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We've Transitioned to Instant Downloads for all Digital Products
All our eBooks and software unlock codes are now instantly downloadable once the shopping cart processes your payment. Unfortunately, this service upgrade comes with us having to discontinue delayed payment options (such as payments via direct bank deposit) but on the upside, we've cut prices, added more free items and hope to soon absorb credit card and Paypal fees. Clickable download hot links now show on processed orders/invoices and/or in My Account>Downloadable Products, active 5 times each within 30 days.
First Aid has moved to Trusted First Aid (Incorporating School First Aid).
Please go to: https://www.trustedfirstaid.com.au/
We've minimised disruption for all first aid customers because you can log into your account there with your same username and password. Products and codes are the same. Existing Reward Points preserved here (for our educational supplies) and also transferred to Trusted First Aid. Only main change will be the new Trusted First Aid (Incorporating School First Aid) contacts and different payment details on their website and invoices.
Waddington Diagnostic Standard and Advanced Reading and Spelling Tests 1 & 2
Make 2024 and 2025 Count! The most important testing a teacher can do to efficiently define student abilities and quickly establish structured programs.
Australia's most reliable reading and spelling tests for quickly and efficiently pin-pointing a student's critical reading and spelling age as well as diagnosing foundation skills and highlighting phases to be targeted for teaching and learning programs. Proven across three decades, this Third Edition holds data well established before the pandemic disrupted student learning. There's no other classroom teacher-based testing device more efficient, or more detailed in diagnosis of reading and spelling, so easily administered in under one hour. These tests put teachers back in control of student testing and diagnosis where individual student ability is assessed by the professional classroom practitioner and not left to computers with unknown/detached construction or methodologies devoid of valid standardized processes.
Includes advanced reading tests and advanced spelling test sections with references to explicit teaching strategies and follow-up student learning resource materials.
- 11th February 2024 A Grattan Institute report says one third of Australia's 4 million school children are being failed by an education system that persists with discredited theories to teach reading. Governments and school systems are being urged to commit to what's known as "structured literacy", a mix of direct instruction and phonics. Report from an example school.
- 26th January 2024 Newsweek Report - "Students Who Still Take Notes by Hand Better Off, Say Neurologists." Further evidence in support of my belief that student handwriting is extraordinarily important, especially in the learning to read and write stages, and must never be replaced only by electronic devices.
Given the massive disruption to student learning across Australia due to the pandemic, as evidenced by;
- Late 2023 NAPLAN results highlighted one in three school children are not meeting literacy and numeracy expectations
- Early 2023 reports showing schools going backwards nationally and that the 2018 national education strategy doing little to improve student learning outcomes in literacy and mathematics
- Students flat-lining and going backwards since 2011
- Other recent NAPLAN reports showing the gap in results had widened over time between metropolitan, regional and remote students including high and low socio-educational groups.
Waddington reliable classroom-based, teacher-driven testing is more important than ever before. Experienced teachers know how well they quickly and efficiently identify and diagnose student skill foundations, without solely labelling children, ranking schools or leaving teachers in the lurch when difficult student cases emerge.
FREE Base Words Level A
A straight-forward, easy to implement spelling program containing 34 units of spelling work covering the first 400 commonly used words, in order of frequency. Uses an easy instruction format and incorporates low-level essential grammar tasks for key words and concepts covered. Not only is this resource currently free, the information page contains key planning tips for remote learning. There has never been a better time to make sure all students in need of spelling practise, know the first 400 commonly used words in the English language.
FREE c21 Communication eBooks For all Australian states - fully editable with MS Word. 2024 UPDATE NOW AVAILABLE! This resource teaches students how to plan and use a diary, which they control and share with parents, whilst also documenting their own reading, tests, work examples and progress evidence through-out any given school year. FREE to all buyers of the Waddington Diagnostic Standard and Adsvanced Reading & Spelling Tests Third Edition (ONE teacher or SITE registration) - Download link is on page 128/130. Our Communication eBook updates have currently assisted over 2,200 schools/teachers alone!
FREE Basic First Aid Notes - 4th August 2023 UPDATE
4th August 2023 update is essentially the same as 1st June 2023 update and includes recent ARC updates for Burns, Fainting (referred to as Presyncope) and Hyperventilation (Rapid Breathing). Also includes January 2023 first aid inclusions for earache, ear injury (such as bug in ear) and wax removal. Strategies covered are safe and very effective, without poking anything into the ear canal.
- First Aid references and further information: ARC - Australian Resuscitation Council website. The ARC has tagged July 2024 for review of all ANZCOR Guidelines.
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