The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing

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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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Shared Reading: Let’s Be Interactive Follow Up

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 –

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Hello Book – in Dutch and Spanish

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

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Zombies and Independent Reading

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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

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Emergent Literacy Planning

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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

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Hello Book in PowerPoint

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A couple of weeks ago I shared a week of emergent literacy planning on the topic of greetings, using a book I wrote called “Hello”. After downloading and using the planning, a couple of fabulous parents had requests. One of them (Hi Jules) wanted an editable version of the high contrast book that she could

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Making a Portable Word Wall

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

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