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Quick Writes, Using Mentor Texts
LATEST PODCAST, Ep 72: Motivating and engaging students in their writing is always an ongoing challenge for teachers. Teachers are also often looking for ways to differentiate and provide good models for writing. In this episode, literacy expert Sharon Callen talks about the power of using mentor texts, including: How...
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How To Dig Deeper When Teaching Comprehension
LATEST BLOG: Leading educator Diane Snowball says teachers need to deep dive with students and strategise to improve reading comprehension. Diane is a regular on The Teacher’s Tool Kit For Literacy podcast, and again joined literacy expert Sharon Callen on Episode 66 to talk about how teachers can maximise student...
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The Six Plus Traits of Writing
LATEST PODCAST, Ep 71: What are the key attributes and traits of effective writers? And how can teachers activate them with their students? In this episode, literacy expert Sharon Callen reveals these key traits, and talks about: How to use these traits to get better at writing How to know...
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Six Plus Traits Writing Rubric
NEW FREE RESOURCE (editable): Use this resource 'Six Plus Traits Writing Rubric' to help you with your planning for the teaching of writing F-6. It is a FREE resource, developed from the work of Education Northwest. This team developed the 6+1 Trait Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment to help...
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How Teachers Can Find the Best Books
LATEST BLOG: The best way to find good books is to seek out your ideal bookshop, use social media and refer to different children’s book awards. Great books are key to success for teachers of literacy, so finding the best books for the classroom library is essential. But with so...
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Reading Workshop - Daily Planner, F-6
NEW RESOURCE (editable): Use this resource to help you with your daily planning of Good Reader Mini Lessons, within your English workshop unit. The document is in Word format, so it can be filled in/adapted on your device. Some schools are using this document for year level collaborative planning and...
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Can Writing Live Without Reading?
LATEST PODCAST, Ep 70: Teaching writing (and literacy) can sometimes be 'a bit of this and a bit of that'. Sometimes we teach in a compartmentalised way, and there is no connection between lessons . We often don’t see a transfer of what we are teaching to students using the...
