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Hi there and welcome to this episode of the Structured Literacy Podcast brought to you from Padaway, Burnie, in the gorgeous Tasmania. There is no doubt that the ever-growing capabilities of AI are changing how we live, learn and work. Every day I'm seeing a new GPT or tool claiming to make teachers' lives easier and improving student outcomes. In this episode, I would like to share my current perspectives on the role of AI in curriculum planning, some cautions fo…

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Hello there, my name's Jocelyn and I'm so pleased to welcome you to this episode of the Structured Literacy Podcast, the place where we talk all things literacy and the nuances of bringing structured literacy to life in our classrooms. This podcast episode is recorded in Burnie, Tasmania, on the lands of the Palawa people.

They're Not Writing Enough

It is a really common worry for us to be concerned that our students aren't writing enough, and I recall very clea…

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Welcome to the Structured Literacy Podcast. My name is Jocelyn. I'm so pleased to welcome you to this episode recorded here in Tasmania, the lands of the Palawa people.

We all know that it's important to choose phonics content that is targeted to student need, but how can you do this at the start of the year without taking weeks to gather data? Many schools have adopted a phonics program and are using the phonics assessment that comes with that. They use the ass…

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Hello, hello, welcome to this episode of the Structured Literacy Podcast recorded right here in Tasmania, the lands of the Palawa people. Today's episode is a little bit of fun with a serious message, and I'm going to tell you about my most and least favourite F-words. But don't worry, there won't be any swearing. This is not that kind of podcast.

Let's begin with a story.

Imagine you're teaching a class of students. You have a program manual in your hand that…

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Hi there, welcome to the Structured Literacy Podcast coming to you from Pataway, Burnie here in gorgeous Tasmania. I'm Jocelyn Seamer and I'm so pleased that you've decided to join me for today's episode.

Before we begin, I'd like to ask a favour of you. If you find value in the Structured Literacy Podcast, can you please do the usual rating and subscribing, and then can you hop on your socials and share your favourite episode. Our purpose in producing this podc…

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Hi there, it's Jocelyn here. This episode of the podcast is a really special one, it is the very first of the Teacher Talk episodes in our new kind of podcast series called Research to the Classroom. In this series, we've heard about fluency practices, including dyad reading or assisted reading. If you haven't listened to the first two episodes of this series, I suggest that you do so. It will give you great context for listening to what our guest has to say.

Kirby M…

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Hi there and welcome to the Structured Literacy podcast recorded here in Pataway, Lutruwita or Burnie, Tasmania, the home of the Palawa people. I'm so lucky to live and work here in this beautiful place and also to bring you this week's podcast, which is the second episode in our current Research to the Classroom series about assisted reading. Our Research to the Classroom series are in three parts: part one, where we share a published research paper, part two, wh…

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Hi there, welcome to the Structured Literacy Podcast. It's Jocelyn here, and I am so pleased to welcome you this week.

One of the things I remember so vividly is being in school as a teacher and then leader, really wanting to keep up with readings and research and just not having the bandwidth to be able to do it. So we've started a brand new series for you, called Research to the Classroom. It's a series of three episodes on a topic, the first episode being dis…

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Getting your team on the bus of consistent, explicit teaching in the early years is no easy task. A few years ago, I developed a course called Reading Success in the Early Primary Years and a little while later, published a book with the same name through Routledge, a well-known academic publisher. I am so pleased to announce that I'm running this highly practical online course again in 2025, to help your team build a more robust understanding of what structured l…

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Hello, hello, it's Jocelyn here with the final episode of the Structured Literacy Podcast for 2024, recorded right here on the lands of the Palawa people of Tasmania. I'm so pleased that you've been able to find time to join me amongst what I know is a hugely busy end of year schedule. Oh my, what a year it's been.

So much has happened and I know that many schools have felt the effects of the whirlwind of 2024.

Even as you celebrate positive changes that your…