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Itâs 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 âcold writeâ is a piece of writing students do in a genre before theyâve had any explicit instruction in that genre. Â
Cold writes are usually admi...
The school holidays are finally here! Time to recharge, relax and sail away to another world. Â
The good news is that the sailing part is possible ev...
A âmentor textâ 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...
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In part 1 of my series on teaching students about the all-important âshow, donât tellâ strategy in writing, I introduced a helpful tool to assist s...
Recently I published a post introducing the âshow, donât tellâ 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 writerâs notebooks in the classroom, I thought the best way to answer that question wo...
When I was a child, 'show, donât tell' was an approach my brother took to sneaking looks at out Santa presents before Christmas day. Iâll show you wha...