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  • Nouns Barrier Activity

    (L101) Barrier Activities – Basic English Core Vocabulary: Nouns 1

    $4.50 including GST

    In this 13-page low-prep pack, the barrier stimulus worksheets are designed to help participants develop their Basic English core vocabulary of nouns. Designed for people learning English as a Second Language, and for children with developmental language disorders, the words depicted in the Barrier Games have been chosen because: (1) they are easy to picture; and (2) are included in Charles Kay Odgen’s Basic English ordered word list.

  • School Readiness What is it

    (L307) Blanks 3: School readiness and early school vocabulary: “What is it?”

    $5.99 including GST

    This no-preparation 46-page pack is designed to help students of all abilities to learn the strategy of semantic feature analysis, using high frequency school-related nouns. To make it accessible to all students, we have chosen easily pictured objects you will find in most schools.

    With a scripted introduction, a colourful scaffold, and 35 examples, this pack is designed to give students plenty of structured practice describing common objects. Once completed, students can use the scaffold to describe any object, including curriculum specific nouns.

  • (R701) NAPLAN: Year 3 – Essential Language Convention Skills for NAPLAN (Nouns and Proper Nouns)

    $6.99 including GST

    In this 37-page Teach-Practice-Test slide pack, we do nine key things:

    * Set out the teaching goals for teachers.
    * Set out key class expectations to help children to focus.
    * Explicitly teach the skills, including the meaning of “noun”, and “proper noun”.
    * Explain and demonstrate why the skills are necessary – both for the test and (more importantly) for real life.
    * Give correct model examples, demonstrating the skills.
    * Provide non-examples: sentences with “mistakes” in them, to train students to spot errors.
    * Practice spotting and fixing errors in the use of these skills.
    * Include an online (and printable), multiple choice quiz with NAPLAN-style questions testing the skills.
    * Links to further resources and information about language conventions.