Teaching Literacy in...

The Teaching literacy in ... in Year 7 materials provide subject–specific professional development for DET secondary teachers, demonstrating good practices in literacy teaching. Teachers need to provide explicit instruction for students in meeting the literacy demands of their subject areas. This explicit literacy teaching is integral to the content teaching.

The sample units on this website integrate skills in written and spoken language while targeting subject outcomes.

English: Writing persuasive text. Explicit and systematic teaching for engagement of all students through modelled, guided and independent planning and writing.

Visual Arts: Lifting the mask. A unit of work developed to familiarise students with art vocabulary, to analyse artworks using the frames and to make artworks from appropriated images.

Science: Space. The unit provides opportunities for students to develop knowledge and understandings about models, theories and laws relevant to the study of space.

PDHPE: Rising to the challenge. Focuses on supporting students to develop effective coping strategies to deal with positive and negative experiences in life.

Dance: Ashley opposes Erica. Ashley opposes Erica is based on the story Hating Alison Ashley by Robyn Klein and focuses on the compositional process and making dance from a descriptive stimulus.

Music: Experimenting with sound. A series of eight introductory lessons for Year 7 to ensure all students have a common understanding of fundamental music concepts.

Drama: Life cycle. The unit outlines a series of eight lessons during which students combine the elements of drama with the text of a poem to create a group performance.

Design and technology (mandatory): Digital design media. Students are supported in learning about web design, and in applying their learning to the development of their own web pages.