Enriching
Literacy AGQTP Project
Teaching Staff
at The Riverina Anglican College have been leading
an action learning team as part of an Australian
Government Quality Teacher Programme project
directed at enriching the way that literacy
is taught by the various faculties at the school.
The
aim of the project is to extend and enhance
literacy across the curriculum @ TRAC.
• Literacy
is defined as: the ability to communicate purposefully
and appropriately with others in a wide variety
of contexts, modes and mediums. English Years
7-10 Syllabus, Board of Studies, October 2002.
• All
7-10 syllabi state that: the development of
students’ literacy skills and understanding
is the responsibility of all secondary school
teachers as
different subjects and learning areas make particular
demands on students’ literacy.
• As all
Key Learning Areas have new 7-10 syllabi it
seemed timely to focus on the Cross Curriculum
content required by the Board of Studies.
• Literacy
is one cross curriculum content.
• The aim of the Learning Team (Leanne
Antill, Sally Farmer, Sue Graffen, Greg Guise,
Megan Green) is to develop a list of specific
vocabulary, skills and text types used in Stage
4 (beginning with Year 7 in this project) for
all subjects.
Outcomes of Literacy Project
• Publish
the list of terms (vocabulary), skills and text
types which are used by each faculty and in
turn subject area.
• The
aim is also to flesh out the types of texts
used by providing scaffolds and models.
• The materials will be included:
* in a link from the College’s Library
home page in the College’s website
* in a pack for incoming Year 7 students
* on posters exhibiting each of the texts types
for class rooms
* in a booklet for all faculties with the information
enclosed
Please click
here to see the
document developed on "text types"
which explains and
shows how to analyse them.
Please click
here to see the document developed on
Spelling and Vocabulary for all the subject
areas taught at TRAC.
For
more information and photos of the staff involved,
please click here.
Please
click to see:
2008
HSC Results
2008
School Certificate results
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