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Using Academic Vocabulary To Support Learning

  • 03 Mar 2016
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How to Write Simple Sentences

02 April, 2019

If the past tense of buy is bought, should the past tense of fly be flought? What about goed instead of went, or teached instead of taught? English grammar is complicated, and the many exceptions to the rule can be very confusing. Even a simple sentence is not always as simple as it seems!

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How to Teach Children and Adolescents to Read and Spell with Confidence

  • 28 Feb 2017
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Webinar - 18 June, 2019

Phonemic Awareness and Phonics - The Keys to Literacy Success

The recording of this webinar is available in the Professional Development library, under Literacy.

Teaching Handwriting, Reading And Spelling Skills, more commonly known as THRASS, is a phonetics teaching tool that makes reading and spelling much simpler, faster and more sustainable than conventional ‘phonic’ approaches. 

ATA guest presenter, Denyse Ritchie, co-author and developer of THRASS, talks about why phonemic awareness and phonics are key to literacy success and how to use THRASS as a remedial tool.

Apps and Books to Support Adolescent Readers

20 March, 2017

For many older children and adolescents who struggle with reading, making sense of the words on a page is not an automatic process, and can be painstakingly slow and laboured, resulting in the reader getting little meaning and certainly no satisfaction from what they read.

Webinar - 11 June, 2019

Phrases and Word Groups - Helping Students Write Better Sentences

The recording of this webinar is available in the Professional Development library, under Literacy.

In this tutorial we explore how students can use different types of phrases and word groups to write better sentences.

Webinar - 29 August, 2017

Big Write and VCOP – A Fun Program To Improve Student Writing

The recording of this webinar is available in the Professional Development library, under Literacy.

“If they can’t say it, they can’t write it” is Samantha Taylor’s motto for teaching children to write. Join us for our next community webinar where Samantha shares her knowledge and teaching experience about raising the standards in writing. Samantha uses Big Write and VCOP, an oral based writing program that helps students transfer their verbal skills into written skills.  In this interactive webinar, participants will learn fun and practical strategies that they can use with students straight away. Session notes and worksheets will be available for download in My Portal - My Content - Event Resources, prior to the webinar.

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Vocabulary - Helping Students Build Their Vocabulary

  • 15 Apr 2019
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Big Write and VCOP – A Fun Program To Improve Student Writing

  • 28 Feb 2018
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How do students learn thousands of new words each year?

18 April, 2019

Did you know that hundreds of new words such as selfie, hangry, binge-watch, cray, and SMH (shake my head!) are added to the Oxford English dictionary every year?