English: Resources for Sale

The following materials produced by the NSW Department of Education and Training are available for purchase. All prices include GST. Download an order form here.

Understanding ELLA. 2002 Product number 22005
An interactive guide to the English Language and Literacy Assessment package.
CD-ROM: $28

Focus on Literacy: talking and listening. 2002 Product number 10844
The NSW Department's policy statement on teaching and learning in talking and listening.
Pack: $12

Focus on literacy: Writing. 2000 Product number 10822 and 10823
Focuses on the explicit and systematic teaching of writing from Kindergarten to Year 12. It addresses a social view of teaching writing and the knowledge, skills and understanding expected to be taught and assessed by teachers in all subjects. The accompanying T and D brochure supports primary and secondary teachers to understand and use the document.
Book and brochure: $8.80 Pack of 5 books: $27.50.

Helping your child with writing from Kindergarten to Year 12. 2000 Product number 10824
A brochure designed to provide parents with information about how writing is taught in schools, the expectations of students from Kindergarten to Year 12 and ways to assist with writing at home.
Pack of 25 brochures: $18.70.

Continuity of literacy development Years 5-8. 1999 Product number 10841
Examines ways of aligning more closely the teaching and learning practices of primary and secondary schools, and of ensuring that the tools of literacy which are required for learning and success, both in and out of school, are made available to all students.
Book: $22.

Literacy in focus: secondary snapshots. 1999 Product number 10840
Contains ideas and experiences from 15 government schools which demonstrated improved results in the English language and literacy assessment (ELLA) from 1997 to 1998.
Book: $16.50.

Planning a whole school approach to Literacy. 1999 Product number 10802
Book: $22

A guide for School Literacy Teams. product number 10842
The purpose of this resource is to provide activities for school literacy teams to facilitate training and development with teachers as they assist students who need additional support in literacy. The resource provides advice and activities to support the use of the documents Teaching Literacy in Year 7. Facilitor's notes and participants worksheets and suggestions for programming are included for eight sessions.
Binder: $66

Helping your child with literacy in Years 5-8. 1998 Product number 20340
A brochure designed to provide suggestions for parents.
Pack of 50 brochures: $22.

Literacy discussion paper number 1 Breaking some of the myths - again. 1998 Product number Book 10827 Pack 10828
An edited version of Dr Paul Brock's opening address at the Refocus on reading conference in July 1997. Provides interesting reading for both staff and the community.
Book: $6.60 Pack of 5 books: $22.

Literacy discussion paper number 2 Phonemic/phonological awareness. 1998 Product number Book 10832 Pack 10833
Paper delivered by Yola Center and Louella Freeman to stimulate informed discussion on key issues pertaining to effective literacy teaching and learning.
Book: $6.60 Pack of 5 books: $22.

Literacy discussion papers number 3: Developing more effective partnerships between, home, school and community. 1998 Product number Book 10836 Pack 10837
The paper presented for the Literacy Strategy by Trevor H. Cairney, discussing the partnership between the home, school and community.
Book: $6.60 Pack of 5 books: $22.

Teaching Literacy in English in Year 7. 1997 Product number 10815
Supports teachers of Year 7 English, highlighting the literacy demands of the subject, and demonstrates how these demands can be explicitly taught in sample units of work. Advice is also given on using assessment information to plan appropriate programs and ways in which a whole-school plan for literacy might be developed
Book: $22

Multi-age Classes in NSW. 1997 Product number 80107
A report into a review of multi-age classrooms in NSW schools. The review was to provide the latest information about the range of multi-age classes in NSW, research findings and successful practices in regard to forming multi-age classes and teaching and learning in such classes.
Book: $13.20

Computer-based technologies in the English KLA. 1997 Product number 10328
Developed to provide teachers with practical curriculum support for the effective use of computer-based technologies in teaching and learning with advice and ideas to enhance student learning.
Book: $29.70.

Focus on literacy: Spelling. 1997 Product number 10830 and 10831
Focuses on the explicit and systematic teaching of spelling and addresses the four forms of spelling knowledge expected to be taught, while stressing the importance of spelling being grounded in purposeful and carefully planned learning experiences.
Book: $8.80 Pack of 5 books: $27.50.

No Body is Perfect: T-Ed magazine. 1997 Product number 10602
Classroom resource to be used in conjunction with the No Body is Perfect activities for high school English.
Thirty magazines: $33

No body is perfect (English: Stage 5). 1997 Product number 10604
Resources for teaching and learning activities about body image and gender.(See PDHPE)
Book: $16.50

Strategies for reading factual texts. 1997 Product number 10810
This book outlines the work of a number of teachers involved in teaching students about how to read factual texts. It offers practical strategies developed by teachers and designed to support students as they learn to read these texts.
Book: $16.50.

Immigrant chronicle. 1993 Product number 11352
The poems of Peter Skrznecki feature in this resource. An interview with the poet provides students with a background to the poet himself together with a valuable insight into the poems and their meanings.
Book and cassette: $33.

Maestro. 1992 Product number 11355
Interview with Peter Goldsworthy, background notes, teaching strategies and student resource sheets.
Book and cassette: $44.

Away. 1991 Product number 11350
Background notes, study guides, teaching activities, reviews and interview for Michael Gow's play as studied in Years 11-12.
Book and audio cassette: $22.

Teaching Talented 7-10 Part 1 (English and history modules). 1990 Product number 11502
This resource is a kit of self-contained work modules for students with special talents.
Kit; modules, audio cassette and slides: $66.

Sister Kate. 1990 Product number 11357
Provides teachers with many different approaches to the students' study of the novel. An interview with the author Jean Bedford is included.
Book: $17.60.

To a coast of light. 1988 Product number 11358
Materials and teaching strategies to support the study of the poet, Robert Gray, including an interview with and readings by the poet.
Book, audio cassette and activity sheets: $22.

Out of time: Kenneth Slessor. 1986 Product number 11356
Presentation of Slessor poems by Sydney Theatre Company.
Book and audio cassette: $12.

Thriller. 1986 Product number 11359
Discusses the thriller, a modern literary form, features R. Chandler and J. Le Carre.
Book and audio cassette: $11.