Foundation Year Teaching Resources
Teach Starter has an extensive collection of Foundation year resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum. They have been created for primary school children aged four through to six years, featuring simple and clear layouts, minimal text, interactive elements, appealing images and colourful illustrations. The collection encompasses a range of resource types and student activities including worksheets, posters, educational games, interactive PowerPoints, engaging widgets and so much more! Using Teach Starter resources in your classroom will help your foundation students communicate with peers, teachers and known adults, assisting with the development of independence, speaking, listening, language and comprehension skills as they begin the smooth transition to the early years of school life. In their first year of education, a child should develop understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning, and observe and explore the world around them.
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Fuzzy Friends Repeating Pattern Activity Cards
Repeating pattern activity cards using coloured pompoms.
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Gum Leaves Themed Desk Name Plates
Gum leaves-themed desk plates with the alphabet, a number line and a space for your student’s name.
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Decodable Text Worksheets – Common Consonant Digraphs (Set 1)
A set of 10 decodable text worksheets for early readers.
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Segmenting and Blending Mats
A set of beautifully designed templates for students to practise blending and segmenting words.
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Scissor Cutting Skills Strips
A set of 6 different lined strips to assist in developing students’ scissor skills.
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Scissor Cutting Skills Pages
A set of 7 different lined pages to assist in developing students' scissor skills.
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Character Traits, Feelings and Appearance - Posters
A set of 3 posters depicting words and phrases that can be used to describe a character's personality, feelings and appearance.
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Subitising Game — Memory
Use this subitising game to help your students learn to quickly subitise numbers 1 - 12.
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Alphabet Playdough Mats for Fine Motor Development
A set of alphabet playdough mats to help children develop their fine motor skills and identify the letters of the alphabet.
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Directional Arrows Algorithm Game
A game to help teach your students directional instructions in sequencing (algorithms).
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Step by Step Introductory Worksheet for Algorithms - Pirate Adventure
A 1 page worksheet for students to use when learning how to write an algorithm.
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Left Right Hand Posters
A set of posters highlighting left and right.
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Stars - Tray Labels
Star themed tray labels.
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Personal Recounts Worksheet - My Wonderful Weekend
A simple text and worksheet to use when exploring personal recounts.
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School Font Tracing Alphabet with Arrows
Full page upper and lower case alphabet letters with arrows for tracing.
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Story Boarding Template
A template for use when constructing story boards.
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Maths Group Activity Shapes Borders – 8 Shapes/Colours
A set of 8 shape/colour geometry themed group borders to use with your class.
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1 to 20 Number Match-Up Puzzles
A set of 20 match-up puzzles to help students identify the numbers from 1 to 20.
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Open-Ended Maths Problem Solving PowerPoint - Lower Primary
A PowerPoint with 20 open-ended problem solving questions covering a range of mathematical concepts.
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Fine Motor Animal Match-Up Activity
A fun activity using wooden pegs and pictures of animals to develop fine motor skills.
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Oxford Wordlist Mats - Words 1 to 354
A set of five Oxford Wordlist Mats to assist students with their reading and spelling.
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Dotted Numbers 0-10 Handwriting Worksheet
Get your students writing numbers from 0-10 with this number formation worksheet available in Australian school fonts.
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Reading Corner Poster - Books
A poster to indicate your classrooms reading corner.
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Book Week Display Banner
Make your classroom display board shine this Book Week with this display banner!
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Australian Dollars - Monetary Themed Classroom Reward System
An Australian Dollars monetary themed classroom reward system using $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 notes and Reward Tokens.
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Whole Body Listening Posters
A set of posters highlighting the characteristics of a good listener.
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National Literacy Learning Progression Trackers - Reading and Viewing
Individual student and whole class trackers using the Reading and Viewing National Literacy Learning Progression indicators.
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Reading Conference Recording Sheet
An editable recording sheet to use during reading conferences across all grades.
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National Literacy Learning Progression Trackers - Speaking and Listening
Individual student and whole class trackers using the Speaking and Listening National Literacy Learning Progression indicators.
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Fast Finisher Numeracy Task Cards - Foundation
A set of 16 numeracy task cards.
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Literacy Assessment Tracker - Vocabulary Knowledge (NSW)
A literacy assessment tool to monitor student progress for vocabulary knowledge.
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Sight Word Cards - Dolch Primer
Dolch primer sight words on flash cards.