English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 privileges student experience, creative engagement with texts, moments of reflection and deep thinking. Drawing on an inquiry model of learning, it provides opportunities for students to write and create their own texts. Written for the Australian Curriculum, English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 provides a fully balanced and integrated approach to the study of language, literature and literacy. It actively engages students with texts at a variety of levels: • Develops language skills at word, sentence and text level, with activities in reading, writing, viewing, creating, listening and speaking • Encourages student writing across a variety of contexts, for a variety of purposes and for a variety of audiences • Underlines the importance of visual literacy • Provides opportunities for students to create their own multimodal texts

"[A] series of seven teacher resource books that support teaching and learning activites in Australian Curriculum English"--foreword.

"[A] series of seven teacher resource books that support teaching and learning activites in Australian Curriculum English"--foreword.

In Excel Maths Early Skills: Learning Numbers to 5, your chi ld will explore the numbers 1 to 5 in a range of activities. Your child will learn to: count from 1 to 5 sort thing s into groups draw the numbers 1 to 5 match up numbers write down numbers 1 to 5 The activities in this book are divided into double pages. Each double page allows your child to practise one particular skill many times so that the skill is reinfor ced. A clear, easy-to-follow page design has been developed, with clear explanations to help both parents and children.

This book helps your child further develop the visual skills necessar y to learn to read and write. In Excel English Early Ski lls: Learning About Sequencing, your child will learn to: f ollow instructions systematically follow a sequence of events recognise and write some basic symbols (eg. tick, cross, circle) identify the place and position of objects (eg. under, above, top, bottom) The activities in each book are divided into double pages. Each double page allows your child to practise one particu lar skill many times so that the skill is reinforced. A clear, easy-to-f ollow page design has been developed, with clear explanations to help bo th parents and children.

After your child has learned the numbers 1 to 5, the next step is to learn to count and recognise numbers 6 to 10. In Excel M aths Early Skills: Learning Numbers to 10, your child will: revise numbers 1 to 5 identify and draw patterns and groups of particular numbers learn to write the numbers 6 to 10 Throughout this series your child will learn to recognise numbers all around them and become more confident in using them. A clear, easy-t o-follow page design has been developed, with clear explanations to help both parents and children.

Excel English Early Skills: Learning the Alphabetteaches you r child to recognise all the letters in the alphabet, and breaks it down into three sections. In the book, your child will: learn the names of all the letters of the alphabet match each l etter to the beginning sounds of words learn to distinguish bet ween different letters and their sounds practise writing each l etter The activities in each book are divided into double pages. Each double page allows your child to practice one particular ski ll many times so that the skill is reinforced. Every page has an extra e xtension activity to further enrich your child's learning. The books hav e a clear, easy-to-follow page design with clear explanations to help bo th parent and child.

Once your child has learned to count and recognise numbers to 10, the next step is to learn numbers to 20. In Excel Maths Ear ly Skills: Learning Numbers to 20, your child will: revise counting and writing numbers 1 to 9 practise counting, writing and making groups of numbers to 20 learn to match up the correc t numerals with various groups of objects The activities i n this book are divided into double pages. Each double page allows your child to practise one particular skill many times so that the skill is r einforced. Every page in this book has an extra extension activity to fu rther enrich your child's learning.