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Hi there and welcome to the Structured Literacy Podcast. I'm Jocelyn and in this episode, recorded on the lands of the Palawa people here in Tasmania, I'm going to share my thoughts on an issue that many people have many viewpoints about: scripted teaching. Specifically, can great teaching be scripted?

Now, full disclosure, I don't have research to share with you that will definitively answer this question. A review of the literature on this issue yields a numbe…

In today's Tuesday Tip, I discuss that for better student outcomes, teachers should align Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruction so that all students, including those struggling, receive additional repetitions of the same content rather than different material.

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Hi there everyone, it's Tuesday and it's time for a tip. My tip this week is about aligning tier one and tier two instruction for better outcomes for students. Tier 1 instruction is that really r…

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Hi there. I'm so pleased you've been able to join me for this episode of the Structured Literacy Podcast. My name is Jocelyn and I want to begin our episode by letting you know that you're doing a great job.

Are you perfect? Nope.

Do you have every duck in a row? I guarantee that is not the case.

But you're here listening to this podcast and that means that you are looking for ways to help your students succeed. What am I doing here? Well, I'm here to help y…

In today's Tuesday Tip, I discuss using individualised pencil cases with tailored practice cards to provide targeted sound and word reading practice for students at varying levels.

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Hello, it is Tuesday, so it's time for me to bring you a tip. We all know that it's challenging to give children the opportunity to practice sounds and word reading at exactly the level that's right for them. How do you, as a classroom teacher who have a range of levels …

In today's Tuesday Tip, I discuss integrating literacy components, like vocabulary, morphology, and writing, into a unified lesson to maximise efficiency and enhance student connections.

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Hey there, my name is Jocelyn and it's Tuesday, so that means it's time for a tip. The number one question that I receive from teachers is, how do I fit everything into my literacy block? The reality is, if that you're trying to teach everything separately, you can't.

The vocabulary …

In today's Tuesday Tip, I discuss that helping children build comprehension, background knowledge and vocabulary is crucial. This can can be done by aligning content areas with English lessons or using simple non-fiction texts before fiction, creating meaningful connections between subjects.

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Hey there, my name is Jocelyn, and it's time for a tip. Background knowledge is incredibly important if we're going to help children build comprehension. Comprehen…

In today's Tuesday Tip, I discuss daily review in the classroom, and how it is important and can be used to prepare students for upcoming lessons, helping struggling learners by reinforcing previously taught concepts to better manage new material.

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Daily review is an incredibly important and valuable structure to have in your classroom. But had you thought about the fact that you can use that review time to frontload for extension and learning to come? Here…

In today's Tuesday Tip, I discuss using visuals to gain students' attention and enhance communication, especially for those with autism, auditory challenges, etc., by keeping them handy on a lanyard.

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So it's Tuesday and that means there's another tip coming your way. Being a teacher is really hard and getting children's attention can be one of the most challenging things that we do. Today I want to talk about the power of visuals to do that.

If you have a…

In today's Tuesday Tip, I discuss encouraging students to represent their knowledge at their current transcription level, rather than forcing them to write full texts.

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Hello and welcome to this week's Tuesday Tip. When we're working with our young writers or writers of any age at all, it can feel like there's a huge amount of pressure to get everybody writing a full text, whether they have the transcription skills for that or not. One of the ways that you can shif…

In today's Tuesday Tip, I discuss being careful with assessment in phoneme grapheme correspondence, stressing not to prematurely label students and to ensure they can quickly and confidently connect graphemes to phonemes during evaluations.

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Hello there. Welcome to another Tuesday Tip. My name is Jocelyn. When we're assessing our students, one of the things we need to really be careful of is to make sure that we don't say they have something until they actually…