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Visual, interactive literacy teaching resources that combine concept unpacking and ready-to-teach instruction in one powerful teaching tool.

Literacy Lesson Launchers are part of the Lesson Launchers collection within Teach Screen.

Designed for use on interactive whiteboards, projectors and classroom displays, Literacy Lesson Launchers help teachers teach literacy concepts through modelling, discussion, oral language and guided practice.

More than a lesson plan and more than a set of teaching slides, Literacy Lesson Launchers combine both. Each resource unpacks a literacy concept into the key understandings, vocabulary, learning steps and teaching points required for deep understanding, while also providing the visual teaching slides needed to deliver the learning.

The result is a practical, ready-to-teach resource that saves teachers time, supports high-quality instruction and helps students build meaningful literacy understanding and confidence.

Why We Created Literacy Lesson Launchers

Teachers do not need more activities.

They need resources that help them understand what to teach, how literacy skills develop and how to guide students towards success.

Many literacy outcomes contain multiple concepts, skills and understandings hidden within a single curriculum statement. Identifying those teaching points, sequencing them logically and designing lessons around them can be one of the most time-consuming parts of planning.

Literacy Lesson Launchers were created to do that work for teachers.

Each Lesson Launcher carefully unpacks a literacy concept into the smaller learning steps students need to master before they can demonstrate full understanding. Teachers are provided with both the conceptual progression and the visual teaching resource needed to deliver it.

This means less time planning, more confidence when teaching and greater clarity about where students are succeeding or experiencing difficulty.

What’s Included?

While each Literacy Lesson Launcher focuses on a different literacy concept, many resources include:

• Teacher Information and Learning Progression Overview
• Curriculum-aligned concept unpacking
• Structured teaching sequence
• Explicit teaching slides
• Focus concepts broken into manageable learning steps
• Student-friendly learning intentions
• Success criteria and “I Can” statements
• Guided discussion opportunities
• Whole-class questioning prompts
• Visual representations that support understanding
• Opportunities to check for understanding
• Planning support for lessons, centres and follow-up activities

Each Lesson Launcher is designed to provide both the teaching roadmap and the teaching resource, helping teachers move confidently from planning to instruction.

Why Literacy Lesson Launchers Are Different

Literacy Lesson Launchers are more than a collection of teaching slides.

Each resource unpacks a literacy concept into the key understandings, skills and learning steps students need to develop successful reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

Rather than simply providing activities, Literacy Lesson Launchers break learning into manageable teaching points, helping teachers understand what needs to be taught, how literacy skills develop and which skills students need before progressing to the next stage.

Each Lesson Launcher is designed to:

• Unpack curriculum outcomes into teachable concepts
• Break literacy learning into logical teaching steps
• Build foundational skills before independent application
• Highlight important literacy language and vocabulary
• Support oral language, discussion and thinking
• Make learning visible through modelling and visual representations
• Guide students from early understandings towards confident literacy use

For example, a phonics Lesson Launcher may move students from phonemic awareness, to sound recognition, to blending, to reading words, and finally to applying those words in meaningful contexts. The progression is made visible for both teachers and students.

The structured sequence also helps teachers identify exactly where students may be experiencing difficulty. Because literacy concepts are broken into smaller learning steps, teachers can revisit a specific stage of learning with individual students, small groups or intervention groups without reteaching the entire concept.

This depth provides valuable insight into student understanding and helps teachers respond to learning needs with greater precision and confidence.

The result is a clear teaching pathway that moves beyond surface-level coverage and supports meaningful literacy learning for all students.

How Literacy Lesson Launchers Work

Literacy Lesson Launchers are designed to support explicit teaching through a clear, structured sequence that builds understanding step by step.

Across the slides, teachers are supported to:

• Introduce key concepts and vocabulary
• Connect learning to prior knowledge and familiar experiences
• Model literacy skills and thinking explicitly
• Guide students through discussion and oral language activities
• Support students to notice, practise and apply new skills
• Use visual representations to support understanding
• Check understanding through questioning and response tasks
• Transition into independent practice, centres or follow-up learning

Rather than rushing students straight into independent work, Literacy Lesson Launchers prioritise teacher modelling, guided practice, repeated exposure and oral language development so students build confidence before applying their skills independently.

The flexible structure allows teachers to teach concepts in a single lesson, revisit sections as needed or spread the learning across multiple sessions.

Literacy Concepts Covered

The Literacy Lesson Launcher collection continues to grow and may include concepts from:

Phonological Awareness

• Rhyming
• Syllables
• Initial sounds
• Sound identification
• Oral language development

Phonics

• Letter-sound relationships
• CVC words
• Blending
• Segmenting
• Word families
• Decoding skills

Reading

• Comprehension
• Vocabulary development
• Reading strategies
• Understanding texts

Writing

• Sentence construction
• Vocabulary development
• Writing conventions
• Creating texts

Oral Language

• Speaking and listening
• Discussion skills
• Vocabulary development
• Language comprehension

Curriculum Alignment

Literacy Lesson Launchers are designed to align with relevant curriculum outcomes and support the development of literacy concepts through explicit instruction, discussion and guided practice.

Each resource focuses on helping students develop understanding, oral language, literacy knowledge and confidence while progressing towards curriculum expectations.

Perfect For

• Explicit literacy teaching
• Whole-class instruction
• Interactive whiteboard lessons
• Small-group teaching
• Intervention groups
• Guided practice
• Concept development
• Revisiting misconceptions
• Differentiation and targeted support
• Building oral language and communication skills

Explore Literacy Lesson Launchers

Whether you’re introducing a new concept, revisiting prior learning, supporting intervention groups or building deeper understanding, Literacy Lesson Launchers provide both the conceptual roadmap and the teaching resource needed to teach with confidence.

Browse the growing collection of visual, interactive literacy teaching resources designed to make learning visible, engaging and meaningful.

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Part of the Teach Screen Collection

Literacy Lesson Launchers are part of the Lesson Launchers collection within Teach Screen.

Explore Lesson Launchers, Daily 5 Lift Off Maths and Teach Screen Resources for more ready-to-use digital teaching tools designed to save time and support meaningful classroom learning.