Educational resources written by Ellie Hallett

Very Loud Stories – plays for a class of reading partners
(These stories are perfect for home reading parent/child bonding.)The Fox and the Crow
Henny Penny
Echo and Narcissus
King Midas and the Golden Touch
The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Readers’ Theatre Partner Plays

Who Will Bell the Cat?
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Jack and the beanstalk
The Fox and the Goat
The Gingerbread Man
Little Red Riding Hood
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
The Two Travellers
The Enormous Turnip
The Hare and the Tortoise
The Wind and the Sun
The Three Wishes
The Fox and the Crow
The Man, the Boy and the Donkey
The Ugly Duckling

LOUD Poetry for Shared and Class Reading and Performance

Toad
The Three Little Pigs in Rhyme
Captain
Storm!
Slick Limericks – 35 original limericks
Loud Poems for Noisy Kids

Scripted Plays illustrated with artworks

The Story of Pandora
The Riddle of the Sphinx

Oral Language and Speech

The World’s Toughest Tongue Twister
Mighty Mouth Movers Student Book
Mighty Mouth Movers Teaching Manual
Oral Language for Pre-Schoolers and Pre-Readers
Oral Language for Beginner Readers
Oral Language for Budding Actors

Classroom Management – Super Teacher Series

Getting to the Heart of Learning Problems
From Bully to Model Citizen
Fixing Bad Behaviour

The Reading Works Series

Vowels
Consonants
Blends
Digraphs
The Schwa
Silent Letters
Contractions
Homophones and Heteronyms
Uncountable Nouns (Collective and plural nouns without s on the end)
A-Z Letters and their Sounds
IPA Sounds and their Letters
Wonder Words (word families)
Nuts and Bolts – Literacy Teaching Manual

The Teach Yourself to Read Series

Bouncy Vowels
Consonants in Rhyme
CVC book – bus peg fan
CVC book – cat bag dog
CVC book – Is this a cat or a cot?
CVC book – Is this a fin or a fig?
Decoding four letter words – pond belt pram
Is this about kick or cake?
The other day I hurt my leg
Have you ever seen a flea jump over a knee?
Are these birds or beads?
One hot day I lost my hat.

The Loud Phonics Series

Alphabet sounds
CVC – a in the middle
CVC – e in the middle
CVC – i in the middle
CVC – o in the middle
CVC – u in the middle
y as a vowel – CVC and READER
Lots and LOTS of teaching ideas
CVC – a in the middle READER
CVC – e in the middle READER
CVC – i in the middle READER
CVC – o in the middle READER
CVC – u in the middle READER

Reading Works Charts (A2 Laminated)

The Letters and Sounds of the Basic Alphabet
Vowels
Consonants
Blends
Digraphs
The Schwa
Silent Letters
Contractions
Homophones and Heteronyms

(Note: A3 format individual charts and
A4 personal chart booklet available from Ellie on request.)

Music Books and Compositions

  • Accurate First Time Piano Scales (www.pianoscales.com.au)
  • We All Live in Australia – from the Dreamtime to the present time, we honour and cherish Australia because it is our home
  • Earth Song – We are riders together on this fragile planet – SATB a capella
  • When Your Pants Begin to Go – Words Henry Lawson
  • The Internet Song
  • It’s Time to Sing! (Children’s Songbook/Reader; Teaching Manual)
  • Learn to Read Music by Drawing – workbook
  • Music Lesson and Practice Logbook
  • The New Alphabet Song
  • Free articles and music downloads on www.musicworks.net.au

Musicals

The Fairy Who Wouldn’t Fly – based on Australian story by Pixie O’Harris
Over the Moon
Flying to the Rescue
A Tight Spot for Santa
Riders – a multicultural musical – click for details

Other books

Ten Pretty Butterflies – counting book
How to Draw the Sun (available on request)

Education

Grafton NSW High School
Wollongong Teachers’ College – Primary: two years full time
Sydney Conservatorium of Music – Secondary Music and English: four years full time (Dip.Mus.Ed. with Merit)
Piano Teacher Accreditation – Sydney Conservatorium of Music

In-service courses

Dorothy Heathcote Drama
Classroom Art and Creative Colour Techniques
Gifted and Talented Education
Orff Schulwerk Music
Kodaly music
Lindemood Literacy
Spalding Literacy
Speech, Poetry and Movement in Creative Performance

Choral Experiences

Member of various choirs from an early age; Sydney Opera House choir and orchestra performances conducted by Richard Gill; Sydney Philharmonia Choir; Performing Arts Association Choir, Coffs Harbour NSW.

Teaching summary

  • Khancoban Public School (Snowy Mountains NSW) class teacher
  • Manly Public School (Sydney) class teacher
  • St Mary’s College, Wollongong – Music Co-ordinator Yrs 7 to 10 and cathedral organist for school events; public concert organiser, organised coach travel and subscription ballet excursions to SOH over several years; piano accompanist for G and S performances
  • Ravenswood, Sydney Lower Primary music specialist, accompanist; musical play author and producer
  • Waterloo, Erskineville, Newtown – Three-year Disadvantaged Schools Program as a Years K – 6 Creative Arts Demonstration teacher, Art, Music and Drama. (twenty-two demonstration lessons per week; organised public art exhibitions, concerts and drama performances for the three schools)
  • Knox Grammar School – Yrs 1 – 4 Art teacher and later Year One class teacher; author and producer of end-of-year musical plays; accompanist for musicals and violin soloists
  • PLC Melbourne – Year 6 class teacher; commissioned to write a 90 minute multicultural musical play for Years Five and Six (which I wrote and composed)
  • Ascham, Sydney; Lower primary class music; integration of the creative and performance arts with literacy; (informal) consultant for high-level class Assembly items; wrote/composed/produced/directed end-of-year musicals.

Retired from class teaching – moved from Sydney to Coffs Harbour NSW

Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium – piano teacher Preliminary to Grade 8 – twelve years (part time)

President of 80-member Performing Arts Association choir and orchestra. Choir rehearsal accompanist and organ soloist. Designed and co-ordinated combined choir and orchestra concert programmes for public performances over six years (volunteer position).

Musicianship teacher – small group.

Choral Director and Accompanist – Coffs Harbour Conservatorium Singers; ‘Tone Deaf’ Choirs.

Moved to Toowoomba, Queensland in 2015 to continue as author and publisher.