NAPLAN is Australia’s National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy. It is a series of four tests set over three days for children in years 3 and 5 and five tests for children in years 7 and 9. NAPLAN Read More …
People often think that sending kids off to a class during the school holidays is crazy! Whilst kids definitely need down time to recover from a busy school year, attending a class is a great opportunity to spark creativity and continuous learning as they are removed Read More …
The different sounds of OW In this lesson we started by exploring the two different sounds that O and W make together. We began the lesson by writing down on the board examples of words with OW in them and Read More …
If someone were to describe you using three words, what do you think they would say? In a recent class at Leap into Literacy we explored how writers use character traits to bring their characters to life. At the start Read More …
Writers like to keep their reader’s attention, right? One way that they can do this is by being creative with their writing and appealing to the reader’s senses, and also by writing in a way that makes the reading fun. Read More …
Writing using descriptive details In our last blog Building Mind Maps for Descriptive Writing we explored a descriptive writing class for our younger students. In this blog How to Use More Descriptive Details in Your Writing we will focus on our Read More …
This week’s blog explores a recent Leap into Literacy class Building Mind Maps for Descriptive Writing and focuses on the modified class for our younger students in Years 1-2. Before we delve into the lesson, let’s remember what is so Read More …
