6 resources for inspiring student reading and writing in 2022

We recently surveyed our members about their biggest challenges and focuses for 2022, and as you prepare for the end of 2021 and the beginning of the 2022 school year, we have rounded up 6 essential resources in each area to inspire you, help you plan, and provide activities, strategies and suggestions to add to your teaching toolkit.

In this blog: 6 resources for inspiring young readers and writers!

Many of these resources are exclusively available for PETAA members.

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Watch: Writing - where has the magic gone?

  • Available exclusively for PETAA members
  • In October 2018, Dr Adoniou delivered the opening keynote address at PETAA’s Writing the Future professional learning intensive, now available to watch in full
  • In this session Dr Adoniou questions, challenges, and inspires: what do students think writing is? Is it a wondrous craft for them — a powerful tool? Or in our efforts to give students the basic skills of writing, have we killed the magic?

Explore: 'Surviving and thriving: speaking up for change', a premium unit of work for upper primary

  • Available exclusively for PETAA members
  • This premium unit of work is based on the award winning picture book One careless night by Christina Booth and makes use of extracts from a number of print based and online companion texts to teach English skills and knowledge
  • It equips students with the skills, knowledge, and power for sharing their knowledge and passions, and making positive change

Watch: What makes a good book? Sparking student thinking and discussion

  • Available exclusively for PETAA members
  • Karys McEwen from the Children’s Book Council of Australia explains the Book of the Year Awards shadow judging program, which gets students involved in the process of critically viewing and selecting texts
  • Learn how shadow judging can be implemented in your classroom and library as a way to encourage rich, student-led investigation into, and discussion of, quality literature

Read: Promoting creative skills in the writing classroom 

  • Open and free to view
  • This is Part 2 of Writing the Future by Kaye Lowe
  • It examines how learners go through the creative process, moving from a generative state (exploration,
    experimentation, discovery) to an evaluative one (self-reflection, self-criticism), and how teachers can encourage both states

Read: Writing the future - authors in schools project

  • Available exclusively for PETAA members
  • This PETAA Paper (number 217) is by Tracey Grice
  • It outlines a residency during which author Louise Park worked with staff and students, contributing to their ongoing work in language, examining the writing process, and inspiring young writers

Watch: Poetry for students - a poet's perspective

  • Available exclusively for PETAA members
  • This webinar features award-winning author, poet and educator Lorraine Marwood 
  • She provides a look inside poetry from a writer and reader perspective - and then draws from her experience as an educator to suggest ways to introduce and encourage poetry writing and reading in the classroom