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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...

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

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...

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!

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

This topic is quite large, so we tried...

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...

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...

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...

I’ve noticed a worrying phenomenon in classrooms lately: Whiteboards are becoming noticeboards.

You see, the white on these boards is...

Earlier this week the Victorian Education Minister announced a new phonics mandate for Victorian schools.  Although the details are still...