Resources

Teaching Resources and Ideas

 

Connecting Reading and Writing Series

 Connecting Reading and Writing: Grandma's Treasured Shoes

Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.

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Connecting Reading and Writing: Mallee Sky

Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.

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Connecting Reading and Writing: The Deep

Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.

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Connecting Reading and Writing: Soup Off! Challenge 

Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.

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Connecting Reading and Writing: This Small Blue Dot

Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.

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Connecting Reading and Writing: Not Cute

Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.

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Connecting Reading and Writing: The Shack that Dad Built

Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.

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Connecting Reading and Writing: Searching for Cicadas 

Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.

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Connecting Reading and Writing: A Boy, his Dog and the Sea

Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.

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Connecting Reading and Writing: The Wall in the Middle of the Book

Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.

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Connecting Reading and Writing: Bin Chicken and Song of the White Ibis

Before, during and after reading linked to writing.

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Indulging in Poetry Series

Indulging in Poetry No 1: Setting the Scene

Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.

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Indulging in Poetry No 2: The Great Realisation

Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.

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Indulging in Poetry No 3: The Beach

Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.

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Indulging in Poetry No 4: (I Am) A Line in the Sand

Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.

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Assessment Resource Series

Assessment Resource No 1

Designing assessment for composing texts

The first in the series for designing formative assessment to support writing.
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Assessment Resource No 2

What is my purpose when composing texts?

The second in the series on assessing and designing teaching on text purpose.

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Assessment Resource No 3

Developing subject matter when composing texts

The third in the series on assessing and designing learning on subject matter.
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Assessment Resource No 4

Interacting with an audience when composing texts

The fourth in the series on assessing and designing teaching focusing on interpersonal choices.

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Assessment Resource No 5

Developing well organised cohesive texts

The fifth in the series on assessing and designing teaching focusing on well organised cohesive texts.

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Focus on text purpose series

Understanding a writers' purpose 

Strategies for reading a range of texts with a similar purpose to support writing and talk about text and purpose.

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What's my purpose? Planning for writing. 

Strategies for planning writing and how to consider the relationship between text purpose and other choices. 

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Criteria for assessing the purpose of writing

Use this table to compare the craft of describing settings within a broader narrative text or adapt for other contexts.

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Additional resources

Using grammar to link reading and writing

Deconstruct model texts to develop choices at the clause level for supporting students to make choices as writers.
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From speaking to writing: Identity texts

Speaking and listening strategies to build on oral language structures and vocabulary to support the move towards writing.
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Student reflection on writing choices

Reflection sheet or interview to identify knowledge about language and metalanguage used by students after composing.

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Interacting with Anzac Day picture books

Tips and discussion questions for engaging with books related to Anzac Day.

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Checklist for assessing existing English units of work

Questions to guide evaluation when assessing or designing units of work.

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Lists of books / texts

Picture Book Mix & Match No 1a

Picture book groups for the early years.

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Picture Book Mix & Match No 2a

Picture book groups for the middle primary years.

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Picture Book Mix & Match No 3a

Picture book groups for the later primary years.

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Picture books on natural disasters

Take a look at this book list on topics such as fire, flood, drought and earthquakes.

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Picture books on cultural diversity

These books include diverse voices, languages and cultural practices for creating inclusive classrooms.
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Great descriptions of narrative settings

This list of novels and picture books provides great examples of setting descriptions for modelling writing.

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Picture books for learning about Anzac Day

Extensive list of picture books  for a range of ages when commemorating Anzac Day.

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Picture Books on the Refugee Experience

Picture books for use in Refugee Week or anytime, for teaching English and History content.

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Poetry Texts List

An abundance of poetry: List of poems and collections ranging from anthologies to picture books and podcasts.

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Aboriginal Picture Books 

Extensive list of picture books by Aboriginal authors and illustrators.

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Dragon Texts

         List of a diverse range of              texts on the topic of dragons.

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Recount Genre

Picture books from imaginative recounts to biographies.

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Picture books: Adverbials in context 

Books to model and analyse adverbials in context.

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Picture Books: Rescue stories

Picture books based on rescues and suspenseful complications. 

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Videos

Jointly Constructing a Text in Class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WByszvdMWm4

 

The use of Mentor Texts in the Context of Natural Disasters (PETAA 2020 Leading with Literacy Conference: Highlights) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgSjFeQO_I

  

Teaching Writing: Informative Texts (PETAA 2022 PETAA Literacy Resources Portal for Early Career Teachers)https://petaa.edu.au/Mp/Curric-Res/Videos/Video_teaching_writing_informativetexts.aspx
 

 

Why is literature so important in our lives and in literacy learning? (Foundation for Learning and Literacy, 2022 Literature Symposium) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12_hwgT3Fmg&t=2026s

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