Webinar - 27 February, 2018

Big Write and VCOP in the Middle Years

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

The focus of this next Big Write and VCOP webinar will be looking at ways to support middle and upper primary school students who are disengaged with writing. ATA guest presenter, Samantha Taylor of Andrell Education, will take you through some fast, fun, oral and written activities suitable for middle years, and beyond, that integrate VCOP.
Webinar - 22 May, 2018

Strategies to Support Reading - Before, During and After

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

Effective readers use a range of strategies to comprehend texts, before, during and after reading. In this webinar, we partner with the Reading Centre (Department of Education and Training, QLD) to explore some of the strategies that students can apply at each stage of reading to support their comprehension of texts.

Three Golden Rules of Active Listening

29 May, 2019
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