Links for Teachers
Strategies for responding to texts
Suggested strategies to engage students and develop their skills in responding to and composing literature:
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Create literature circles
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Participate in book raps
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Explore Other Worlds free ebook and digital reources
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Discover more teaching ideas and strategies.
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 texts.
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Responding to written texts |
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Responding to visual texts |
Analysing visual text, School A to Z Callow, J. (2011) ‘When image and text meet: teaching with visual and multimodal texts PETAA-subscription to PETAA required |
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Responding to multimodal texts |
ABC Splash, Years 7–10 Secondary English Laycock, D. (2011) Graphic novels: different texts for different times, (.pdf 170kB) presentation at IBSC Conference, Bear and Chook rap. Use this blog as an example to make your own. (and YouTube video) |