Resources
Media release template
Promote your schools involvement in the Statewide Games Day by downloading this media release (Word - 977Kb), adding in your games day details and faxing the completed release to your local newspaper.
Literacy websites
- Australian Literacy Educators' Association (http://www.alea.edu.au) - offers support and professional development for educators through conferences, workshops and seminars, journals, papers and publications. Further sites reccomended by the Association can also be explored under categories that include; grammar, media, multi-purpose, poetry, reading, reference, spelling and writing.
- Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (http://www.vate.org.au)
- EdNA Groups Books and Reading (http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=616) - provides ideas for Book Week including printable resources.
- Kidsread (http://www.kidsreads.com/) - provides current reviews of children’s books, feature articles, trivia, games and a comprehensive A-Z of author biographies.
- Inside a Dog (http://www.insideadog.com.au) - reviews of forthcoming books, themed lists, forums and a writer in residence.
- Young Australian Best Books Award (http://home.vicnet.net.au/~yabba/index.html) - the children’s choice book award in Victoria.
- Children's Book Council of Australia (http://www.cbc.org.au)
- MyRead (http://www.myread.org) - strategies for teaching reading in the middle years.
- Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge - a reading program for students from Prep to Year 10.
- International Reading Association (http://www.reading.org) - a membership organisation of literacy professionals.
- State Library of Victoria (http://www.slv.vic.gov.au)
- National Literacy and Numeracy Week (http://www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/) - provides students with a list of sites recommended by the key literacy and numeracy associations.
Numeracy websites
- Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (http://www.aamt.edu.au) - includes challenges and activities about number, space, geometry, measurement and statistics.
- Daisy Maths (http://www.daisymaths.com.au) - an Australian-designed site to help children aged 3-12 to enjoy learning about maths.
- Reach for the Stars (website available shortly) - a whole school maths activity.
- Mathpages (http://www.mathpages.com) - a senior maths resource covering many topics including algebra and statistics including animations.
- Mathematical Association of Victoria (http://www.mav.vic.edu.au)
- Australian Government's Numeracy Research and Development Initiative - (http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/school_education/policy_initiatives_reviews/key_issues/) recently released reports of projects funded under the initiative.
More Information
For more information on Literacy and Numeracy activities around Australia, see: