Is your child or teenager a Reluctant Writer?
Don’t panic! Grab my free eBook – Help Your Reluctant Writer! – today. It’s full of practical, evidence-informed strategies you can use to help your…
Young students benefit from both discrete skill training and explicit instruction in storytelling to improve their language and reading comprehension
Listening to, telling, reading, and writing stories gives students opportunities to work on multiple language targets at the same time while also learning a useful…
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,…
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…
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’…