Resources
Teaching Resources and Ideas
Connecting Reading and Writing Series
Connecting Reading and Writing: Grandma's Treasured Shoes
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
Connecting Reading and Writing: Mallee Sky
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
Connecting Reading and Writing: The Deep
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
Connecting Reading and Writing: Soup Off! Challenge
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
Connecting Reading and Writing: This Small Blue Dot
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
Connecting Reading and Writing: Not Cute
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
Connecting Reading and Writing: The Shack that Dad Built
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
Connecting Reading and Writing: Searching for Cicadas
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
Connecting Reading and Writing: A Boy, his Dog and the Sea
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
Connecting Reading and Writing: The Wall in the Middle of the Book
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
Connecting Reading and Writing: Bin Chicken and Song of the White Ibis
Before, during and after reading linked to writing.
Indulging in Poetry Series
Indulging in Poetry No 1: Setting the Scene
Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.
Indulging in Poetry No 2: The Great Realisation
Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.
Indulging in Poetry No 3: The Beach
Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.
Indulging in Poetry No 4: (I Am) A Line in the Sand
Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.
Assessment and Writing Task Design
Assessment Resource No 1
Designing assessment for composing texts
The first in the series for designing formative assessment to support writing.
Assessment Resource No 2
What is my purpose when composing texts?
The second in the series on assessing and designing teaching on text purpose.
Assessment Resource No 3
Developing subject matter when composing texts
The third in the series on assessing and designing learning on subject matter.
Assessment Resource No 4
Interacting with an audience when composing texts
The fourth in the series on assessing and designing teaching focusing on interpersonal choices.
Assessment Resource No 5
Developing well organised cohesive texts
The fifth in the series on assessing and designing teaching focusing on well organised cohesive texts.
Planning to Design Writing Tasks to Recount
Consider the range of recount types and questions to plan for designing tasks.
Focus on text purpose series
Understanding a writers' purpose
Strategies for reading a range of texts with a similar purpose to support writing and talk about text and purpose.
What's my purpose? Planning for writing.
Strategies for planning writing and how to consider the relationship between text purpose and other choices.
Criteria for assessing the purpose of writing
Use this table to compare the craft of describing settings within a broader narrative text or adapt for other contexts.
Additional resources
Using grammar to link reading and writing
From speaking to writing: Identity texts
Student reflection on writing choices
Reflection sheet or interview to identify knowledge about language and metalanguage used by students after composing.
Interacting with Anzac Day picture books
Tips and discussion questions for engaging with books related to Anzac Day.
Checklist for assessing existing English units of work
Questions to guide reflection and evaluation when assessing or designing units of work.
Critical conversations about writing: Joint construction
Discover what is meant by joint construction and the role of talk about language.
Lists of books / texts
Picture books on natural disasters
Take a look at this book list on topics such as fire, flood, drought and earthquakes.
Picture books on cultural diversity
Great descriptions of narrative settings
This list of novels and picture books provides great examples of setting descriptions for modelling writing.
Picture books for learning about Anzac Day
Extensive list of picture books for a range of ages when commemorating Anzac Day.
Picture Books on the Refugee Experience
Picture books for use in Refugee Week or anytime, for teaching English and History content.
Poetry Texts List
An abundance of poetry: List of poems and collections ranging from anthologies to picture books and podcasts.
Videos
Jointly Constructing a Text in Class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WByszvdMWm4
The use of Mentor Texts in the Context of Natural Disasters (PETAA 2020 Leading with Literacy Conference: Highlights) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgSjFeQO_I
Teaching Writing: Informative Texts (PETAA 2022 PETAA Literacy Resources Portal for Early Career Teachers)https://petaa.edu.au/Mp/Curric-Res/Videos/Video_teaching_writing_informativetexts.aspx
Why is literature so important in our lives and in literacy learning? (Foundation for Learning and Literacy, 2022 Literature Symposium) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12_hwgT3Fmg&t=2026s
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