Teaching Tools for Primary Teachers
Curated tools for Foundation to Year 6 classrooms
This page lists teaching tools hand-picked for Australian primary classrooms — Foundation through Year 6. Every tool below is reviewed by practising teachers for classroom fit, time-saving value, and alignment to the Australian Curriculum v9.0.
Primary teachers juggle eight learning areas a week. The tools on this page are grouped by the jobs you actually do: running a quick maths warm-up, generating a phonics worksheet for a guided reading group, printing a spelling word search before the next lesson, setting up a classroom timer, picking a random student to answer, or building a quiz for the end-of-unit check-in. Most are free or freemium; paid tools are flagged clearly with indicative pricing in AUD.
Year-level fit matters. For Foundation and Year 1 we favour apps with simple touch targets, CVC-word support, and strong phonics mapping. For Years 2–3 we prioritise tools that support spelling patterns, HASS/Science topic vocabulary, and early written response. Years 4–6 leans toward NAPLAN-style practice, research skills, multi-step maths problems, and persuasive writing scaffolds. Tools that work across the primary range are tagged as F–6.
Every tool card shows year levels it suits, category (maths, reading & literacy, STEM, classroom management, etc.), special-needs support, and a one-line "what it does" summary. Click through for a longer teacher review with classroom use-cases and printable-export notes.
Phonics Hero
A systematic synthetic phonics app free for teachers, with over 850 games covering all 44 phonemes — designed for Australian and UK classrooms.
Reading Doctor
An Australian-designed phonics app built by a speech-language pathologist, teaching children to read and spell using evidence-based synthetic phonics.
MagicSchool AI
A suite of 60+ AI tools built specifically for teachers — lesson planners, rubric generators, IEP writers, and communication drafters that save hours every week.
Smiling Mind
A free, Australian-developed mindfulness app with curriculum-aligned programmes for schools, created by psychologists and educators.
Too Noisy
A fun classroom noise level monitor that uses dynamic visuals and a built-in rewards system to help teachers manage volume levels.
Diffit
AI-powered differentiation tool that creates levelled readings, vocabulary lists, comprehension questions, and summaries adapted to each student's reading level.
Classroomscreen
A free customisable digital dashboard for teachers with timer, random name picker, noise monitor, traffic lights, and dozens more widgets.
Bouncy Balls
A free, browser-based classroom noise monitor where colourful balls bounce higher as the room gets louder — no sign-up required.
Notebook LM
AI notebooks grounded in your own sources that auto-generate study guides, podcasts, video overviews, and mind maps from uploaded PDFs, notes, or links.
Mathspace
An Australian-developed adaptive maths platform with step-by-step support that helps students understand the "why" behind each problem.
Curipod
Interactive, AI-generated slides with polls, word clouds, drawings, and SEL check-ins that give teachers real-time student engagement data.
My Curriculum Mate
An AI-powered planning platform for Australian K-12 teachers that generates curriculum-aligned lesson plans, unit plans, worksheets, slideshows, and NAPLAN prep resources — all mapped to ACARA v9.0, NSW NESA 2024, and Victorian Curriculum 2.0.
DoodleMaths
An adaptive daily maths practice app that adjusts difficulty to each child's level, aligned with the Australian curriculum from Kindergarten to Year 6.
Tynker
A gamified coding platform used in 150,000+ schools with 200+ tutorials, where kids build games, control drones, and create Minecraft mods.
Almanack AI
AI-powered curriculum design tool for unit planning, assessment generation, and standards alignment that saves teachers hours of planning time.
Otsimo
A gamified special education and speech therapy app for children with autism and developmental disabilities, with personalised learning paths.
QuestionWell
Generate question banks, learning objectives, and assessments from any text, video, or topic — then export to Google Forms, Kahoot, Blooket, and more.
Twee
All-in-one AI platform to create, share, and grade language lessons with vocabulary exercises, dialogues, and reading texts aligned to CEFR levels.
Your Staff Room
A trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming AI platform for Australian educators — featuring lesson builders, report writers, behaviour support planners, social story creators, and learner profile generators with OT and Speech Pathology lenses.
Inkhorn
An AI-powered report card comment writer built by a former NSW maths teacher. Create reusable sentence banks, auto-insert student names and pronouns, and let AI help craft personalised feedback for every student.
Lesson Creator
An AI platform that generates 13 teaching resources simultaneously — lesson plans, PowerPoints, worksheets, quizzes, crosswords, word searches, and more — all from a single learning intention, aligned to Australian Curriculum v9.0.
Handwriting Repeater
A free web-based handwriting practice tool that demonstrates correct letter formation in real time. Features Loop and Trace modes, dotted thirds, tram lines, and adjustable pen styles — perfect for Foundation to Year 4 handwriting lessons.