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The Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy - An Author's Story with Amelia McInerney

An Author's Story with Amelia McInerney

08/22/21 • 57 min

The Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy

Joining Sharon Callen on the podcast is Amelia McInerney, a humorous picture book author based in Canberra, Australia.

Amelia is the author of Who Fed Zed?, a zany picture book about a gluten-intolerant goldfish which she produced with Adam Nickel, the illustrator of the phenomenally successful No One Likes a Fart.

Her other titles include The Book Chook illustrated by Connah Brecon (a CBCA Notable Book, also short-listed for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year), My Bird, Bertie, illustrated by Shane McG and the internationally published Bad Crab, illustrated by Philip Bunting.

In this interview, Amelia talks about:

  • How and why she became an author
  • The back story to her stories
  • The power behind her writing, and how it impacts her audiences
  • The impact of Bookweek
  • The writing inspiration Amelia has seen in schools
  • How children’s literature supports children learning to read

And much more!

Enjoy the episode, and let us know thoughts and feedback in our Facebook Group.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast player.

JOIN SHARON CALLEN'S NEXT LIVE WEBINAR!

Find upcoming events here and previous webinars (online video courses) here.

Other matching PDF resources can be found at Teachific.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

TEACHIFIC

  • Mini Book, Lined and Blank: ‘My Favourite Books’ . Choose from a variety of Mini-Books for your students to practise using high frequency words and phrases and writing conventions as they write extended text. Different prompts, word cards and page designs (lined and blank sections) enable the students to get their ideas down on paper more easily.

BOOKTOPIA

Connect with us!

Join our community on Facebook for exclusive resources, Q and A, discussions, insights and more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teacherstoolkitforliteracy

Got any questions? Feedback? Thoughts? Email [email protected]

The Teacher’s Tool Kit For Literacy is the free podcast for motivated teachers and school leaders who want the latest tips, tricks and tools to inspire their students and school community in literacy learning.

Hear from literacy expert and founder of Cue Learning, Sharon Callen, and special guests.

At Cue Learning, our literacy specialists draw on over 30 years of teaching and international consulting experience to deliver world-class learning solutions. We equip, empower and support teachers to become their authentic selves.

To find out about upcoming events, and about how Cue can help you and your school, visit the Cue Learning website http://www.cuelearning.com.au/ and sign up to our newsletter https://cuelearning.com.au/contact/

And you can get even more amazing teaching resources, right now, at Teachific https://www.teachific.com.au/.

To make sure you don’t miss any literacy learning tips and insights, please subscribe to our show on your favourite podcast player.

MORE INFORMATION AT A GLANCE:

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Joining Sharon Callen on the podcast is Amelia McInerney, a humorous picture book author based in Canberra, Australia.

Amelia is the author of Who Fed Zed?, a zany picture book about a gluten-intolerant goldfish which she produced with Adam Nickel, the illustrator of the phenomenally successful No One Likes a Fart.

Her other titles include The Book Chook illustrated by Connah Brecon (a CBCA Notable Book, also short-listed for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year), My Bird, Bertie, illustrated by Shane McG and the internationally published Bad Crab, illustrated by Philip Bunting.

In this interview, Amelia talks about:

  • How and why she became an author
  • The back story to her stories
  • The power behind her writing, and how it impacts her audiences
  • The impact of Bookweek
  • The writing inspiration Amelia has seen in schools
  • How children’s literature supports children learning to read

And much more!

Enjoy the episode, and let us know thoughts and feedback in our Facebook Group.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast player.

JOIN SHARON CALLEN'S NEXT LIVE WEBINAR!

Find upcoming events here and previous webinars (online video courses) here.

Other matching PDF resources can be found at Teachific.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

TEACHIFIC

  • Mini Book, Lined and Blank: ‘My Favourite Books’ . Choose from a variety of Mini-Books for your students to practise using high frequency words and phrases and writing conventions as they write extended text. Different prompts, word cards and page designs (lined and blank sections) enable the students to get their ideas down on paper more easily.

BOOKTOPIA

Connect with us!

Join our community on Facebook for exclusive resources, Q and A, discussions, insights and more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teacherstoolkitforliteracy

Got any questions? Feedback? Thoughts? Email [email protected]

The Teacher’s Tool Kit For Literacy is the free podcast for motivated teachers and school leaders who want the latest tips, tricks and tools to inspire their students and school community in literacy learning.

Hear from literacy expert and founder of Cue Learning, Sharon Callen, and special guests.

At Cue Learning, our literacy specialists draw on over 30 years of teaching and international consulting experience to deliver world-class learning solutions. We equip, empower and support teachers to become their authentic selves.

To find out about upcoming events, and about how Cue can help you and your school, visit the Cue Learning website http://www.cuelearning.com.au/ and sign up to our newsletter https://cuelearning.com.au/contact/

And you can get even more amazing teaching resources, right now, at Teachific https://www.teachific.com.au/.

To make sure you don’t miss any literacy learning tips and insights, please subscribe to our show on your favourite podcast player.

MORE INFORMATION AT A GLANCE:

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undefined - Modelling Effectively in the Writing Workshop

Modelling Effectively in the Writing Workshop

Many teachers want to improve student writing but feel like they're drawing on the same routines to teach - what’s the text type, what’s the structure, where’s the planning template, what’s the topic and where’s the link to the curriculum (trying to find purpose and audience), how do I fit it into a 5-6 weeks ... the challenges go on.

