Oz Lit Teacher Blog
I’ve noticed a worrying trend in schools lately…
With all the pressure to ‘catch kids up’, ‘prepare for the NAPLAN’, and ensure they’re ‘implementin...
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...
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...
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...
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 get asked this question quite a lot and it excites me.
Why?
Because it’s generally asked after a teacher has had their eyes opened to ...
I’m in the middle of running the Writing Traits Masterclass at the moment (and LOVING it!) and I’ve had lots of questions about planning for genre
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