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Year 4-5 Free
Here are a selection of units that I have taught successfully in Year 5 of the programme. Depending on the linguistic backgrounds and levels of your students, you may be able to adapt them to teach in...
7 March 2024Teaching Units
Years 3-4 Free
Here are a selection of units I have taught successfully in Years 3-4 of the programme. Depending on your students' linguistic backgrounds and levels, you may be able to adapt them to teach in Year 2...
17 July 2023Teaching Units
Years 1-2 Free
Here are a selection of units that I have taught successfully in Years 1-2 of the programme. Depending on the level and linguistic backgrounds of your students, you may be able to adapt them to teach...
17 July 2023Teaching Units Free
Immerse yourself in our extensive collection of Language & Literature teaching units, organised by key concepts or year levels. Discover countless innovative ideas for your instructional units, offering...
18 May 2023Teaching Units
Units By Year Level Free
Most units on this website can be adapted for a different age group by changing the texts and adapting the statement of inquiry, inquiry questions and summative assessment(s).
17 July 2023Teaching Units
Advertising
This unit introduces students to some of the key techniques of advertising. During the unit, students analyse a variety of print adverts to examine the role that advertising design features play in communication.
10 April 2024Teaching Units
Unit Ideas Free
Peruse our pages and uncover an abundance of inventive ideas for your teaching units, all designed to empower and support your pedagogical journey. With our rich selection of readily available resources,...
17 July 2023Teaching Units
Key Techniques of Advertising
This Inquiry to Go will introduce you to some of the key techniques of advertising such as the six elements. You will analyse a variety of print adverts to examine the role that advertising design features...
7 March 2024Teaching Units
Units by Key Concept Free
Peruse our pages and uncover an abundance of inventive ideas for your teaching units organised by key concept and designed to empower and support your pedagogical journey. With our rich selection of readily...
17 July 2023Teaching Units
New Lives: Perspectives on Migration
The topic of migration has been popular in world literature across time. With the advent of social media, understanding the nature of the experience of young refugees, migration and the emotions of those...
27 August 2023Teaching Units
New Lives: Perspectives on Migration
The topic of migration has been popular in world literature across time. With the advent of social media, understanding the nature of the experience of young refugees, migration and the emotions of those...
25 March 2024Teaching Units
Gothic Literature Free
Always popular with students, the Gothic Literature unit provides an opportunity to inquire into the Gothic literary genre. The elements of horror, death and darkness are combined with nature, romance...
7 May 2024Assessment
GRASPS Summative Assessment
GRASPS is an assessment model in which students perform their understanding using an authentic 'real-world' assessment task.
22 June 2022Teaching Units
Short Stories around the World
This short story unit includes voices and stories from around the world and offers the possibility of broadening our students' perspectives through introducing them to differing global perspectives. At...
24 August 2023Teaching Units
Speeches of our Time
Words are powerful and put in the hands of skilful orators, they can inspire, heal and change our world. Reading, watching and studying the rhetorical techniques speakers use to build and support their...
13 August 2023Teaching Units
Brand Image
This Inquiry to Go will introduce you to brand image. You will examine the role that symbolism plays in supporting or creating a brand image in print and television adverts from CNN, HSBC and Money Supermarket.
1 April 2024Teaching Units
Poetry of Witness
Poetry of witness describes painful writings by those who endured war, imprisonment, exile, repression, and human rights violations. Poetry of witness focuses on human anguish rather than national pride....
3 September 2023Teaching Units
Young Writers of the Holocaust
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night and If this is a Man by Primo Levi all include eyewitness accounts, daily impressions and emotions that paint a picture of one of the...
17 April 2024General Resources
Reading Resources Free
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” – Walt Disney
18 July 2023Teaching Units
I am ME!
Reading, discussing and analysing short stories with the theme of identity helps students to reflect on their unique individual identities, their perspectives about the character traits of others and...
7 April 2024