Click on the photo of the Diocesan "A LITERACY STATEMENT" for a complete pdf copy of the document.
Click here to access word docs of each of the 7 components of the LITERACY STATEMENT. |
NSW SYLLABUS SCOPE AND SEQUENCES
Click here for direct link to NSW Syllabus scope and sequence for PHONOLOGICAL and GRAPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING SKILLS
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Click here for NSW scope and sequence for GRAMMAR and PUNCTUATION SKILLS
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Literacy Continuum
The Literacy continuum K–10 identifies the literacy skills and understandings regarded as critical to literacy success. It maps how critical aspects develop through the years of schooling by describing key markers of expected student achievement
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The Literacy Shed
The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources that have been collected over 10 years by a primary school teacher (Rob Smith). The sheds are broadly thematic. Check out the book of the week link. |
ABC Splash
ABC Splash brings you high-quality digital educational content from across the ABC and around the world.This website offers a new, world-class education experience for Australian students, and is packed with thousands of videos, audio clips, games and interactive tools. |
Word Consciousness
Word consciousness is “awareness and interest in words and their meaning” (Graves & Watts-Taffe, 2008).
The Word Conscious Classroom
vocabulary.com
50 coolest online tools for 'word -nerds'
The Word Conscious Classroom
vocabulary.com
50 coolest online tools for 'word -nerds'
The following sites may be useful for further PROFESSIONAL LEARNING and CURRICULUM SUPPORT
Australian Literacy Educators Association (ALEA)
The Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) is an independent professional association dedicated to literacy and English language learning from early childhood through all stages of schooling and tertiary education contexts. ALEA recognises the critical role literacy plays in learning and communicating in all curriculum areas, and for effective participation in society |

PETAA is a national, not-for-profit professional association supporting primary school educators in the teaching and learning of English and literacies across the curriculum
Handwriting Matters?!
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Keyboard Skills
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Sites with curriculum support and resources for class use
- English for the Australian Curriculum. This resource is a national initiative to support the teaching and learning of English and literacy from Foundation to Year 10. Materials here comprise 12 year-level units of work, with 12 sequences in each, written by teachers and educators from a range of states, territories and educational setting
- The First Steps (2nd ed) Resource books for: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Viewing
can now be now downloaded for free from the WA Dept of Ed site. First Steps Third Edition materials are made up of four interwoven strands of literacy: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Viewing, which symbolise the interrelatedness of literacy learning. All strands are threaded with practical, accessible, classroom-tested teaching procedures and activities