Oz Lit Teacher Blog

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

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...

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

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 lives.

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 my favourite ...

 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 doing a top 6(ish) books...

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

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

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...

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 ...