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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

    I keep getting drawn into situations where I feel a need to defend my work. That’s what you get when you say things

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

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

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

I often get asked to recommend ‘independent reading activities’ or ‘independent spelling activities’ for children learning to read and spell, and I’m always reminded of