This is a unit of work from Reading Australia based on the picture book ‘Amy and Louis’ by Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood. The unit focuses on narrative structure, plot, visual conventions and sentence structure (circumstances) while exploring themes of change, friendship, moving and separation.

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.

Alphablocks is a British children's educational television series that teaches reading and writing with the use of animated blocks that represent each letter.

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.

Are you wanting to support your child to communicate in spoken language or Auslan? Here’s a variety of digital apps and online resources that can be downloaded to help beginners with spoken language or Australian Sign Language (Auslan).

Reading books with your child can be like having a conversation. This resource provides a step by step presentation on conversational reading, as well as tips on how to involve the whole family when reading to your child.

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

In this game, you will meet Di, an artist who paints phrases. Help her paint three pictures by matching words that begin with the same two consonants.

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

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

Jolly Phonics is a programme that teaches not only phonics but spelling, punctuation and grammar too.

'This is a library of resources for kids, families, teachers, and librarians to make sure that reading and learning can happen anywhere.' — Kate Messner's website

In this game, you help an alien whose spaceship has run out of fuel. To help the alien get home students need to read and listen to words and choose the right letter patterns.

An animation series with supporting resources for both parents/carers and educators. Designed to provide support for early year educators with ideas and options for including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, understanding and skills in their teaching and learning program.

This 3-minute video shows a child reading aloud with an adult and has suggestions about helping a child to read.

Watch UK school teacher Mr Thorne and YouTube sensation Geraldine the Giraffe take you on a learning journey through the world of phonics, grammar, spelling and punctuation, learning letters and sounds along the way.

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!

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

This webpage from the USA includes a comprehensive library of resources for English teachers, EALD teachers and literacy leaders.

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

Learning to read requires many skills and rhyming words is just one of them. Below are a suite of resources families can use to support children with rhythm and rhyme.

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.

‘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.

This unit focuses on point of view in children’s picture books and online short films.

A unit of work from Reading Australia based on the picture book ‘Flood’ by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley. This unit focuses on the creation of haiku poems. The themes are community and natural disaster, connection to place.

This is a unit of work from Reading Australia based on the picture book ‘Who sank the boat?’ by Pamela Allen. The unit focuses on emotional responses by the characters and explores the grammar of questions and clause structures.