Oz Lit Teacher Blog

My husband and I recently commenced Operation Work-Off-The-Croissants.

Historically, these types of operations were running-based, but due to ongoing...

Mentor texts are pieces of writing you can hold up as good in-practice examples for students.

They enable you to ‘show’ your students, rather than ‘t...

In my last blog, I shared some of the latest information available to teachers about dyslexia. (Click here to read the previous blog).

Dyslexia is ...

This post is dedicated to spreading the word about dyslexia.  

There’s been a lot of progress made in this field since I was at university (and didn’...

The NAPLAN data is out and ‘paralysis-by-item-analysis’ has begun.

I remember the days of looking at item analysis spreadsheets with hundreds of colu...

It’s NAPLAN results time.

The time when teachers and leadership teams want to know how to improve their student data in the most efficient and effect...

I once participated in an online course for business owners that taught me more about the principles of effective teaching than anything about busines...

A ‘cold write’ is a piece of writing students do in a genre before they’ve had any explicit instruction in that genre.  

Cold writes are usually admi...

The school holidays are finally here! Time to recharge, relax and sail away to another world.  

The good news is that the sailing part is possible ev...

A ‘mentor text’ is the name given to any piece of text that can be held up as a strong example of effective writing. Mentor texts essentially help stu...