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Early Childhood Program Examples, Ideas and Inspiration. Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations. Educators Belonging, Being and Becoming: Educator's Guide to the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia. Effective Curriculum Planning and Documentation Methods in Education and Care Services. Incubator The Standards Australia Incubator is a sandpit for playing with new ideas and testing concepts. It’s a place for you to share your vision of how we could develop standards better and how they could add greater value to Australian society by being delivered in more user focused ways.
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For teachers
http://www.chompchomp.com/ Grammar Bytes is a great website with downloadable handouts and very funky PowerPoints to teach grammar (English site)
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/writing.html and www.writingfix.com
are both US sites that have lots of good writing resources and ideas.
http://www.shirleyclarke-education.org/ Shirley Clarke – Effective learning through formative assessment. (English site)
www.talk4writing.com Pie Corbett’s website includes forums and ideas for writing. You need to join this site but there is no charge. (English site)
For students
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Fabostory is an initiative of local Kiwi authors to write collaboratively with NZ kids and give aspiring child authors the opportunity to have their work published. Visit http://www.fabostory3.blogspot.co.nz/ for more information.
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Upstart is a fantastic NZ publication for young writers. Students can write articles and book reviews and see their contributions in a magazine on sale in shops! Visit http://www.upstartmag.co.nz/ for more information.
https://toitoi.nz/ Toitoi is a New Zealand journal of children’s writing, which is published each quarter. Students can submit writing and illustrations.
https://success-for-boys.tki.org.nz/ Teaching-learning-resources/Story-Starters New Zealand celebrities share ideas for writing in video clips.
Websites with great ideas to motivate writing
https://www.wonderopolis.org/ Answers to questions (wonders) - you can send in your own wonders
http://thekidshouldseethis.com/ This website has a range of interesting videos which can be used in writing and reading
www.dogonews.com Articles on a variety of curriculum areas – most include video clips and images
www.literacyshed.com UK site with a huge range of user-friendly resources and lesson ideas, images, music videos and film clips
www.howstuffworks.com Short clips showing how things work
https://www.abc.net.au/btn/ Behind the News (Australian ABC website). Great for current events – some articles have printed transcripts to go with them
https://ed.ted.com Student version of TED talks
www.lovereading4kids.co.uk Book selling website where you can download book excerpts
www.gopro.com GoPro YouTube channel - excellent motivation for recounts from a different perspective Nascar 2011 with chase.
http://www.boredpanda.com There are some beautiful photography series on this site (not all content is appropriate for students)
https://www.pobble.com/ This site shares an image and writing idea every day - you can go back and review posts using the calendar
Recommended books
Here is a list of books we have found useful. A complete reference list can be found on page 214 of The Writing Book.
Everyday Editing, by Jeff Anderson, (2007), Stenhouse, Portland, M.E.
Ten Things Every Writer Needs to Know, by Jeff Anderson, (2011), Stenhouse, Portland, M.E.
Enriching Feedback in the Primary Classroom, by Shirley Clarke, (2003) Hodder Education, U.K.
Unlocking Formative Assessment, by Shirley Clarke, (2001), Hodder & Stoughton, U.K.
Boy Writers: Reclaiming their Voices, by Ralph Fletcher, (2006), Stenhouse, Portland, M.E.
Effective Literacy Practice, Learning Media, (2006), Ministry of Education, Wellington, N.Z.
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I’ve Got Something to Say: Leading Young Writers to Authorship, by Gail Loane, Aries Pub. Ltd, N.Z.
Learning to Learn in a Second Language, by Pauline Gibbons, (1991), Primary English Teachers Association, Newtown, N.S.W. Australia.
Effective Practices in Teaching Writing by Dr Shaun Hawthorne, (2011), NZATE, Lyttelton, N.Z.
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Write Ways: Modelling Writing Forms by Lesley Wing-Jan, (2008) Oxford University Press, Australia.