English / Foundation / Literacy / Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

• TLF-IDL9497

Explore the title and picture on the cover of 'Flutter-by friends!' Then make a prediction about the storyline. Listen to the story and follow as each word is underlined. Find out if your prediction matches the storyline. Put the jumbled events of the story in the right order.

• TLF-IDS7026

This teacher resource describes an evidence-based strategy in which eight disadvantaged metropolitan schools and 12 remote schools in Western Australia assessed the oral English language and emergent literacy development of their pre-primary (Foundation) students, and used that data to inform explicit teaching of English ...

• TLF-IDA005042

This video presents an explanation of how to use data analysis to plan for 1:1 instruction (Tier 3) in your systematic synthetic phonics lessons.

• TLF-IDA005038

This video provides an overview of the areas of assessment in a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) approach.

• TLF-IDA005036

This video explains what a progress monitoring tool is, what it is used for and how to use it to assess an individual student's progress in both reading and writing.

• TLF-IDA005039

This video presents on explanation of how to use data analysis to plan your systematic synthetic phonics lessons.

• TLF-IDA002831

This video provides an overview of how to choose a decodable text for your students' needs. It is presented by literacy specialists Elaine Stanley and Rebecca McEwan.

• TLF-IDA002743

This imaginative digital text is an illustrated rhyming poem for teachers to read aloud to students. It is about a girl who visits different and amazing places. The resource includes a teaching sequence related to the Big Six components of literacy development (oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary ...

• TLF-IDM020956

Tony Wilson says that listening to rhyming books is like listening to music. How are they similar? Read a rhyming book out loud or ask someone to read one to you, and see if you can hear the rhythm. Can you clap along to it? Think about rhythm when you write your next story. Can you write something that has a beat?

• TLF-IDA003638

This information is ideal for educating families about the Year 1 Phonics Check (a free assessment that assesses students' decoding skills). It provides links to a list of words similar to the ones used in the Phonics Check, and a guide that explains how the words should be pronounced.