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Primary School Teachers
The Gallery below includes resources from specialised areas of research that can help teachers address the three Cross-Curriculum Priorities and the seven General Capabilities objectives of the Australian Curriculum.
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Australia and Asia

The Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia priority provides a regional context for learning in all areas of the curriculum. It reflects Australia’s extensive engagement with Asia in social, cultural, political and economic spheres. For more details on the Australia and Australia's Engagement with Asia priority in the Australian Curriculum.
The links below give examples of searches pertaining to works by Asian Australians, works including Asian themes and settings as well as other resources to help teachers with class preparation.
Recent Texts : Asian Australian Children's Lit | Chinese | Vietnamese | Japanese | Indonesian
Resources : Asian-Australian Children's Literature & Publishing (AACLAP)

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ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures priority provides opportunities for students to deepen their knowledge of Australia by engaging with the world’s oldest continuous living cultures. For more details on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders priority.
The links below give examples of searches pertaining to works by indigenous writers or about indigenous communities as well as other resources to help teachers with class preparation.
Recent Works : Culture | Aboriginal Authors | Torres Strait Islander Authors
Resources : AustLit - Blackwords | AustLit - Full Texts | The 3Rs - Resources for Pre-Service Teachers | Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages

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Sustainability

The Sustainability education priority is futures-oriented, focusing on protecting environments and creating a more ecologically and socially just world through informed action. For more details on the Sustainabilty priority in the Australian Curriculum.
The links below give examples of searches pertaining to works that include themes relating to sustainability and the environment as well as other resources to help teachers with class preparation.
Recent Works : Sustainability | Environment | Species Conservation
Resources : Children's Literature and the Environment | Gallery | AustLit Full Texts Online

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ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING

Ethical understanding involves students building a strong personal and socially oriented ethical outlook that helps them to manage context, conflict and uncertainty, and to develop an awareness of the influence that their values and behaviour have on others. For more detail on the Ethical Understanding section of the Australian Curriculum.
The links below give examples of searches pertaining to works including ethics based themes to help teachers with class preparation.
Recent Works : Ethics | Choices | Self Identity | Theft | Philosophy | Deception
More Resources : AustLit provides a number of full texts related to Ethics online

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INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

Intercultural understanding involves students learning about and engaging with diverse cultures in ways that recognise commonalities and differences, create connections with others and cultivate mutual respect. For more detail on the Intercultural Understanding section of the Australian Curriculum.
The links below give examples of searches pertaining to works featuring multiculturalism and immigration as well as other resources to help teachers with class preparation.
Recent Works : Multiculturalism | Immigration | Migrant Experience | Cultural & National Differences

Resources : Asylum Seeker Narratives | AustLit Full Texts Online

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PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CAPABILITY

Personal and social capability involves students in a range of practices including recognising and regulating emotions, developing empathy for others and understanding relationships, establishing and building positive relationships, making responsible decisions, working effectively in teams, handling challenging situations constructively and developing leadership skills. For more detail on the Personal and Social Capability section of the Australian Curriculum.
The links below give examples of searches pertaining to works featuring themes of personal and social capability as well as other resources to help teachers with class preparation.
Recent Works : Bullying | Domestic Violence | Grief and Loss | Friendship | Trust | Fear | Loneliness | Anger | Depression |
More Resources : Trauma Texts | AustLit Full Texts Online

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Literacy

Literacy involves students listening to, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating oral, print, visual and digital texts, and using and modifying language for different purposes in a range of contexts. For more detail on the Literacy Capability section of the Australian Curriculum.
The links below give examples of searches pertaining to works featuring literacy and communication.
Recent Works : Literacy | Reading

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Critical and Creative Thinking

Critical and creative thinking involves students thinking broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as reason, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation in all learning areas at school and in their lives beyond school. For more detail on the Critical and Creative Thinking section of the Australian Curriculum.
The links below give examples of searches pertaining to works focused on critical and creative thinking.
Recent Works : Critical and Creative Thinking

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Information & Communication Technology

ICT capability involves students learning to make the most of the digital technologies available to them, adapting to new ways of doing things as technologies evolve and limiting the risks to themselves and others in a digital environment. For more detail on the Information and Communication Technology section of the Australian Curriculum.
The links below give examples of searches pertaining to works featuring digital technologies.
Recent Works : Information & Communications Technology Capability | Computers & New Technologies

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Numeracy

Numeracy involves students recognising and understanding the role of mathematics in the world and having the dispositions and capacities to use mathematical knowledge and skills purposefully. For more detail on the Numeracy section of the Australian Curriculum.
The links below give examples of searches pertaining to works featuring numeracy.
Recent Works : Numeracy | Counting

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(A) Cross Curriculum Priorities

The Australian Curriculum is designed to meet the needs of students by delivering a relevant, contemporary and engaging curriculum that builds on the educational goals of the Melbourne Declaration. The Melbourne Declaration identified three key areas that need to be addressed for the benefit of individuals and Australia as a whole.
They enable the delivery of learning area content at the same time as developing knowledge, understanding and skills relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia and/or Sustainability.
More detail on the Cross Curriculum Priorities of the Australian Curriculum.

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(B) General Capabilities

The general capabilities play a significant role in the Australian Curriculum in equipping young Australians to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century.
In the Australian Curriculum, capability encompasses knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions. Students develop capability when they apply knowledge and skills confidently, effectively and appropriately in complex and changing circumstances, in their learning at school and in their lives outside school.
The Australian Curriculum includes seven general capabilities, as shown in the figure above. Explore the gallery for more information on how AustLit can help teachers address these capabilities.
What Else Does AustLit Offer?
Explore the AustLit Research pages for some great research-based encounters with Australian literary and storytelling activities.
Discover the rich resources available through our partnership with Copyright Agency'sReading Australia project.
Access The Anthology of Criticism for key critical articles on popular and frequently taught texts and authors.
Search for any author or text, or more complex combination enquiries, and find out more!
More for the Primary School Teacher!

If you're teaching at a primary school, AustLit contains a number of research datasets specifically about children's literature, including:
Asian Australian Children's Literature and Publishing (AACLAP): a dataset that investigates and records details of Australian children’s literature that is set in Asia, contains Asian-Australian content or characters, or represents Asian-Australian cultures and experiences, as well as hundreds of Australian works that have been translated into at least one Asian language.
Children's Literature: a general starting place from which to explore AustLit's rich records on children's literature.
Children's Literature Digital Resource (CLDR): a full text digital repository of Australian children’s literature from 1830 to 1945.
Reading in the Victorian Classroom: a specialised dataset that provides information on the Victorian Readers, a series of school readers produced between 1927 and 1930 for school children in Victoria and used (with revisions) until the 1950s.
Other datasets also include information on works for children, such as the Children's Literature section of the World War I project.
These datasets are designed to make it easier to engage with specific aspects of children's literature on the database, but you can equally roam at will throughout the main database. From the advanced search page, you can find records for:
more than 8600 picture books.
more than 15,000 works labelled 'children's fiction'.
more than 400 films aimed at children and young adults.
And more works are added to the database on a daily basis.