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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 a previous blog post I talked about the benefits of using cold writes to diagnose student needs (in the same way pre-tests are used in the maths cl...
In my last blog, I shared some of the latest information available to teachers about dyslexia. (Click here to read the previous blog).
Dyslexia is ...
The NAPLAN data is out and ‘paralysis-by-item-analysis’ has begun.
I remember the days of looking at item analysis spreadsheets with hundreds of colu...
A ‘cold write’ is a piece of writing students do in a genre before they’ve had any explicit instruction in that genre.
Cold writes are usually admi...
With NAPLAN just around the corner, I've been thinking about how teachers could best use these next 5 weeks to strengthen their students’ writing skil...
A question I'm always asked when teachers are learning about the 6+1 writing traits is, 'will teaching my students about the traits improve their
...In my recent blog post on effective writing conferences, I discussed the idea of stripping these now complex meetings back to their original roots...
I’m often asked for tips on how to engage in effective writing conferences with students.
Conferring with writers can feel a bit overwhelmin...
The admiring lens is an incredibly powerful tool to use in the writing classroom. The thing is, us teachers need to be constantly reminded of its
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