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K–6 English Reading Resources

These sites provide parents and teachers with a variety of reading books suitable for the primary student.

The e.lit website will also be a helpful resource for teachers across the teaching of English.

NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge book list

Children’s Book Council of Australia book list

e:lit (Primary English Teaching Association)

Suggested K–10 English texts

This is a compilation of quality reading and viewing resources for teachers. The list includes a variety of types of texts including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, media and multimedia. The annotations include a summary of the story, relevant themes, age appropriateness and genre.

K-6 English Parents Guide

introduces the English Syllabus to Parents and school community members.

NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Premier’s Reading Challenge is an initiative of the NSW State government. The Challenge aims to encourage in students a love of reading for leisure and pleasure, and to enable students to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.

Executive Summary – Revision of English K-6

Executive Summary

Contains Advice for the Revision of the English K-6 Syllabus and Support Document.

Also available in PDF format

K-6 English Teacher's Reference List

This list of reference materials is neither prescriptive nor comprehensive. It provides suggestions for texts and videos from a variety of different educational perspectives to which teachers may refer in the process of professional development.

K-6 English Teacher's Reference List (PDF)

Published October 1998

K-6 English Syllabus – Principal's Package

Introduction – Overview

• The Syllabus
• The Support Documents

Background to the Revision – Nature of the Revision

• What is retained from the 1994 syllabus and support documents?
• What has changed?
• What is new?

Four Key Questions and Answers

• What are the key features of the syllabus and support documents?
• How does this syllabus relate to state and national initiatives in literacy?
• What is the status of materials released to support the 1994 syllabus?
• How does this syllabus relate to other KLA syllabuses?

Fact Sheets

1. Outcomes and Indicators
2. Talking and Listening
3. Reading
4. Writing
5. Grammar
6. Text Types
7. Spelling
8. Literature and Literacy
9. Planning, Programming, Assessing, Reporting and Evaluating
10. Meeting the Needs of All Language Learners

K-6 English Syllabus - Principal’s Package (PDF)

Published April 1998