If you’ve never heard of Doug Lemov or his impressive Teach Like A Champion book then it’s well worth checking out. Lemov codifies and explains a series of no frills teaching procedures and practices that we can use in every classroom to improve our practice. He’s one of the influences for the current craze about…
We can spend a lot of time when we teach analytic and persuasive writing in teaching paragraph structure. You’ve all heard of one of these and will probably have your own variations: TEE – topic sentence, evidence, explanation TEEL – topic sentence,evidence, explanation, link PEE – point, evidence, explanation But how do we approach teaching…
Yep, soon it’ll be NAPLAN again and your students may have to write a creative piece. Routine writing practice has enormous benefits in the English classroom and one of the things you can do in the lead up to NAPLAN is to get your students to crank out a story a week. Each time they…