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Primary ESL practical resources series

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Activity book for children, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Action Packs, NSW Department of Education and Training, NSW
Developing literacy, Blake Education, Glebe NSW
Developing literacy: nonfiction, Blake Education, Glebe NSW
InfoActive, Longman Australia
Letters and sounds, Firefly Press, Buderim Qld
Primary ESL project
Resource Books for Teachers (series), Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Sound waves - grades P-5, Firefly Press, Buderim Qld
Targeting text, Blake Education, Glebe NSW
Targeting writing across the curriculum, Blake Education, Glebe NSW
Terrific Topics: integrated units in science and SOSE, Blake Education, Clayton South, Vic.
Write all about it: practical activities for the classroom, Curriculum Corporation, Melbourne

Activity book for children, Oxford University Press, Oxford

C Clark, 'Activity book for children - Book 1'.
C Clark, 'Activity book for children - Book 2'.
C Clark, 'Activity book for children - Book 3'.
C Clark, 'Activity book for children - Book 4'.
C Clark, 'Activity book for children - Book 5'.
C Clark, 'Activity book for children - Book 6'.

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Action Packs, NSW Department of Education and Training, NSW

Action Packs contain practical ideas for teaching factual writing through popular classroom themes. Each Action Pack includes a teacher reference book and two activity books with blackline masters.

'Action Pack: Animals'.
'Action Pack: Environment'.
'Action Pack: Technology'.

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Developing literacy, Blake Education, Glebe NSW

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Developing literacy: nonfiction, Blake Education, Glebe NSW

'Developing literacy: nonfiction', (Year 1).
'Developing literacy: nonfiction' (Year 2).
'Developing literacy: nonfiction', (Year 3).
'Developing literacy: nonfiction' (Year 4).
'Developing literacy: nonfiction', (Year 5).
'Developing literacy: nonfiction' (Year 6).
'Developing literacy: nonfiction', (Year 7).

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InfoActive, Longman Australia

This is a core literacy program produced for 5-7 year old mainstream class use but VERY useful for the ESL teacher for use with most primary age students. The series focuses on visual texts, does not use complex language and consists of information texts on high interest topics across the curriculum

'InfoActive 1A'.
'InfoActive 1B'.
'InfoActive 2A'.
'InfoActive 2B'.
'InfoActive Plus'.

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Letters and sounds, Firefly Press, Buderim Qld

'Letters and sounds - Beginner's book, Book 1'.
'Letters and sounds - Beginner's book, Book 2'.
'Letters and sounds - Beginner's book, Book 3'.

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Primary ESL project

Locally written and produced materials for primary ESL, these materials were written to support commercially available fiction and nonfiction texts. Where possible the TESOL Library has the original text to accompany the ESL support materials. If we do not hold the original text you should be able to obtain them through your school library

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Resource Books for Teachers (series), Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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Sound waves - grades P-5, Firefly Press, Buderim Qld

student book + teacher resource book for each grade

'Sound waves - grade P'.
'Sound waves - grade 1'.
'Sound waves - grade 2'.
'Sound waves - grade 3'.
'Sound waves - grade 4'.
'Sound waves - grade 5'.

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Targeting text, Blake Education, Glebe NSW

Structured teaching units for 9 most commonly studied text types

'Targeting text: Information report, explanation, discussion. (Lower Primary)'
'Targeting text: Information report, explanation, discussion', (Middle Primary).
'Targeting text: Information report, explanation, discussion. (Upper Primary)'
'Targeting text: Narrative, poetry, description, response. (Lower Primary)'
'Targeting text: Narrative, poetry, drama. (Middle Primary)'
'Targeting text: Narrative, poetry, drama. (Upper Primary)'
'Targeting text: Recount, procedure, exposition. (Lower Primary)'
'Targeting text: Recount, procedure, exposition. (Middle Primary)'
'Targeting text: Recount, procedure, exposition. (Upper Primary)'

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Targeting writing across the curriculum, Blake Education, Glebe NSW

Addresses the language demands of different learning areas by developing English skills while working with themes from science and SOSE

'Targeting writing across the curriculum. (Lower Primary)'
'Targeting writing across the curriculum. (Middle Primary)'
'Targeting writing across the curriculum. (Upper Primary)'

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Terrific Topics: integrated units in science and SOSE, Blake Education, Clayton South, Vic.

'Terrific Topics: Lower primary - Book 1'.
'Terrific Topics: Lower primary - Book 2'.
'Terrific Topics: Middle primary - Book 1'.
'Terrific Topics: Middle primary - Book 2'.
'Terrific Topics: Upper primary - Book 2'.

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Write all about it: practical activities for the classroom, Curriculum Corporation, Melbourne

Andrew Perry, Ron Thomas, 'Write all about it: book 1'.
Andrew Perry, Ron Thomas, 'Write all about it: book 2'.
Andrew Perry, Ron Thomas, 'Write all about it: book 3'.
Andrew Perry, Ron Thomas, 'Write all about it: book 4'.

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Last updated: 12 August 2008

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