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LITERACY TEACHING GUIDES

Folder cover insert and spine for Literacy policy and literacy teaching K-12 materials, such as Literacy teaching in NSW government schools, Literacy teaching: Phonemic awareness, etc. 

Literacy teaching in NSW government schools
provides information about the approach to literacy teaching articulated in the NSW Literacy K-12 Policy (2007).

This document:

• describes how key frameworks support literacy teaching in NSW schools
• revises and reviews explicit and systematic, balanced and integrated literacy teaching
• presents theories of learning and links these to approaches that support teachers to respond to the literacy learning needs of students
• examines the literacy teaching practices and strategies that contribute to effective literacy teaching and improved literacy learning.

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Teaching literacy: Phonics
This guide has been developed to support NSW teachers in the early years to explicitly and systematically teach phonics within balanced and integrated contexts.

To enable teachers in the early years to make informed decisions about the teaching of phonics they need to access information about what needs to be taught in relation to phonics and how and when to teach it. The examination of phonics provided in this guide is designed to give teachers that information.

Feedback: We would appreciate your comments about Teaching literacy: Phonics. 

Literacy teaching: Phonemic awareness
This guide has been developed to support NSW teachers in the early years to explicitly and systematically teach phonics within balanced and integrated contexts.

To enable teachers in the early years to make informed decisions about the teaching of phonemic awareness they need to access information about what needs to be taught in relation to phonemic awareness and how and when to teach it. The examination of phonemic awareness provided in this guide is designed to give teachers that information. 

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A continuum of the critical aspects of early literacy development
A continuum of the critical aspects of early literacy development defines and maps the eight identified critical aspects of early literacy development.

The continuum describes how these eight critical aspects develop over the first few years of school by highlighting significant markers of progress that might be evidenced over time.

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