Educational Materials That Have Already Been Developed
Educational Publications
A list of publications (compiled by John Knox) to help in teaching.
See here.
Disadvanged Schools Programme
A catalogue of DSP materials can be obtained by writing to:
Att: Ted Rodgers
State Equity Centre
11-13 Swanson Street
Erskineville NSW 2043
Tel: 00-61-2-95825860 Fax: 00-61-2-9550 2874.
Email: equity.sydney@det.nsw.edu.au
1. Genre and Grammar Resource Materials available under Literacy
and learning Program (all prices in Australian dollars):
| Title |
Price |
Description |
| The Staff Development Kit |
$200 |
Materials to improve learning in the junior secondary years. |
| Resource Book |
$20 |
designed as a resource for teachers to provide a detailed
reference
to the genres and grammar of learning. The book is in 4 parts:
- Part One deals with the relationship of language ,
knowledge and
grammar.
Grammar is seen as a functional resource for understanding the way
knowledge
is coded in the subject areas.
- Part Two provides a detailed description and explnation of
the genres
of
school writing:
- Describing
- Explaining
- Instructing
- Arguing
- Narrating
- Part Three acts as a detailed glossry of grammatical terms
considered
essential
for a functional control of the above genres. The emphasis is of two
leavels;
grammar at the level of text, and grammar at the level of the
sentence.
- Part 4 outlines a model for the teaching/learning process
of this
approach
to literacy education. While attention is given to language
development,
teachers are given a frmaework for effectively intervening and
promoting
language development appropriate to the language demands of the
disciplines.
|
| English KLA book |
$20 |
Deals with 5 units of work covering spoken genres such as
retelliing
and oral reporting, moving through the written genres of recounting,
describing,
explaining and arguing. Contains assessment tasks and links between
teaching
objectives and teaching/learning activities. Also blackline masters for
producing OHT's and handouts. |
| Human Society and its Environment (HSIE) Key Learning Areas
(KLA) Book |
$20 |
|
| Science KLA Book |
$12 |
|
| Maths KLA Book |
$12 |
|
| Creative Arts KLA Book |
$12 |
|
| Technical and Applied Studies (TAS) KLA Book |
$10 |
|
| PD/Health /PE KLA Book |
$10 |
|
| Video on Learning to Write |
$50 |
(40 minutes) |
| Staff Development Manual |
$20 |
|
| Teaching Narrative Writing |
$20 |
deals with ways to explicitly teaching some of the techniques
of creative
writing. There are 3 units of work that move from the basic structure
and
grammar of narrative writing to approaches for teaching metaphor,
rhythm
and vocie. OHT's and handouts. |
2. "WRITE it RIGHT" Resouces for Literacy and Learning (All
reports
of research for the teacher written by educators under the guidance of
the Linguists at Sydney University).
| Title |
Price |
| the Report Genre |
$20 |
| The Discussion Genre |
$20 |
| English Resource Pack |
$120 |
| A Model for Literacy in Subject Learning |
$20 |
| Scientifuc Literacy |
$50 |
The Primary English Teaching Association
The Primary English Teaching Association has developed a new,
genre-based
video package:
Derewianka, B. 1991. Exploring how texts work: the video.
Sydney:
Primary English Teaching Association.
Enquiries to:
- Primary English Teaching Association
PO Box 167, Rozelle,
NSW 2039, Australia.
The Language In The School Curriculum (LiSC) project
The Language In The School Curriculum (LiSC) project instigated by the
Australian Linguistics Society has been funded by the Academy of the
Humanities
(actually DDETYA, via the ARC and the Academy) in response to what is
regarded
as the need for discipline renewal in knowledge about language in
Australian
primary and secondary education . The question is whether systemic
functional
linguistics is given the attention in this project that is warranted by
its current level of application in schooling and in teacher education
in Australia.
Visit the LiSC website (
http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/Dept/LISC/) for more details on the
project.
Mark A. Bell: A Curriculum Proposal for spoken English communication
Mark Bell has put a curriculum proposal for spoken English
communication
in an EFL setting on his web-site. The design was influenced by SFL
concepts
- especially differences between spoken and written language. You can
find
it at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9583.
Comments appreciated.