About the School Magazine
For over 90 years The School Magazine has been introducing Australian children to the pleasures of literacy and literature. Across 10 issues each school year The School Magazine provides an engaging mix of diverse literary genres, including stories, poems, plays, nonfiction articles, crosswords, cartoons, puzzles and activities. The School Magazine's four titles cater for early independent readers (ages 8/9) through to advanced primary school readers (ages 11/12).
Illustrated by leading Australian artists The School Magazine is a verbally and visually exciting reading experience. The School Magazine can be used in the classroom or at home. Accompanying Teaching Units, available on subscription with every issue of the magazine, and a free guide for teachers, make The School Magazine an outstanding resource for teaching reading and related literacy across key learning areas.
- Download a sample story from Countdown, one of the four titles published by The School Magazine ('Yakka, Yip and the Yahoos' by Geoffrey McSkimming, illustrated by Kerry Millard, from Countdown #1 2009)
- Download a sample teaching session based on 'Yakka, Yip and the Yahoos'.
- Visit our main page to download further sample texts and teaching sessions.
All material is copyright The School Magazine Unit, NSW DET.
For information about The School Magazine and subscribing to the Magazine and teaching units contact:
Alan Edwards
Acting Editor, The School Magazine
Curriculum K–12 Directorate
Department of Education and Training
Private Bag 3
Ryde NSW 2112
Australia
Telephone: (02) 9886 7673 (From outside Australia: +61 2 9886 7673)
Fax: (02) 9886 7769 (From outside Australia: +61 2 9886 7769)
Email address: school.magazine@det.nsw.edu.au
Contact the Subscriptions Clerk, Bernice Cusack at
subscribeSM@det.nsw.edu.au
Phone: (02) 9886 7754 Fax (02) 9886 7769
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