Literacy
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