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Notes on Texts and Illustrations

From this page you can download:

Making the Most of The School Magazine: a short booklet of tips and suggestions for working with different text types in Countdown, Blast Off, Orbit and Touchdown.

Notes on Texts and Illustrations 2008: Click on the relevant link to download the PDFs of Notes for Issue #6 2008:

• COUNTDOWN #6 2008
• BLAST OFF #6 2008
• ORBIT #6 2008
• TOUCHDOWN #6 2008

Click on the relevant link to download the PDFs of Notes for Issue #4 2008:

• COUNTDOWN #4 2008
• BLAST OFF #4 2008
• ORBIT #4 2008
• TOUCHDOWN #4 2008

Available from Issue #2, 2008 (March), Notes on Texts and Illustrations provide subscribers with brief comments on key features of the verbal and visual texts in Countdown, Blast Off, Orbit and Touchdown, and some suggestions for working with the texts in the classroom. Feedback is welcome and can be provided to the Editor at School.Magazine@det.nsw.edu.au

Teaching Units are also available (on subscription) to accompany the odd-numbered issues of The School Magazine. Visit our Teaching Units page for further information. Subscribers to the Teaching Units also receive a Teacher's Guide, with issue #1 2008.

Notes on Texts and Illustrations 2008: Click on the relevant link to download the PDFs of Notes for Issue #2 2008:

• COUNTDOWN #2 2008
• BLAST OFF #2 2008
• ORBIT #2 2008
• TOUCHDOWN #2 2008

Notes on Texts and Illustrations 2007: Issues #9, #7, #5 and #3, 2007 are available below.

Click on each magazine's title to download the PDF:

Issue #9 (October, 2007)

• COUNTDOWN #9

• BLAST OFF #9

• ORBIT #9

• TOUCHDOWN #9

Issue #7 (August, 2007)

• COUNTDOWN #7

• BLAST OFF #7

• ORBIT #7

• TOUCHDOWN #7

Issue #5 (June, 2007)

• COUNTDOWN #5

• BLAST OFF #5

• ORBIT #5

• TOUCHDOWN #5

• ERNEST THE CARROT

Issue #3 (April, 2007)

• COUNTDOWN #3

• BLAST OFF #3

• ORBIT #3

• TOUCHDOWN #3

For Masters of Teaching students at the University of Sydney: download lecture of 10 June here.

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