Webinar - 12 February, 2019

Homophones - Helping Students With Common Spelling Errors

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

In this tutorial on homophones, we explore practical strategies to help students with common spelling errors such as mixing up their and there.

Webinar - 6 April, 2021

The Science of Reading - How Clayton South Primary School provide evidence based reading support

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

Greg Clement, Principal at Clayton South Primary School has successfully led a change in practice using the science of reading, a research-based approach to reading instruction.
In this webinar, Greg will explain how the science of reading works, and share how he coaches the education support team at his school to use this explicit approach to reading instruction.
You will learn: 
-    What the research tells us about how children read
-    About explicit reading instruction
-    Why educators are applying this research to teach reading
-    How Greg’s education support team provide personalised literacy intervention using a systematic synthetic phonics approach

Suitable for educators working with Prep – Year 2 students, as well as anyone working with students who struggle to read, including secondary school students
 

Webinar - 12 March, 2019

Sentence Structure - Helping Students Improve Their Writing Skills

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

In this tutorial we explore the grammatical features of sentences, and share practical strategies to help students improve their writing skills.

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The Science of Reading – How the team at Clayton South Primary School provide evidence based reading support

  • 13 Apr 2021
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Webinar - 9 April, 2019

Vocabulary - Helping Students Build Their Vocabulary

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

In this tutorial we explore practical vocabulary strategies to help students explore unfamiliar words, and build their skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Webinar - 10 June, 2025

Supporting Students in Science-Based Reading and Spelling Instruction

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

Standard 2 Know how to support learning and teaching.

Our guest presenter, Karyn Fua, Director of The Literacy Collective, will share current research on how to best support students in the early years classroom. You will learn about high-yield instructional practices, as well as practical strategies to support both individual students and small groups. Karyn will explore the critical role of phonological processing and provide a guide to orthographic mapping. And that's not all! Karyn will also offer practical verbal prompts to use with children during reading and spelling activities.

Webinar - 14 May, 2019

Active Listening - Helping Students Become Better Listeners

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

In this tutorial, we explore practical strategies to help students improve their communication skills through active listening.

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Supporting Students in Science-Based Reading and Spelling Instruction

  • 03 Jun 2025
  • Video

Horse or Hoarse?

20 February, 2019

There are hundreds of homophones in the English language, and they are some of the most commonly misspelled words!

To complicate matters, spell check doesn’t recognise homophone errors if the spelling is correct, but you have written the wrong word!

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Introducing Reading Vocabulary Marzano's Steps 1 - 3

  • 05 Mar 2016
  • Video