Oz Lit Teacher Blog
With so much debate and noise in the world of writing instruction, it’s hard to know what actually works. So when I had the chance to hear from the wo...
Every writer has a 'writing history'.
This history is made up of all the positive and negative writing-related experiences we’ve had in our lives.
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My husband and I recently commenced Operation Work-Off-The-Croissants.
Historically, these types of operations were running-based, but due to ongoing...
Mentor texts are pieces of writing you can hold up as good in-practice examples for students.
They enable you to ‘show’ your students, rather than ‘t...
The NAPLAN data is out and ‘paralysis-by-item-analysis’ has begun.
I remember the days of looking at item analysis spreadsheets with hundreds of colu...
It’s 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...
When my husband and I moved from Bendigo to Melbourne, I distinctly remember the removalist saying that if there’d been ‘one more box of bloody bo...
Being a writer has been a lifelong dream of mine.
From a young age, I’d tell Mum and Dad I was going to be an author, an illustrator and a teach...
My husband and I enjoy rogaining (long distance orienteering that requires a minimum of two people per group).
It’s not just the fact that i...
I love a good inspirational quote.
My childhood gymnastics coach, Mr Palmer, introduced them to me. You couldn’t even go to the bathroom in his ...
