Links for teachers

Links for Teachers

Strategies for responding to texts

Suggested strategies to engage students and develop their skills in responding to and composing literature:

Suggested Texts for the English K–10 Syllabus – NSW Syllabus5 (.pdf 1.77MB)

NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge6

Syllabus bites: Creating digital and multimodal texts7

Syllabus bites: Exploring Asia-related texts8

Syllabus bites: Visual literacy9

See the following websites for other resources to support the teaching of the new English K–10 Syllabus.

The Acara website has additional Advice on selection of literary texts10.

Responding to written texts

National digital learning resources network11

Responding to visual texts

Analysing visual text12, School A to Z

Callow, J. (2011) ‘When image and text meet: teaching with visual and multimodal texts13 PETAA-subscription to PETAA required

Responding to multimodal texts

ABC Splash, Years 7–10 Secondary English14

Laycock, D. (2011) Graphic novels: different texts for different times15, (.pdf 170kB) presentation at IBSC Conference,

Bear and Chook rap. 16 Use this blog as an example to make your own. (and YouTube17 video)

Links

  1. http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/literacy/readingviewing/Pages/teachingpraccircles.aspx
  2. http://literaturek6.weebly.com/book-raps.html
  3. http://otherworlds.yolasite.com/
  4. https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/professional-learning/scan/media/documents/English-K-6-Scan-special-issue_.pdf
  5. https://www.google.com/url?q=http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/assets/global/files/english-k10-suggested-texts.pdf&sa=U&ei=l04lUc7EDc-cmQWQygE&ved=0CBUQFjAH&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNEPOfnkwAwL_rWwVUEavRvQza7hpA
  6. https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html
  7. https://app.education.nsw.gov.au/rap/resource/access/9b7a8dda-5076-4f56-bb76-56fc885079a8/1
  8. https://app.education.nsw.gov.au/rap/resource/access/82223004-e66a-4b3c-a595-0c1a98317cc1/1
  9. https://app.education.nsw.gov.au/rap/resource/access/3e05f587-d7cb-4e4d-bcfe-323c4a421766/1
  10. https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/senior-secondary-curriculum/english/english/texts/?searchTerm=selection+of+liteary+texts#dimension-content
  11. http://ndlrn.edu.au/using_the_resources/australian_curriculum_resources/english.html
  12. https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/eppcontent/glossary/app/resource/factsheet/4115.pdf
  13. http://www.petaa.edu.au/imis_prod/Error.aspx?iErrorType=Asi.Security.AccessDenied&ErrorReferrer=%2fimis_prod%2fw%2fTeaching_Resources%2fPETAA_Papers%2fPETAA_Paper_181%2fw%2fTeaching_Resources%2fPPs%2fPETAA_PAPER_181.aspx%3fhkey%3d22c8014b-3f70-4a6c-871f-595861bb1160
  14. http://splash.abc.net.au/secondary/english
  15. http://www.theibsc.org/uploaded/IBSC/Conference_and_workshops/2011/2011_Workshops/Handouts/Laycock-Di_GraphicNovels.pdf
  16. https://pmbw.edublogs.org/2009/10/03/ready-to-rap-with-bear-chook/comment-page-1/
  17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Z2sI2uYuM