Resources are available online at the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) website.  Curriculum that is offered to students from Prep to Year 10 is accompanied by a range of teaching and learning aids to ensure teachers and students maximise the opportunities for education. 

VATE Homepage - Victorian Association for the Teaching of English

Australian Literacy Educators' Association Victoria (ALEA

Australian Association for Teachers of English (AATE) 

Educational websites:

Premier’s Reading Challenge - provides information about the way the Premier’s Reading Challenge operates and links to online registration and record keeping for individual students and schools.

National Literacy Numeracy Week - celebrates the achievements of schools and students in literacy and numeracy learning and teaching.  

English topics: 

Biographical writing

Creative writing

Poetry

Reading

Resources - VELS:

Multi domain assessment task: Sample task 4 – The story of me - focuses on English and thinking processes at Level 5.

Multi domain assessment task : Sample task 9 – Magazine interview - focuses on English and thinking processes at Level 6.  

How you can make plain English work for you – defines plain English, recognises its importance and identifies when it should be used. The case studies provide useful material that could be utilised in the classroom.  

Literacy programs:

Reading Recovery Program

Making a Difference: A literacy development program for middle years students

Making Intervention Work (PDF - 1.2Mb)

Reading Assistance Voucher Programme