Consolidates and extends lower-primary acquisition of literacy skills

Practical teaching ideas develop proficiency in reading, writing, talking and listening

Sequenced to provide structure and variety in:

• text difficulty
• text type
• metacognitive strategies (narrative, visual literacy, retelling, summarising, synthesising, inferring, asking questions, visualising)
• assessment strategies
• critical literacy
• multimodal design

At a Glance – unit outline designed for busy teachers

Timesaving Tips and Teachers' Choice offer creative teaching ideas to add zest to teaching and learning

Extension and enrichment activities in every unit

Classroom materials:

• encourage open-ended responses
• hard copy and downloadable worksheets and teaching charts (for use on Interactive White Boards)

Assessment

• strategies are varied - continuous and cumulative
• hard copy and downloadable work and record sheets for students and teachers

Sample units from Teacher Guide 4.0

Four on a Log
Oceans of Courage: Andrew's story

Also see:
Deep End fiction
Deep End nonfiction
Web-links
Deep End