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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Describing Rocks and Minerals Chart Pack
Use a Describing Rocks and Minerals Chart to help your students describe the properties of rocks and minerals.
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Manipulating Sounds Four in a Row Game
Explore phoneme manipulation with your students by creating new words by changing phonemes with this phoneme manipulation game.
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Phoneme Manipulation Interactive Task Cards
Practise phoneme manipulation with your students using this fun and engaging interactive activity.
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Caterpillar Worksheets on Ordering Numbers
Share these caterpillar worksheets on ordering numbers with your students to help them master sequencing numbers.
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Sequence Puzzle for Numbers 1-10 — Gingerbread Man
Share this sequence puzzle with your students for a fun way to practise ordering the numbers 1 - 10.
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Phoneme Addition Task Cards
Explore phoneme addition with your students with this set of 16 task cards.
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Phoneme Manipulation Task Cards - Where’s My Bone?
Use this phoneme manipulation activity to engage students in listening and manipulating sounds in simple CVC words.
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Sequencing Activities — Numbers 1-9 Sausage Dog
Use our sequencing activities like this sausage dog to help your students practise ordering the numbers 1 - 9.
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Foundation Year Science Worksheets - Observing Rocks and Soils
Use our printable science activities for Kindergarten / Foundation Year to help your students observe and categorise rocks and soils.
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Phoneme Deletion Task Cards
Delete phonemes to form new words with this set of 16 task cards.
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Phoneme Substitution Activity Cards
Explore phoneme substitution with this interactive phonemic awareness learning activity.
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Blending Words Slides and Ladders Game
Play slides and ladders with your students and get them practising blending CVC words with this fun and engaging game board.
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Blend and Colour Phoneme Blending Worksheets
Get your students blending simple CVC words with this set of blend and colour worksheets.
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Story Elements Four Corners
Engage your students in exploring key story elements with this Four Corners activity!
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Minerals and Rocks Picture Cards
Observe, describe, and sort examples of rocks and minerals with a set of printable types of rocks pictures and word cards.
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Blending Words Game Boards
Engage students in blending a number of words using this set of levelled phoneme blending game boards.
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Describing Rocks and Soils Vocabulary Cards
Introduce your little learners to the academic vocabulary they need to describe rocks and minerals with a printable rocks vocabulary word wall.
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My Rock Collection - Google Slides E-Book
Introduce your students to the world of rocks and minerals with a digital Rocks book for foundation and year 1 students.
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Story Bag Surprise - Story Elements Digital Activity
Introduce and explore different story elements with this story bag surprise digital activity for the whole class to enjoy.
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CVC Successive Phoneme Blending Task Cards
Help students blend CVC words by using the successive blending technique with this set of easy to use phoneme blending task cards.
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Read the Room - Blending Words Task Cards
Get your students active and also practising their phoneme blending skills with this fun read the room blending activity.
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Blending Words Reading Warm-Up Task Cards
Get your students ready for reading with these blending words reading warm-up task cards.
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Match and Cover Blending Phonemes Game
Engage your students in blending phonemes with this set of ‘Blend and Cover’ game boards.
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Blending 4-Phoneme Words Puzzles
Help students master blending phonemes with this set of 4-phoneme blending puzzles.
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Blending 3-Phoneme Words Puzzles
Help students master blending phonemes with this set of 3-phoneme blending puzzles.
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Blending Words Digital Quiz
Get your students to practise their blending with simple CVC words using this digital activity.
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Describing Matter - Scavenger Hunt Activities
Host an engaging science scavenger hunt to introduce your early years students to the observable properties of matter.
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Subitising Worksheets Variety Pack
Incorporate these subitising worksheets into your lessons to give your students practise subitising collections up to 12.
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Subitising Bingo Games (Numbers 1 - 10)
Play these subitising bingo games in your guided groups to give your students practise subitising numbers up to 10.
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Tic-Tac-Toe Blending Phonemes Game
Develop your students' blending phonemes in CVC and CCVC words with a set of 10 Tic-Tac-Toe board games.
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Additive Blending Worksheet Pack
Provide students with the tools to successfully practise phoneme and word blending with these additive and pyramid blending worksheets.
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Blending Words Worksheet Pack
Explore blending phonemes in a variety of ways using this worksheet pack for your students.