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Writing with All Tools Continuum: A writing continuum for all people using all writing tools

Sep 6, 202212 Comments

This blog post has been over a year in the making. It started as a result of the work I do with multiple schools and teaching literacy in AAC. Assessment is an important component of our literacy teaching – and writing assessment, as I have said many times, is a really important piece to help

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

Developmental Writing Instruction: Writing assessment, development, teaching and learning. New Online Course!

Aug 8, 20212 Comments

I am delighted to announce a new online course focusing just on writing. This 8 hour, self-paced learning course is designed to provide in-depth information, knowledge, resources and support for helping every student to become a better writer, from the earliest emergent writers to conventional writers learning to write more. The course covers: Overview of

Three of my favourites – online presentations

Feb 7, 2021

Like many of us, I have been enjoying the number of online conference presentations that are now available, as one of the few positive outcomes from the global COVID-19 pandemic. I have enjoyed so many of these presentations – but I just wanted to share three of my favourites – and explain why they are

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

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

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

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