PM Oral Literacy

Introduction

The PM Oral Literacy series provides students with the essential skills and strategies they need to be confident speakers and effective listeners. Recognising the fundamental importance of continuous oral and aural skill development throughout primary school, this series spans the first year of primary school
through to Year 7.

Students at all years and all levels – Emergent, Early, Developing, Consolidating
and Extending – will benefit from using these amazing resources.

PM Little Plays

Adapted from 30 all-time favourite PM titles, the PM Little Plays have been specifically crafted for early readers (levels 6 to 14). Students will love performing as their favourite PM characters. They can choose from Jolly Roger, Baby Bear, Jack and Billy and so many more! Role playing and story dramatisation are an essential skill in developing the oral literacy skills of early readers. The PM Little Plays motivate students to project and adapt their voices, while exploring the meaning of these carefully levelled texts. Comprehensive teaching notes are included on the inside front cover of each book.

PM Sequencing Card Box Sets

The PM Sequencing Card Boxes enable students to tell their favourite PM Stories in their own words. The textless cards featured within each box introduce students to the structure of stories by focusing on a beginning, a middle and an end, and retelling a narrative in a sequential story.

The PM Sequencing Cards Emergent Box Set consists of 10 sets of sequencing cards which range from Levels 3 – 5 (five cards per set). The PM Sequencing Cards Early Box Set consists of 20 sets of sequencing cards ranging from Levels 6–14 (five cards per set).

Each Sequencing Cards Box Set contains an IWB CD-ROM with digital versions of the sequencing cards. There are three separate functions:

Structuring – focuses on the beginning, middle and end of a story
Sequencing – teaches children the logical sequence of a story
Writing – allows students to write their own story.

Software Compatibility

Using PM Sequencing Cards in the classroom

Watch how a group of students interact with Baby Bear Goes Fishing sequencing cards to:

establish the characters in the text
predict what will happen next
determine the orientation, complication, series of events and resolution
explore the grammatical structures used in the text.

Digital sequencing cards in the classroom

Watch how the digital sequencing cards can be used to develop the structure of the narrative.

PM Reader's Theatre

The Reader's Theatre titles allow students to dramatise some of their favourite PM stories, along with some brand new ones! There are 30 titles available which range from Levels 15–30.

The following Reader's Theatre titles at Consolidating and Extending level comprise two plays in the one book:

The Carnival Horse & The Kindest Family
Owls in the Garden & The Secret Hideaway
Car Trouble & The Fishing Trip
Riding the Skateboard Ramps & Penguin Rescue
The Talent Quest & Rory’s Big Chance
A Cunning Plan & The Holiday Nobody Wanted
The Goats go to School & Lost on the Goldfields
The Roman Coin & Wa Sugoi, Yuki
Busking Blues & Movie Mania
The Unforgettable Un-Adventure & The Yeti Trap
Best Buddies & One of the Girls
Class Captain 2088 & Robot Recycling Day
Visit to the Doctor & The Star of the Show
A Pirate Story & Mythical Creatures
The Red Diamond & Alex’s Secret Mission

PM Exploring Vocabulary Big Books with IWB Software

There are seven big books each with IWB software across the five levels of PM Oral Literacy (Emergent, Early, Developing, Consolidating and Extending). The big books feature stunning full-colour photographs and illustrations.

The PM Exploring Vocabulary Big Books and DVDs focus on developing and reinforcing vocabulary and spoken sentence structures so students can become confident speakers and effective listeners.

The PM Exploring Vocabulary Emergent DVD includes:

Animations of the PM characters
Movable and blank labels allowing students to insert their own words, as well as professionally recorded audio voiceovers of the texts
Comprehensive teaching notes and activities to ensure that new learning is carefully developed and reinforced.

The PM Exploring Vocabulary Early DVD features:

Professionally recorded audio voiceovers so students can hear the texts read aloud
Videos designed to initiate conversation in the classroom
Discussion questions to develop students’ speaking and listening skills
Texts presented in the form of sentence starters which can be completed digitally and the completed texts printed out
Comprehensive teaching notes and activities to ensure that new learning is carefully developed and reinforced.

The PM Rhymes Big Book and CD-ROM and the PM Finger Poems and Verses Big Book and DVD enhance students' phonemic awareness and understanding of poems and rhymes, and expose them to new words.

The PM Rhymes CD and Finger Poems and Verses DVD include:

Audio so children can listen and recite or sing along to their favourite rhyme or poem
Subtitled videos that show classroom children performing the actions of each poem.

Software Compatibility

PM Exploring Vocabulary Cards Box Sets

The PM Exploring Vocabulary Cards Box Sets feature 4-page literacy cards plus an accompanying instruction card designed to further develop the skills acquired from the PM Exploring Vocabulary Big Books. The cards allow students to practise reading aloud, explore new vocabulary, ask questions (literal and inferential) of a text and listen to and follow instructions.

Packaged in a handy box set, there are 3 box sets across the middle/upper PM Oral Literacy levels - Developing, Consolidating and Extending. Each box set contains:

20 4-page text cards (2 copies of each card)
20 2-page student instruction cards that correspond to the text cards
a CD-ROM with electronic copies of the cards, audio, instructions, activity sheets and teacher notes.

The two texts featured on each text card are written to the same guided reading level and are of a similar theme, but are different text types.

The first text is a completed text designed for use in guided activities; the second provides a text starter for independent use.

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Student Levelling

How the student levelling works

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