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Student Composition

This is a combination of three posts on Student Composition Dissonance and Consonance Its great to be starting our composition unit with grades 5 and 6 this term. Kynan Robinson and I love teaching this unit because its a great opportunity to see and hear student...

Dust Echoes

This post is crossposted from the new Connect blog which aims to highlight great online resources for Primary and Secondary students and their teachers. Each Connect page has a link to the blog. Encourage your students to explore the sites and leave comments! If you...

Readers Cup

The School Library Association of Victoria  has commenced a blog for the Readers Cup. In 2009, SLAV will be holding Readers Cup state finals for the very first time. At present, all secondary schools are invited to attend by registering their interest via this survey....

Readers Cup

As most of you know, the Premier’s Reading Challenge commences on Monday 2 February and finishes on 31 August. To help things along, all of the Readers Cup books that have questions and answers provided (links on the right hand side of the page) that are on the PRC...

Relief for relief teachers

If any teacher has ever relieved another teacher’s class, then they will have realised it is very different from having their own group of students and being well-prepared can make the day much less stressful.   As a relief teacher, there is very little time for...