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