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Flip Charts - An important Emergent Writing Tool

Oct 30, 20224 Comments

A long time ago, I learned about flip charts for emergent writers, thanks to Karen Erickson and David Koppenhaver. Writing flip charts were first developed by Gretchen Hanser and staff at the Centre for Literacy and Disability Studies Flip charts as a writing tool appealed to me for a lot of reasons. Firstly, because I

Writing with All Tools Continuum Webinar

Oct 21, 20226 Comments

Today I had the pleasure of running a webinar about the Writing with All Tools Continuum. The session included a run through of the continuum, a discussion of some of the documents supporting the continuum and a short moderation at the end. I'm delighted to share the video of the webinar, as well as the

Writing with Adults: Predictable Chart Writing

Oct 14, 2022

One of the different types of writing that we want to do every day with every emergent student is Writing with Adults. This is where literacy learners and educators write together as a team to successfully publish a text, which can then be shared with others. One form of Writing with Adults is known as

Writing with All Tools Continuum - free online event

Oct 9, 202216 Comments

On Friday the 21st of October I will be running a free webinar on the Writing with All Tools Continuum: Teaching to the next level. There are 100 seats available at the webinar. If you're interested in attending please sign up at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/writing-with-all-tools-continuum-teaching-to-the-next-level-tickets-438462552297 Many of you will need to convert the times of the webinar

Literacy Intensive 2023

Sep 17, 2022

We are very pleased to announce the details of the 2023 Literacy Intensive, which will be held at Coomera State Special School on the Gold Coast from the 25th to 29th of September. Registrations will open on Monday the 19th at https://bit.ly/3UqKFcm The flyer is shown above with further details, and you can download a

Writing Tools: Sensory Pencils and Early Emergent Writers

Apr 28, 20225 Comments

Recently I was interviewed by Meg Proctor from the Two Sides of the Spectrum Podcast. We talked about lots of different topics around Comprehensive Literacy Instruction including making sure each student has the easiest and most appropriate writing tool. As part of this I mentioned sensory pencils - and a couple of people have messaged

2022 Literacy Intensives

Feb 28, 2022

Waaaay back in 2019 I posted about the upcoming 2020 literacy intensives. It was going to be the first year that we were running two - one in Tamworth and one in Melbourne. Since then, we have had to postpone these events more than once - for reasons we're all very aware of. However, we're

Organising Books - School-Wide!

Feb 5, 20224 Comments

In the next couple of weeks, Australian schools are heading back from summer break. As well as the usual "return to school" bits and pieces, we are also working our way through all the extra "stuff" due to COVID - as I know everyone around the world is. I hope you are all managing and

Somebody's Land: Shared Reading

Jan 25, 20224 Comments

Tomorrow in my home country, it is a National Holiday. It's called Australia Day - and is supposed to be a day where we can come together and celebrate all the good things in this wonderful country of ours. Unfortunately, however, the date for this holiday makes it difficult for many of us to celebrate.

Word Wall Oxford 500

Jan 24, 2022

10 years ago I started Jane Farrall Consulting - and also started this blog. Over this time, I have blogged quite a bit about word walls - about setting them up and using them. They are such a valuable tool for our conventional literacy learners. In Australia, the Oxford Word List is the most