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 [] Fantastic site - fact sheets, quizs, games, worksheets, additional websites & references  [] Metaphors:-. In this lesson, students use Richard Wilbur’s poem “The Writer” as an inspiration as they write their own extended metaphor, describing themselves as writers.
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[] How to plan an essay. Also BLM in the teacher section. Other useful tips from the State Library of Victoria.

· **Spelling ** [|About English - Spelling tasmania] Word study, spelling activities, lesson plans from the Tasmanian Education site

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[|Assessment - Resources - Prep to Year 10 Assessment - Student Learning - Department of Education and Early Childhood Developmen] This page provides links to assessment-related resources, websites and policy documents  [|Assessment Advice - Prep to Year 10 Assessment - Student Learning - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development] This section contains an assessment definition and purposes of assessment PowerPoint presentations and workshops related to the assessment advice are provided. There is a link to the Reporting section of the web site.  [|Assessment tools - Feedback tools - Prep to Year 10 Assessment - Student Learning - Department of Education and Early Childhood] These reflective tools enable students to provide feedback on their work and performance. It also includes strategies for teachers to increase the wait time when asking questions in class.  [|Assessment tools - Graphic organisers - Prep to Year 10 Assessment - Student Learning - Department of Education and Early Child] Each of the following graphic organisers includes a description, and explains how, why and when it should be used. Where available, links are provided to examples of how schools have successfully used a graphic organiser in the classroom. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Assessment tools - Review and reflection tools - Prep to Year 10 Assessment - Student Learning - Department of Education and Ea] ==<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">These tools enable students to review and reflect on their knowledge, progress, and what they have learnt and achieved during a unit, topic or project. == <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|English Continuum - Learning and Teaching Resources - Prep to Year 10 - Student Learning - Department of Education and Early Ch] The English Developmental Continuum P-10 provides evidence based [|indicators of progress], linked to powerful teaching strategies, aligned to the progression points and the standards for the English Domain of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. These teaching strategies are designed to support purposeful teaching of individuals and small groups of students with similar learning needs. It is intended that teachers use the strategies in the context of their own classrooms, text or topic being taught. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Especially for Teachers - Teaching Strategies] <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tasmania Government Education site. Gives teaching ideas & strategies. How to teach ‘differently’. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> dataforschools - home Make sense of data, or use more efficiently. A number of software products using Excel 2007. It has a tutorial for you to follow [] Rubrics & assessment [|education channel] Department of Education and Early Childhood Development –Teacher Resources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ASSESSMENT & FEEDBACK **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">PUZZLES & GAMES **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

[] Links to puzzles, grammar etc [] <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more—using your own word lists. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">GRAPHIC ORGANISERS **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

[|Graphic organisers Thinking Processes Domain Support Teaching and Learning Support Victorian Essential Learning Standar] This resource consists of 21 graphic organiser examples and 13 templates. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Graphic Organizers 1] Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Graphic Organizers] **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">58 ** graphic organizers <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|http--www.mulgatraining.com.au-learning-Creating Graphic Organizers with Word.pdf] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msospacerun: yes;"> Creating a graphic organiser with Microsoft Word. M <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">ake posters about processes or how things work we can use symbols like arrows, boxes, and circles, as well as images, to explain things. . [|RubiStar Home]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">RUBRICS **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * RubiStar ** is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics. <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Rubrics - Prep to Year 10 Assessment - Student Learning - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development] Assessment Tools A ** rubric ** is a printed set of criteria for assessing knowledge, performance or product and for giving feedback. There are links to & samples of Rubrics. [] Rubrics & assessment

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|www.vate.org.au] Victorian Association for the Teaching of English [|www.aate.org.au] Australian Association for the Teaching of English
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ENGLISH TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS **

National curriculum [] [|www.teachit.co.uk] Lesson plans & ideas on a range of subject areas
 * <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) **