Oz Lit Teacher Blog

Around this time last year I invited a guest blog writer -my daughter Ashleigh-  to share some of the texts she has read to her students to celebrate ...

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...

In my last blog post, I shared three fab new mentor texts that you can use to help teach persuasive writing. One question I received after posting tha...

It’s NAPLAN season, which means it’s the time of year when teachers start reaching for the same old, tired, persuasive writing mentor texts.  

You kn...

The countdown to the start of the school year is ticking…

I don’t know about you, but my work brain is ON (and it does not understand the concept of ...

Are you looking for a class writing project for the last few weeks of school?

I have the perfect mentor text and writing project for you!

The men...

I recently worked with a school to build their students’ knowledge around the topic of refugees. 

This topic is quite large, so we tried to break it ...

I’m often asked about the best way to structure writing lessons/ units. E.g.:

• Should we base our writing units around genre? OR

• 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 couple of weeks ago, I shared a blog post introducing the concept of 1%ers in the classroom.

1%ers are the name I give to a list of tiny actions yo...