Teaching about prayer

Explicit teaching about prayer

This page contains links to resources that support the Religion Curriculum P-12, Archdiocese of Brisbane.

The resources link to the year levels where the particular prayers and meditative prayer practices are first introduced and explicitly taught.

The prayers can be prayed at any age.

Prep Year

• Amen
• Sign of the Cross
• Silence and stillness
• Lighting a candle

Year 1

• Hail Mary
• Grace
• Closing eyes
• Praying with Beads
• Praying with Music

Year 2

• Forgiveness (Act of Contrition and Penitential Act)
• Centred breathing
• Posture

Year 3

• Thanksgiving
• Praise
• Glory Be
• Guided meditation
• Mindful listening

Year 4

• Blessing
• Petition and Intercession
• Litanies
• Praying with Colour
• Praying with Mandalas

Year 5

• Marian Prayers (Hail Mary, Litany of Mary of Nazareth and Rosary)
• Mantras
• Rosary Beads

Year 6

• Lord’s Prayer
• Examen
• Prayer Journaling

Year 7

• Amen
• Lord’s Prayer
• Hail Mary
• Apostles Creed
• Nicene Creed
• Ignatian Meditation
• Lectio Divina
• Silence and stillness
• Praying with icons
• Praying with Images

Year 8

• Liturgy of the Hours
• Augustinian Prayer
• Franciscan Contemplative Prayer
• Centred breathing
• Posture for meditation

Year 9

• Writings of Christian spiritual fathers and mothers
• Forgiveness
• Healing
• Penitential Act
• Christian meditation
• Contemplative prayer
• Labyrinths

Year 10

• Prayers for justice, peace and the environment
• The Prayer of St Francis
• The Magnificat
• Canticle of Creation
• Contemplative prayer
• Centering prayer
• Lectio of Nature
• Praying with the help of nature