 20 flashcards posing 'yes or no' questions for your students to answer.
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Chinese New Year — Mindfulness Colouring Sheet
Use this mindfuless colouring-in worksheet to celebrate the Chinese New Year in the classroom.
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Funky Chicken Craft Template
A fun craft activity to do with your students to create a funky chicken.
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Celebrations Word Find – Worksheet
A word find with vocabulary themed around celebrations and holidays.
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Colour by 2D Shape (Basic Shapes)
A set of five colour by shape worksheets.
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Number 1-30 Fishy Find Game
A set of 'fish' representing numbers 1-30 in numeral and word form.
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Days of the Week – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article from the Foundation magazine (Issue 3).
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Initial Sound Peg Cards (Version 2)
An initial sound and fine motor activity for younger students.
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Back to School Today — Short Poem for Kids
Use this short poem for kids when students return to school. This child-friendly poem discusses feelings that they may experience when heading back to school after an extended break.