Little conversations. Big learning opportunities!
Build strong foundations for early literacy with our Mini Oral Language Program, designed to help young learners develop essential listening, speaking and phonological awareness skills.
Through engaging, purposeful activities, children have opportunities to explore spoken language, listen carefully, play with sounds and develop the skills that support their journey towards reading and writing.
Learning opportunities include:
Listening skills: Developing attention and responding to spoken information.
Sentence awareness: Recognising and exploring sentences in spoken language.
Syllable awareness: Identifying and working with syllables in words.
Oral blending: Combining spoken sounds to make words.
Oral segmenting: Breaking spoken words into their individual sounds.
Perfect for:
Kindergarten and Prep classrooms
Whole-class oral language sessions
Small-group learning experiences
Explicit phonological awareness instruction
Supporting children who need additional practice with foundational literacy skills
Created by an experienced early childhood and primary school teacher, this program offers purposeful opportunities to strengthen the oral language and sound awareness skills that underpin early reading and writing.
Build confident communicators and strong foundations for literacy, one activity at a time!
From reading facts to writing sentences!
Support beginning readers and writers with this engaging farm animal activity pack, designed to complement our Farm Animal Information Texts Collection.
Students begin by exploring factual information about farm animals through shared reading with their teacher. They then apply their developing knowledge through a series of purposeful literacy activities.
Learning opportunities include:
Reading for information: Explore factual information texts with teacher support.
Recording facts: Identify and record important facts about familiar farm animals.
Sentence writing: Build confidence in constructing simple factual sentences.
Labelling diagrams: Identify and label parts of farm animals using relevant vocabulary.
Decodable reading: Practise reading short, decodable sentences about each animal.
Perfect for:
Prep and Year 1 classrooms
Beginning information report writing
Integrated reading and writing lessons
Farm-themed classroom units
Supported and independent literacy activities
This resource provides a purposeful progression from shared reading and oral discussion to recording facts, labelling diagrams and writing simple sentences.
Please note: This activity pack is designed to be used alongside our Farm Animal Information Texts Collection, which is sold separately.
Read it. Explore it. Write about it!
Bring the fascinating world of farm animals into your classroom with this collection of 10 engaging, downloadable information texts!
Designed to support early primary learners, these factual texts introduce children to a variety of animals while developing their reading comprehension, vocabulary and understanding of non-fiction writing.
What's included:
10 printable information texts exploring:
Cats
Dogs
Hens
Sheep
Foxes
Pigs
Ducks
Cows
Horses
Goats
Learning opportunities include:
Identifying facts and key information
Exploring the structure and features of information texts
Developing topic-specific vocabulary
Building reading comprehension
Using factual information to support information report writing
Perfect for:
Reading and comprehension lessons
Information report writing units
Farm-themed classroom investigations
Guided and shared reading
Literacy rotations
Ten informative texts, one convenient collection — ready to download and bring into your classroom!
Step into a warm and whimsical farm world with this beautiful collection of seven heart warming children's stories by Kira Auld.
Through charming farmyard characters and simple, meaningful narratives, children explore important life lessons while developing their imagination, listening comprehension and love of storytelling.
Themes explored throughout the collection include:
Being brave, even when things feel scary
Showing kindness and helping others
Making new friends
Trying new experiences
Learning to count
Understanding acceptance and belonging
Perfect for:
Prep and early primary classrooms
Whole-class shared reading
Social and emotional learning discussions
Farm-themed classroom units
Bedtime stories and shared family reading
Each story provides an opportunity to spark meaningful conversations, encourage empathy and help children make connections to their own experiences.
Seven delightful stories. Seven opportunities to learn, grow and explore the world together.
Help students explore the significance of ANZAC Day through an engaging story that introduces the themes of remembrance, courage and sacrifice.
Designed for primary school learners, this resource provides an opportunity to develop an understanding of ANZAC Day and why it continues to be commemorated in Australia and New Zealand.
Through shared reading and classroom discussion, students can reflect on the importance of remembering those who have served and the impact of war on individuals and communities.
Learning opportunities include:
Understanding the significance of ANZAC Day
Exploring themes of remembrance, courage and sacrifice
Developing historical vocabulary
Encouraging thoughtful discussion and reflection
Making connections to Australian history and commemorations
Perfect for:
Primary school classrooms
ANZAC Day commemorations
HASS learning experiences
Shared reading and comprehension discussions
An engaging way to explore an important part of Australia's history.
