Oz Lit Teacher Blog

I recently received a great question from one of the participants in my Comprehension Rethink course: 

If comprehension is more than strategies, why ...

I’ve noticed a bit of a pattern lately… schools are starting to analyse their NAPLAN reading data and are coming up with the same conclusion- our stud...

I’m currently reading a fabulous biography on the life, times and writing of Banjo Patterson. I loved Banjo’s poems as a child and was thrilled to nab...

In my last blog post, I shared respected writing researcher Steve Graham’s uncomfortable revelation about The Writing Revolution: that despite being w...

With so much debate and noise in the world of writing instruction, it’s hard to know what actually works. So when I had the chance to hear from the wo...

A few weeks ago, I shared something in my fortnightly newsletter that was a surprising hit... a pile of fascinating facts about the dictionary! It mad...

There’s a well-intentioned (but problematic) practice gaining ground in schools right now… 

It seems that in a well-meaning attempt to reduce the (ve...

Around this time last year I invited a guest blog writer -my daughter Ashleigh-  to share some of the texts she has read to her students to celebrate ...

I’ve noticed a worrying trend in schools lately… 

With all the pressure to ‘catch kids up’, ‘prepare for the NAPLAN’, and ensure they’re ‘implementin...

In my last blog post, I shared three fab new mentor texts that you can use to help teach persuasive writing. One question I received after posting tha...