Oz Lit Teacher Blog

I recently worked with a school to build their students’ knowledge around the topic of refugees. 

This topic is quite large, so we tried to break it ...

We’re only a couple of weeks away from International Women’s Day, so I thought now would be a good time to share some Australian-focused books you can...

 I often joke that I don’t read many books written for adults because I’m not mature enough to understand them, but here I am doing a top 6(ish) books...

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 ...

This post is dedicated to spreading the word about dyslexia.  

There’s been a lot of progress made in this field since I was at university (and didn’...

The school holidays are finally here! Time to recharge, relax and sail away to another world.  

The good news is that the sailing part is possible ev...

French was one of my favourite subjects in high school. I loved learning the words and being challenged by the grammar. Although I continued to learn ...

In a previous blog post I shared three shifts I’ve had in my thinking when it comes to the use of decodable texts in the early reading classroom. ...

I've been asked loads of questions about effective phonics instruction lately so today I'm going to address one of the main questions being asked at...