Oz Lit Teacher Blog
Claire Saxby is a Victorian writer who has written almost 40 children’s books. She writes beautiful fiction and non-fiction texts as well...
Earlier this year I launched the Writer’s Notebook Series. This series of posts is focused on learning how published authors use their...
Remote teaching certainly has its challenges, but it also provides us with an array of wonderful benefits as well. One of those benefits is a...
One question I get asked a lot is “how should we use writer’s notebooks with students?” I'm all about authenticity so I thought...
I was recently lucky enough to interview Australian children’s author Stef Gemmill. Stef’s recently published book, “A Home for...
In last week’s post I looked at the research behind classroom libraries, the number and types of books you should have in your...
It’s early days in the school year and you want to make sure you're setting your students up for success in all things literacy this year....
Anchor charts are often referred to as the 'third teacher' in a classroom (the second teacher being the students themselves). So how hard is your...
After spending all weekend working out the best way to teach a genre, locating the required resources and then executing the perfect minilesson,...
I once had a neighbour ask me about orienteering as she thought her son might like to give it a go. After giving her all the information about the...
