Why Marking Students' Books is KEY to Enhancing Literacy ...and more!
English departments ramping up their literacy programmes. Hours of work have gone into designing regular activities, reading on, between...
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Sue de Lautour
- Jun 23
- 4 min
Improve Writing Skills with this Simple and Fun Strategy
Students have 15 minutes to write a response, record a memory, write the first paragraph of a story that begins with a squashed sandwich…...
Sue de Lautour
- Jan 23
- 5 min
20 Sequenced Approaches to Reading
Let’s face it, so many high school teachers missed out on training in literacy – specifically, how to approach a text. ‘Doing’ a short...
Sue de Lautour
- Jan 23
- 5 min
4 Vital Classroom Habits That Improve Literacy
You’re a high school teacher, and you know your stuff. If only you felt secure about how to ‘teach literacy’. Basic errors in students’...
Sue de Lautour
- Oct 19, 2021
- 7 min
Study Time: It's time to harden up and revise for exams!
Key take-aways: Study isn’t fun, but the thought of doing it is worse that doing it. It's true! Harden up. This is not the time to be a...
Sue de Lautour
- Sep 8, 2021
- 6 min
How hitting the Sandpit helped me think about Mātauranga Māori in the English Classroom.
I went to the NZATE 2021 conference and found a magic sandpit. I’d already read up on the NCEA review and incorporating Mātauranga Māori...
Sue de Lautour
- Jul 23, 2021
- 5 min
Ready, reset, dig deep...GO!
Key points: Access the document discussed in this post here. Make a copy if you want to edit it. Click on the tabs at the bottom of the...
Sue de Lautour
- May 12, 2020
- 4 min
Just do it! Best PD Ever!
When was the last time you wrote an essay? Mmmm…thought so. Knowing the pitfalls and needs of your students is hard if you haven’t...
Sue de Lautour
- Apr 12, 2020
- 4 min
Easily write a resource for online use!
Your number one tool - Microsoft PowerPoint Before we do anything, believe that creating resources in Microsoft PowerPoint is the way to...
Sue de Lautour
- Mar 27, 2020
- 4 min
Flipping your Classroom...when There is ONLY the Flip-Side!
Stop panicking! You suddenly have to flip your classroom, and you don't know where to start. Here are a few tips to help those of you...
Sue de Lautour
- Feb 26, 2020
- 7 min
How to engage your Senior Students when they're OVER school!
Have you already guessed that I'm talking about Year 13 (aka Grade 12)?! Disengaged, and ready to leave what has become, to them, a...
Sue de Lautour
- Jan 17, 2020
- 6 min
Teacher Inquiry - Lighten Up a Little!
Mention Teacher Inquiry and these characters come to mind: The senior manager who wants staff to tick bureaucratic boxes - who rabbits on...
Sue de Lautour
- Dec 18, 2019
- 8 min
My Kids Don't 'Read'
We thought we were nailing it. But now my daughters (aged 18 and 19) don't read novels. We started them young. In fact, their Dad read...
Sue de Lautour
- Dec 3, 2019
- 4 min
Ideas to help the EL student in your mainstream class
So it's part of the way through the year and you suddenly discover two students from Korea are in your class. Chances are, the first you kn
Sue de Lautour
- Nov 27, 2019
- 3 min
Collate and Graph qualitative data - is it even possible?
I've always had plenty of little slips everywhere that give feedback from students about themselves (progress, peer assessment, feelings...
Sue de Lautour
- Nov 21, 2019
- 4 min
Feel the Data love
So many of us hate 'doin' the data' because it's just one more job - and it is NOT in that 'Urgent and Important' box either! It's also...