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First Steps Literacy
First Steps literacy resources comprise comprehensive teaching materials in the four modes of literacy: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Viewing as well as a resource - Linking Assessment, Teaching and Learning.
Each resource includes practical, accessible, classroom-tested teaching ideas and activities that teachers can adapt to suit their students and the Western Australian Curriculum: English.
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Linking Assessment, Teaching and Learning
Linking Assessment, Teaching and Learning describes good practice in the areas of assessment and how to link it to differentiated teaching practices.
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Reading Resource Book
The Reading Resource Book is designed to help teachers focus on the explicit teaching of reading processes, strategies and conventions; and the contextual aspects associated with comprehending different types of texts.
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Speaking and Listening Resource Book
The Speaking and Listening Resource Book is designed to help teachers focus on the explicit teaching of the different forms of spoken language; speaking and listening processes, strategies and conventions; and the contextual aspects associated with composing and understanding oral texts.
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Viewing Resource Book
The Viewing Resource Book is designed to help teachers focus on the explicit teaching of the different forms of multimodal texts; viewing processes, strategies and conventions; and the contextual aspects associated with understanding multimodal texts.
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Writing Resource Book
The Writing Resource Book is designed to help teachers focus on the explicit teaching of different forms of text; writing processes, strategies and conventions; and the contextual aspects associated with composing texts.
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Reading Map of Development
The Reading Map of Development describes student learning behaviours, suggested teaching emphases and a range of teaching and learning experiences for each phase of development.
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Speaking and Listening Map of Development
The Speaking and Listening Map of Development is designed to help teachers map their students' progress. It has a strong focus on supporting teachers as they plan and implement a dynamic and interactive model of speaking and listening.
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Viewing Map of Development
The Viewing Map of Development describes student learning behaviours, suggested teaching emphases and a range of teaching and learning experiences for each phase of development. The organisation of the map assists teachers to link teaching and learning with assessment.
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Writing Map of Development
The Writing Map of Development is designed to help teachers map their students' progress; it offers suggestions for teaching and learning experiences that will assist with further development of students' writing.
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