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Teaching Resources and Ideas
Connecting Reading and Writing Series
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Connecting Reading and Writing: Grandma's Treasured Shoes
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
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Connecting Reading and Writing: Mallee Sky
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
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Connecting Reading and Writing: The Deep
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
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Connecting Reading and Writing: Soup Off! Challenge
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
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Connecting Reading and Writing: This Small Blue Dot
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
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Connecting Reading and Writing: Not Cute
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
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Connecting Reading and Writing: The Shack that Dad Built
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
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Connecting Reading and Writing: Searching for Cicadas
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
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Connecting Reading and Writing: A Boy, his Dog and the Sea
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
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Connecting Reading and Writing: The Wall in the Middle of the Book
Before, during and after reading strategies linked to writing.
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Connecting Reading and Writing: Bin Chicken and Song of the White Ibis
Before, during and after reading linked to writing.
Indulging in Poetry Series
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Indulging in Poetry No 1: Setting the Scene
Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.
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Indulging in Poetry No 2: The Great Realisation
Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.
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Indulging in Poetry No 3: The Beach
Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.
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Indulging in Poetry No 4: (I Am) A Line in the Sand
Before, during and after reading activities linked to writing poetry.
Assessment Resource Series
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Assessment Resource No 1
Designing assessment for composing texts
The first in the series for designing formative assessment to support writing.![](https://kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/themes/2942946/settings_images/qWI4IIm0QXeO47e6PjDs_file.jpg)
Assessment Resource No 2
What is my purpose when composing texts?
The second in the series on assessing and designing teaching on text purpose.
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Assessment Resource No 3
Developing subject matter when composing texts
The third in the series on assessing and designing learning on subject matter.![](https://kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/themes/2942946/settings_images/febOsioxQq2qqQ0f88V8_file.jpg)
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.
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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.
Focus on text purpose series
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Understanding a writers' purpose
Strategies for reading a range of texts with a similar purpose to support writing and talk about text and purpose.
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What's my purpose? Planning for writing.
Strategies for planning writing and how to consider the relationship between text purpose and other choices.
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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
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Using grammar to link reading and writing
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From speaking to writing: Identity texts
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Student reflection on writing choices
Reflection sheet or interview to identify knowledge about language and metalanguage used by students after composing.
Lists of books / texts
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Picture books on natural disasters
Take a look at this book list on topics such as fire, flood, drought and earthquakes.
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Picture books on cultural diversity
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Great descriptions of narrative settings
This list of novels and picture books provides great examples of setting descriptions for modelling writing.
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Picture books for learning about Anzac Day
Extensive list of picture books for a range of ages when commemorating Anzac Day.
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Picture Books on the Refugee Experience
Picture books for use in Refugee Week or anytime, for teaching English and History content.
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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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