6 resources for teaching reading and writing in 2022

We recently surveyed our members about their biggest challenges and focuses for 2022, and as you prepare for the end of 2021 and the beginning of tthe 2022 school year, we have rounded up 6 essential resources in each area to inspire you, help you plan, and provide activities, strategies and suggestions to add to your teaching toolkit.
 
First up: 6 resources for the effective teaching of reading and writing in 2022!

 

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Watch:  The Strathclyde Three Domain Model: rethinking the pedagogic process

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  • This webinar features UK Professor Sue Ellis from Strathclyde University Scotland, co-author of the influential Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on Closing The Attainment Gap In Scottish Education
  • She shares insights from her work into improving literacy engagement, and building school communities of readers, with primary school children

Read:  Writing persuasive texts

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  • This practical PETAA Paper (number 178) is by Penny Hutton
  • It explores the structural, rhetorical and grammatical features of persuasive texts, referencing related Australian curriculum content descriptions, and provides assessment advice

Watch: Shaping sentences from the inside out: linguistic concepts for teaching narrative primary writing

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  • Brett Healey is PhD student researching how children think about linguistic choices in writing and how to encourage them to apply grammar in creative ways for effect
  • He explores five distinct ways to teach students to visualise their narratives for making creative language craft choices in their writing

Read:  How am I going to teach my students to be confident readers and writers?

Read: Reading models: putting the jigsaw together

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  • This PETAA Paper (number 221) is by Bronwyn Parkin
  • It outlines the place of reading and writing in language development and then provides an overview of a range of reading models

Watch: John Marsden's tried and tested writing exercises for the classroom

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  • This webinar features award-winning educator and author John Marsden (Tomorrow When the War Began, So Much To Tell You) 
  • In this webinar, he shares practical and creative writing exercises that, in his classrooms and workshops, have reliably engaged students in the writing process