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Activities you can do with your child at home to help develop their skills.
- Reading Material: books, magazines, newspapers
- Board Games/Family Games: Scrabble, Hangman, Pictionary
- Journal – Diary entries and/or recounts
- Blogging
- Reading Online: Lexile’s
- Dictionary and Thesaurus – definitions and synonyms
- Dinner conversation
- Dotted Thirds paper – handwriting
- Bedtime reading
- Cooking – writing recipes
Other Useful Links
- Storyline Online – A collection of quality books read aloud to students.
- ReadWorks – for Upper Primary.
- Mims Audiobook – Free during COVID-19. You can select audio or ebooks for free.
- BTN – Under Teachers there are Resources with a complete package including discussion questions, transcripts and activities. These are downloadable in Word or as a PDF.
- The SQUIZ Kids – A news podcast for 8-12yos. In just a few minutes, we give kids (and their adults) a rundown on the big news events delivered free of opinion, and with positivity and humour. Designed to slip easily into families’ morning routines, a new episode will drop at 7am each weekday.
- ABC Reading Eggs – 2 weeks free access.
- Star Fall – Free resources for use at home.
