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Literacy and English

This section contains the full set of experiences and outcomes for literacy and English. Visit the literacy across learning area to view a subset of the experiences and outcomes, which are the responsibility of all practitioners.

Principles and practice

Essential reading for practitioners as they begin, and then develop, their work with the statements of experiences and outcomes for literacy and English.

Experiences and outcomes

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Responsibility of all

It is the responsibility of all staff to develop, reinforce and extend learning in:

Getting started

Use this PowerPoint to familiarise yourself with the literacy and English experiences and outcomes.

Support materials for Literacy and English

Find out how practitioners are working with the new curriculum in Literacy through these great examples of emerging practice.

You can also read our documents about development and progression in literacy and english.