Incorporating Indigenous perspectives into maths education

Are you looking for meaningful ways to incorporate Indigenous perspectives into your classroom? Your maths lessons are a great place to start.

Plan ahead for handwriting assessment

Writing Time

Writing Time Student Practice Books include written assessment tasks that are completed throughout the year. However, to fully assess a student’s handwriting ability, you also need to observe their handwriting technique.

Why letter groups make sense in handwriting

Writing Time

A large part of early learning involves familiarising students with our alphabet and teaching them how to communicate effectively through written language. During this developmental period, handwriting instruction needs to teach students correct letter formation in a way that’s easy…

Get parents on board with mental computation strategies

Think Mentals

Over the years, mathematicians and educators have become more aware of the need for students to have good mental computation strategies. While parents can provide valuable at-home learning support for your students, they may be relying on outdated methods –…

English Stars in a flipped classroom

English Stars

English Stars gives you the flexibility to deliver learning in a variety of pedagogically-sound ways. 
 One of these ways is a ‘flipped classroom’ model, which English Stars teaching resources have made much easier to implement.

Planning documents for Think Mentals

Think Mentals

Each year level of Think Mentals includes a carefully planned sequence of strategy learning, practice and revision. 

Pair Focus Words with dictionary skills

Sound Waves Literacy

This activity is ideal for upper years students where the Focus Words (or Extension Words) contain words that some students may not be familiar with. 

Pressure problems in handwriting

Writing Time

On one side of the classroom, you may have a student with dark, smudged writing and punctured paper. On the other side, you may have a student with writing so faint it’s almost impossible to read. The former happens when…

What is the ‘schwa’?

Sound Waves Literacy

The schwa is the most common vowel sound in Australian English and is represented by the most letter combinations (graphemes). Although the schwa is formally taught in Sound Waves Literacy in Unit 36, it’s important to talk with students about…