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How To Prepare Students For the NAPLAN Writing Assessment Feb 05, 2023

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...

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How Do The 6+1 Traits Align To NAPLAN? May 01, 2022

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

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What Are Mentor Texts? Jul 11, 2021

We’ve just moved houses and, after living in a rental house with a complete mishmash of furniture (like uni students who haven’t really even grown

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3 Common Misconceptions About The 6+1 Traits Of Writing Feb 21, 2021

It’s no surprise that I get a lot of questions about the 6+1 traits of writing.

I do, after all, bang on about them ALL. THE. TIME.

Why?...

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Should You Teach Genre Or The 6 + 1 Traits? Feb 14, 2021

I get asked this question quite a lot and it excites me.

Why?

Because it’s generally asked after a teacher has had their eyes opened to ...

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How To Plan For Effective Genre Instruction Oct 11, 2020

I’m in the middle of running the Writing Traits Masterclass at the moment (and LOVING it!) and I’ve had lots of questions about planning for genre

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