Oz Lit Teacher Blog

In part 1 of my series on teaching students about the all-important ‘show, don’t tell’ strategy in writing, I introduced a helpful tool to assist s...

Recently I published a post introducing the ‘show, don’t tell’ writing strategy. I talked about what the strategy is and why writers should use it, an...

French was one of my favourite subjects in high school. I loved learning the words and being challenged by the grammar. Although I continued to learn ...

After being asked countless times how students should use their writer’s notebooks in the classroom, I thought the best way to answer that question wo...

When I was a child, 'show, don’t tell' was an approach my brother took to sneaking looks at out Santa presents before Christmas day. I’ll show you wha...

With NAPLAN just around the corner, I've been thinking about how teachers could best use these next 5 weeks to strengthen their students’ writing skil...

I’m not sure how or why the idea of writing a haiku poem every day popped into my head when I was making New Year’s resolutions at this time last ...

 I was keen to read Pip Harry's latest novel August and Jones because it was inspired by the true story of 2 students from the school where I was prin...

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, you’ll know I’ve been researching the use of writer’s notebooks out in the wild (i.e. the world outsid...

There’s a limited amount of time in schools, so it makes sense to make links between curriculum areas where you can.

Here’s 8 picture story books you...