Oz Lit Teacher Blog

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...

The school holidays are finally here! Time to recharge, relax and sail away to another world.  

The good news is that the sailing part is possible ev...

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 ...

After being asked countless times how students should use their writer’s notebooks in the classroom, I thought the best way to answer that question wo...

When I was a child, 'show, don’t tell' was an approach my brother took to sneaking looks at out Santa presents before Christmas day. I’ll show you wha...

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...

I’m not sure how or why the idea of writing a haiku poem every day popped into my head when I was making New Year’s resolutions at this time last ...