Literacy
The Literacy website provides a range of materials for schools, teachers and parents. This website includes key policy statements that provide clear positions on how the explicit and systematic teaching of literacy will take place in all classrooms from Kindergarten to Year 12.
Many Literacy policies and guidelines are based on the English K-6 Syllabus. These materials provide support for teachers in the teaching of reading, writing and talking and listening in each of the primary Key Learning Areas including English. These documents are downloadable.
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There are resources available in each strand of English K-6:
- Talking and listening
- Reading
- Writing
Talking and listening
Focus on literacy: Talking and listening
This document gives teachers current research about teaching talking and listening including: teaching models, suggested approaches to planning and possible assessment procedures. It is a practical and engaging resource which will provide useful ideas to all teachers.
Reading
Teaching reading: a K-6 framework
This book aims to provide a guide to the systematic teaching of reading from Kindergarten to Year 6 within the context of the English K-6 Syllabus.
Teaching ideas for each Stage (Teaching ideas for teaching reading in the K-6 classroom)
This series is designed to help teachers put into practice the ideas in Teaching reading: a K-6 framework. Teaching reading in...series is designed to help teachers put into practice the ideas in Teaching reading: a K-6 framework. Each book provides a guide to the implementation of a balanced reading program, information and proformas for the organisation of a daily literacy session, two teaching units, and information for teachers on using the book to support their own professional learning. The teaching units are structured in a two week daily format, and include instructions on preparation, student assessment and evaluation. Each book has an accompanying brochure that includes strategies for the effective use of the book.
Teaching Reading in Early Stage 1
Teaching Reading in Stage 1
Teaching Reading in Stage 2
Teaching Reading in Stage 3
Strategies for reading factual texts
This document outlines the work of a number of teachers involved in teaching students about how to read factual texts.
Writing
Focus on literacy: Writing
This document describes the key elements of the Department's policy on the teaching of writing. It is for all teachers in all subject areas, from Kindergarten to Year 12 and provides guidance in assisting all students to become competent, confident writers.
Focus on literacy: Spelling
This document describes the key elements of the Department’s policy on the teaching of spelling, from Kindergarten to Year 12. It recognises that learning to spell is a lifelong process that consists of accumulating phonological, visual, morphemic and etymological knowledge about the spelling of English words.
Teaching spelling K-6
This document supports the explicit and systematic teaching of spelling, providing strategies for each of the forms of spelling knowledge.
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