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A great activity for teaching onomatopoeia and creating a fun new Openers resource for the classroom kit too.

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Tracey asked for a further explanation of higher-order expression in reference to Level 2 of the criterion scale. Read how...

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A new course has just been added... but just what is Prompt Planning? Read on to find out more.

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They are finally live!! Please meet our First Nations VCOP Gang.

Anyone else obsessed with Wordle? How about a custom version!

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Well we had another long drive consisting of a quite vast landscape where a regular game of eye spy just...

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More text exploring happening in the 3yr old Kinder room today. Has anything exciting been happening in your educational setting?

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