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  • Literacy Teaching Resources

    Our literacy and reading comprehension education resources provide teachers with effective tools and strategies for developing critical reading skills and enhancing students' understanding, paving the way for academic achievement and lifelong learning.

Our literacy resources

From reading comprehension and phonics worksheets to comprehensive professional learning courses, our resources are designed to save you time and offer actionable strategies and insights, enabling you to focus more on doing what you do best - teaching.

Literacy teaching strategies (professional learning)

  • Professional learning
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Playful Literacy: Engaging Activities for Primary Students (45 Minutes)

  • Primary
  • Year 1 - 6
  • English
  • Learning through literature
  • Reading
  • Professional learning
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Conversations with Lyn Stone - Literacy for Life 01

  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • English
  • Reading
  • Professional learning
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Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics With Nicole Case

  • Primary
  • Foundation
  • English
  • Grammar and Spelling
  • Reading
  • Professional learning
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Creating Immersive and Playful Learning (45 minutes)

  • Early Learning
  • Primary
  • Social
  • Social and Emotional Learning

Units of work

  • Unit
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Children’s Book Week Teaching Resources

  • Primary
  • Year 1 - 6
  • English
  • Creative writing
  • Learning through literature
  • Reading
  • Unit
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Introduction to Phonics

  • Primary
  • Foundation
  • English
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Unit
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The Island: Survival and Storytelling

  • Primary
  • Year 6
  • English
  • Creative writing
  • Informative writing
  • Persuasive writing
  • Learning through literature
  • Text Analysis
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Discussion
  • Environmental
  • Biodiversity
  • Sustainability
  • Lesson
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Systematic Synthetic Phonics Instruction: Lesson 1

  • Foundation
  • English
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Lesson
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Systematic Synthetic Phonics Instruction: Lesson 2

  • Foundation
  • English
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Lesson
  • Free
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Earth Hour - Lantern Making

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • English
  • Reading
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability
  • Unit
  • Free
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Literacy lessons for NAPLAN test preparation

  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Year 3 - 10
  • English
  • Persuasive writing
  • Unit
  • Free
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NAPLAN preparation - Sustainability and Writing Skills

  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Year 3 - 10
  • English
  • Environmental
  • Energy
  • Recycling
  • Sustainability
  • Water

Reading comprehension worksheets

  • Fact sheet
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Cool Profile Package

  • Primary
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Fact sheet
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Cool Profile: Dr Camelia Walker

  • Primary
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Fact sheet
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Cool Profile: Dr Sarah Scholten

  • Primary
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Fact sheet
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Cool Profile: Dr Susi Seibt

  • Primary
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
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Popular classroom games

  • Activity
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Meaningful Moments: Verb Generation in Teams

  • Secondary
  • Year 9 - 10
  • English
  • Reading
  • Discussion
  • Activity
  • Cool+
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Meaningful Moments: Name, Place, Plant, Animal, Food Game

  • Primary
  • Year 4
  • English
  • Speaking
  • Discussion
  • Activity
  • Cool+
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Meaningful Moments: Vocabulary Challenge Game

  • Secondary
  • Year 7 - 8
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography
  • Activity
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Meaningful Moments: Collaborative Class Stories

  • Primary
  • Year 3 - 4
  • English
  • Creative writing
  • Learning through literature
  • Speaking
  • Reading

Bigger picture thinking

  • Presentation
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How Are We Persuaded by Parody and Stereotypes?

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Social
  • Social Action
  • Presentation
  • Cool+
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How Are We Persuaded By Poetry?

  • Secondary
  • Year 7
  • English
  • Informative writing
  • Persuasive writing
  • Text Analysis
  • Social
  • Social Action
  • Presentation
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How Are We Persuaded by Graphs and Language?

  • Primary
  • Year 4
  • English
  • Informative writing
  • Persuasive writing
  • Text Analysis
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Environmental
  • Conservation
  • Presentation
  • Cool+
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Why Are You Reading That?

  • Primary
  • Year 3
  • English
  • Informative writing
  • Persuasive writing
  • Text Analysis
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Social
  • Social Action
  • Presentation
  • Cool+
  • ...

Using AI: Maintaining Personal Expression and Creativity

  • Secondary
  • Year 7
  • English
  • Text Analysis
  • Economic
  • Technology
  • Presentation
  • Cool+
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Using Evidence to Strengthen Writing

  • Secondary
  • Year 8
  • English
  • Informative writing
  • Persuasive writing
  • Text Analysis
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Social
  • Social Action
  • Presentation
  • Cool+
  • ...

Writing for Diverse Audiences

  • Secondary
  • Year 8
  • English
  • Creative writing
  • Social
  • Social Action
  • Presentation
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Writing Cohesive Creative Texts

  • Secondary
  • Year 10
  • English
  • Informative writing
  • Persuasive writing
  • Environmental
  • Citizen Science

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