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Focus on Indonesia: Cross Curriculum Connections in Secondary Schools

Ideas and resources that connect the learning of Indonesian language with other learning areas.

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All Through the Year: Unit of Work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'All Through the Year' which is told through the eyes of a child and provides an account of a year in the life of an Australian family. Themes include celebrations, change, family and seasons. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment tasks and suggestions ...

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Alfred’s War: Unit of Work

This unit of work has been written to support 'Alfred’s War', which is a story that unmasks the lack of recognition given to Australian Indigenous servicemen who returned from the WWI battlelines. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment tasks and suggestions about how students might respond creatively to the text.

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Amy and Louis: Unit of Work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'Amy and Louis'. These two characters live next door to each other and their lives are closely intertwined until Amy’s family moves to another country. Explore themes of friendship, connection and separation. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment ...

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The All New Must Have Orange 430: Unit of Work

This unit of work has been written to support 'The All New Must Have Orange 430' picture story book. The book explores the themes of advertising, materialism, recycling and the environment. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment tasks and suggestions about how students might respond creatively to the text.

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Banjo and Ruby Red: Unit of work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'Banjo and Ruby Red'. The story is a funny and touching story of antagonism and love. Explore themes of country life, compassion, friendship, opposites and responsibility. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment tasks and suggestions about how students ...

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Are We There Yet?: Unit of Work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'Are We There Yet?' The book explores the themes of family, holidays, journey, place and travel. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment tasks and suggestions about how students might respond creatively to the text.

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Ash Road: Unit of work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'Ash Road'. The novel is a highly descriptive and intense action-based novel based on the bush fires of 1962 when a hilly area outside of Melbourne was devastated by fire. Themes include connection to place, emotional growth, natural disaster, relationships, resilience ...

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Phonics Check Student Materials

This resource contains the words for students to read when completing the Year 1 Phonics Check (a free assessment of students' decoding skills) in offline mode. Teachers can print this list and ask students to read from it.

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Using decodable texts in the classroom

This infographic guides teachers on using decodable texts with students as part of your systematic synthetic phonics instruction.

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Phonics Check answer sheet

A downloadable answer sheet for the offline mode of the Year 1 Phonics Check (a free assessment of students' decoding skills).

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Hologram poetry lesson

In this lesson, students are asked to present a poem as a visual illusion. They explore holograms and visual illusions, and then delve into the mechanics of poetry construction by exploring the poetry of Banjo Paterson. They write their own poem or recite a poem and create a hologram illusion of themselves reciting a poem. ...

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The Big Six: a whirlwind tour

This one-hour webinar recording provides an overview of the Big Six components of literacy (oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). It includes theoretical understandings and practical ideas for the classroom. It is the first in a series of eight webinars about the Big Six ...

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Demonstration of a phonics lesson

This video provides a demonstration of a phonics lesson using explicit instruction principles. It is presented by literacy specialists Elaine Stanley and Rebecca McEwan.

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Sample phonics lesson slides - standard

This slide pack is a sample of a phonics lesson for students who have progressed past the initial stages of their phonics learning.

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Choosing and using decodable texts: Q&A

This video is of a Q&A session about choosing and using decodable texts in your classroom. It is presented by literacy specialists Rebecca McEwan and Elaine Stanley

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Introduction to SSP - Module 1: the research base of structured literacy

This 13-minute professional learning video, presented by literacy expert Jocelyn Seamer, introduces the Science of Reading and explains the implications this body of research has for teaching reading. You will learn about the evidence base that supports the Science of Reading, Sweller's cognitive load theory and Dehaene's ...

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Move, Move, Move!

This persuasive digital text is for teachers to read aloud to students. This digital book uses persuasive language and images to highlight the benefits of being active. The resource includes a teaching sequence related to the Big Six components of literacy development (oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, ...

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Introduction to SSP - Module 4: features of a systematic synthetic phonics approach

This 23-minute professional learning video, presented by literacy expert Jocelyn Seamer, discusses the features of a systematic, synthetic approach to teaching phonics. It includes information on decodable texts, alphabetic code, and how to teach new sounds. The other videos in the series are; The research base of structured ...

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Faraway Places

This imaginative digital text is an illustrated rhyming poem for teachers to read aloud to students. It is about a girl who visits different and amazing places. The resource includes a teaching sequence related to the Big Six components of literacy development (oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary ...