e:lit (Primary English Teaching Association) materials are written specifically for teachers. You will find that many have useful teaching ideas for developing students’ writing within the Special Forever project.
The following books and Primary English Notes (PEN) would be particularly relevant and supportive to teachers in the context of Special Forever:
Books
Literacies in Place: teaching environmental communications edited by Barbara Comber, Helen Nixon & Jo-Anne Reid. Sydney, PETA, 2007
Callow J (ed) (1999) Image Matters: Visual texts in the classroom. Sydney: PETA.
Creenaune T & Rowles L (1996) What’s Your Purpose? Reading Strategies for Non-Fiction Texts. Sydney: PETA.
Derewianka, B (1987) Exploring How Texts Work. Sydney: PETA.
Getting Started: Ideas for the Literacy Teacher (1998). Sydney: PETA.
Derewianka B (1998) A Grammar Companion for Primary Teachers. PETA: Sydney.
Jones P (ed) (1996) Talking to Learn. Sydney: PETA.
Love C & Rushton K (2000) Writing Links: Grammar in Studies of Society and Environment. Sydney: PETA.
Lewis M & Wray D (1999) Writing in the Curriculum: Frames to support learning. Sydney: PETA.
Changing Landscapes: integrated teaching units (2003) PETA: Sydney.
Primary English Notes (PEN) - 6–8 page foldout A4
Davis P PEN 147 Environmental Communication
Hunt I PEN 96 Successful joint construction
Carter S PEN106 Helping start a school newspaper
Reynolds R PEN110 Linking language and heritage study
Connor J PEN 119 Links with literary texts
Hook C PEN121 Learning in the museum
Walshe RD PEN123 100 writing demons
Bean W PEN124 Ways to teach spelling
Butler S PEN126 What’s in a dictionary?
Copies of Special Forever anthologies are also available
Where We Live (1999)
Rivers Forever (2000)
Where I Belong (2001)
Water=Life (2002)
Spirit of Place (2003)
Footprints by the River (2004)
Living Landscapes (2005)
River dreaming (2006)
Liquid Gold (2007)
Please phone the Primary English Teaching Association on 02 9565 1277 to request a catalogue of publications or visit the website www.elit.edu.au.