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Medium Term Plan - South Africa
The attached PDF outlines the EdShed Phonics and Spelling Medium Term Plans for Stages R, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. It details weekly spelling and phonics content across four terms for each stage, covering environmental sounds, motor skills, initial ...EdShed South African Curriculum Overview
This document provides a term-by-term breakdown of the EdShed phonics and spelling curriculum for Stages R through 2. It outlines weekly learning objectives, associated songs, character books, and decodable readers. The overview supports teachers in ...EdShed South African Teacher Guide
The EdShed Teacher Guide is a practical and detailed manual designed to support educators in effectively using the EdShed platform, particularly Spelling Shed. It provides step-by-step instructions for managing accounts, assigning and customising ...EdShed Phonics and Spelling Guidance (ZA)
EdShed Phonics and Spelling Guidance (ZA) This comprehensive guide from EdShed is designed to support the teaching of phonics and spelling in South African schools. Aligned with the CAPS curriculum for English Home Language, the resource spans the ...Getting Started with Phonics Shed
1. Getting your account set up - download a full Phonics Shed guide here Add the children and teachers in your school and have them organised into the classes you need. If you already have an EdShed product, such as Spelling Shed or MathShed, and ...
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What do the Assignment Rank symbols mean?
Students have an Assignment Rank for each assignment that represents their competence. There are six available ranks and they are worked out in slightly different ways for Spelling Shed and Maths Shed. Spelling Shed takes the number of correct ...How to play the game
Game play is simple and intuitive. Choose your age phase or custom list. Choose the level of difficulty. Your 10 spellings will appear and be read to you. In easy mode, press 'Go' and then choose the letters from the list in the correct order. Press ...Do I need to buy the app to play the games at home?
No. Our subscription to Maths and Spelling Shed include unlimited access to our online game at no additional cost, which functions on all current desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile devices. Many schools and parents do choose to buy the app also but ...How to make lists available to pupils.
In addition to pupils' own lists, they can view any lists that have been set as favourite. Teachers can favourite any lists they choose or create for pupils e.g. topic vocabulary or HFW practice. 1. Go to the Main Account Home Page, click the yellow ...Scoring, honeypots and how to reward children
We have several different ways of scoring on Spelling Shed and MathShed: Shed Score This is the main score used for leagues and is the total score from the past seven days. This may go down as well as up. It is rolling total which is calculated live ...