This time last week I launched my first online course “Introduction to Comprehensive Literacy Instruction for Students with Complex Communication Needs“. There’s been so much great feedback on it already – thank-you to everyone who has signed up and shared…
I am absolutely delighted to say that I have just published my first online course! It’s been a labour of love – and I have a huge sense of achievement for completing it!! I’ve had a number of requests recently…
This year I was very honoured to be invited to give the keynote presentation at the virtual AAC Conference, AAC in the Cloud. The topic of my session was shared reading – and my focus was on “Let’s Be Interactive”.…
A few weeks ago I shared a week of emergent literacy planning on the topic of greetings, using a book I wrote called “Hello”. As I’ve mentioned before, I had a request from the fabulous Violeta for a PowerPoint version…
Over the last few years, I have come across a bunch of students who are highly motivated and interested in anything to do with Zombies! Now, Zombies are not something I know a lot about… but what I do know…
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on more emergent literacy planning for teachers, schools and parents to use. Today I have put the first three packs up on my online store at www.comprehensiveliteracy.com under emergent literacy…
A couple of weeks ago I shared a week of emergent literacy planning on the topic of greetings, using a book I wrote called “Hello”. After downloading and using the planning, a couple of fabulous parents had requests. One of…
Portable word walls are an important part of our toolkit when working with transitional and conventional literacy learners. I’ve written a number of posts about how to setup a word wall and how we use them – in both the…
For conventional (and transitional) students, we need to make sure they can write words which aren’t phonetically predictable – and that they can read and write high frequency words more or less instantly. The word wall activities we do in…
Nearly 5 years ago I wrote a blog post called “Shared Reading: Focus on Interaction“. Shared reading is when we read a book interactively with someone else – and the focus during the book reading is on that interaction. As…
