This is a writing task for VCAL Literacy - writing for practical purposes. The task subject is ‘Dear Australia’ and is a formal letter. Although the ‘Dear Australia’ promotion has finished through Australia Post, this task is still relevant to reflect on and record personal experiences of living through the COVID-19 pandemic for posterity. Included is: Word document for dissemination to students Word document for teachers with the task, curriculum links and the graphic organisers for printing PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task I have taught this unit to my class and my team teacher has also taught this unit. We had positive responses, with students keen to post their letters. I hope you and your students find this unit engaging, practice skills for practical purposes and increase vocabulary, punctuation and grammar skills.

This is a reading task for VCAL Literacy - reading for self-expression. The task uses comic books as the basis for the unit. It includes links to publicly available comic books that I used (I taught this during remote learning). In the classroom, you may like to provide students with a variety of comic books from your library or they may bring in their own to read. Students read two comic books of their choice and answer comprehension questions aligned to the VCAL Literacy curriculum. Included: Word document for dissemination to students Word document for teachers with the task, curriculum links and the comic book links PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task I have taught this comic book unit to my class and my team teacher has also taught this unit. We had positive responses and the students really enjoyed reading a different text type. I hope you and your students find this unit engaging. Please feel free to change the comic books to a topic relevant to you and your students’ interests.

This is a writing task for VCAL Literacy - writing for self-expression. The task uses comic books as the basis for the unit. Students will create their own comic book character using a character profile graphic organiser. Students will then map out their storyline using a story map graphic organiser. Students will then use the comic strip template to create their own comic strip using the character the created and the story map. Included is: Word document for dissemination to students Word document for teachers with the task, curriculum links and all graphic organisers / templates for printing PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task I have taught this unit to my class during remote learning and my team teacher has also taught this unit. We had positive responses, with students creating entertaining and, often humorous, comic strips. I hope you and your students find this unit engaging, practice skills for getting their message across using multimodal literacies and increase vocabulary, punctuation and grammar skills.

This is a reading task for VCAL Literacy - reading for practical purposes. The task includes links to two public newspaper articles. Students read both articles and answer comprehension questions aligned to the VCAL Literacy curriculum. Included is: Word document for dissemination to students Word document for teachers with the task, curriculum links and the newspaper article links PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task I have taught this unit to my class and my team teacher has also taught this unit. We had positive responses. I hope you and your students find this unit engaging, practice skills for analysing newspaper articles to ascertain important information within their community. Please feel free to change the newspaper articles to a topic / location relevant to you and your students’ interests.

These printable bookmarks make the perfect gift for your students at the end of the year. They are double-sided, so you can leave a parting message for your students. The document is fully editable. You will need to create a bitmoji of yourself to insert on the front of the bookmark (the bitmojis in the file are of me)… or you may leave me there if you don’t want to create your own bitmoji! The back of the bookmark has a meaningful message to students. Again, it is fully editable, so you may wish to edit the message to suit yourself and the message you’d like to give your students.

This is a writing task for VCAL Literacy - writing for knowledge. Task uses timelines as the theme for writing for knowledge. Students explore the purpose of timelines and the use planning and drafting to create a timeline of a significant person in their lives. Included is: Word document for dissemination to students (suitable for distance learning) Word document for teachers with the task, curriculum links and all graphic organisers / templates for printing PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task I hope you and your students find this unit engaging, practice skills for getting their message across using multimodal literacies and increase vocabulary, punctuation and grammar skills.

This is a writing task for VCAL Literacy - reading for knowledge. Task uses timelines as the theme for reading for knowledge. Students explore the purpose of timelines and look at two different books with timelines in them to explore the different ways authors can depict timelines and events. Two book titles and authors are included in the planning. If your school or public library doesn’t carry these, you can alternate these for any books with timelines that suits your class’ interests. Included is: Word document for dissemination to students (suitable for distance learning) Word document for teachers with the task, curriculum links and all graphic organisers / templates for printing PowerPoint for introducing and teaching the task I hope you and your students find this unit engaging, practice skills for analysing information to ascertain important information relevant to their interests. Please feel free to change the books to a topic relevant to you and your students’ interests.

