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Sample educational task sheet on reading, viewing, and understanding texts. Sections include curriculum objectives, links, purpose of the task, and a task overview for students to analyze an image of a hen with external features labeled.

Prep English Assessment Task Sample

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Assessing Reading Fact Sheet

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Videos

Individual Curriculum Plan (ICP) Updates

In this presentation, Natalia Russ from the Department of Education shares key changes in the Australian Curriculum v9, and how these changes impact the provision of Individual Curriculum Plans (ICPs) in state schools.

The Science of Reading

This webinar delves into the Big 6 of reading: oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Each component is explored in depth, with a range of adjustments provided to support students with intellectual disability. 

Elevating planning: Using strengths-based, adjustment-focused language to personalised learning plans

This webinar was created by the education team at Down Syndrome & Intellectual Disability Queensland to support teachers of students with Down syndrome and/or intellectual disability. In this session, we will explore how to craft personalised learning plans (PLPs, ILPs, IEPs) that acknowledge disability and celebrate diversity, while shifting the focus from labels, deficits, and difficulties to strengths-based language and adjustment-focused plans to address barriers. This shift in planning will help to reframe practice and create powerful tools with practical advice about how to support all learners to thrive.

Building pre-writing skills and handwriting abilities

This webinar explores practical strategies and evidence-based approaches to support the development of pre-writing and handwriting skills in children with intellectual disabilities. It examines key motor, cognitive, and sensory factors that influence writing readiness, including fine motor control, visual-motor integration, and hand-eye coordination.

Inclusive Pedagogies: Differentiation and Universal Design for Learning

This presentation, clarifies what Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Differentiation are, highlights the differences between them, and explains how a combination of these two approaches can form the basis of Tier 1 practices. The session also addresses common the myths and realities of implementing these approaches, and illustrates practical examples for teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment, and the learning environment. 

Writing tasks in the upper primary and secondary school years for students with an intellectual disability

This webinar was created by the education team at Down Syndrome & Intellectual Disability Queensland to support teachers of students with Down syndrome and/or intellectual disability. It is designed to provide teachers with further knowledge about the development of writing and the demands in upper primary and secondary schooling, how UDL principles can support students with their writing, and how we can align writing instruction for students who may be working below year level.

Podcasts

Individual Plans for Students Accessing an Alternative Curriculum Level

This podcast episode brings together interviews with advisors from each of the three education systems in Queensland (State, Independent, and Catholic) to discuss students with intellectual disability accessing curriculum aligned with their year level curriculum, alongside their age peers, but that is adjusted to the expectations of a lower year level or to highly individualised goals.

We delve into how teachers make decisions about who should access these individualised curriculum plans, what evidence and processes are involved, how to make decisions about what year level curriculum should be the access point for the student, and what the implications of these plans might be.