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The Early Childhood Education Directorate monitors, supports and regulates early childhood education services in NSW.
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We ensure young children get the best start in life by supporting and regulating the early childhood education and care sector. We are the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population.

Programming and resources

A range of sample units has been developed to support schools in programming the Languages K-10 syllabuses.

NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) also has advice on planning units of learning.

The sample planning pro forma (DOC 57KB) can be used to plan a languages unit of work for any stage of learning K–10.

German

Stage 1 unit of work – A birthday party (911 KB)
Stage 2 unit of work – The very hungry caterpillar (1 MB)

Interactive resources

These resources contain a series of videos with supporting activities.

Go Nihongo! (Japanese) for Stages 3 to 6
Basa basi (Indonesian) for Stages 3 to 6

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This information is current as at 15/11/2018 08:38am, AEDT. For the most up-to-date information, go to https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/key-learning-areas/languages/early-stage-1-to-stage-3/programming-and-resources.

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