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No matter how prepared you may have felt at the start of 2020,  there’s no doubt this year was nothing like you expected. The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it new parenting and educational challenges for all of us. 

Schools and parents came to us with questions about virtual, at-home learning and literacy programs for the classroom and we supported more than a thousand students with...

Dear Teachers and Parents, do any of these scenarios sound familiar?

• Your 13 year old only wants to read fantasy. If you see another book cover with a dragon on it, you’re going to hide it!
• You see all the reading challenge posts popping up, but your kids don't enjoy reading ..........you feel like a reading challenge will never happen.
• Your fourth-grade...

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What does it take to create and maintain a successful school literacy program? How do you engage the low achievers? Extend those with higher abilities?  Help students to make it clear what they need to improve?  How can I make Grammar and Punctuation 'fun'?  I found out not so long ago when I was frustrated at trying to find English activities that appealed to my students.

Aside from COVID, Australian students' writing performance has gained a lot of attention this year, especially in the middle years where NAPLAN data is analysed.

While the junior and middle years are the building blocks for writing, it is the senior years where our students are faced with high-stakes English exams.

So it's important to understand why effective writing skills ...

Helping our students to study smarter and not harder is the goal at the tail-end of every term.  Many students say that they are stressed and overwhelmed. Let's look at how can we equip our students with better organisation and time management tools to reduce their stress.  The 'tools' to add to their toolbox include goal setting, note-taking, planning, self ad...