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The Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy

The Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy

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 The Teacher’s Tool Kit For Literacy is the free podcast for motivated teachers and school leaders who want the latest tips, tricks and tools to inspire their students and school community in literacy learning. Literacy expert and co-founder of Cue Learning Sharon Callen and special expert guests provide practical literacy insights that you can apply in the classroom today. At Cue Learning, our literacy specialists draw on over 30 years of teaching and international consulting experience to deliver world-class learning solutions. We equip, empower and support teachers to become their authentic selves, using the fullness of the Australian curriculum. To find out about upcoming webinars, and about how Cue can help you and your school, visit http://www.cuelearning.com.au/. And you can get even more amazing teaching resources, right now, at https://www.teachific.com.au/. To make sure you don’t miss any literacy learning tips and insights, please subscribe to our show on your favourite podcast player. Produced by Apiro Media https://apiropodcasts.com2022 Cue Learning Développement personnel Politique et gouvernement Réussite personnelle Sciences politiques
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  • Part 2: The 5 Pillars of Effective Writing Instruction – 2.Quality Writing

    Part 2: The 5 Pillars of Effective Writing Instruction – 2.Quality Writing
    Apr 26 2026
    In the second episode of their 2026 series, Phil and Sharon welcome back Danielle Monique and De Ludlum from Fairview Primary School in Collie, Western Australia, to explore the second of their five pillars of effective writing instruction: every student can produce quality writing. De and Danielle open with the belief that underpins everything they do — that every child, regardless of ability or background, is capable of being a writer. This is not an aspiration. It is a daily operational reality, built through careful planning, consistent structures, and a classroom environment designed to support every student at every stage of the writing process. The teachers walk listeners through the practical tools that bring this belief to life. Their word wall, Phrases We Love door display, anchor charts, graded writing samples, and critical features document work together to ensure that no student is ever left without a clear path forward. Plot in a Box provides a structured planning framework that students and teachers build together, with De and Danielle modelling every step before students attempt it independently. Plans are submitted and reviewed before drafting begins, and staged submission points throughout the unit keep every student on track. Editing, the teachers reveal, has undergone the most significant transformation in their practice. Where once Danielle was rewriting student work in the early hours of the morning, editing now belongs to the students themselves — carried out in deliberate stages through a school-wide editing code, with teacher feedback focused on showing students not just what to fix, but how. The episode concludes with interviews from two students, Riley and Kobi, whose candid, articulate reflections on what has helped them grow as writers provide the most compelling evidence of all: that when teachers build the right conditions and hold firm to high expectations, every child genuinely can produce quality writing. JOIN TEACHIFIC NOW AND SAVE! Join Teachific today. Access thousands of resources and a growing number of 'anytime' courses within your membership. FURTHER INFORMATION Tune in to "Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy," a free podcast where accomplished literacy educator Sharon Callen and her team share valuable insights and tips. With over 30 years of experience, they provide strategic learning solutions to empower teachers and leaders worldwide. Subscribe on your favourite platform for exclusive literacy learning content. Apple, Spotify, Google, YouTube Read our insightful blogs, which make valuable connections between resources, podcasts and courses.Visit our Cue Learning website and sign up for the Teacher's Toolkit Weekly newsletter to stay updated on resources, events and discover how Cue can support you and your school.Explore Teachific, our vast collection of PDF resources, to enhance your teaching toolkit. And get even more support from our growing number of 'anytime' online courses.Connect with the latest news and other educators by joining our Teacher's Toolkit Facebook groupExplore upcoming live or online webinar events Have questions or feedback? Reach out to us directly at admin@cuelearning.com.au
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    1 h
  • Part 1: The 5 Pillars of Effective Writing Instruction – 1.Purposeful Planning

    Part 1: The 5 Pillars of Effective Writing Instruction – 1.Purposeful Planning
    Mar 29 2026
    In the first episode of their 2026 series, Phil and Sharon welcome two Year 6 teachers from Fairview Primary School in Collie, Western Australia — Danielle Monique and De Ludlum — to share the first of five pillars underpinning their approach to writing instruction: purposeful planning. Danielle and De describe how every unit begins with the end in mind. Working backwards from a clear goal, they map each learning intention against curriculum expectations, anticipate where students will struggle, and plan day by day across five- to six-week blocks. Front-end loading — a two-week immersion in a mentor text through reading workshops — ensures students enter every writing unit already familiar with the language, style, and structure they are about to produce themselves. To bring the pillar to life, the teachers walk listeners through an actual unit built around Philip Bunting's picture books, in which students mash two animals together to create an entirely new creature. The unit's title — When Animals Collide: The World's Most Bizarre Creatures — signals immediately the spirit of the work: ambitious, joyful, and purposeful. Throughout the conversation, Danielle and De emphasise that planning is never kept in the teachers' heads. Students receive a critical features document that maps the full unit, including staged submission dates, so that every child can see exactly where they are heading and take genuine ownership of the journey. The episode closes on a quietly powerful note. A student named Riley — dyslexic and living with ADHD — writes to his teachers at year's end, saying he never knew he could be creative until they gave him the chance. It is, the teachers agree, exactly why purposeful planning matters: not for the grids and documents, but for what becomes possible when every child is genuinely planned for. RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THIS PODCAST The Five Pillars of Effective Writing Instruction - OverviewWriting Unit 1 - Text InnovationWriting Unit 2 - AutobiographyWriting Unit 3 - Poetry balladsStudent text: Voices Under the Southern Sky: Australian Ballad AnthologyOther resources coming soon! READ THE BLOG HERE JOIN TEACHIFIC NOW AND SAVE! Join Teachific today. Access thousands of resources and a growing number of 'anytime' courses within your membership. FURTHER INFORMATION Tune in to "Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy," a free podcast where accomplished literacy educator Sharon Callen and her team share valuable insights and tips. With over 30 years of experience, they provide strategic learning solutions to empower teachers and leaders worldwide. Subscribe on your favourite platform for exclusive literacy learning content. Apple, Spotify, Google, YouTube Read our insightful blogs, which make valuable connections between resources, podcasts and courses.Visit our Cue Learning website and sign up for the Teacher's Toolkit Weekly newsletter to stay updated on resources, events and discover how Cue can support you and your school.Explore Teachific, our vast collection of PDF resources, to enhance your teaching toolkit. And get even more support from our growing number of 'anytime' online courses.Connect with the latest news and other educators by joining our Teacher's Toolkit Facebook group Have questions or feedback? Reach out to us directly at admin@cuelearning.com.au
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    1 h et 7 min
  • Part 2: The Wonder of Teaching Vocabulary with Freddy Hiebert

