Accessing Teaching Notes and Practitioner Guides
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, your login details will be sent to your email address. Then access the materials through the login below. Teachers outside of the Northern Territory are to direct all enquiries to nalp@cdu.edu.au
Support Materials
Booklist
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.
Download the list of books recommended for use in the National Accelerated Literacy Program.
Teaching Notes and Videos
TEACHING NOTES AND VIDEOS NOW AVAILABLE!
NOTE: All NALP schools in the Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia will receive copies of Teaching Notes and Videos as they are published.
Alternatively, you can order Teaching Notes and Videos by completing the order form.
You can also register through the log in area on this page to access pdfs of Teaching Notes and Videos (where copyright allows).
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 Videos 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 Videos:
- 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
Practitioner guides offer a comprehensive guide to some of the important aspects of AL.
The booklets are currently under development, however some of the topics have short notes which will eventually be incorporated into the more comprehensive resource.
The booklets are due to be complete by the end of October 2008.