Year 1
A brief introduction to your program.
Aussie Readers Year 1 builds on the foundations laid in the Kindergarten course. It begins with revising previously taught sounds, letters, tricky words and sentence structure. Then, more complex code is clearly introduced and modelled, with ample opportunities for guided and independent practise, to enhance your child’s reading, spelling and writing abilities. During Year 1, children will learn about nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and time connectives. Sentence structure will be further developed to include writing more comprehensive simple and compound sentences, and complex sentences will be explored. Children learn about different text genres and the features of each. They compose a range of texts, including poetry, descriptions, narratives, summaries, information reports and persuasive arguments. Handwriting remains an important focus as children practise writing letters with consistent size and formation. During Term 4, children are introduced to basic typing skills.
Storybook lessons continue in Year 1, where texts will provide opportunities to develop rich vocabulary, comprehension and purposeful application for writing.
Aussie Readers Year 1 is designed to be easy for parents and carers to use. The course covers all areas of the Australian curriculum for the second year of schooling, and includes all learning resources. Whether you are a first-time home schooler, or you’ve been doing it for years, you can rest assured that your child is receiving an excellent education in literacy.
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Science of Reading
The most effective reading programs explicitly teach phonological awareness, phonics and language comprehension skills.
Curriculum Links
This course covers all areas of the Australian Curriculum for English K-2 Syllabus, for Year 1.
Course Structure
The course is broken into 4 learning blocks, each with 10 weeks of lessons (including time for revision).
150 Educational Lesson Videos
Resources Included
All lesson worksheets, a handwriting book, 64 decodable readers, a dictionary, letter tiles and tricky word flashcards, are included in this program as digital downloads.
Why Choose Aussie Readers?
I am a qualified K-6 teacher, and have implemented this approach to teaching reading in the classroom over nine years. This has given me time to analyse what works well and to create a highly effective series of learning experiences. I know this approach works because the majority of the students I have taught have ended the year ‘Well Above’ expected outcomes. How was this measured? I used the internationally recognised reading assessment, DIBELS. You can find out more about this assessment here: https://dibels.uoregon.edu/dibels8
Kassi Gilmour
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Aussie Readers Year 1 builds on the foundations laid in the Kindergarten course. Year 1 begins with revising previously taught sounds, letters, tricky words and sentence structure. Then, more complex code is clearly introduced and modelled, with ample opportunities for guided and independent practice, to enhance your child’s reading, spelling and writing abilities. Your child will also experience different genres of texts and will examine the purpose and features of each.