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5 Things to do Instead of Asking for Hands Up
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Introduction
Hello. Hello, it's Jocelyn here with another episode of the Structured Literacy Podcast coming to you from the gorgeous Padaway, Burnie in Tasmania. I hope that wherever you are and whatever you are doing, life is good, and your confidence in building a structured approach to literacy is growing a little each day. You see, this teaching caper is not about doing one magical thing on one magical day and looking up to see that every problem has…
High Engagement in Low Variance Instruction
Introduction.
Hi there. Welcome to the Structured Literacy Podcast, coming to you from Pataway Burnie here in gorgeous Tasmania. I'm Jocelyn Seamer, and I'm so pleased that you've decided to join me for today's episode. Before we begin, I'd like to ask a favour of you. If you find value in the Structured Literacy podcast, can you please do the usual rating and subscribing, and then can you hop on your socials and share your favourite episode? Our purpose in produc…
Words, Words Everywhere!
This post was first published in 2020 and is now re-released with revisions.
‘Environmental print’ is something that we have heard about forever and there are many different ways to look at this concept.
I have seen environmental print placed around a room with the hope that children will ‘pick up’ the words and be able to use them for a variety of purposes. This might take the form of labels around the room or lists of words placed on the wall by the teacher.
I have also seen word…