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Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase (ACELA1516)

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  • identify and appreciate differences in language used in diverse family settings
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  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
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Syllabus bites: Visual literacy

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A resource with information, study guides and resources on visual literacy to support the English K-10 Australian Curriculum in English. It provides a series of activities, guidelines and tasks about visual texts from a variety of sources. Contains writing scaffolds, templates and proformas for responding and composing ...

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Communication

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In this comprehensive resource, students are taught the importance of understanding nonverbal messages, listening carefully, speaking clearly, being assertive, and expressing opinions constructively.

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Media Representations Resource

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This learning resource builds media literacy by examining how and why representations of people, places and ideas are constructed for television. Constructed for use by students, it includes video clips, commentary and discussion questions. The short learning tasks encourage students to critically reflect on their roles ...

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Debating guide for classroom teachers

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This teacher guide provides advice about the key elements of debating as well as a judging guide, planning templates for each speaker and links to a range of resources.

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Aim to sustain: A world of difference

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Students explore what is happening at an individual, community and global level and plan actions they will take. These may range from taking a quiz to sharing knowledge about being 'green' at home, through to planning a conference session to deliver to other students. The resource includes videos, SMART notebooks, worksheets ...

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Cats, Dogs and Us: Education pack (years 5-6)

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This education pack is an International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) resource designed to build students' understanding about the special place domestic cats and dogs have in people's lives. The pack consists of a teaching guide, a student magazine and five student worksheets focusing on topics such as the physical characteristics ...

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Learn 60 new vocabulary words with these imaginative student videos

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This resource showcases short videos made by students in which they define a Word of the Day in under 15 seconds. Sixty videos are organized into three compilations by part of speech. Use the videos as inspiration for your students to create their own vocabulary-related video. The resource includes an interactive Vocabulary.com ...

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Punctuation – What’s the point

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This practice guide offers an overview of essential punctuation for writing across primary and secondary school. While an effective combination of sentence types adds depth and variety to a piece of writing, correct punctuation is equally vital for clarity and coherence. This guide aims to provide clear examples to support ...

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Compound sentences

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This guide provides clear grammatical definitions, and unpacks the features of compound sentences and how they function. It includes information about using conjunctions; coordinating conjunctions; using semicolons and common problems with compound sentences. The guide also offers, as a starting point, some strategies for ...

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Sentence combining

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Sentence combining is an instructional technique used to improve sentence quality, complexity and variety. Students are taught how to combine two or more basic sentences to create more interesting, sophisticated and varied sentences. When sentence combining is taught explicitly and in a sustained way, it becomes one component ...

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Complex sentences: Creating agility and depth in your writing

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Complex sentences are an important step in enabling students to produce more sophisticated writing. Mastering complex sentences allows students to have greater control when communicating. This resource provides information about topics such as Dependent clauses, Nominalisation and Subordinating conjunctions. This guide ...

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Independent and Dependent Clauses Worksheet

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Find some simple exercises for students to firstly differentiate between independent and dependent clauses, and then to practise joining two related clauses.

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Teaching Morphology to Improve Literacy: A Guide for Teachers

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Morphological awareness is a powerful tool for improving many areas of literacy. Find teaching ideas for specifically teaching this skill across a range of year levels.

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Nominalisation: cure or crime?

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This article about nominalisation provides background support about this topic for teachers. While written for NSW secondary English teachers, it has broader relevance for teaching this skill in Australian classrooms.

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Vocabulary in context

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The aim of this resource is to support students to identify and build meaning of words and their affixes. Students will learn to use contextual clues to determine best word choice. The resource includes a list of strategies that may help to build vocabulary. It includes a list organised from most frequently used suffixes ...

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Connecting Ideas

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Help students to create well-structured sentences by developing their knowledge of compound sentences, compound complex sentences and ways to combine messages by using quoting as a device. This teacher resource will support your understanding of this topic and provide examples to use with students.

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Phrases and Clauses

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Find information about the difference between phrases and clauses and exercises to support students in working through the difference. The resource includes some simple exercises for students to firstly differentiate between independent and dependent clauses and then to identify subordinating conjunctions. They then practise ...

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Linguistic Roots and Affixes

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This webpage provides examples of examples of Latin affixes, Greek affixes, a list of the 20 most frequently used prefixes, and a list of the 20 most frequently used suffixes. It also includes sone interactive activities for students to test their knowledge.

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ACK! Punctuation!!

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What are the different types of punctuation? What different meanings do punctuation marks have? How does understanding punctuation help us to read with expression? This lesson plan explores how to use drama as a vehicle for understanding aspects of punctuation including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.

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A Terrible Shipwreck

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This lesson plan was inspired by a painting of a multiple shipwreck on Deal beach in February 1870. Students will explore the factors that influence the readability of a piece of text and create a piece of writing in the style of a local newspaper for a defined audience.

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