PETAA Literacy Resources Portal for Early Career Teachers

This portal is a new initiative from the Primary English Teaching Association Australia and was created as part of our 50th Anniversary Celebrations in 2022. This portal provides practical, accessible and tangible support information, articles, instructional video examples and classroom teaching and learning materials for primary teachers, particularly those who are new or early career, in the fields of literacy and English.

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PET136: Coding animated narratives

Posted on 24/04/2024
This innovative and exciting text explores the use of coding program Scratch to support Years 5 - 7 students in achieving English curriculum text creation learning outcomes. Read more

Teaching reading & writing with texts bundle

Posted on 5/04/2024
This book bundle explores grammar in context, and will support text analysis a whole text level, passage level, and finally sentence level - giving you a full view of how texts work to make meaning, and how students apply this to their own writing. Read more

PET135: Teaching the language and texts of HASS

Posted on 11/03/2024
This excellent text unpacks the language and texts of HASS as taught in the Australian primary classroom in line with the curriculum. Read more

What do I need to set myself, and my classroom, up for success?

Posted on 22/01/2024
This chapter, taken from Robyn Wild's Where do I Start - an essential read for beginning teachers - provides vital guidelines for setting up your classroom for success in English and literacy. Read more