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• SSSR Slides July 2023 SLIDES

Write 2 learn Units

(now available)

An initiative of teachers at Brandon Park Primary School, Write to Learn (w2L) is a set of curriculum materials for the teaching of writing. It is inspired by methodologies recommended by The Writing Revolution® within an Australian curriculum context, and combines this with teaching approaches from Explicit Instruction.

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There is no official partnership between Brandon Park Primary / Nathaniel Swain and The Writing Revolution® by Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler. THE HOCHMAN METHOD®, THE WRITING REVOLUTION®, and ADVANCING THINKING THROUGH WRITING® are registered trademarks of The Writing Revolution, Inc. The materials in Write2Learn are created as classroom materials to accompany The Writing Revolution®’s methodology and progression of writing skills.

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• Reading Comprehension, but not as you know it! Presentation SLIDES

• PhOrMeS: A Free, Powerful F-6 Decoding & Spelling Curriculum. Presentation SLIDES

SBP Ballarat 2022 - Inverting the legacies of balanced literacy

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• Presentation SLIDES

Don’t Reinvent the wheel! Write2Learn resources to supplement TWR

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RUN-ONs

• Y3 Run-on sentences 4 lessons SLIDES

• Y3 Run-on sentences 4 lessons IND. TASK

• Y4 Run-Ons - 3 lessons SLIDES

• Y4 Run-Ons - 3 lessons IND. TASK

V-ing and V-ed Clauses

• Y4 Sessions 1, 2 - 'V-ing' Clause SLIDES

• Y4 Session 3, 4 - 'V-ed' Clause SLIDES

• Y5 Session 1, 2 - 'V-ing' Clause SLIDES

• Y5 Session 3, 4 - 'V-ed' Clause SLIDES

• Y5 V-ing and V-ed Clauses IND. TASK

• Y5 Writing Learning Task - V-ing and V-ed Clauses

Narrative through Story Grammar

• Y2 Narrative Story Grammar Unit SLIDES

• Y2 Story Grammar template to print

• Y3 Story Grammar Unit SLIDES

• Y4 Story Grammar Unit SLIDES

Supporting students with Paragraph Writing

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• Slides from Tutor Learning Initiative Presentation

Intermediate / Advanced Spelling through Morphology

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• Slides from Tutor Learning Initiative Presentation

Knowledge rich-Curriculum meets bulletproof instruction

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• Year 1 Mesopotamia Unit (adapted from Core Knowledge)

• Year 3 Vikings Unit (adapted from Core Knowledge)

• Learning and Engagement Icons Key PDF (adapted from icon set by Brad Nguyen)

dr swain’s cognitorium

A NEW BLOG ABOUT teaching a GROUP OF LEARNERS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF PRIMARY SCHOOL.

The Cognitorium is a place which holds the learning experience as sacred. Journey with me as I put the Science of Learning into practice, honouring the experiences, motivations, and curiosities of each of my students.