Notes and Resources for Teachers
Resources you can access from this page
Click this Teaching Unit Resources link to access PDFs of the Worksheets from The School Magazine Teaching Units.
From this page, you can download the three sections of Making the Most of The School Magazine: A Guide for Teachers (2009 edition). In the guide we explain what makes The School Magazine such an enjoyable classroom literacy resource, and we demonstrate how The School Magazine Teaching Units can support your classroom practice.
The guide falls into three parts, each of which you can view or download separately as PDFs from this page:
Part One introduces you to The School Magazine and The School Magazine Teaching Units.
Download Part One here: Outline of The School Magazine and its Teaching Units
Part Two contains sample texts, each with a sample teaching unit session, so you can see just how useful The School Magazine can be in your classroom.
Download Part Two story text and teaching session here
Download Part Two poetry text and teaching session here
Download Part Two nonfiction article and teaching session here
Part Three offers more detailed professional development material about how to approach teaching the verbal and visual dimensions of the poetry, stories and nonfiction text types that you’ll find in The School Magazine.
Download Part Three here: Suggestions for teaching different text types in The School Magazine
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