Jane Farrall Consulting – Page 6 – Literacy, AAC & Assistive Technology

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

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,

Hello! Emergent literacy planning

Apr 4, 20201 Comment

Hello Book Regular Contrast I know lots of teachers and parents are working on home schooling plans currently. This week I’ve been spending time tidying up some of my resources to share – and one I have just finished is a week of planning for working on emergent literacy. The planning centers around the book

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

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

AAC at Home

Mar 30, 2020

Following my last post on Reading at Home, I had a few requests for an simple AAC at Home poster for parents who are just getting started. Jodie at Adelaide West Special Education Centre was the first off the mark – and since their school has students mostly using PODD or Proloquo2Go, those are the

Reading At Home

Mar 22, 20203 Comments

As schools across the world are closing down in response to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, many educators are being asked to prepare home schooling programs. Later this week I’ll be publishing some resources around this – but for the moment I’ve had a request from The Grove Education Centre for a simple pamphlet about

Building Language Through Emergent Writing

Feb 6, 20204 Comments

This is the third and final video I’ll be sharing from the Angelman UK 2019 Communication and Literacy Conference. This presentation focuses on the importance of emergent writing for each and every individual to develop as a writer. It also talks about how writing, like all the other areas of literacy, has a reciprocal relationship