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 ...

I’m often asked about the best way to structure writing lessons/ units. E.g.:

• Should we base our writing units around genre? OR

• Should we ba...

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...

A couple of weeks ago, I shared a blog post introducing the concept of 1%ers in the classroom.

1%ers are the name I give to a list of tiny actions yo...

I’ve noticed a worrying phenomenon in classrooms lately: Whiteboards are becoming noticeboards.

You see, the white on these boards is disappearing in...

Earlier this week the Victorian Education Minister announced a new phonics mandate for Victorian schools.  Although the details are still filtering th...

I always say that if there's one thing us primary school teachers are good at, it’s taking something and implementing it in ways that were never inten...

A few weeks ago I shared a blog post outlining 6 reasons every teacher should be using Turn and Talk in their literacy classrooms everyday. (Click her...

We have a special guest writer on the blog this week: my very own daughter, Ashleigh Leung!

Ash teaches a year 5 class at a large primary school (a...

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...