Staff meeting workshop (available to view for 2 weeks)
In this 60-minute workshop, Sheena and Louise discuss creating a positive home environment for reading as well as sharing strategies for prompting and supporting students to self-monitor while reading. They also share ideas for fun reading-related activities that can be completed at home by students at all levels.
Staff meeting workshop (available to view for 2 weeks)
In this 60-minute workshop, Sheena and Louise will focus on the researched benefits of the retelling strategy and present a range of practical ideas for teaching retelling in reading and writing at all levels.
Staff meeting workshop (available to view for 2 weeks)
Reviewing and celebrating writing is an essential part of the writing process, allowing students to review their writing in relation to the success criteria and to feel proud of their achievements. In this 60-minute workshop, Sheena & Louise will revisit teaching strategies and practical ideas to support students to review and celebrate their writing at all levels.
Staff meeting workshop (available to view for 2 weeks)
In this on demand 90-minute video workshop, Louise will explore the guided reading approach and share practical ideas to support the planning, teaching and management of guided reading at all levels.
Staff meeting workshop (available to view for 2 weeks)
In this on demand 60-minute video workshop, Sheena will share a range of purposeful junior independent reading activities and present practical ideas for how to organise and manage them.
Staff meeting workshop (available to view for 2 weeks)
In this on demand 2-hour video workshop, Louise will explore the planning and teaching of guided reading in the Junior School (approximately Y0-3), This workshop is intended as a follow-up session to: An introduction to guided reading.
In this practical workshop, Sheena and Louise will review the components of a balanced and engaging writing program at emergent, early and fluent levels.
In this workshop, Sheena and Louise will review the modelled, shared, guided and independent reading approaches.
This workshop will present ideas for an integrated literacy approach to teaching poetry that provides a high degree of support for ‘at risk’ writers.
In this practical workshop, Sheena and Louise will review the components of a balanced and engaging writing program at emergent, early and fluent levels.
A ten-week professional learning course for teachers of beginning readers and writers with Louise Dempsey
In this practical workshop, Sheena and Louise will review the components of a balanced and engaging writing program at emergent, early and fluent levels.
In this workshop, Sheena and Louise will review the modelled, shared, guided and independent reading approaches.
Are you concerned about students in your class who can decode but have little or no understanding of what they have read? Current research indicates that we should be explicitly teaching reading comprehension strategies to students. This workshop takes this research and translates it into classroom practice and is based on Sheena’s experience of teaching strategies in a classroom.
In this workshop Louise will identify the common sticking points for ‘at risk’ writers, explore effective mini lessons to teach high impact skills for writing, and review the writing lesson to ensure it meets the learning needs of ‘at risk’ writers.
In this workshop, Sheena and Louise will review the modelled, shared, guided and independent reading approaches.
This workshop will present ideas for an integrated literacy approach to teaching poetry that provides a high degree of support for ‘at risk’ writers.
In this practical workshop, Sheena and Louise will review the components of a balanced and engaging writing program at emergent, early and fluent levels.
In this professional learning workshop, Sheena and Louise will explore opportunities to embed oral language across the curriculum.
