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Online Course: Introduction to Comprehensive Literacy Instruction for students with CCN

Aug 6, 202014 Comments

I am absolutely delighted to say that I have just published my first online course! It’s been a labour of love – and I have a huge sense of achievement for completing it!! I’ve had a number of requests recently for more online learning options – and I’ve also had a number of requests for

Hello Book – in Dutch and Spanish

Apr 26, 2020

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

Zombies and Independent Reading

Apr 19, 20208 Comments

Over the last few years, I have come across a bunch of students who are highly motivated and interested in anything to do with Zombies! Now, Zombies are not something I know a lot about… but what I do know is that providing independent and/or shared reading choices in a student’s area(s) of interest is

Emergent Literacy Planning

Apr 17, 20202 Comments

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on more emergent literacy planning for teachers, schools and parents to use. Today I have put the first three packs up online at www.comprehensiveliteracy.com under emergent literacy planning. The three new packs are on the topics of feelings, preferences and descriptions. Each pack includes a

Shared Reading – Keep the Interaction Going!

Apr 5, 20202 Comments

Nearly 5 years ago I wrote a blog post called “Shared Reading: Focus on Interaction“. Shared reading is when we read a book interactively with someone else – and the focus during the book reading is on that interaction. As you are aware, there are a lot of electronic resources being shared at the moment,

What Did I See? A story about things that float.

Apr 2, 20201 Comment

A couple of days ago Beenleigh Special School wrote about a poster their school nurse, Lisa, found in the back of her cupboard. They shared this with all of us on their Facebook page. And just so you get the context, here’s a copy of the poster. This started a discussion about writing a book

I Don’t Like Farts! Book to share

Apr 1, 2020

After my recent visit to Durham Road School, the awesome Mary-Louise Bertram suggested that I share this book. She thought some of you might enjoy it as much as she did – or maybe it was her students and staff who enjoyed it……. And so I present – “I don’t like Farts!”. Please download it