writing
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In The Classroom
Teach writing across all subjects: AERO
The Australian Education Research Organisation has called on teachers to deliver writing education across all subjects, including in science and…
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Podcasts
NAPLAN 2022: Have kids writing skills really improved? podcast
NAPLAN results for 2022 have shown an increase in writing for Year 5, 7 and 9 after a decade of…
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Health+Wellbeing
Are all teachers secretly writers? Opinion
If you look up the biographies of authors, you will find that many are also teachers, or ex-teachers — Rachael…
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News
Schools drop writing focus too early: researchers
Schools are dropping the focus on writing too soon, say academics. Writing for The Conversation, Australian Catholic University Professor of…
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In The Classroom
‘This is how you write about it’: The school program that transformed boys’ writing skills
It’s been an unhelpful stereotype for decades now: girls excel in English and other language-orientated subjects, while boys more easily…
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In The Classroom
Raising writing skills for Australian students
Student writing skills have declined by nearly 24 points since 2011, according to the latest NAPLAN results data released in…
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News
Early NAPLAN marks released amid terse trans-Pacific debate
Schools now have their hands on early NAPLAN data, a day after two US professors called for the marks to…
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Top Stories
New HSC English syllabus gives teachers the shakes(peare)
It may be the HSC’s 50th birthday, but not everyone's celebrating. An English module called 'the craft of writing' will…
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In The Classroom
In schools, the write kind of wrong flourishes
Australia is "dropping the ball" in teaching writing skills to primary students, a literacy expert has claimed. Dr Noella Mackenzie…
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