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    TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 3 and Year 4 English

    • TLF-IDM025086

    This unit of work focuses on behaviour in and around tracks and rail infrastructure. Activities build subject-specific vocabulary and understanding of procedural text structures. Guided writing activities support students to develop a series of track safe procedures while a slogan writing activity focuses on effective ways ...

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    Marvellous mechanisms

    • TLF-IDM025959

    Students develop skills in how to use mechanisms in a debate.

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    Perspectives on Kamay

    • TLF-IDM025823

    This resource explores the perspectives of the Aboriginal people of Kamay Botany Bay and the men aboard the HMB Endeavour upon their meeting in 1770. It will also help students to understand the history of Australia's Aboriginal peoples and why their stories of the past are equally important to hear. Note to Aboriginal ...

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    Characterisation in debates

    • TLF-IDM025953

    Students learn how to use characterisation and descriptive language in debating.

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    Deep diving into definitions

    • TLF-IDM025974

    Explore definitions in debating from the negative team's perspective.

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    Formal vs Informal Writing: What's the Difference and When to Use Them

    • TLF-IDM021442

    Before you start writing any article, one of the first things you need to ask yourself is "Who's my audience?" Answering this question will help you decide if you should use a formal or an informal writing style. This resource explores this and other questions to be answered before writing, such as 'What's the best way ...

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    TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 5 and Year 6 English

    • TLF-IDM025087

    This unit of work focuses on the influences that impact on safe behaviours in and around tracks, platforms and trains. Guided activities build students' rail safety vocabulary including grammar and word building. Modelled writing activities support students to shape a research-based inquiry investigating factors that impact ...

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    Design thinking across the curriculum

    • TLF-IDM025436

    This cross-curriculum resource is designed to introduce Stage 2, 3 and 4 students to the design thinking process through a series of videos and interactive activities. This resource is also downloadable as a SCORM file: the downloaded version will only work if you upload it to a webserver, such as Moodle or Canvas.

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    Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing

    • TLF-IDM021385

    This is a very rich resource for students from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), which gives them an insight into the art of Shaun Tan through a focus on both the book and the film of The Lost Thing. The content focuses on aspects of storytelling, including themes, techniques, forms and language, visual, ...

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    The Australian cotton story

    • TLF-IDM015274

    This is a nine-minute video about cotton cultivation in Australia and cotton's importance for Australians. Intended for a mid to upper primary school audience, it depicts a family sowing, irrigating, spraying and harvesting cotton on their farm at Dalby, Queensland. It also illustrates the life cycle of the cotton plant ...

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    TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 English

    • TLF-IDM025085

    This unit of work focuses on developing student understanding of the importance of being track safe and the key message 'Stop, Look, Listen, Think'. It builds students' familiarity with the vocabulary and key concepts related to rail safety and provides differentiated activities for writers at different stages of development ...

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    Find your voice

    • TLF-IDM025970

    Students learn about, compose and perform slam poetry.

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    Considering responsibility in debates

    • TLF-IDM025965

    Students learn how to discuss responsibility when debating.

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    Strictly Speaking

    • TLF-IDM016148

    A public speaking resource including videos of student speeches, interviews, adjudicator comments, adults talking about their public speaking experiences, and support activities.

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    Syllabus bites – responding to literature

    • TLF-IDM016160

    A web page with information, teacher guides and resources on responding to texts. This resource supports the NSW English K-10 syllabus.

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    Worlds

    • TLF-IDM015232

    Worlds is a unit of work based on the English Stage 6 area of study that can be used as an ideal introduction for students in years 10 or 11. It contains four independent resources, Worlds united, Worlds apart, Worlds collide and Worlds beyond. Each part has three texts to help students examine and explore the area of study ...

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    Writing a discussion

    • TLF-IDM015233

    The resource contains information, activities and tasks on how to write a discussion. It includes writing and publishing templates for students for a variety of purposes and contexts. This resource supports the Australian Curriculum in English K–10.

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    Worlds beyond

    • TLF-IDM015235

    Worlds beyond is part of the unit Worlds, and is also an independent resource that can be used as an ideal introduction to the area of study for students in years 9 or 10. Worlds beyond explores ideas and perspectives underlying future societies and the impact of technology on individuals. It has activities and tasks using ...

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    Syllabus bites: types of sentences

    • TLF-IDM016280

    A web page resource with information, teacher guides and activities on types of sentences to support the Australian Curriculum in English K–10. It has detailed activities, links to resources and quizzes.

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    Writing a multimedia review

    • TLF-IDM016289

    The resource contains information, activities and tasks on how to write a review of a multimodal text, a website and a computer game. It includes writing and presenting templates for students for a variety of purposes and contexts. This resource supports the Australian Curriculum in English K–10.

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