Classroom Library Starter Kit (Foundation)

Stock a Foundation classroom library with fifteen recent titles chosen for first-year readers. Five decodable reader sets (Phase 2 and Phase 3 fiction and non-fiction, plus a six-copy guided-reading pack) give students books they can read independently as they learn their sounds, alongside picture books to share including Australian and First Nations stories a treasury of favourite tales, a first encyclopedia and two dinosaur non-fiction books for browsing. Four plastic book tubs are included for sorting the collection.

The kit includes:

• Decodable readers Phase 2 fiction set
• Decodable readers Phase 3 fiction set
• Decodable readers Phase 3 non-fiction set
• Decodable readers non-fiction set
• Picture book the icky sticky frog
• Picture book the lost dino egg
• Treasury of favourite tales
• Decodable reader Pip the kitten (6 copies for guided reading)
• Picture book baking a cake with Gran
• Picture book Kevin the sheep
• First Nations picture book days of warmth
• Picture book tractors in space
• My first encyclopedia
• Lift-the-flap book dinosaurs and prehistoric life
• Look-and-find picture book dinosaurs
• Plastic book tub (blue)
• Plastic book tub (yellow)
• Plastic book tub (red)
• Plastic book tub (lime green)

Key details:

• Year level: Foundation
• Curriculum focus: English reading for pleasure, decodable reading
• Group size: Whole class
• Ships as loose parts