Authors: Paul Larkin & Tony Abbotts

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Author: Judy Gabrovec

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The activities within Thinking Creatively 6 – 8 Years provide children with the opportunity to learn and practise creative thinking skills in interesting and stimulating situations. Challenges range from describing a problem that the intervention of ice cream ‘solved’, to inventing a new covering for cats to replace fur.

Through the activities in the book children develop the skills of fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, curiosity, complexity, risk taking and imagination. Thinking Creatively 6 – 8 Years is structured in such a way that children can gain confidence and ability in each skill before combining concepts to address creative challenges surrounding the theme of Animals.

Author: David Stephenson

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The book diffes from traditional writing models as it sees writing as a cyclical rather than a linear process, giving students the autonomy to choose where they want to start and continue in the writing process. In doing so, students will find authentic reasons to write, grow in confidence, and, of equal importance, begin to enjoy their writing.
The framework that is followed in this approach involves five steps entitled: Mini-Lessons, Checking The Status, Hot Penning, Writing Time, and Reflection and Sharing. Writer’s Workshop sessions must be predictable to be successful.

Following this format will help facilitators of the program build confidence in their students and reduce failure caused by self-doubt that we hear through comments such as, “I don’t know what to write about”, “My writing is not good enough”, “I have no real reason to write”.

Author: David Holmsen

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Each section of Basic Language Skills Book 1 is based on either a fiction or non-fiction text, which is used as a source for the accompanying activities.

In this learning resource, children are required to use reading skills such as prediction, interpretation, recall, inference and substantiation, as well as identify sequence, and interpret character traits.

Aspects of grammar that are covered include punctuation, (possessive apostrophes and quotation marks for direct speech) and parts of speech (nouns, verbs and adjectives).

Text types that the children will create include reports, journal writing, letter writing, writing instructions and story completion.

Author: Lyn Stephenson

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The activity sheets encourage students to learn through phonics and explore how words relate to one another. The activites can be done individually, in smalll groups, set as homework or given to fast finishers.

Each activity sheet comes with extra things to do. Students can complete these extras in their spelling or language books. Some of these extras involve a sense of the ridiculous which adds an element of fun to their learning.

Author: Jude Scott

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Pacemaker: Marine Worlds provides students with a close-up view of a diverse underwater society. In addition to a sound information base on ocean geography and marine life, this book tackles interesting topics such as icebergs, salinity and unusual creatures that live in the deepest parts of the ocean.

Author: Sandy Tasker

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Endangered Species of Australia includes background information and activities for the regent honeyeater, rock wallaby, greater bilby, northern hairy-nosed wombat, pygmy blue tongue lizard, spotted handfish, Kangaroo Island dunnart, orange-bellied parrot, western swamp tortoise and much more. Each animal section contains links to relevant websites. Activities are outcome linked and can be completed in any order. Extension ideas and general activities have also been included making this title a valuable resource for the busy upper primary or relief teacher.

Author: Jane Bourke

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Pacemaker: Mammals Over the Ages enables students to explore connections between prehistoric mammals and their modern-day counterparts. With a science-based focus on understanding physical structure and function, students are also encouraged to extend their knowledge by putting forward researched and original ideas on issues such as food chains, adaptations and extinction.

Author: Sandy Tasker

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Books 1 & 2 use simple lists of 10 words on 40 themes with activities including word building, sentences, illustrations, word meanings, cloze, puzzles and sleuths, rhymes, sorting and writing. The activity pages in Book 3 have a range of tasks that vary from page to page, but contains The List and a mixture of the following tasks:

• Word Work – word origins and usage;
• Word Puzzles – word games and word plays which are fun but challenging;
• Find Out! – research activities involving written and oral work; and
• Your Work – challenges incorporating the student and the subject.

The Spell It Right! series is not presented as a complete spelling system, but as a purposeful extra…an extra children will love to use. The activities are fun, but have an underlying language core. They are ideal for both class and homework use.

Author: Greg Mitchell

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