Angela Ehmer will deliver 'Practical Strategies for Teaching Comprehension' to Teachers' Aides on 22 March 2023
We have just published sets of writing text type charts as a download on the Literacy Solutions’ website.
Writing: text type chart
Each ‘Writing Text Type Chart’ features an overview or brief description to support students to understand the text purpose. Some charts are accompanied by a reference guide. The charts are designed to use as permanent displays in your classroom or to print when working with …
The Six Traits of Writing is an approach for planning, teaching, and assessing students’ writing. The approach has gathered momentum over past decades due to the explicit teaching of writing skills and behaviours for students of all ages, teaching at all stages of the writing process, active involvement of students in assessment and monitoring and clear and consistent metalanguage. The Traits is not a program …
Rubrics are the most common way to assess the quality of student writing samples when implementing the Six Traits of Writing . In response to schools we support and teacher requests for assistance with Six Traits’ rubrics, we are pleased to share our Rubric Scorer. This tool is simple to use and is easily applied to assess one or multiple Traits.
What is the …
Most children acquire vocabulary through real life experiences.
Research studies identify strong links between the working vocabularies of young children and their subsequent reading achievement levels. There is widespread agreement that vocabulary is one of the keys to reading. Not only is it a valuable predictor of reading success in the early years, but it continues to impact achievement levels well into secondary …
Our new book, The Comprehension Toolkit (Ages 5-8) is now available for purchase. This is the most comprehensive publication we have developed to assist teachers to develop the comprehension skills of young readers. It has been designed to help teachers deliver high yield outcomes with highly structured support.
The Comprehension Toolkit (ages 5-8): now available
We’re enormously proud of this publication and feel confident early …
‘The Comprehension Toolkit (Ages 5-8)’. 82 reading lessons for busy teachers.
I’m very excited share some details about our upcoming book, The Comprehension Toolkit (Ages 5-8). The book is currently with our printer, but should be available in just a few weeks.
The Comprehension Toolkit (Ages 5-8) is a 240 page teacher workbook containing 82 lessons for busy teachers. The book is designed to assist teachers …
