Literacy is the ability to understand and evaluate meaning through reading, writing, listening and speaking, viewing and representing (NSW Literacy K-12 policy, 2007).

Literacy is incorporated in the NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum as a general capability alongside other learning across the curriculum areas.

A series of resources are available to support teachers including:

• Effective reading in the early years of school - a suite of professional learning for K-2 teachers
• Explicit teaching strategies for Stages 2-5
• Lesson advice guides
• Literacy in secondary schools
• Stage 6 Literacy in context – Writing