The ELSA Teaching Subscriptions provide teachers with everything they need to implement the program in their classroom. This includes planned and prepared content for every lesson, 5 days a week for 36 weeks of Years F–2. Every teacher at your school using ELSA will each need a 12-month license to the Teaching Subscription.
The key components of the ELSA Teaching Subscription are:
On- demand Teacher Training
ELSA offers comprehensive, engaging training and support through its Teaching Subscription, providing on-demand coaching every day of the year. This flexible, affordable service includes over 35 easy-to-digest training videos, presented by experienced educators, and categorized according to the E-model, all designed with key learning principles in mind.
Daily front-of-class presentations and lesson plans
The ELSA Teaching subscription includes daily front-of-class presentations for Foundation and Year 1, clearly labeled by year, week, and day. These presentations provide all necessary content, guide teachers and students step-by-step, use a consistent structure and illustrations, and include interactive elements to keep lessons engaging and fast-paced.
Assessment and Intervention support
ELSA provides comprehensive assessment materials for Foundation and Year 1 to identify and address gaps in sound knowledge and reading skills. These include Progress Monitoring Assessments, Diagnostic Assessments, and Year 1 Phonics Screening Check Practice Assessments.
Assessments focus on GPC knowledge, reading skills, and more. ELSA emphasizes proactive support, with daily intervention activities and one-on-one interventions for students needing additional help.
Printable classroom resources
There are many printable classroom resources available through the Teaching Subscription. These include: Harder to Read and Spell Word Cards, Grapheme Tiles and Sound Mats.
They are used during lessons as well as in
assessment and interventions. These can also
be used for review outside of the ELSA lessons.
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ELSA’s structured approach means that these classroom resources are used in a consistent way in every lesson, reducing cognitive load for students and maximising success.
Grapheme Cards
$39.95 each
Use these front-of-class every day of the week as part of the ELSA’s consistent lesson structure.
These activity books are used by students during each lesson, are an essential support for reading, writing and spelling and are available in the various state specific handwriting fonts
The ELSA eLibrary school subscription makes digital reading practice easy, with titles matched to each week of the ELSA progression across Foundation and Year 1.
The readers include include stimulating and engaging stories and characters that reflect the diversity of student's communities and classrooms. The eLibrary includes a broad array of fiction and non-fiction stories all aligned to Letters and Sounds.
Teachers can simply assign relevant titles to students. Oxford’s decodable range, including Oxford Reading for Comprehension Decodables, Hero Academy: Non-Fiction and Alien Adventures, can be used alongside the program.
The Essential Letters and Sounds Australia Foundation and Year 1 Pack provides decodable readers perfectly matched to the ELSA Scope & Sequence for every week of the program. Students will read one book in pairs during the explicit teaching weeks (one book between two students), and two or more books in pairs across each review week (one book between two students).
The packs include titles from many different series aligned to Letters and Sounds and include a range of engaging fiction and non-fiction titles.
Each Pack contains over 500 readers. VIEW THE PACKSREQUEST A QUOTE
ELSA Phonic Readers are a series of brand new, fully-decodable books providing a
new book for every week of Foundation and Year 1, with an additional book for every
review week.
The 91 new titles feature engaging cross-curricular topics and
exciting stories that your students will love!