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Posted on 18/07/2024 A unit of work for Year 3 on the stunning picturebook, A Stone is a Story, written by Leslie Barnard Booth and illustrated by Marc Martin. The unit includes cross curriculum links to Science.
Posted on 18/07/2024 A unit of work for Year 1 on glorious hybrid picturebook/information text, The Beehive, by Teacher Librarian and children's author Megan Daley and illustrated by Max Hamilton. The unit includes cross curriculum links to Science.
Posted on 9/07/2024 Award-winning author/illustrator duo Claire Saxby and Jess Racklyeft chat about Tree, their creative processes, and how they engage young readers with nature. Includes advice and text orientation descriptions you can share with students!
Posted on 2/07/2024 Your guide to the rich texts of CBCA Children’s Book Week 2024, highlighting the texts we recommend for meaningful English, literacy and cross-curriculum learning across the primary years and will create units on.
Posted on 19/06/2024 This chapter, taken from Bronwyn Parkin and Helen Harper's 'Teaching with Intent 2', provides an example of a weekly plan for explicit literature-focused teaching and a sample of a weekly plan for a literacy block.
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Posted on 23/07/2024 Your 50-second roundup of everything that's new at PETAA: teaching sequences, curriculum units, PL courses, and so much more!
Posted on 10/07/2024 A teaching and learning sequence for all learning outcomes in Year 5 English curriculums — built on a foundation of 8 quality texts for children.
Posted on 9/07/2024 A teaching and learning sequence for all learning outcomes in Year 2 English curriculums — built on a foundation of 7 quality texts for children.
Posted on 5/07/2024 Great news, NSW educators! The PETAA 2024 Leading with Literacy Conference - Reading: Learning, meaning, pleasure, is now NESA-accredited.
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