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Starting with Sounds

The Starting with Sounds Busy Book has 20 amazing This early literacy Busy Book focuses on the series of stages that occur before kids start to read and strengthens foundational literacy concepts required for reading, spelling and writing. It incorporates the most important elements under the phonological awareness umbrella at the syllable, word and phoneme (sound unit) level and works on the detection and manipulation of sound structures in spoken words which is a precursor to reading. The Starting with Sounds Busy book focuses on the explicit teaching of phonological awareness, together with phonics (the connection between letters and sounds) in a sequential, play based approach to harness early literacy skills in a fun, engaging and evidenced-based way. Fantastic for working on early literacy at home, in school or therapy clinic. Suitable for children ages 3 – 5 years depending on abilities. We have included this Busy Book in this category as some parents, educators or therapist may also find this Busy Book useful for the older age groups.

For the speechie or learning support teacher on the go, the Starting with Sounds Busy Book can become your ‘go to’ with lots of literacy activities consolidated in one place. You can easily refer to the table of contents to select activities that align with your learning goals quickly. It is also a great resource for home practice to support the learning from your session or classroom.

Now We’re Reading

The Now we’re Reading Busy Book has 20 educational activities written by certified, practising speech pathologist, Mariah Apostolopoulos. The Now we’re Reading Busy Book applies a systematic, synthetic phonics and science of reading approach to early literacy required to support reading and spelling skills. The activity goals and learning objectives of this book align with the school curriculum and are appropriate to supplement learning for all students starting their literacy journey, typically within the first year of formal schooling. Preschoolers who have started to show an interest in written text and early literacy skills will also benefit from this book. The Now we’re Reading Busy Book introduces SATPIN sounds explicitly – it starts with identifying initial sounds in isolation, identifying and manipulating sounds at the start, end and middle of
words and works towards decoding CVC and CCVC words at sentence level, while harnessing phoneme blending and segmenting skills together with strengthening letter-sound relationships. There are clear activity goals within the book which are addressed in a fun, play-based way to engage little learners while also utilising the most evidenced-based approach to literacy acquisition. Fantastic for working on early literacy at home, in school or therapy clinic. Suitable for children aged 4 – 8 years of age depending on abilities.

For the speechie or learning support teacher on the go, the Now we’re Reading Busy Book can become your ‘go to’ with lots of literacy activities consolidated in one place. You can easily refer to the table of contents to select activities that align with your learning goals quickly. It is also a great resource for home practice to support the learning from your session or classroom.

Exploring Our World

The Exploring our Wold Busy Book is designed to take your child on a journey to explore our wonderful world and all it entails.

This Busy Book will fill your child’s mind and desires to know what, why and how about the most common occurrences in our world. It will inspire your child to seek out more knowledge, to question more, to learn more and to explore more about their world around them.

The Exploring our World Busy Book focuses on every day life occurrences as well as some out of this world ones too.  It doesn’t stop there! They will discover all this whilst also developing life skills and a wealth of knowledge that will help their world around them make sense and seem so much more interesting!

Starting with Science

The Starting with Science Busy Book is for the curious child who likes to ask questions about the world around them. This book helps children find the answers to their questions and facilitates them thinking scientifically.

The foundation of science is asking questions. This Busy Books aims to help children learn the process of how to answer their questions in a fun and engaging way. It will further inspire your child to ask more questions about the way the world works and includes ways that they can experiment and seek their answers at home.

The Starting with Science Busy Book includes a variety of activities based on the main branches of science: Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Environmental science. This Busy Book helps children understand that science is all around us and incorporated into our everyday life. It gives them a basic scientific foundation to build on further at school.

This Busy Books is aimed for children aged 6-10 years of ages however there are many activities that children outside their age range can engage in.

Fundamentals of Multiplication

Fundamentals of Multiplication –The Fundaments of Multiplication Busy Book has 20 fun activities to assist children in learning the fundamentals of multiplication.

The Activity goals of the Fundamentals of Multiplication Busy Book, are aligned to the Australian National Curriculum, for Stage 1 and 2.

The aim of the Busy Book is for your child to begin to develop a number of fundamental strategies to understand Multiplication. The Fundamentals of Multiplication Busy Books includes activities for children to practice a number of Multiplication strategies such as skip counting, arrays, rows and groups of, doubles, repeated addition and factors and multiples. Children usually begin exploring some of these elements in their first year of formal schooling.

Learning how to multiply is more than just memorising your times tables. To be a successful mathematician you must understand how and why you got the answer. This Busy Book works through strategies at increasing difficulties and can be adapted to suit children of varying abilities. It is suitable for children aged 7+.

The content of this Busy Book was created by Primary School teacher Stephanie Menegakis. To learn more about Stephanie please click here.

Fundamentals of Division

Fundamentals of Division – The Fundamentals of Division Busy Book has 20 fun activities to assist children in learning the fundamentals of division.

The Activity goals of the Fundamentals of Division Busy Book, are aligned to the Australian National Curriculum, for Stage 1 and 2.

Division is the inverse operation of multiplication. Many children believe they cannot divide, however we believe that they have not been able to make the link between both multiplication and division yet.

The aim of the Busy Book is for your child to begin to develop a number of fundamental strategies to understand Division, both on its own and as the inverse operation of multiplication. It works through strategies at increasing difficulties beginning with understanding division as sharing equally, before moving onto identifying and solving problems with remainders.

The Division Busy Book also allows children to complete an open-ended task to further extend and develop their skills. It is suited for children 7+ and can be adapted to suit children of varying abilities.

The content of this Busy Book was created by Primary School teacher Stephanie Menegakis. To learn more about Stephanie please click here.