Northern Territory teachers are to access the support materials through DET espace. If you do not have access, please email nalp.det@nt.gov.au.
Teachers outside of the Northern Territory need to REGISTER. Once registered, you will receive an automated email with your login and password. Then you can access the materials through the login below.
Log in to NALP support materials
Support Materials
Support materials and recommended books can be purchased online through the Charles Darwin University Bookshop. For a full list of Teaching Notes and Practitioner Guides, simply type 'NALP teaching' in the keyword search of the bookshop's online shopping page. Alternatively, if you know the title of the resource, type it instead.
You can also order using this ORDER FORM.
Most Teaching Notes and Practitioner Guides are also downloadable from this website. Read the column to the right to see how to access them. These will be available throughout 2010.
For more information about Teaching Notes and the recommended books, read below.
Booklist
Download the list of books recommended for use in the National Accelerated Literacy Program.
The careful selection of the texts for teaching is an essential part of preparation for teaching the Accelerated Literacy methodology. Books used in AL teaching are based on an engaging narrative, written in literate rather than oral language and as near as possible to age-appropriate for any given class.
Teaching Notes act as a step-by-step guide to teaching some of the AL texts in the classroom. They are designed to support classroom teaching through the comprehensive articulation of why an individual text is used for the program, and how it may be used. Teaching Notes represent the classroom practice of the theoretical background and foundations of NALP.
The format for Teaching Notes communicates quickly and clearly how the lesson objectives are identified and made explicit as well as an expansion of each part of the teaching sequence.
Teaching DVDs are designed to support classroom teaching through the demonstration of best-practice for the program. They are clips of real teaching in real classrooms and they have been shot so teachers can watch AL teaching in practice.
Teachers use Teaching DVDs:
- to see how they might tackle the content of a text,
- to see how other teachers have taught in the classroom,
- to see how to apply the Teaching Notes to actual classroom teaching,
- to view other interaction behaviours with students,
- to immerse themselves in the classroom language of Accelerated Literacy, and
- to model their teaching on other successful teachers.
Practitioner guides offer a comprehensive guide to some of the important aspects of AL.
To access teacher notes and practitioner guides, read the right-hand column of this page.