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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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 …
Here is a new article about Work-life-family balance from the MyDeal Blog site by Julia Hammond featuring Allison Greenland from Leap into Literacy. This is the article in full with the link to the original blog at the bottom of this post: 6 Ways to Achieve Better Work-Life-Family Balance From Business Owners So many of …
Writing Well: a skill or a gift? By Louise Tulissio – Teacher at Leap into Literacy When it comes to unleashing your full writer’s potential, do you tend to shrug away, feeling that your ability in English will never improve? Reading and writing is a skill that is perceived to be mastered at school, but …
