English / Foundation / Language / Text structure and organisation

• TLF-IDL8186

Design a talking dinosaur to present at show and tell. Create your dinosaur by selecting from a range of elements such as mood, size and colour. Choose a voice and background picture for your dinosaur. Decide on a name that suits your talking dinosaur. Add a note about your dinosaur. Watch the animation. You can change ...

• TLF-IDL8183

Design a talking cat to present at show and tell. Create your cat by selecting from a range of elements such as mood, size and colour. Choose a voice and background picture for your cat. Decide on a name that suits your talking cat. Add a note about your cat. Watch the animation. You can change your design as many times ...

• TLF-IDL9480

Explore the three steps in a procedure; aim, materials and steps by looking at four examples. Discover the steps in making a banana split. Find the materials and ingredients you'll need for the banana split hidden in a classroom. Investigate the steps in making the banana split by taking photos. Put the jumbled steps of ...

• TLF-IDA002763

Literacy specialist Elaine Stanley presents this webinar extract. She provides an overview of the key elements of a quality, evidence-based phonics progression and explains how to follow a phonics progression in your classroom.

• TLF-IDA002767

This recording of a 30-minute Q&A session supports schools in choosing and following a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) progression, including phonological and phonemic awareness instruction.

• TLF-IDA002765

This video provides an overview of a phonics instructional model for reading and spelling. It is presented by literacy specialists Elaine Stanley and Rebecca McEwan.

• TLF-IDA002995

This self-paced learning module outlines how teaching morphology complements reading and writing instruction. It explains how to plan morphology lessons using explicit instruction and daily reviews that include morphology. The module contains two webinars, free downloadable resources and further professional reading. It ...

• TLF-IDA003047

This Q&A webinar extract answers questions from teachers and school leaders about explicit instruction for phonics instruction.

• TLF-IDA007942

This is a 7-module professional learning course that supports teachers to implement the latest science of reading research in the classroom. The first module, The science of reading, explains the evidence about how children learn to read. It covers evidence-based reading models, the Big Six, cognitive load theory and explicit ...

• 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 ...