This resource from Scholastic includes news articles, magazine, instructions, interviews, recipes and maps.

These are poetry resources for R to 10 from ABC Education. There are various videos around different poetic elements.English resources are mapped to the Australian Curriculum and suitable for primary and secondary students.

Reading eggs is an online reading program for children aged 2 to 14. Children do animated online lessons where they learn reading and phonics skills.

Looking for children's picture books or stories for older readers? The National Emergency Library is a digital collection of books that families, students and teachers can borrow for free.

These resources will help develop students' critical viewing skills and their understanding of locally produced Australian television shows and movies.

Behind the News (BTN) is an ABC news show aimed at children aged 8 to 13 years. BTN helps students to understand the issues and events outside their own lives.

Transform a boring horror story into a bestselling one.

Sentences can be deadly boring. Liven them up in these games by adding descriptive words to see what happens. This will help create a story that is worth reading.

A curated website for teachers with model English units integrated with other curriculum areas and links to resources.

Sometimes students just don't know where to start when asked to write a story. This digibook has short videos to support a step by step approach to creating stories.

The LearnEnglish Kids website has free online games, songs, stories and activities for children. This video is about how to tell the time.

A digital library of books that represent languages and cultures from around the world.

This is an online resource to give students practice activities that are aligned to the Australian Curriculum.

A searchable, collection of daily news and past articles that are safe for students.

Oxford Owl is a searchable website developed for children aged 3 to 11. Its aim is not only to help your child learn to read, but also to love it!

Writing Legends is an online program containing many activities to support the teaching and learning of writing across a wide range of text types. Teachers can set specific writing activities for individual students, groups of students or the whole class and can view and provide feedback on progression.

This website is a library of resources for children, families, teachers and literacy leaders to support foundational reading skills.

The website features an image for every day of the year, and each image is comes with story starters, questions and grammar challenges. Some of the pictures are targeted at younger students but many will appeal to a broader audience. This is a free site but a subscription will allow teachers to upload their students' writing or download other students’ writing from around the

Students explore 2 sides to a story when they read and listen to witnesses narrate a skateboarding accident.

Students will explore the threat facing coral reefs and think about how they can help. Students will also compare how different texts work.

Reading Australia is a collection of Australian literature resources suitable for students from reception to year 12.

This website has research-based strategies for adults helping young children to become stronger readers.

Red Room Poetry ‘makes poetry highly visible, vibrant, relevant and accessible, especially to those who face the greatest barriers to creative opportunities.’ They aim to reflect the diversity of Australian voices. Each year Red Room invites students, teachers and commissioned poets to create poems based on objects. There are extensive learning resources for students from

These resources will bring the magical world of Roald Dahl stories to life. Roald Dahl: 'I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.'

This free, easy to use website includes resources for parents, tutors, teachers and schools to support students with specific learning difficulties.

A website providing a suite of multiple resources that can be used for students across multiple levels of schooling. This will support learning the building blocks of words – sounds, spelling and word parts.

Story box library is a subscription-based educational website, created for children to see stories by local authors and illustrators being read aloud by mostly Australian and New Zealand storytellers.

Use this tool to create a story map with the help of a talking cat.

Storyline online provides free access to a range of picture books. This resource streams videos that feature actors reading aloud the picture book and using sound effects and visuals to keep your child engaged.

These are free audio stories for kids that can be listened to via podcast or on the website. Stories include fairy tales, myths and legends, stories from around the world, and poetry.

This is a storytelling website where the picture books are read by astronauts on the International Space Station. The focus here is on 1 picture book, 'Rosie Revere, engineer' by Andrea Beatty, but you can explore all the books on the website. All the titles have links to the Science curriculum, and younger children as well as upper primary students can explore the wonders of

Studyladder is a website for teachers and students with printable tasks, interactive games and activities, and video explanations for some learning areas.

Talk about Rights is a year 6 unit with 12 lessons. It involves historical inquiry, an examination of famous speeches and the film Rabbit Proof Fence. This is large resource with multiple lessons.

‘Teach your child to read’ is a series of 8 ‘alphabetic code and phonics skills’ ebooks, which provide easy to understand, step by step guidance. The ebooks can be used with earners of all abilities and with EALD learners.

The British Council Teaching English website includes a broad range of resources for primary and secondary educators, including lesson plans, practical resources and teaching tools.

This is a YouTube channel with simple teaching resources to help students learn writing.

Would you like your child to read by themselves for 30 minutes? If your child can work out words by sounding out letters and blending them into words, then this video series will help you teach your child to read independently. Remember, every day is a reading day!

The literacy shed is a visual literacy resource with high quality images, films and animations to use in the primary classroom.

Vocabulary.com has a lot of activities and information for teaching vocabulary. This page helps with word-building (morphology, morphemes, and roots). Such word skills help students as they encounter new vocabulary in their reading. Then, as students write, they are better equipped to try new words themselves.

This is a primary English game where students add descriptive words to some boring sentences about a beach.

These videos take you behind the scenes to show how writers and illustrators work together to create books. Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton also share their tips on how to write creatively.

SBS Learn is a library of educational resources linked to SBS documentaries, dramas, news and current affairs, sport, and other productions aired on SBS and NITV, its national Indigenous television channel. Created for teachers and students, SBS Learn hosts resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum. One example is ‘Grace beside me’, a weekly television series on NITV.

This unit of work from Reading Australia is based on the picture book ‘Stolen girl’, by Trina Saffioti and Norma McDonald.

This is a unit of work from Reading Australia based on the novel, ‘Storm boy’ by Colin Thiele. This unit explores the time period, the geographical area, and the rhythm of the storyline and character development.

This unit of work from Reading Australia is based on the picture book 'The little refugee', by Anh Do, Suzanne Do and Bruce Whatley. The book is an autobiography exploring themes of war, displacement and belonging. The unit explores narrative voice – first and third person, and examines the effect of verb choice in narrative.

This unit of work from Reading Australia is based on the picture book ‘The red tree’ by Shaun Tan. The unit explores the way meaning is made through characterisation, symbol and visual conventions in an unconventional plot. If students do not have a copy of the book, they can go to one of the online versions below.