Illustrator Spotlight – Tonia Composto

Sound Waves Literacy

Graphic designer, printmaker and storyteller are just a few of the titles Tonia Composto has gone by throughout her career as an artist.

Use these art activities for fine motor skills practice

Writing Time

Looking for a fun way for students to develop and refine their fine motor skills? Use the beautifully illustrated art activity pages from Writing Time!

BLM Spotlight

Sound Waves Literacy

Get students playing with words using the printable activities available at Sound Waves Literacy Online. There are plenty of activities to choose from, but we’ve hand-picked a few of our favourites to show you how easily they can be set up and…

Handwriting tips for your left-handed students

Writing Time

Much of the world has been designed for right-handed people – including handwriting. Luckily, there are a few tips and tricks you can use to help make the process of learning to write a little easier for your left-handed students.…

Three tricky grammar concepts and the tools to tackle them

English Stars

Any English teacher knows that some grammar rules are simply easier to learn than others. Students show us this every day in their writing. Tricky homophones, misused apostrophes and overuse of commas are just a handful of the common mistakes…

Illustrator Spotlight – Chloe Jasmine Harris

Sound Waves Literacy

In a small studio in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Chloe Jasmine Harris creates playful illustrations that are bursting with exciting details for children to discover.

Illustrator Spotlight – Fiona Miller

Sound Waves Literacy

For Fiona Miller, illustration is about exploration. It’s a way to travel to different locations without moving a muscle and an opportunity to create brand new worlds.

Teacher Spotlight – How Karyn Phillips uses her classroom to be a First Nations ally

Teacher Spotlight is a new series by Firefly Education that will share insights from a variety of education influencers who inspire fellow teachers with their unique classroom knowledge and helpful resources.

Speed up your students' mental maths practice

Think Mentals

The goal of mental computation is to be able to make quick, automatic and correct calculations. One way to encourage these skills is to have students time their daily mental computation exercises.