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In my last blog post, I shared three fab new mentor texts that you can use to help teach persuasive writing. One question I received after posting tha...
Itâs NAPLAN season, which means itâs the time of year when teachers start reaching for the same old, tired, persuasive writing mentor texts. Â
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In a previous blog post I talked about the benefits of using cold writes to diagnose student needs (in the same way pre-tests are used in the maths cl...
The NAPLAN data is out and âparalysis-by-item-analysisâ has begun.
I remember the days of looking at item analysis spreadsheets with hundreds of colu...
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...
With NAPLAN just around the corner, I've been thinking about how teachers could best use these next 5 weeks to strengthen their studentsâ writing skil...
A question I'm always asked when teachers are learning about the 6+1 writing traits is, 'will teaching my students about the traits improve their
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