How to create a daily writing habit with a dedicated nook
Learning to write well can be really hard work. It takes lots of practice and it’s easy to get distracted by things that are, frankly, more interesting. To build a…
Teaching students about text types won’t – on its own – make them good writers
For a long time, in Australia and elsewhere, the writing curriculum has been shaped by the ideas of linguist Michael Halliday, who developed “systemic functional linguistics” (SFL) in the 1960s. …
Why I teach reluctant writers about high-frequency prefixes, suffixes and bases
With thanks to Wood, Garcia-Salas, Schatschneider, and Torres-Chavarro (2024), here’s why I teach reluctant writers about high-frequency prefixes, suffixes, and bases: We can increase students’ academic vocabulary and reading comprehension…
Learning to handwrite fluently gives your child a big advantage
Some people think that handwriting is out-moded, like a horse-drawn carriage, rotary-dial phone, or fax machine. Like many males, I copped a lot of flak about my handwriting in primary…
Speech-language pathologists should pay close attention to research about large language models (LLMs)
With thanks to Mahowald, Ivanova, Blank, Kanwisher, Tenenbaum, and Fedorenko (2024), here’s why I think speech-language pathologists should pay close attention to research about large language models, like ChatGPT: Source:…