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...
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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This post is dedicated to spreading the word about dyslexia.
There’s been a lot of progress made in this field since I was at university (and didn’...
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...
I once participated in an online course for business owners that taught me more about the principles of effective teaching than anything about busines...
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...
In Michelle Obama’s book, Becoming, she mentions a motto she and Barrack used when dealing with the low acts of the opposition: “When they go low...
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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