Self-Selected Reading - Page 2 - Jane Farrall Consulting

AGOSCI 2017 Presentations

May 18, 20172 Comments

Today I went to one of my very happy places - an AGOSCI conference. I love AGOSCI. The Australian AAC Community is so inclusive and supportive - and extremely clever! The AGOSCI 2017 conference was fabulous as always - and I'm just sorry that for the first time in 25 years I'm not attending the whole

Comprehensive Literacy Instruction: Meeting the Instructional Needs of ALL Students in our Classrooms

Nov 21, 20152 Comments

Many of the schools that I work with have been consistently implementing good, comprehensive literacy instruction for some time - and as a result there are a greater number of conventional readers and writers in our schools. This has led to an increased need for differentiation in our classrooms, and for more teachers to provide

Alphabet Books Galore!

Aug 23, 20159 Comments

It's Book Week here in Australia - with the wonderful theme of "Books Light Up Our World". In honour of Book Week I thought I'd write about alphabet books. Alphabet books come in all sizes and types and for all ages. They can be fiction and non-fiction, based on photographs or illustrations, customised or generic.

Self-Selected Reading in Our Classrooms

May 21, 20154 Comments

Self-selected reading is often seen as the easiest literacy block. However, to develop a student's love of reading requires careful resource curation and an awareness of their interests and preferences. Below is a checklist I use with teachers in working through the self-selected reading block in their classroom. The two main guiding rules are: It

Self-Selected Reading: Books for Every Reader

May 15, 20151 Comment

The AGOSCI Conference continued today. My first presentation for the day was with the fabulous Sally Clendon on the topic of Self-Selected Reading. As promised, the handout for the presentation is shared here. Display content from SlideShare Click here to display content from SlideShare. Learn more in SlideShare’s privacy policy. Always display content from SlideShare

Picture Books for Older Readers Update

Aug 23, 20142 Comments

It's the end of the Book Week here in Australia - so I thought I'd do a quick book based post. Early in August I wrote a post about Picture Books for Older Readers which is linked to a Pinterest Board of the same name. I've had several people ask me for a text based

ISAAC 2014 Handouts

Aug 6, 2014

The ISAAC 2014 Conference in Lisbon was fabulous! Big congratulations to the Conference Co-Chairs, Luis Azevedo, Margarida Nunes da Ponte, Pedro Encarnação and Isabel Amaral. Also a big thanks and congratulations to ISAAC, the organisers and everyone involved, including the amazing volunteers who were such good hosts. For those of you who attended my sessions

Picture Books for Older Readers

Aug 3, 201416 Comments

I often get asked for suggestions of picture books for older readers. Books, written at a simple level, that have content to appeal to teenagers or adults. Tar Heel Reader is the best source I've found for books like this - but there are also many commercially available books that meet this need. The fabulous

Literacy Lab: a great tool for quality literacy instruction

Jun 18, 20135 Comments

Please note: this resource has been discontinued. Literacy Lab is a fabulous piece of software for use as part of balanced literacy instruction from Mayer Johnson. The software is aimed at emergent readers and writers, providing a range of simple, easy to use highly motivating activities. I have been using it for a few weeks

Favourites and Collections - Creating bookshelves in Tar Heel Reader

Apr 16, 20133 Comments

This is my third blog post about the new look Tar Heel Reader. I am finding these new features so useful - and I hope you are too. In this post I'm going to focus on Favourites and Collections - both of which are great ways to store and share groups of books in Tar