General Resources
Department of Education resources - sample units and resource links under the English tab.
The Writing Revolution
English Textual Concepts
Authors engaging students in the use of their texts with the inclusion of resources for each.
Watching Shakespeare from the Globe
Costs involved
Playing with language. TED Ed Series.
Videos and associated simple teaching resources supporting various aspects of language.
Teacher resources on a range of texts written by Australian teachers for teachers to use in the classroom.
The Learning Network by New York Times.
Teaching resources based on using Times content - articles, essays, images, videos, graphics and podcasts - as teaching tools across subject areas.
Weird, wonderful and/or thought provoking images that inspire creative writing. Additional activities include grammar, punctuation or spelling outcomes.
Online reading activities for all ages that adapts to students' individual ability levels and presents them with skill building exercises. You will need to sign up and create a teacher account.
Provides teachers with high quality films and animations that can be used in the classroom to enhance the teaching of reading and writing.
List of young writers competitions.
Blog post by Australian author Melinda Tognini.
Website with current news stories written for readers at different levels (green = easiest, orange = more complex, red = most sophisticated). Each article comes with comprehension questions and further activities. Articles can be used with the companion worksheet template (developed at SJCHS)