Ziptales
Ziptales is a leading Australian online e-learning resource. Ziptales brings core curriculum to thousands of primary students throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Ziptales is ideally suited to small groups and whole class lessons with IWBs and individual student use on laptops, PCs and MACs.
The Staff Room section of the site offers teachers over 600 pages of worksheets which accompany the modules, much information on Readability Measures used on the site and lists of themes and other aids for the classroom. We also provide a free copy of the Curriculum Program Manual to all schools taking a free trial.

Ziptales provides the following sections each of which contains multiple content modules:
There are currently over 300 content modules on the site:
- The Main Library, containing136 original stories, all with voice overs, two interactive comprehension tasks and printable worksheets
- Learning the ABC, a unit for K-2, ideal for IWB
- Puppet Plays, simple moral tales using puppets (video)
- Story Time, animated fairy tales for the very young
- Graphic Classics, four graphic novels of classic tales told with voice overs
- Rhyme Time, a poetry unit for K-7
- Make and Do, 18 projects for children to produce fully explained all with voice overs
- Story Machine, a creative writing generator for years 2-4
- Write Time, eight how to write units covering all major text types years 4-7
- Interactive Readers, 8 stories especially for EFL and Learning Support, with highlighted text, games and interactives.
- Skill Builders, 16 digital lessons covering the important aspects of English grammar, punctuation and comprehension ( coming soon)
- SAM, a national testing module designed to emulate the Australian National literacy test. Used in grades 3 and 5, students complete the online test and a full diagnostic report is available for the teacher
- Puzzle Palace, 24 original interactive puzzles, all literacy based.
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