Literacy for All: Building Blocks for Literacy Success
Last year, I had the amazing pleasure of working regularly with the fabulous people at Willans Hill School in Wagga Wagga. We worked together to put Four Blocks in place in every classroom, for a...
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Lots of alternatives –“pencils” for everyone
When I first started teaching literacy I focused on teaching reading. At the time, I was working with adults with physical disabilities and writing seemed so hard. None of my class would be able to use...
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Self-selected Reading for Early Readers of All Ages
Today’s post is brought to you by the two guiding rules of self-selected reading. It isn’t self-selected if you don’t choose it yourself. You can’t get better at it if it’s too hard. One of the...
View ArticleLiteracy and AAC Presentations from AGOSCI 2013
Yesterday I was very lucky to present three papers around the topic of literacy instruction for students with complex communication needs (CCN) at the 2013 AGOSCI Conference. The first presentation was...
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Predictable Chart Writing: Group Writing for All
Recently I have been talking a lot to teachers about doing group writing in their classroom. As teachers implement a balanced literacy program in their classrooms, it is important that writing happens...
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Literacy Lab: a great tool for quality literacy instruction
Literacy Lab is a fabulous piece of software for use as part of balanced literacy instruction from Mayer Johnson. The software is aimed at emergent readers and writers, providing a range of simple,...
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Balanced Literacy for all: Guided Reading Resources
This is a very quick blog post to let you know that I have recently added a bunch of new resources about Guided Reading onto a new Guided Reading page on my website. Guided Reading at Adelaide West...
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