It can be hard to move on from here without having a toolkit of instructional strategies.

So in this episode, Sharon explores high impact instructional strategies that can be drawn on to model the writing process - to enable students to see writing in action and for teachers to better understand what we are asking our writers to do.

This is the active teaching we do in a writing workshop mini lesson and throughout the workshop to move from showing to independent practice, and how we engage our students in the practice of thinking, exploring and experimenting before they move to their own writing.

It is important for teachers to be clear about what they are modelling and teaching.

This episode covers:

  • Excellent ACARA guidance on creating texts
  • The four high impact instructional strategies (used in the Mini Lesson): Modelled Writing, Interactive Writing, Shared Writing and Quick Writing
  • Discussion on their purposes, level of support, when to use and the materials involved:
  • and discussion on what follows the Mini Lesson: Independent Practice and Reflection/Share

And much more!

Enjoy the episode, and let us know thoughts and feedback in our Facebook Group.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast player.

JOIN SHARON CALLEN'S NEXT LIVE WEBINAR!

Find upcoming events here and previous webinars (online video courses) here.

Other matching PDF resources can be found at Teachific.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

TEACHIFIC

High Impact Instructional Strategies for Writing: Use this wonderful resource to work out how you are going to craft your Mini Lessons in writing. Know the precise purposes of each instructional strategy, when to use it and what tools will support you.

Good Reader Posters: Every Child, Every Day - A simple set of posters to remind learners of the strong and positive actions they can take to grow as readers.Anchoring the behaviours we are teaching our students to take is a positive way to remind and motivate students to be in charge of what they can do to grow.

BOOKTOPIA

Craft Lessons - Teaching Writing K-8 by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi

Marvelous MiniLessons for Teaching Intermediate Writing by Lori Jameson Rog

STENHOUSE

Marvelous MiniLessons for Teaching NonFiction Writing K-3 by Lori Jameson Rog

Connect with us!

Join our community on Facebook for exclusive resources, Q and A, discussions, insights and more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teacherstoolkitforliteracy

Got any questions? Feedback? Thoughts? Email [email protected]

The Teacher’s Tool Kit For Literacy is the free podcast for motivated teachers and school leaders who want the latest tips, tricks and tools to inspire their students and school community in literacy learning.

Hear from literacy expert and founder of Cue Learning, Sharon Callen, and special guests.

At Cue Learning, our literacy specialists draw on over 30 years of teaching and international consulting experience to deliver world-class learning solutions. We equip, empower and support teachers to become their authentic selves.

To find out about upcoming e...

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undefined - Part 1: How Do We Teach Inferring?

Part 1: How Do We Teach Inferring?

Teachers are looking for ways to teach reading comprehension strategies more effectively.

If we notice that our students are falling down in reading comprehension, particularly on formal assessments, how do we help them be more successful? What do we teach to help students be good at inferencing?

Firstly, we need to understand what inferring is.

Inferring is a strategy. It permits readers to merge their background knowledge with text clues to come to a conclusion about new ideas that aren’t directly stated in the text. Drawing conclusions helps readers gather more information and ideas and understand the writer’s point of view.

Readers gather and question details from the text and reach a decision that makes sense. They arrive at a decision or opinion by reasoning from known facts or evidence that seems to require that a specific conclusion be reached.

Strategic readers create unique understandings of the text, make predictions and inferences, and confirm or deny those predictions based on textual information.

These readers test their developing comprehension of the text along with extending their comprehension beyond literal understandings of the printed page.

‘Inferencing is the bedrock of comprehension ... it is about reading faces, reading body language, reading expressions, and reading tone, as well as reading text.’ - Harvey and Goudvis, Strategies That Work

In part 1 of our discussion on inferring, we talk about:

  • The fundamentals of inferring
  • Applying this in Mini Lessons
  • Strategic thinking models and strategies

And much more!

And stay tuned for part 2 next episode ...

Enjoy the episode, and let us know thoughts and feedback in our Facebook Group.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast player.

JOIN SHARON CALLEN'S NEXT LIVE WEBINAR!

Find upcoming events here and previous webinars (online video courses) here.

Other matching PDF resources can be found at Teachific.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

TEACHIFIC

BOOKTOPIA

Connect with us!

Join our community on Facebook for exclusive resources, Q and A, discussions, insights and more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teacherstoolkitforliteracy

Got any questions? Feedback? Thoughts? Email [email protected]

The Teacher’s Tool Kit For Literacy is the free podcast for motivated teachers and school leaders who want the latest tips, tricks and tools to inspire their students and school community in literacy learning.

Hear from literacy expert and founder of Cue Learning, Sharon Callen, and special guests.

At Cue Learning, our literacy specialists draw on over 30 years of teaching and international consulting experience to deliver world-class learning solutions. We equip, empower and support teachers to become their authentic selves.

To find out about upcoming events, and about how Cue can help you and your school, visit the Cue Learning website http://www.cuelearning.com.au/ and sign up to our newsletter https://cuelearning.com.au/contact/

And you can get even more amazing teaching resources, right now, at Teachific https://www.teachific.com.au/.

To make sure you don’t miss any literacy learning t...

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