Writing

How to help your child with their writing skills

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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Building Mind Maps for Descriptive Writing

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 …

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An Inner West Mums Interview with Allison Greenland from Leap into Literacy

Getting to know…Allison Greenland of Leap Into Literacy: An interview with Inner West Mums, Sydney found here: Getting to know… Allison Greenland of Leap Into Literacy Tell us about yourself I’m from Atlanta, Georgia in the USA and my husband is from New Zealand. We met 15 years ago and have lived in NZ for …

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