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Literacy Online. Every child literate - a shared responsibility.

General

Key resources

  • Effective Literacy Practice in Years 1–4, Years 5-8, and Years 9-13
  • Literacy Learning Progressions: This resource shows teachers what knowledge and skills their students need in order to meet the reading and writing demands of the New Zealand Curriculum.
  • The English Language Learning Progressions: This resource can help teachers of English choose appropriate strategies and tasks to personalise learning for diverse learners, particularly those for whom English is a second language. It also helps teachers assess where their students are at in terms of English language acquisition and to plan the next steps.

Other resources

  • Breathing E-learning into the Literacy Learning Progressions: This wiki captures teachers’ ideas about how ICTs can support and extend teaching and learning in reading and writing, through suggested uses of ICTs linked to the Literacy Learning Progressions.
  • Language Enhancing the Achievement of Pasifika: LEAP is a professional learning resource developed for teachers working in mainstream New Zealand classrooms with bilingual Pasifika students. It is designed for primary, intermediate/middle, and secondary teachers. The resource includes information that may be useful for teachers of bilingual students from many backgrounds, although it has been developed for Pasifika.
  • Learning Circles: a Learning Circle is created by a team of teachers and their classes joined in the virtual space of an electronic classroom. Working with Learning Circle partners from around the world helps students develop important interpersonal skills.
  • MyRead – Connecting Students To Learning Through Explicit Teaching: this article explores building a culture of learning within today’s classrooms that requires teachers and students to jointly engage in teaching and learning that is purposeful, relevant and clearly defined. Levels 1 to 4.
  • Picking up the Pace
  • Terrific Teaching's Triad: this research by Michael Pressley yields insights into the practices of effective educators. Levels 1 to 4.

The Art of Asking Good Questions

The Art of Asking Good Questions: a key to engaging students in learning, especially inquiry-based learning, is the use of good questioning skills. This site covers factual, interpretive and evaluative questions. Levels 1 to 8.

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