Oz Lit Teacher Blog

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

They enable you to ‘show’ your students, rather than ‘t...

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

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

It’s NAPLAN results time.

The time when teachers and leadership teams want to know how to improve their student data in the most efficient and effect...

I once participated in an online course for business owners that taught me more about the principles of effective teaching than anything about busines...

A ‘cold write’ is a piece of writing students do in a genre before they’ve had any explicit instruction in that genre.  

Cold writes are usually admi...

A ‘mentor text’ is the name given to any piece of text that can be held up as a strong example of effective writing. Mentor texts essentially help stu...

In part 1 of my series on teaching students about the all-important ‘show, don’t tell’ strategy in writing, I introduced a helpful tool to assist s...

Recently I published a post introducing the ‘show, don’t tell’ writing strategy. I talked about what the strategy is and why writers should use it, an...

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 ...