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Program Components

Flying Start to Literacy is a comprehensive core literacy program. It supports the systematic development of reading strategies and skills of students.

The literacy resource comprises a variety of elements.

Phonics

A program of three explicit, systematic and supportive teaching modules supported by 70 decodable texts and other resources for the teacher.

The Phonics program bridges seamlessly into the Flying Start to Literacy reading resource featuring paired texts.

Big Books

Launch young readers into literacy through rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and highly predictive texts. Visually appealing, presenting familiar and favourite topics, the Big Books will be sure to delight your students

Paired Books

Not just paired, but connected.

Paired books address the same concepts, vocabulary and high-frequency words in different text types and sentence structure to reinforce your students reading strategies.

Vocabulary Starters

These laminated cards provide direct reading support to your young students from Pre-school – Year 1.

Perspectives Books

Flying Start to Literacy: Perspectives present short, point-of-view texts exploring the issues raised by the big ideas in the accompanying paired texts. It will extend your students’ thinking with additional views of the issue.

Lesson Plans

The Lesson Plans for each pair of books integrate oral language, vocabulary development, fluency and comprehension, when appropriate to the reading level. The comprehensive Lesson Plans also include writing components as an integral part of each lesson.

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Oxford University Press

For Early Literacy (Australia)
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Eleanor Cutain Publishing

International
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Quaderno

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Folens

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