Elsie Nelley

Who ate the big jar of butter? Mouse is upset when she finds that someone has eaten all of her butter.

Jolly Roger climbs a tree to get coconuts for everyone.

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The PM Teacher's Guides offer invaluable support and guidance to help you gain the maximum benefit from each of the Story Books, Non-fiction Books and Traditional Tales and Plays.

The PM Teacher's Guides offer invaluable support and guidance to help you gain the maximum benefit from each of the Story Books, Non-fiction Books and Traditional Tales and Plays.

The PM Teacher's Guides offer invaluable support and guidance to help you gain the maximum benefit from each of the Story Books, Non-fiction Books and Traditional Tales and Plays.

The PM Teacher's Guides offer invaluable support and guidance to help you gain the maximum benefit from each of the Story Books, Non-fiction Books and Traditional Tales and Plays.

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The PM Writing Exemplars for Teaching Writing are large format books designed to help teachers model the conventions of written language in whole-class and small-group sessions. The books provide the initial introduction to each text type, presenting and deconstructing exemplars of the 9 text types taught across the 4 levels. The Exemplars for Teaching Writing form the start of the PM Writing suggested teaching pathways. The material presented in these books is reinforced through use of the Interactive Writing Pro Formas and Student Books. Each of the exemplar texts is presented over three double-page spreads. First spread - text presentation. Second spread - the text structure of the text type is deconstructed using colour-coding. Teacher Focus notes are provided at the top right-hand side of the spread, highlighting key teaching points and questions. Third spread - selected language features of the text type are highlighted. Teacher Focus notes are provided at the top right-hand side of the spread, highlighting key teaching points and questions.

PM Writing has been specifically developed for use in the early years of schooling. The PM Writing Teachers' Resource Books have been developed to explicitly teach writing skills and knowledge across a range of student abilities in the first three years of schooling. The specific learning tasks included in the program make it appropriate for the whole class, small-group or individual teaching and learning sessions. Each Teachers' Resource Book contains: comprehensive lesson plans based on the exemplars for teaching and writing, levelled exemplar texts, student books and Interactive writing pro formas; theme-based lesson plans; listening and speaking activities; writing assessment guidelines; an analysis of writing samples across the three key stages of early writing development - early, developing and consolidating/extending; scope and sequence of learning outcomes in the first three years of school; links to other books within the PM collection. Contains: PM Writing Interactive Writing Pro Formas (on CD-ROM) - featuring scaffolded pro formas for each of the key text types, ideal for whole-class and small-group use on interactive whiteboards and data projectors; PM Writing Lesson Planner (on CD-ROM) - allowing teachers to organise lesson plans and assign small-group reading and writing tasks to students; and PM Writing Teaching in Practise (on DVD) - featuring indexed professional development videos that demonstrate teaching strategies for whole-class modelled and small-group guided writing sessions.

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The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resources have been specifically designed to explicitly assess students instructional and independent reading levels using unseen, meaningful texts. By providing accurately levelled fiction and non-fiction texts ranging progressively from emergent levels to reading age 12, teachers are able to rigourously access students fluency and retelling strategies while determining their comprehension within and beyond the text.

The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resources have been specifically designed to explicitly assess students instructional and independent reading levels using unseen, meaningful texts. By providing accurately levelled fiction and non-fiction texts ranging progressively from emergent levels to reading age 12, teachers are able to rigourously access students fluency and retelling strategies while determining their comprehension within and beyond the text.

The PM Plus Teachers' Guide Silver Levels 23-25 provides suggestions for small-group teaching using the chapter books and non-fiction titles. Each set of teachers notes includes text features of each book including key vocabulary, grammatical conventions, spelling and visual literacy components a variety of comprehension questions at the literal, inferential and critical levels suggested activities for going beyond the text two blackline masters for each text designed to provide practice in specific reading and writing skills a computer task blackline master to enhance students' understanding of the text using ICT skills. The Teachers' Guide also provides ideas for assessment and an overview of a balanced reading program.

The PM Plus Teachers' Guide Gold Levels 21-23 provides suggestions for small-group teaching using the chapter books and non-fiction titles. Each set of teachers notes includes text features of each book including key vocabulary, grammatical conventions, spelling and visual literacy components a variety of comprehension questions at the literal, inferential and critical levels suggested activities for going beyond the text two blackline masters for each text designed to provide practice in specific reading and writing skills a computer task blackline master to enhance students' understanding of the text using ICT skills. The Teachers' Guide also provides ideas for assessment and an overview of a balanced reading program.