    Part 2: The Wonder of Teaching Vocabulary with Freddy Hiebert
    Jun 29 2025
    Part Two: Practical Implementation and Beyond Building on her foundational principles, Hiebert delves deeper into practical classroom implementation, distinguishing between narrative and informational text vocabulary demands. She explains how stories use varied, sophisticated words for familiar concepts—characters "lumber" rather than simply "walk" or "eavesdrop" instead of "listen"—while informational texts introduce entirely new concepts requiring background knowledge development alongside vocabulary instruction. The conversation takes a modern turn as Hiebert shares her innovative use of artificial intelligence tools like Claude to create sophisticated semantic maps and organise word relationships. She provides specific prompts teachers can use: "Which of these words are really important to generalise to other topics?" and "Can you put them into important categories?" This approach transforms technology from a simple definition-lookup tool into a thinking partner that helps identify patterns and relationships. Hiebert addresses concerns about overwhelming linguistic instruction by emphasising that students don't need to know everything before they can engage meaningfully with texts. She advocates for giving children fundamental insights about how language works rather than exhaustive technical knowledge, comparing effective vocabulary instruction to basketball coaching—providing strategic guidance rather than micromanaging every movement. The discussion reveals alarming trends in American education where interventions promise to teach 150 letter-sound correspondences, which Hiebert warns will "kill a kid's interest" in reading. She advocates for statistical learning through extensive reading rather than explicit instruction of every possible pattern. Throughout both segments, Hiebert consistently emphasises that children are naturally brilliant learners who develop word consciousness through meaningful engagement rather than drill-and-practice methods. Her approach transforms vocabulary instruction from passive memorisation into active investigation, offering educators research-backed alternatives that honour both language complexity and student intelligence. The conversation concludes with her invitation for continued collaboration and her promise to share practical resources including AI prompts, semantic map examples, and implementation guidelines with the Australian teaching community. TEXT PROJECT WEBSITE BY FREDDY HIEBERT Text Project website - free student texts (Plus +) SPECIFIC RESOURCES FROM FREDDY HIEBERT, AS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST 1. AI Semantic Map Examples You will find an example in this ILA presentation .As well as the presentation, the following paper, which is in review at a journal, gives examples of maps and grids created with AI 2. ILA Website Presentation Fundamentally, the ILA presentation will have a similar structure to the above presentation:See the ILA webinar here on YouTube. 3. AI Prompt Examples The above presentations and the paper (Leveraging AI) should give some examples). 4. 'The Story of English' Picture Visual representation showing bratwurst (German) in baguette (French) with yogurt (Greek)Illustrates how English draws from multiple language traditions 5. Etymology Resources Stories of Words develops students' interest in fascinating words like snickerdoodles and terrapin. Using the TExT model, this 16-volume series explores vocabulary through four word-formation methods: borrowed words, life themes, manipulated words, and technological innovations. 6. Text Models Examples Text Models Examples are here.From Freddy: "This site at TextProject provides illustrations of texts that I have developed with AI assisted. I should emphasise that I do AI-assisted, not simply AI-generated. A text typically goes through numerous iterations and I also analyse the texts to determine its distribution according to word zones (more on word zones)And I’m attaching a blog on Word Zones as well JOIN TEACHIFIC NOW AND SAVE! Join Teachific today. Access thousands of resources and a growing number of 'anytime' courses within your membership. FURTHER INFORMATION Tune in to "Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy," a free podcast where accomplished literacy educator Sharon Callen and her team share valuable insights and tips. With over 30 years of experience, they provide strategic learning solutions to empower teachers and leaders worldwide. Subscribe on your favourite platform for exclusive literacy learning content. Apple, Spotify, Google, YouTube Read our insightful blogs, which make valuable connections between resources, podcasts and courses.Visit our Cue Learning website and sign up for the Teacher's Toolkit Weekly newsletter to stay updated on resources, events and discover how Cue can support you and your school.Explore Teachific, our vast collection of PDF resources, to enhance your teaching toolkit. And get even more support from our growing number ...
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    39 min
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