School Level Textbooks

Contains key documents and information for the English learning area in the Australian curriculum.

Video snapshots illustrate teaching and learning strategies for the Australian Curriculum for English.

VELS is no longer the current curriculum in use but for comparative purposes this site provides access to the former Curriculum Standards document which outlines Standards for Levels 1 - 6, including the Reading, Writing and Speaking and listening Dimensions.

An introduction to the English Domain including an overview, content structure from Foundation - Year 10 and achievement standards.

This site contains links to English-related learning and teaching support materials such as websites, publications, assessment examples, professional learning support and links to current research in the area of English education.

The English Developmental Continuum P-10 provides evidence based indicators of progress, linked to powerful teaching strategies, aligned to the progression points and the standards for the English Domain of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards.

The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) allows you to read over 1500 children's books online. The books are published in many different countries and languages. It provides free access to high-quality digital books from around the world. You can browse by age, genre, book length, character types.