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Extension Word activities for your spelling stars

Sound Waves Spelling

Do you have students in your class who excel at spelling? You’ve no doubt discovered the Extension Words available for every Sound Waves Spelling unit, but how many different ways do you use them? Here are a few ideas to…
Let the games begin!

Sound Waves Spelling

Inject some fun into your weekly spelling lessons with some of our favourite Sound Waves Spelling games. Whether used as a warm up or a fun way to wrap up the week, students will relish the chance to apply their…
Finish the adventure with a bang

Writing Time

As the year winds down and the holiday season beckons, students can become very restless — and they’re not the only ones! Why not use this as an opportunity to tie up some loose ends and have your students go…
‘I'm finished! What can I do now?’ 

Writing Time

It’s something all teachers have experienced: you’ve planned an engaging and differentiated activity for your class, but you soon hear, ‘What do I do when I’m finished?’
Challenge fast finishers in context

iMaths

iMaths offers a variety of ways to challenge your maths masterminds. So next time a student says ‘I’m finished! What now?’, set them off on one of these ready-made tasks.
Kickstart your lesson with the Number Line

iMaths

The interactive Number Line at iMaths Online is the perfect tool to focus attention and ease students into a maths frame of mind. Here are just two examples of how Number Line can kickstart your Number and Algebra lessons.
A handful of handwriting activities

Writing Time

Handwriting doesn’t have to be all dreary drill and practice. Why not liven up your next handwriting lesson with one of these engaging activities?
Exploring all sounds: Fun ideas to kickstart your spelling lessons

Sound Waves Spelling

A sound exploration session is the perfect way to tune students’ ears and eyes to recognise phonemes (sounds) and focus on graphemes (letter/s). Before you introduce the week’s focus phoneme, conduct a quick and easy whole-class activity that explores a…
What’s the difference? Understanding phonological awareness, phonemic awareness and phonics

Sound Waves Spelling

Updates to the Australian Curriculum are shining a spotlight on teaching phonological awareness (in particular, phonemic awareness) and phonics. So whether you’re a novice or have been teaching spelling and reading this way for many years, there’s never been a…