Oz Lit Teacher Blog
Writer's notebooks can be powerful tools in the writing classroom but I've heard a few myths floating around about these and I think it's time to cl...
Claire Saxby is a Victorian writer who has written almost 40 children’s books. She writes beautiful fiction and non-fiction texts as well as poetr
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Earlier this year I launched the Writer’s Notebook Series. This series of posts is focused on learning how published authors use their writer’s no
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Remote teaching certainly has its challenges, but it also provides us with an array of wonderful benefits as well. One of those benefits is a gift
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One question I get asked a lot is “how should we use writer’s notebooks with students?” I'm all about authenticity so I thought it would make sens
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I was recently lucky enough to interview Australian children’s author Stef Gemmill. Stef’s recently published book, “A Home for Luna’ was featured
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Anchor charts are often referred to as the 'third teacher' in a classroom (the second teacher being the students themselves). So how hard is your thir...
After spending all weekend working out the best way to teach a genre, locating the required resources and then executing the perfect minilesson, the...
I once had a neighbour ask me about orienteering as she thought her son might like to give it a go. After giving her all the information about the n...
I wonder what goes through the mind of Bunnings staff members when they see adult after adult scouring the plumbing aisles only to emerge with a pie...
