Welcome fellow teachers! This online resource has been created to assist Pre-Service teachers in understanding the Australian Curriculum requirements of “Language as Literacy in use” as outlined in the Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2019. The following activities will focus on the Year 9 unit of Australian Poetry and how to incorporate the key… Read more

This final activity will focus on the Key Idea Component: “An interest in expanding the range of materials listened to, viewed and read, and in experimenting with ways of expressing increasingly subtle and complex ideas to create effective and innovative texts” (ACARA, 2019). This connects to the Year 9 English Content Descriptor: ACELY1740: ” Listen… Read more

Activity Three connects with the Key Idea component: “The skill and disposition needed to analyse and understand the philosophical, moral, political and aesthetic bases on which many texts are built” (ACARA, 2019). This can be related to the Year 9 English Content Descriptor: ACELA1560: ” Analyse and explain the use of symbols, icons and myth… Read more