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

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.

This webinar will be presented at 3:30 pm AEST. Check the start time for your location, to avoid disappointment.

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.

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
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Homophones - Helping Students with Common Spelling Errors

  • 12 Feb 2019
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Reinforcing Reading Vocabulary Marzano's Steps 4 - 6

  • 04 Mar 2016
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Sentence Structure - Helping Students Improve Their Writing Skills

  • 12 Mar 2019
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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!