Build your children's confidence in their emerging literacy skills. This series offers practical support for the vital task of laying solid foundations for literacy. The 52 A4 task cards in each book offer stimulating and fun activities. These include alphabet activities that focus on developing students' phonemic awareness so they can understand that spoken words are made up of diverse sounds. The literacy activities focus on early writing, word-building, visual literacy and early reading.
Ages: 5-7 years
Janet Bruce has taught at all levels of the primary school in Australia. As a curriculum coordinator, her primary responsibilities were to develop the school-based English curriculum. Janet developed the guided reading programme while teaching lower primary students and adapted it when teaching other grade levels. As coordinator of the Schools Student Welfare Support Group she facilitated group discussion between parents and teachers of children experiencing social difficulties to develop achieveable goals and practical ideas to assist the children.