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The Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) is a national, not-for-profit professional association supporting primary school educators in the teaching and learning of English and literacies across the curriculum. PETAA was known as e:lit from 2008-2011.

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Featured Publications

Grammar and Meaning New Edition

Sally Humphrey, Louise Droga, Susan Feez - The new edition of this bestseller aims to help teachers bui ...more

Exploring How Texts Work

Beverly Derewianka - This book investigates how texts work to achieve their purpo ...more

A Year in Texts: An Explicit Reading Program

Kerry Gehling - This book sets out a year-long reading program targeted at m ...more

Teaching English Language Learners in Mainstream Classes

Margery Hertzberg - This book addresses English language learning (ELL) pedagogi ...more

Turn Around Pedagogies: Literacy Interventions for At-Risk S

Barbara Comber & Barbara Kamler (editors) - In this book, teachers recount how they were able to change ...more

Getting Started: Ideas for the Literacy Teacher

Vivienne Nicoll - Hatton - Throughout this book classroom practitioners share strategie ...more
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Professional Learning

Explicit teaching strategies for reading comprehension

Alison Davis - Mon 21 May
Cairns QLD

Explicit teaching strategies for reading comprehension

Alison Davis - Tue 22 May
North Rockhampton QLD

Global Words: English for global education

Lorraine McDonald - Tue 22 May
West Footscray VIC

Explicit teaching strategies for reading comprehension

Alison Davis - Wed 23 May
Peregian Springs QLD
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News and Advocacy

Now available - iPad Apps webinar clips and supporting notes

Last year's member-only webinar iPads, Apps and liter...more

Errata: Teaching English Language Learners in Mainstream Classes

PETAA regrets that during the production of this publication...more

Member survey winners announced

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Member survey ...more

New Learning Federation English units of work available

You can view 4 newly uploaded English units of work develope...more
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