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Tips for Helping Left-Handed Writers
Approximately ten percent of students are left-handed – slightly more boys than girls. If these 10 simple strategies are put in place, then there is no need for left-handed children to be disadvantaged when writing.Arrange classroom seating so that left-handed students always sit on the left of right-handed children. This will avoid writing hand ‘elbow bumps’. It is also
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Tips for Dealing with Letter Reversals
Reversing Letters in Early Years, Foundation and early Year 1Many young children reverse letters because they lack familiarity with the symbols. When learning to write letters in the Early Years, Foundation and early Year
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Am I ready to handwrite? A3 Poster
Am I ready to handwrite is a poster providing solid introduction to the beginning of handwritingIdeal for student and teacher reference, this poster is designed to provide explicit instruction on the following: Letter formation and size Letter placement Reminders of
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The Development of Appropriate Pencil Grip & Drawing Skills – 1 to 6 Years Old
These milestone and information sheets identify the age-related milestones for hand function, pencil grip (grasp) and drawing skills in children aged 1 to 6 years. They present images of good and NOT good pencil grip and also outline hints for making a good pencil grip easier.When children first begin to draw using crayons, pencils or brushes they use a dagger grasp. In a natural developmental sequence, they will hold the
First Writing Activities
Code: Mfwa
Year Level: School Licenses, Foundation, Year 1 & 2
$82.50 (inc. $7.50 GST)
Multiple genres presented at different levels to cater for the range in writing ability within the junior primary classroom
The development of writing is based on a student’s oral language ability. Students first need to hear models of well-constructed stories, news and sentences. They then need to be able to organise their language, sequence their ideas and link elements together to tell a story before it can be expected that they develop formal writing skills. At this early stage of writing development, it is accepted that a student’s oral language ability will exceed their writing ability. It is therefore expected that a student’s writing may be more limited than what they produce orally. This program incorporates opportunities for students to hear and experience various written forms followed by oral rehearsal before commencing the written task. Pictorial and/or visual support has also been incorporated to support each of the text structures included in the resource.
First Writing Activities contains many genres including:
- Writing Words and Sentences – Label and Write, Simple Sentence and Building Sentence Tasks
- Writing Dictated Sentences – Writing a Dictated Sentence, Writing 2 – 3 Dictated Sentences and Writing 3 Connected Dictated Sentences
- Witten News – Object-Based, Activity Re-Tells and Event-Based News Tasks
- Story Retelling – Story Retell and Extension Tasks
- Generating Narrative from Picture Talks including Extension Activities
- Early Reports
- Poetry
- Personal Journals
For the junior primary years, First Writing Activities features:
- Designed by speech pathologists for students in the junior primary.
- A large range of writing genres are designed to move students from ‘role-play’ writing into early phonetic writing and finally into writing with emerging conventional spelling.
- Short pictorially supported writing tasks that involve an adult providing an oral model, along with opportunities for students to orally rehearse the sentence(s).
- Three levels of templates are designed to cater for the range evident in junior primary classes (i.e. the delayed, age appropriate and advanced students).
- Literacy, language and motor assessment points at the base of each template.
The programs within the range include:
- First Spelling Words – Set 1
- First Spelling Words – Set 2
- First Reading Words
- First Writing Activities
This resource is mentioned in the Foundation Teaching Sequence Manual on page 9 & 10.
First Writing Activities - eBook
Code: Mfwae
Year Level: School Licenses, Foundation, Year 1 & 2
$65.00 (inc. $5.91 GST)
Multiple genres presented at different levels to cater for the range in writing ability within the junior primary classroom
The development of writing is based on a student’s oral language ability. Students first need to hear models of well-constructed stories, news and sentences. They then need to be able to organise their language, sequence their ideas and link elements together to tell a story before it can be expected that they develop formal writing skills. At this early stage of writing development, it is accepted that a student’s oral language ability will exceed their writing ability. It is therefore expected that a student’s writing may be more limited than what they produce orally. This program incorporates opportunities for students to hear and experience various written forms followed by oral rehearsal before commencing the written task. Pictorial and/or visual support has also been incorporated to support each of the text structures included in the resource.
