Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category

We recently published a group of four stimulus prompts to teach persuasive skills.

The ‘Have Your Say’ writing stimulus prompts are designed for students to apply and practice their persuasive skills. Each prompt is designed for a short burst of writing instruction. However, teachers should make their own judgment about how a stimulus prompt might be used.

‘Have your say’ stimulus prompt
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We recently published a group of 16 vocabulary ideas and games to the Literacy Solutions website.
These resources are freely available for use in classrooms and support students to ‘be on alert’ for focus words, whilst also practising and applying using target words in context.

Vocabulary Activities
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Whilst on the topic of great new resources, we have a big announcement coming very soon for those of …

In this week’s Q & A video, Angela discusses the ‘Whole Part Whole’ Model.

Many schools adopt a ‘whole-part-whole’ approach for classroom literacy instruction. Not only does this support the gradual release of responsibility model, but it also provides a clear framework for focused teaching episodes.

When adopted by schools, this framework ensures a consistent whole-school approach is embedded across all year levels. Whole class explicit teaching, …

In response to a recent question, Angela discusses the issue of ‘Correcting every mistake in students’ writing’.

In this short video, Angela considers the yield of this practice and discusses some of the issues teachers should consider.

In response to a recent question, Angela Ehmer discusses Quick Writes. These short writing episodes, also referred to as demand, lightning or timed writes usually occur daily.

In this short video, Angela provides some tips for improving the implementation of quick writes in the classroom.

Many students learn to apply the PEEL or TEEL structure for constructing nonfiction paragraphs.

Sentence Chart – Point Sentence

The structures have been particularly popular in supporting students to write persuasive essays, discussions and arguments, as the structure provides a framework for constructing individual, main-idea paragraphs which transition smoothly to the next main idea. As a result, student essays contain clear, focused paragraphs in which sentences are …

We have recently completed production of two new video presentations. These are ideal for Teachers’ Aides unable to attend our face-to-face workshops and great value.

Both presentations were recorded live in 2021 and are targeted specifically to the role that aides/assistants play in developing the reading and writing skills in young students.

Angela Ehmer – Teachers’ Aides Reading Workshop
Teachers’ Aides Reading

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30-day access to the 10-part video …

We are pleased to share some charts to assist students to revise and edit their writing.

Writing: Reviewing, Revising, Refining Chart – Capitalisation
ARMS

The ARMS strategy supports students during the revision stage. The acronym stands for Add, Remove, Move, Substitute. It prompts writers to review, revise and refine their writing to improve their clarity. Writers are reminded to consider whether:

additional words or sentences will improve reader understanding
removing …

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 …