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Early Years Teaching Sequence Manual
The Early Years Teaching Sequence Manual outlines what to teach and when to teach it sequence over a full year for Literacy, Oral Language and Movement & Motor. The manual provides week-by-week guidelines including professional development options and essential PLD evidence-based programs. Keep in mind that it may be appropriate for schools to adapt the […]
The Early Years Teaching Sequence Manual outlines what to teach and when to teach it sequence over a full year for Literacy, Oral Language and
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Early Years Assessment Schedule
The following Early Years full year assessment schedule and scope and sequence have been extracted from the Early Years Screening & Tracking Manual. Within this download, outlines have been provided as a general term-by-term guide from which schools can adapt their scheduling. While some students will progress faster and some slower, these plans should be […]
The following Early Years full year assessment schedule and scope and sequence have been extracted from the Early Years Screening & Tracking Manual. Within this
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Early Years Pre-Literacy Screening
The Pre-Literacy Screens have been designed to profile the acquisition of core literacy precursor skills that will impact later reading, spelling and phonic development.
The screen focuses on two main skills: 1. Phonological Awareness: the ability to attend to the phonological structure or sound structure of words. 2. Alphabetic
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PLD’s Whole School Literacy Plan
The document outlines how to implement PLD’s literacy, Movement and Motor and Oral Language resources during the Early Years, Foundation, Year 1 & 2 and across Years 3 to 6. Each page provides suggested time frames and implementation recommendations.
The purpose of this document is to provide an implementation outline to assist schools in scheduling the PLD programs within a broad school-based strategy. When
Pre-Literacy in the Early Years – Online Course
What to teach? When to screen? How to cater for the range in ability?
This course will provide you with the structure and tools to improve the literacy outcomes of your early years students.
Recommended for – staff working within Kindergarten (WA, QLD, SA, TAS) and Pre-school (ACT, NT, NSW, VIC)
Course presenter – Diana Rigg BA(Ed), BEd, CPP(UK), MEd, MSc(SpPath)
Course length – 3 hours viewing plus quiz
Access to course – 90 days
Certificate – Awarded upon completion
Supporting materials – Referenced material available for download
Course Description
The EARLY YEARS are a period of significant potential learning. It is essential that balanced within an early childhood framework key skills (for later literacy and learning) are developed. The explicit instruction of phonological awareness, alphabet sounds and oral language is imperative. Within this course ‘age-appropriate’ (i.e. fun, engaging but rich and clear) learning experiences will be demonstrated with PLD programs and also with general resources.
How much explicit instruction is required? Three or four three minute explicit instruction sessions each day, in addition to short one-minute progress checks.
PLD supports play, socialisation, inquiry, activities, child-centred approaches and some direct development of key skills that set up young children for success within the education system. Read More.
Single User Access
If you would like to purchase a single licence, please register here and gain immediate access. Individual licenses can only be purchased with a credit card via the link above.
Multi-User Discounts Available
If you purchase more than one online course licence at one time you now receive a scaled discount.
For user licensing beyond these 4 options, please contact us to mail@pld-literacy.org for a quote specific to your needs. Support information on our multi-user licenses is available here.
Other Course Available:
- Pre-Literacy in the Early Years
- Learning to Read, Spell and Write in Foundation
- Synthetic Phonics within the Junior Primary
- Synthetic Phonics and Beyond
- Teaching the Alphabet
- Raising Writing Standards
- Teaching Students Who are Unable to Read, Spell & Write
- School Leaders: How to implement PLD successfully
Got a question?
Our FAQ page answers our most commonly asked questions, or feel free to email us at mail@pld-literacy.org.
Books: PLD’s books may only be used by the Authorised Purchaser, and the Authorised Purchaser’s students, and only in conjunction with classes taken by the Authorised Purchaser. PLD’s books may be photocopied up to 10% per year for use only by the Authorised Purchaser. The Authorised Purchaser is defined as the original purchaser of the PLD materials.
eBooks: PLD’s eBooks may only be used by the Authorised Purchaser, and the Authorised Purchaser’s students, and only in conjunction with classes taken by the Authorised Purchaser. The Authorised Purchaser is defined as the original purchaser of the PLD eBook. Under the ‘Statutory Educational License’ the authorised purchaser can:
- View the eBook as a whole or in part
- Copy the eBook to their personal drive or locally on their device
- Display the eBook on your Interactive Whiteboard, projector or smart TV, for the purpose of teaching the students in their own classroom
- Photocopy or print up to 10% of the eBook per year, for use with the students in their classroom(s).
For copyright purposes, every page of the PLD eBooks will be stamped with the name & email address provided by the purchaser at the time of order. PLD ebooks belong solely to the purchaser and may not be shared with colleagues, parents or anyone else. PLD eBooks must not be uploaded to school servers, intranets or online platforms. Schools wishing to license PLD eBooks can contact us HERE.
School Licences: A School Licence is a multi-user subscription to a PLD resource, such as a book or program, in a digital and printable format that is accessible via the ‘My Subscription’ section of the PLD website. A School Licence is valid for 12 months from the date of purchase and can be used by an unlimited number of teachers within a school. When bought under a School Licence:
- Resources are accessible in digital, flipbook format, which teachers can access from anywhere, at any time, on any device via the PLD website.
- The resources can be used by any amount of teachers in that school.
- Multiple teachers can access the resources simultaneously.
- The resource is available to print, subject to the standard 10% per year limitation as per Australian Copyright law.
- Updated versions of resources will be automatically accessible to users with a current licence for free, ensuring all users have access to the latest versions of resources.
- Resources are stored centrally and accessed via a secure login account on the PLD website. Thus, all currently subscription resources are accessible in the one convenient place, making resources extremely easy to find. Moreso, the school license offering eradicates the frustration of lost or misplaced resources and programs which happens often with hardback books.
Additional information can be accessed via the following links:
Books: https://support.pld-literacy.org/en-au/article/plds-printed-electronic-materials-how-can-they-be-used-can-i-share-them-with-a-friendcolleague-9lk4y/
eBooks: https://support.pld-literacy.org/en-au/article/the-pld-ebooks-how-can-they-be-used-what-is-the-copyright-policy-ptfya8/
PLD’s Copyright Policy: https://support.pld-literacy.org/en-au/article/copyright-and-terms-of-use-of-pld-literacy-15tkcer/