This VCAL Literacy bundle covers all 8 learning outcomes for Foundation and Intermediate levels. There are many opportunities to cover the oracy learning outcomes throughout the unit as well. There is an assessable task per learning outcome included, with rubrics, graphic organisers and a PowerPoint to teach the skills needed to complete each task. Included in the unit: STEM project for engagement and to set the theme of the unit. Reading and writing tasks for practical purposes, knowledge, self-expression and public debate Rubrics for all tasks Teaching notes and links to curriculum PowerPoint slides that cover the explicit teaching of each skill, with applied learning links to the skills in workplaces Choices of tasks and texts in some learning outcomes to support student agency The teaching notes document is 43 pages long, includes all curriculum links, tasks and graphic organisers needed (provided in both PDF and Word formats for editing). The student notes document is 36 pages long and is ready for printing or uploading to your online platform for students (provided in both PDF and Word formats for editing). The PowerPoint is 82 slides and includes all learning outcomes and teaching slides for you and your students. This unit should take approximately a whole term to teach, but the timeframe is dependent on your SWL requirements and your individual cohort’s needs. This bundle is a huge time saver for you and is sure to engage your students with the STEM elements embedded into it!

This novel study is based on the book: Fing by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 16 lessons, with activities relevant to each lesson/chapter. There are 27 activities included to align with the chapters, with extension and fast finishers activities available also. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. All of the Learning Intention and Success Criteria have been included in a printable table at the end of the document for teachers who prefer to print and cut these out for students to glue into their workbooks. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts - such as building vocabulary, predicting, inferring, recount, different perspectives and making connections. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. The resource is 64 pages long and in PDF format. I sincerely hope that your class enjoys this unit of work.

This novel study is based on the book: The Ice Monster by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 16 lessons, with activities relevant to each lesson/chapter. There are 28 activities included to align with the chapters, with extension and fast finishers activities available also. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. All of the Learning Intention and Success Criteria have been included in a printable table at the end of the document for teachers who prefer to print and cut these out for students to glue into their workbooks. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts - such as building vocabulary, predicting, inferring, recount, different perspectives and problem solving. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. The resource is 64 pages long and in PDF format. I sincerely hope that your class enjoys this unit of work as much as mine has.

VCE Vocational Major - Literacy for Personal Use This resource is a full unit of work for Unit 1, Area of study 1 - Literacy for personal use. This resource includes a teacher’s unit planner with the unit broken down into 5 lessons per week for 9 weeks. There is a PowerPoint included that has all lesson content included - it’s as easy as projecting it to your class and reading off the screen! All student worksheets, workbooks, task sheets and planning documents are also included. I have also developed a simplified version of the VCAA rubric so you can choose which rubric is appropriate for you. This is a fully inclusive unit, which includes links to all required texts so that you can print or share digitally with your students. The assessment task is a folio which comprises of 3 folio pieces: a reflective journal, a research task and a poster. Each task is scheduled in the unit plan, with appropriate content teaching and due dates. **What’s included? ** A 125-slide PPT that includes ALL teaching content required for the entire unit A 5-page teacher unit plan that has all lessons summarised and links to all required texts A 21-page student reflective journal with 16 tasks included, required texts and tables of pertinent information for each content area for students to refer back to (Folio task 1) A student assessment task information sheet (Folio task 2) A student research task planning/unpacking sheet and information report planning document (Folio task 2) A rubric for the unit All documents in both Doc and PDF formats for ease of digital use or printing Copyright You are permitted to use this resource in your classroom/s or group/s only. You are not permitted to share this resource with colleagues, on social media or upload to a school/educational setting shared drive. Please respect my work by not sharing the actual resource. Instead, please share the link for your colleagues to purchase their own licence. I have made this resource very affordable to support you. This resource is ready for you to teach! I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoy this unit of work.

Astrochimp – David Walliams Novel Study with Resources This novel study is based on the book: Astrochimp by David Walliams. There is a unit plan included with the novel broken down into 12 lessons, with activities/resources included to print to align with the chapters. Extension and fast finisher activities are also available. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included for each lesson and align with curriculum. The activities are designed for students to build skills in responding to texts – such as building vocabulary, predicting, recount, chronological recount, different perspectives and comprehension. The lesson plans can be tweaked to suit your own specific cohort and their ability levels. The resource is: 34 pages long 24 activities included Unit plan that breaks the novel down into 12 lessons 12 lessons with guiding questions, learning intentions and success criteria and resources that align to each lesson PDF format. I sincerely hope that you and your students enjoy this unit of work.