Writeboard: How to use it. A free online tool for collaborative writing, writeboard allows your students to write and share web-based documents, edit them online, roll back to any version and compare changes.
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Feedback, Assessment and Student Writing This presentation outlines a project undertaken to evaluate the impact of a variety of assessment and feedback strategies on the development of student writing. The sample assessment task, marking cr...
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The Health and Well Being Centre for Words Help Year 7 students improve their proofreading and editing skills .
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Fay and Jane: good farmers’ wives? Connections between Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice give students a new appreciation for the original text and a greater understanding of the role of literature.
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Reflections by Bruce Dawe Reflections by the poet.
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Just Imagine: a successful creative writing experience An approach to interest students in creative writing by encouraging close and wide engagement with art.
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The Shakespeare Reloaded Bard's Blitz: a literary analysis and essay building module This 4 stage active learning tas k promotes close engagment with Shakespeare's texts through close reading and an essay competition as outcome
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An Interview with Peter Skrzynecki An interview with Peter Skrzynecki.
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Inspiring students to write: the anatomy of a creative writing workshop This article outlines games, exercises and processes that stimulate students to write.
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Write Now: writers write on inspiration Isobelle Carmody, Mal Peet and Garth Nix write about writing and offer some story starters.
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Felicity Plunkett: in conversation with John Turner An exploration of aspects of the poet's work and life.
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Using ICT to Teach Creative Writing: The theory and some practical teaching strategies A thoughtful article providing practical ideas for integrating ICT into the English curriculum.
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Writing for Extension 2: Free Falling into Fiction Support for writing the creative major work , exercises, establishing character and writing description plus examples, what’s at stake, word choice, not being didactic, back-story.
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Reflection Statement for Extension 2 Extremely useful student samples of Reflection Statements f or EXT 2 and teacher comments. Marking criteria and reminder that Major Work and Reflection Statement are marked as a totality.
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Preliminary Extension Module: Texts, Culture and Value, 'The Madwoman in the Attic' - How has she been Appropriated? This brief unit outline considers the concept of appropriation in relation to the representation of the 'madwoman' in Jane Eyre . Numerous related texts and resources are suggested.
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