The Australian Curriculum for English today aims to prepare students for our culturally diverse society, to give them the ability to interact globally and to articulate creatively and critically the ways in which our identities and cultures are connected.
AEF resources for the Australian Curriculum
Seventy-five AEF English, history and mathemathics resources for Foundation to Year 10 have been supplemented with user-friendly guides, indicating where each individual resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum. View lists of English primary and secondary resources.
Asia-related literary text list
View the comprehensive list of over 130 literary texts from or about Asia to support the implementation of the Australian Curriculum for English, foundation to year 10.
Inclusion of Asia-related texts into the study of English will assist teachers to realise the cross-curriculum priority of Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia in the study of English and to make an important contribution to student knowledge, skills and understanding of our region through the Australian Curriculum.
Australian Curriculum: AEF feedback
Read the AEF responses to ACARA Australian Curriculum consultations.
Australia: Intersections of Identity
Accomplished writing, intriguing artwork and cutting-edge film clips: Forty secondary English resources explore the ways in which migration and our proximity to Asia have impacted on Australian identity.
View these engaging Australia: Intersections of Identity texts that include contextual information, teaching notes and student activities for years 7–10.
Video: Asia literacy in the Australian English Curriculum
View the viedeo in the right hand coulum of leading teachers explaining how Asia-related texts provide a goldmine for teachers implementing Asia literacy in the English classroom.
Speakers include Alex Solosy (Catholic Education Office, WA), Stephen Kelly (Catholic Education Office, SA), Guy Bayley-Jones (Australian Association for the Teaching of English) and Julie Hamston (Melbourne Graduate School of Education). View the video in the right hand column.
Good text choice is a source of inspiration to those who don't know Asia first hand', according to Dr Julie Hamston, Melbourne Graduate School of Education. View Julie discussing the Asia priority in the Australian Curriculum for English. Julie authored a number of inspiring Australia: Intersections of Identity resources and Australia Kaleidoscope.
Read about why an Asia focus is important in the Australian English curriculum.
Strange Flowers for the secondary English classroom
Strange Flowers is a new book from the Asialink Writing Program, published by Wakefield Press, edited by The Lifted Brow’s dynamic Ronnie Scott, and stunningly designed in full colour by Elwyn Murray. It is recommended by the AEF for use in the English secondary classroom.
Through the lens of writing and art, Strange Flowers offers an intimate glimpse of the connections and tensions behind the vital emerging dynamic relationship between China and Australia. Purchase Wakefield Press website.
My Place interactive website
My Place for Teachers website provides you with rich primary and lower secondary educational materials using the My Place TV series in the classroom including:
13 stories about children and a decade timeline
More than 300 teaching activities.
Australian Screen online
Find more than 150 film clips about Asia, with teachers’ notes at Australian Screen Online.
Go to other Asia-related literary sites for teachers of English and Literacy or Asia-focussed organisations or education sites that include a focus on studies of Asia.
Most popular resource
Film Asia: New Perspectives on Film for English
This English/Media resource presents 15 specific film studies, including classic and contemporary films from various film-making traditions. This resource aligns to the Australian Curriculum for English and History at Years 7 to 10.
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