Working with Words - Jane Farrall Consulting

Online Course: Introduction to Comprehensive Literacy Instruction v2 now available!

Oct 5, 2023

I am delighted to announce that the updated version of the Introduction to Comprehensive Literacy Instruction course is now available! The course is now available for registration at https://janefarrallconsulting.thinkific.com/courses/introduction-to-comprehensive-literacy-instruction-version-2 To get more information about the course you can download the flyer below. An additional flyer around the site licences is also available below. If you

Introduction to Comprehensive Literacy Instruction Version 2.0

Sep 1, 20233 Comments

Over the last several weeks, I have spent time updating my first online course - and I'm delighted to announce that on October 6th I'll be launching Introduction to Comprehensive Literacy Instruction Version 2.0. It is over three years now since I published the original version of this course. Since that time there have been

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

Word Walls: Planning a Year of Word Wall

Jul 3, 2021

When we work with transitional and conventional literacy learners, we need to ensure that the Working with Words block occurs as part of their daily literacy teaching. The working with words block consists of work in two areas: phonics instruction and sight words. This blog post will focus on sight words – and the use

Introduction to Comprehensive Literacy Instruction for Students with CCN - Site Licences

Aug 13, 20204 Comments

This time last week I launched my first online course "Introduction to Comprehensive Literacy Instruction for Students with Complex Communication Needs". There's been so much great feedback on it already - thank-you to everyone who has signed up and shared information. Lots of schools have enquired about the site licence options - so I have

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

Making a Portable Word Wall

Apr 14, 2020

Portable word walls are an important part of our toolkit when working with transitional and conventional literacy learners. I've written a number of posts about how to setup a word wall and how we use them - in both the working with words block and in writing. After my recent post about Using the Word

Using the Word Wall in Writing

Apr 13, 2020

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

New website: Comprehensive Literacy for ALL

Mar 31, 20206 Comments

For the last couple of months I have been working on a new resource for the schools I work with. Recently I've had a bit more quality time to work on it (for some reason)! As a result, it is now finished and ready to share - and given the current situation I've decided to

Literacy and Complex Communication Needs: Developing Language

Feb 3, 20202 Comments

This is the second video I'm sharing from the Angleman UK 2019 Communication & Literacy Conference. Thanks again to Angelman UK and See Speak Hear for making this available. In the beginning of my career, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) rapidly became the area of speech language pathology that interested me the most. I enjoyed