In Australia, it’s the end of the summer break. We’re all heading back to school – hopefully refreshed by some time at home! And I thought it was time for an update on training available through Jane Farrall Consulting. Face-to-Face training We have two literacy intensives planned for 2021 – basically they are the two
This year I was very honoured to be invited to give the keynote presentation at the virtual AAC Conference, AAC in the Cloud. The topic of my session was shared reading – and my focus was on “Let’s Be Interactive”. I had set the topic before COVID-19 had such an impact on our lives –
A few weeks ago I shared a week of emergent literacy planning on the topic of greetings, using a book I wrote called “Hello”. As I’ve mentioned before, I had a request from the fabulous Violeta for a PowerPoint version that she could translate into Dutch. Not only has she translated it but she has
For conventional (and transitional) students, we need to make sure they can write words which aren’t phonetically predictable – and that they can read and write high frequency words more or less instantly. The word wall activities we do in the working with words block are aimed at converting high frequency words and word family
The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing
Last year, I had a request to make up a Do’s and Don’t s of Writing poster – and I thought this was a fabulous idea! So, I am happy to present the “Do’s and Don’ts of Writing: Supporting all individuals to be better writers.” And now, because it wouldn’t be me without a whole
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