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Flip Keyboard Updates

Feb 14, 20265 Comments

In November 2025 I was very excited to share a new emergent writing tool – https://flipkeyboard.com/. It has been great to hear from those of you who are using it – and to get lots of requests for changes and additions. As a result, there are now a number of changes to the original version.

Writing Tools: Download or Customise!

Dec 11, 20252 Comments

Every year, I find I spend time creating custom resources for different writers I am privileged to work with. I truly believe that every writer has an appropriate writing tool – and sometimes we just need to spend time figuring out what that tool might be. It’s really important that the writing tool minimises the

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

Building Language Through Emergent Writing: #AGOSCI2019

Aug 29, 20192 Comments

Today was the first day of the 2019 AGOSCI Conference in Perth WA. It was an awesome day, starting with a very interesting (and awe inspiring) plenary presentation by Professor Janice Murray and then breaking up into a number of concurrent streams. I presented a workshop on “Building Language Through Emergent Writing” and promised the