Oz Lit Teacher Blog

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 ...

 I was keen to read Pip Harry's latest novel August and Jones because it was inspired by the true story of 2 students from the school where I was prin...

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, you’ll know I’ve been researching the use of writer’s notebooks out in the wild (i.e. the world outsid...

There’s a limited amount of time in schools, so it makes sense to make links between curriculum areas where you can.

Here’s 8 picture story books you...

I get loads of questions from teachers about the best way to use writer's notebooks in the classroom. Some of those questions include:

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In a previous blog post I shared three shifts I’ve had in my thinking when it comes to the use of decodable texts in the early reading classroom. ...

I've been asked loads of questions about effective phonics instruction lately so today I'm going to address one of the main questions being asked at...