Explore the beautiful colours of the world around us with The Colours of the Sky!
This illustrated picture book introduces young learners to the concept of warm and cool colours through the changing colours of the sky.
Designed for Prep and early years learners, this story provides a gentle introduction to colour recognition and encourages children to observe, describe and discuss the colours they see in their environment.
Learning opportunities include:
Identifying warm and cool colours
Developing colour vocabulary
Observing colours in the natural environment
Encouraging discussion and oral language
Making connections between stories and visual arts
Perfect for:
Prep and early years classrooms
Introducing warm and cool colours in Visual Arts
Whole-class story time
Supporting classroom discussions about colour
A simple, engaging way to introduce young learners to the wonderful world of colour!
Bring everyday experiences to life with Tom's Everyday Story Collection!
Designed for Prep and early years learners, this engaging collection of five illustrated stories and accompanying teaching resources provides meaningful opportunities to develop oral language, reading comprehension and story retelling skills.
Through familiar everyday experiences, children can practise listening, discussing, sequencing and retelling stories while building confidence in expressing their ideas.
What's included:
Five illustrated storybooks featuring Tom
Accompanying teaching and learning resources for the collection
Activities to support story comprehension and retelling
Learning opportunities include:
Developing listening and comprehension skills
Sequencing events in the correct order
Retelling familiar stories
Building vocabulary and oral language
Identifying characters, settings and key events
Perfect for:
Prep and early years classrooms
Whole-class shared reading
Small-group literacy activities
Oral language lessons
Story retelling and comprehension practice
Created by an experienced early childhood and primary school teacher, this collection helps educators make story-based learning engaging, purposeful and easy to implement.
Download, print and bring Tom's stories into your classroom!
Build strong foundations in early reading with our Early Reading Cards!
Designed for beginning readers, these printable cards provide opportunities for children to practise recognising letter–sound relationships and applying their developing phonics knowledge to decode simple CVC (consonant–vowel–consonant) words.
With a focus on repetition, confidence and early reading success, these cards are a practical addition to any Prep or early years literacy program.
Learning opportunities include:
Recognising letters and their corresponding sounds
Strengthening letter–sound knowledge
Blending sounds to read simple CVC words
Developing early decoding skills
Building confidence and automaticity in word reading
Perfect for:
Prep and early years classrooms
Explicit phonics instruction
Small-group literacy activities
Literacy rotations
Targeted reading intervention
Home reading practice
Download, print and start reading!
Help beginning readers build confidence with our engaging SATPINM Decodable Readers!
Designed to support children in the early stages of learning to read, these illustrated texts provide opportunities to practise decoding words using the letter–sound correspondences s, a, t, p, i, n and m.
Through purposeful reading practice, children can develop their blending skills, strengthen their letter–sound knowledge and experience success as independent readers.
Perfect for:
Prep and early years classrooms
Beginning reading instruction
Small-group reading activities
Home reading practice
Reinforcing explicitly taught phonics skills
Created by an experienced early childhood and primary school teacher, these downloadable readers make early reading practice engaging, accessible and meaningful.
Make early phonics practice fun and hands-on with our turtle-themed SATPINM Word Mapping Mats!
Designed for beginning readers, these printable mats focus on the first seven letter–sound correspondences: s, a, t, p, i, n and m.
Students practise listening for sounds, segmenting simple words and mapping sounds to their corresponding letters. These activities help build the foundational skills needed for early reading and spelling.
Perfect for:
Prep and early years classrooms
SATPINM phonics instruction
Small-group literacy activities
Literacy rotations
Targeted phonics practice
Download, print and start mapping!
Make handwriting practice engaging and meaningful with our At the Zoo Handwriting Bundle!
Designed for Prep and early years learners, this resource combines an engaging zoo theme with purposeful handwriting activities to help children develop confidence in their early writing skills.
Through fun, age-appropriate activities, students can practise letter formation, develop fine motor control and strengthen their ability to write simple words and sentences.
Perfect for:
Prep and early years classrooms
Handwriting and letter formation practice
Literacy rotations and small-group activities
Independent learning and writing practice
Supporting developing writers
Created by an experienced early childhood and primary school teacher, this resource is designed to make handwriting practice enjoyable, purposeful and easy to incorporate into your classroom.
Download, print and start learning!
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