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Tutor Puppy-Farms: Find the right tree to bark up
Tutor Puppy-Farms: Find the right tree to bark up It’s true that many children have missed out on vital parts of their education over the last two years. My own


The Culture that Kills
It’s been a bit of a tough week for literacy giants Fountas and Pinnell. Firstly their products were reviewed by edreports.org and found to be wanting. That’s a pretty damning


Sounds about Right
I keep getting drawn into situations where I feel a need to defend my work. That’s what you get when you say things publicly, I guess. I don’t


Dysteachia: A preventable disorder
Yesterday I spent the whole day with 5 leaders from a K-12 school north of Sydney. Their incredibly supportive principal ducked in from time to time whilst doing everything else


Do Language for Life and The Writing Revolution disagree?
Since sentence diagramming is one of the major activities in the Language for Life book and course, I thought I’d respond to a point raised in The Writing Revolution (P14-15)


Every Child a Reader…But Not Yours
Coming up to the third anniversary of the death of my firstborn, I can’t say she’s not on my mind. The anniversary effect started a lot earlier this year, with