Literacy – Jane Farrall Consulting

Developmental Writing Instruction Version 2: Online Training now available

Jan 28, 2024

I’m very excited to let you know that the online training Developmental Writing Instruction v2: Writing Assessment, Development, Teaching & Learning is now available. Version 2.0 of the course uses the Writing with All Tools Continuum as a framework to support writing assessment – and also a framework for intervention helping us to teach

Developmental Writing Instruction Version 2: Writing Assessment, Development, Teaching & Learning

Nov 18, 2023

As usual, a large part of my time this year has been spent focusing on writing – assessment and instruction. As part of this, I have been spending time updating my online writing course – and I’m delighted to let you know that on December 20th I’ll be launching Developmental Writing Instruction v2: Writing Assessment,

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

Writing with All Tools Continuum v1.1

Dec 18, 20224 Comments

Summer is here – and the schools in all our Australian states are either on their summer break or about to finish the school year. For me, this means I get a little more time to go through notes and pull together all the comments and feedback people have given me. And, some time to

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

Sep 6, 202210 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

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

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

Writing in Our Classrooms

Jun 22, 20153 Comments

Chloe re-writing a favourite book from Tar Heel Reader Writing is a complex task, involving ideas, language, words, spelling and transcribing or selecting letters. We need to teach all of these skills – and eventually students need to be able to do all of these, within the one task, to become writers. Overall guidelines Do

Picture Books for Older Readers Update

Aug 23, 20142 Comments

It’s the end of the Book Week here in Australia – so I thought I’d do a quick book based post. Early in August I wrote a post about Picture Books for Older Readers which is linked to a Pinterest Board of the same name. I’ve had several people ask me for a text based