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Users will enjoy completing the mazes, decoding activities, colouring books and dress up activities, at the same time learning more about and reinforcing their knowledge of the characters.

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I spy challenges children to find objects hidden throughout thematic pages by reading a rhyming riddle. Make your own gives children pointers for creating their own picture and writing a traditional rhyming riddle to match it. In Oops hoops children race against time to classify objects into multiple hoops. The games develop essential skills such as visual discrimination, reading, mathematical concepts, logic and reasoning, associative thinking, vocabulary building, rhyming, visual memory, problem solving and strategic thinking.

The primary focus of this electronic book is nursery rhymes.

Students can participate through: Kids gallery (students can post their own class project), Storybook (individual children's stories are posted here); and Penpal box and Bulletin board accessed through the Kids? space connection link.

Life on the Australian goldfields is a Stage 3 resource, which aims to achieve specific outcomes from the Human Society and its Environment K-6 Syllabus. Students investigate and report on life on the Australian goldfields during the 1850s from the perspective of women, children, Aboriginal people, Chinese people and miners.

Here is a site that teachers can incorporate into lesson plans and activities for young students.

MyRead supports teachers of underperforming students in the middle years (Years 4-9).

Developed for NSW country schools, the site promotes the achievement of skills in the information search process. It is ideal for cooperative programming and teaching for teacher librarians and classroom teachers.

This Australian site celebrates online curriculum projects and the world of unique learning opportunities such projects offer students and teachers.
Search, browse or add your own online project to the project registry. Use the calendar to see when projects are running. Access support resources and a range of online tools for your online projects.

The Challenge is for all students in New South Wales in Years 5 to 8. The Challenge was instituted by the Premier of NSW, the Hon Bob Carr, as a way of encouraging an interest in reading. The Premier will give a certificate to all students who rise to the Challenge.

Raps offer an opportunity for students to participate in online discussions about books, topics, issues or events. Check the web site regularly for current and future raps as well as archived raps for English classes K-12.

Science links, Meet Sebastian, Literacy links, Read the big books, Check the pin board, and Teachers' page, contain great ideas and cross curricular lesson plans which can easily be adapted to NSW syllabus outcomes.

From the main page explore: the Reading area, where concepts such as letter recognition, letter sounds and rhyming words are treated.

Moving pictures with matching text, phonological cues, highlighted click on words, and audio reinforcement, are prompts to enable independent access by young readers. Fifteen short stories will delight with their vibrancy, while other activities also make learning to read an entertaining experience. Free downloads, printing of writing journals and copies of the featured online books, provide reinforcement to develop phonemic awareness, sight vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

Each theme features a story, an online activity, a take home craft activity and a suggested book list.

Its mission is to instill in children a love of reading and creative thinking by providing an interactive alternative to TV viewing and video gaming that makes reading fun.

This resource has been designed for use with the Technology (Mandatory) Years 7-8 Syllabus. Students define and exemplify important elements of web site design through an investigation of four zoo web sites. The investigation questions could be applied to any web site and be incorporated into units of work across the Key Learning Areas.