Goodies to share
Literature & Research units for the Primary Library
NB These units are in various stages of development. I am not very interested in tidying things up for publication, so they are not exemplary units, but just the way they were when I last designed or edited them. (Every time I teach a unit, I change something.) Feel free to use them, but please acknowledge their authorship, and email me via the comments box below if you would like to share some of your resources in return.
VELS Level 1 Bruce Whatley Author Study
VELS Level 2 Margaret Wild Author Study
VELS Level 3 Farming in Australia
VELS Level 4 Australian Literature
VELS Level 4-Australian History – C19th Settlement
BTW Many of these units have hyperlinks to my work program or worksheets I have made. I can’t be bothered uploading all of these…send me a comment with your request, and I’ll send it to you.
Coming soon: VELS Level 3 Aboriginal Myths and Legends
Personal Learning Journals
At the end of every library lesson, my students self-assess their behaviour. The statements are based on VELS indicators or from the learning focus in Personal Learning and Interpersonal Development domains. It is a quick and easy way to support students to reflect on how their behaviour affects their learning.
PLJ Prep PLJ lY1&2 PLJ Y3&4 PLJ Y5&6
BTW I don’t start using them with Preps until Semester 2.
PS If you find any of these resources interesting and decide to download them, could you please leave a brief comment? This page generates lots of traffic, but without any feedback, I don’t know who the visitors to the site are, so I don’t know whether to bother adding more resources to it.
As DEECD has not seen fit to provide schools with a template for the required Student Engagement Policy and it takes at least an hour to make one, here’s ours to share with anyone who needs it.
adam myors said
Wow, you have been very busy. I am very impressed with all of the work that you have been abe to achieve on line.
Maureen Farrell said
Lisa what great resources and you are so generous to share it with all. Did you create the planning document that you have used or did you pruchase it from somewhere? I’m still working out how to do hyperlinks in Word. Well done.
Lisa Hill said
Hello Maureen, thanks for the feedback:)
Re the planning document: I went to an ICTEV PD ages and ages ago and they generously shared the original, but I have adapted it so much since, that they probably wouldn’t recognise it any more.
Hyperlinks are easy once you understand headings and bookmarks…which MS Word do you use? 2002? or 2007?
Lisa
Maureen Farrell said
I use Word 2002
Lisa Hill said
I’m a little out of practice with Word 2002, but from what I remember basically what you need to do is one of two things: highlight the text and use Insert/ Bookmark in a place where you want to hyperlink to OR select the text and then use Style and select one of the Headings. Then when you click the hyperlink symbol (the earth with a chain around it) you select Place in this Document as a place to hyperlink to, and a menu of your bookmarks and/or headings will come up.
I *hate* Word 2007. I used to be quick and skilful with 2002 and have had to learn all kinds of things all over again because of the way they have changed it!
joanne fisher said
Thank you for organising the template. It’s great! I’m sure there will be a lot people who will appreciate the work you’ve done.
Maureen Farrell said
Hi Lisa
I plan to use a modified version of your personal Learning Jopurnals. Thank you so much
Lisa Hill said
You’re welcome, Maureen!