Oz Lit Teacher Blog
There’s a well-intentioned (but problematic) practice gaining ground in schools right now…
It seems that in a well-meaning attempt to reduce the (ve...
I’m often asked about the best way to structure writing lessons/ units. E.g.:
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Should we base our writing units around genre? OR
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Should we ba...
I’ve noticed a worrying phenomenon in classrooms lately: Whiteboards are becoming noticeboards.
You see, the white on these boards is disappearing in...
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...
Many things have changed in the world of literacy instruction over the years; research has developed, new teaching approaches have emerged, and some o...
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 ‘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...
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...
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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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...
