Strategies for supporting reluctant writers
Lots of teachers ask me how to engage their reluctant writers. It’s like they know my secret when they ask me. The secret that my family know only too well: …
Writer’s Workshop
How to Plan for Effective Genre Instruction
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 instruction. So, here’s my …
Writers and their notebooks: Claire Saxby
Claire Saxby is a Victorian writer who has written almost 40 children’s books. She writes beautiful fiction and non-fiction texts as well as poetry and has won many awards for …
Writers and their notebooks: Lian Tanner
Earlier this year I launched the Writer’s Notebook Series. This series of posts is focused on learning how published authors use their writer’s notebooks so that teachers can implement these …
How to Make and Use Whisper Phones / Fluency Phones
I wonder what goes through the mind of Bunnings staff members when they see adult after adult scouring the plumbing aisles only to emerge with a piece of narrow PVC …