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Part 1: Celebrating Growth in Literacy
Celebrating Teacher Practice Education visionary Garth Boomer emphasised the significance of celebrating learning journeys, for both students and teachers. His 10th learning principle, the Confirming (and Celebrating) Principle, highlights the joy and empowerment learners feel when successfully executing a plan. He wrote: "Once I have understood and acted with effect...
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The Top 7 Tips to Launch a Great School Year
Here are our top 7 literacy teaching tips to start the year in the best way possible! Start small and enjoy! Do a Motivation to Read survey with your class - know everything you possibly can about your children as readers (information is power!). See the Motivation to Read Profile...
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How to Build Units of Work for Different Text Types
LATEST BLOG: Embracing diversity, using different technologies and constantly reviewing are key elements for teachers to create an impactful unit of work. On Episode 79 of The Teacher's Toolkit for Literacy, host Sharon Callen was joined by Bridgewater Primary School teachers Liam Bucco and Liz Sanderson. The group talked about...
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Using a 'Mud Map' for Genre Planning, Ep 86
LATEST PODCAST, Ep 86: Literacy expert Sharon Callen delves into 'mud mapping' as a way to plan out the teaching of different genres, as a teacher and across a whole school. Wise planning really is the great secret behind successful teaching and improved outcomes! Literacy expert Sharon Callen delves into...
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Teachers Sharing Their Professional Practices Part 2
LATEST PODCAST, Ep 79: Continuing our series with teachers, literacy expert Sharon Callen talks with two more teachers who she has been working with in 2022 about how they have been developing their literacy teaching practices. Liam Bucco and Liz Sanderson are from Bridgewater Primary School in South Australia. Liam...
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Teachers Sharing Their Professional Practices - Part 1
LATEST PODCAST, Ep 78: Kate Tucker, Ra Te Whare and Robert Kennedy are from Mt Barker South Primary School, and have been working with Sharon in 2022 to develop their literacy teaching practices. The group talks about the challenges and opportunities in developing units of work in an integrated way....
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Four Steps to Connect Teaching With the Curriculum
LATEST BLOG: Teachers can effectively plan around an English curriculum through perception, conception, comprehension and knowledge. The ability to easily and effectively connect teaching to a curriculum is crucial for any teacher. On Episode 67 of The Teacher’s Toolkit for Literacy, literacy expert Sharon Callen revealed the four stages to...
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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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Planning Effectively With The English Curriculum
LATEST PODCAST, Ep 67: Literacy expert Sharon Callen talks about how to connect the English curriculum with teaching. As motivated teachers, we need easy ways to access the English curriculum and connect it to our teaching. This includes knowing how to plan with the curriculum effectively, and finding ways for...
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English Curriculum Planners, Yrs F=6
Are you looking for an easy way to ensure you are covering the Australian Curriculum (version 9) in your English planning? In this package English Curriculum Planner, Yrs F-6 (best enlarged to A3), all content descriptions for Language, Literature and Literacy are presented on a single page. You receive: Content...
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A Nifty Planner for Your Literacy Block
Yay! It's here! Our Gradual Release Planner has arrived. We’ve put together a planner with everything you need to run a successful Literacy Block with your students. See Candace (below) explain how it works in her Year 4,5,6 class at Kaurna Plains School in Adelaide. The ready to print Gradual...