First Writing Activities contains many genres including:
- Writing Words and Sentences – Label and Write, Simple Sentence and Building Sentence Tasks
- Writing Dictated Sentences – Writing a Dictated Sentence, Writing 2 – 3 Dictated Sentences and Writing 3 Connected Dictated Sentences
- Witten News – Object-Based, Activity Re-Tells and Event-Based News Tasks
- Story Retelling – Story Retell and Extension Tasks
- Generating Narrative from Picture Talks including Extension Activities
- Early Reports
- Poetry
- Personal Journals
For the junior primary years, First Writing Activities features:
- Designed by speech pathologists for students in the junior primary.
- A large range of writing genres are designed to move students from ‘role-play’ writing into early phonetic writing and finally into writing with emerging conventional spelling.
- Short pictorially supported writing tasks that involve an adult providing an oral model, along with opportunities for students to orally rehearse the sentence(s).
- Three levels of templates are designed to cater for the range evident in junior primary classes (i.e. the delayed, age appropriate and advanced students).
- Literacy, language and motor assessment points at the base of each template.
The programs within the range include:
- First Spelling Words – Set 1
- First Spelling Words – Set 2
- First Reading Words
- First Writing Activities
This resource is mentioned in the Foundation Teaching Sequence Manual on page 9 & 10.
First Writing Activities – School License
Code: mfwaes (School License)
Year Level: School Licenses, Foundation, Year 1 & 2
$245.00 / year (inc. $22.27 GST)
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This is a PLD Whole School License resource. By purchasing this license, this program will be accessible as a digital flipbook that will be stored in your secure account on the PLD website. The program will be accessible as a digital flipbook that teachers can access on any device for as long as the license is active. A School Licence is valid for 12 months from the date of purchase and can be shared with all staff employed at the school. We highly recommend that either the Principal, Deputy Principal or a member of the admin team purchase the School Licence in order to manage the account and its users. For more information, visit our Whole School Licence FAQ.
Multiple genres presented at different levels to cater for the range in writing ability within the junior primary classroom
The development of writing is based on a student’s oral language ability. Students first need to hear models of well-constructed stories, news and sentences. They then need to be able to organise their language, sequence their ideas and link elements together to tell a story before it can be expected that they develop formal writing skills. At this early stage of writing development, it is accepted that a student’s oral language ability will exceed their writing ability. It is therefore expected that a student’s writing may be more limited than what they produce orally. This program incorporates opportunities for students to hear and experience various written forms followed by oral rehearsal before commencing the written task. Pictorial and/or visual support has also been incorporated to support each of the text structures included in the resource.
First Writing Activities contains many genres including:
- Writing Words and Sentences – Label and Write, Simple Sentence and Building Sentence Tasks
- Writing Dictated Sentences – Writing a Dictated Sentence, Writing 2 – 3 Dictated Sentences and Writing 3 Connected Dictated Sentences
- Witten News – Object-Based, Activity Re-Tells and Event-Based News Tasks
- Story Retelling – Story Retell and Extension Tasks
- Generating Narrative from Picture Talks including Extension Activities
- Early Reports
- Poetry
- Personal Journals
For the junior primary years, First Writing Activities features:
- Designed by speech pathologists for students in the junior primary.
- A large range of writing genres are designed to move students from ‘role-play’ writing into early phonetic writing and finally into writing with emerging conventional spelling.
- Short pictorially supported writing tasks that involve an adult providing an oral model, along with opportunities for students to orally rehearse the sentence(s).
- Three levels of templates are designed to cater for the range evident in junior primary classes (i.e. the delayed, age appropriate and advanced students).
- Literacy, language and motor assessment points at the base of each template.
This resource is mentioned in the Foundation Teaching Sequence Manual on page 9 & 10.
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- View the eBook as a whole or in part
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- Multiple teachers can access the resources simultaneously.
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ISBN :
9 781925 769715
ISBN :
9 781925 769715