Study guides
Find a skill to practise with your child, or an activity to help you teach it at home.
Writing
Help ideas become clear paragraphs and stories.
Student guides
TEEL method
Develop one reason with a topic sentence, explanation, example and link.
PEEL method
Choose useful evidence and explain how it supports your point.
CER method
Connect a claim to its support and check the limits of your reasoning.
Plan a persuasive text
Give your introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion a clear job.
Persuasive language
Choose questions, repetition and emotive details that support your reason.
Persuasive introductions
Start close to the issue and make your position clear.
Persuasive conclusions
Bring your reasons together and finish with a supported final thought.
Story mountain
Build connected events towards a turning point and an ending.
Story map
Choose a character, setting and problem that work together.
Narrative openings
Compare action, dialogue and setting openings for the same story.
Show, don't tell
Develop important moments through action, speech and specific details.
Paragraphing
Show your reader when the reason, action, time or speaker changes.
Teach it at home
Help your child develop persuasive writing reasons
Turn a child's opinion into a persuasive reason with clear explanations and honest examples. Try a short activity that builds the thinking first.
Help your child edit writing without taking over
Guide your child through editing for meaning, sentences and spelling without rewriting their work. Try an original before-and-after activity.
Help your child plan a story they can finish
Plan a manageable story with your child using a character, goal, problem and connected ending. Includes an original example and a simple activity.
How to teach a TEEL paragraph at home
Help your child build a TEEL paragraph with a clear point, explanation, example and link. Includes parent prompts and a short writing activity.
Reading
Read closely, find clues and explain an answer.
Student guides
Teach it at home
How to teach author's purpose using everyday texts
Help your child explain why a writer chose their words, using everyday texts, original examples and a ten-minute activity with evidence-based answers.
Help your child find the main idea of a text
Teach your child to separate a text's topic, main idea and supporting details. Use an original passage, parent prompts and a quick check together.
How to teach reading inference at home
Help your child connect text clues to a supported inference. Includes parent questions, an original passage and an explained practice answer.
Help your child work out word meaning from context
Help your child use nearby sentences to work out unfamiliar word meanings, test a sensible replacement and know when a dictionary is needed.
Numeracy
Make maths visible before reaching for a rule.
Student guides
Teach it at home
How to explain area and perimeter to your child
Help your child tell area and perimeter apart by tracing a rectangle's edge, counting square units and comparing shapes with the same area.
How to explain equivalent fractions to your child
Teach equivalent fractions with equal-sized paper strips, clear examples and a short activity that helps your child explain why fractions match.
How to connect fractions, decimals and percentages
Show your child how one quarter, 0.25 and 25% represent the same value using a hundred-square grid, clear explanations and a matching activity.
How to help your child with maths word problems
Help your child solve maths word problems by retelling the story, drawing what happens and checking each step with a simple pencil-pack example.
How to teach elapsed time with a number line
Help your child calculate elapsed time by counting forward through the hour, with a number-line example, practice questions and clear answers.
How to teach your child to read a graph
Teach your child to read a column graph by checking its title, labels and scale, then finding and comparing values in an original pet-vote example.
How to teach multiplication with arrays
Use counters in equal rows to teach multiplication, connect it with division and help your child explain times tables with a simple array.
Spelling, grammar and punctuation
Use small examples to make the rules make sense.
Student guides
Teach it at home
How to help your child fix run-on sentences
Help your child find and repair run-on sentences with a complete-thought check, original examples and a ten-minute editing activity at home.
How to teach apostrophes without guessing
Teach your child when apostrophes show missing letters or ownership, with clear examples, a ten-minute sorting activity and explained answers.
How to teach direct speech punctuation at home
Teach speech marks, commas and question marks with a short conversation, clear explanations and a ten-minute dialogue activity for your child.
How to teach spelling with word families
Help your child spell related words by finding base words and meaningful endings, with a ten-minute word-building activity and checked examples.
How to teach their, there and they're
Help your child choose their, there or they're by checking meaning, with original sentences, a ten-minute activity and answers that explain why.
Understanding NAPLAN
What the 2026 NAPLAN results actually say
Numeracy rose in Years 5, 7 and 9, reading fell, and Year 3 numeracy dropped. What the national 2026 results mean for one child.
How NAPLAN writing is actually marked
NAPLAN writing is scored criterion by criterion, not as one overall impression. Here are the criteria, and what they mean for how your child practises.
What NAPLAN tests, and when your child sits it
The four NAPLAN domains, the year levels that sit it, when the test window falls, and what the four proficiency levels on the report actually mean.