Oz Lit Teacher Blog

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...

Many things have changed in the world of literacy instruction over the years, research has developed, new teaching approaches have emerged and some...

Every writer has a 'writing history'.

This history is made up of all the positive and negative writing-related experiences we’ve had in our...

In my last blog, I highlighted my top 6(ish) favourite adult reads for 2023. (Click here to read that post). Today I’m highlighting 6 of...

 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...

My husband and I recently commenced Operation Work-Off-The-Croissants.

Historically, these types of operations were running-based, but due to...

Mentor texts are pieces of writing you can hold up as good in-practice examples for students.

They enable you to ‘show’ your students,...

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...

The NAPLAN data is out and ‘paralysis-by-item-analysis’ has begun.

I remember the days of looking at item analysis spreadsheets with...