Writing is an integral part of our lives. For school aged children, writing isn’t just confined to the subject of English either. It is integrated into all parts of their education. In Mathematics you need to be able to write numbers and explanations and subjects like Science use writing for research and descriptions of the …
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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 is not linked with the school curriculum and whilst you can not study for the …
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 from their usual daily routine. At Leap into Literacy we are excited about our upcoming …
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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 then saying them aloud to see if the students could pick between the two different …
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 of the class, we asked the students if they have ever been described in a …
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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. One such type of literary device is alliteration. This is when two or more words …
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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 week nine class for our older students in Years 4-6. Descriptive writing enables the writer …
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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 important about descriptive writing? When writers do a good job of describing a person, place …
