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25.01.2022 TDS English Yr 3-8 Broome Schools Moderation Narrative Session (Kimberley) This moderation session is suitable for teachers of Year 3 to 8 students. The focus of this session is to look at how to improve writing within the narrative genre. Teachers will be required to bring samples of their students narrative writing. As a group, we will work together to identify where the student’s writing sits on a standard ruler. Once identified, we will be able to create a list of teachin...g points and strategies to improve students writing. Our aim of this session is to provide clear guidelines of teaching directions for students improvement. We will reconvene in 6 months time to re examine the same genre and to note what improvements have been made. Enrolment for this event is available at: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=26880 or email [email protected] Teacher Development Schools Event Event contact for additional information: Sam Price at [email protected] Target audience: Primary and secondary teachers and curriculum leaders Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2019 Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm Where: Cable Beach Primary School, Library Cost: Nil Last enrolment date: Monday, 13 May 2019

25.01.2022 Little Scientist Workshop Participants new to the program are introduced to the principles of inquiry-based learning. All participants will learn the core prinicpals of the Little Scientist Approach. Explore water with all senses, investigate the different aggregate states and test the solubility of various substances. Discover how to implement joyful STEM exploration and learn about the educational concepts of inquiry based learning and co-construction. Date: Friday 29th M...arch 2019 Time: 8.30am to 3.00pm Venue: Cable Beach Primary School Please enrol using the following link: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/?EventID=25102 See more

24.01.2022 Great blog with online learning prompts which can be used in class and at home

24.01.2022 Lit Bits @ CBPS: Spine Character Description This 'Talk for Writing' strategy is an effective way for students to develop character descriptions. 1. Take an image and discuss the type of character we want to portray (evil, friendly, kind etc.), this will impact the type of vocabulary selected. 2. Then slow the description down by deciding what elements of the character to describe, for example, eyes, jaw, brows, mouth and so on. 3. Work together to brainstorm a collection... of vocabulary that could be used to describe the features. 4. Finally use the vocabulary to write a character description. https://vimeo.com/336708229 Password: Litbits See more

24.01.2022 LINK: https://vimeo.com/422285835 PASSWORD: Litbits Explicitly teaching story openings: This short vignette demonstrates how to explicitly teach your students a variety of ways to begin a story to hook a reader. The four ways explored in this vignette include: - Flashbacks - Zoom, zoom, zoom - Inside / outside... - Action, time of day See more

24.01.2022 TDS English K-10 Getting started with Digital Learning Platforms (online) Enrolment for this event is available at: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/?EventID=33782 Event contact for additional information: Samantha Price at [email protected] Target audience: K-10, Primary and Secondary teachers and leaders Date: Monday, 22 June 2020 ... Time: 3.30pm to 4.30pm Where: Webex Cost: Nil Online learning management platforms are connecting schools, students and families more than ever before. In this session, Cable Beach Primary School will share how they use one such online platform, the Seesaw Class App, which is a fantastic way to manage classroom workflow, allow students to respond in multimodal methods, develop ICT capability skills, as well as opening up the classroom to share learning with families, specifically in the English Learning Area. This session is best suited to those just getting started with online learning platforms such as Seesaw. The day before the advertised date of the event you will be emailed the Webex event link and password. Please check your Spam or Junk folders if not located in your Inbox.

23.01.2022 Systematic Phonics and Decodable Reading ‘101’ (online) Learning to read words does not typically come naturally to children, they need to be explicitly taught the relationship between letters (graphemes) and the corresponding sounds (phonemes). This professional learning session will provide you with knowledge of the relationship between the learning of phonics and reading. We will examine and unpack the elements of a typical decodable reading session. This Webex session i...s perfect for the teacher who is beginning their journey into the ‘simple view’ of reading in the classroom. Event contact for additional information: Sam Price at [email protected] Target Audience: K-6 Primary Teachers Date: Monday, 3 August 2020 Time: 3.30pm to 4.30pm Where: Online (Webex) Cost: Nil Last enrolment date: Friday, 31 July 2020 Enrolment for this event is available at: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/?EventID=34537 See more

23.01.2022 I would like to share a short vignette of our pre-primary class. "USING MANIPULATIVES TO CREATE A FIVE SENTENCE STORY"! This short vignette demonstrates how five sentence oral narratives can be created using manipulatives. Students use five taught connectives to shape the base of their story. "If a child can't say it, we can't expect them to write it". https://vimeo.com/426871321 Password: Litbits

22.01.2022 The Magic of Observational and Playful Writing (online) Students’ descriptive writing will never truly sparkle, unless they are taught to observe the world closely, carefully and constantly. The best descriptive writers are the best observersof sight and sound, smell and taste, of texture. The art of writing is, in part, the art of finding the words to describe the physical world in a way that gives life and depth to the imaginary world of the story. This professional learni...ng will provide teachers with practical strategies to challenge students to play with language in order to enhance their narrative writing skills. Target audience: K-7 teachers and curriculum leaders Date: 31 March 2020 Time: 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm Where: Webex Cost: Nil Last enrolment date: 26 March 2020

22.01.2022 This short vignette demonstrates a typical reading session using decodable readers. LINK: https://vimeo.com/419759097 Password: Litbits@CBPS Before Reading: When we are using decodable texts in the classroom we need to include some key elements into our teaching BEFORE we give the students a book to read. We want them to succeed in reading and develop a level of automaticity. 1. Choosing the correct decodable book: The decodable books we choose for students need to contai...n specific letter-sound knowledge that the children are learning at that moment. Most decodable books will have this information on the front cover or the inside cover. 2. Preparing for reading: Begin reading sessions with phonological awareness warmups. Make sure that the children have opportunities to review the graphemes before they start reading. Get them to word-build, blend, segment and practice reading through a variety of word reading and spelling activities and games. Reading a decodable book requires enough preparation so that it is a successful experience for the beginner/ struggling reader. During Reading: Know the text before students read it. By reading the text before the students read it, it allows you to interact with the story as they read. 1. Encourage the emergent readers to point to each word. This allows them to keep on track with the blending of the letter sounds. Once they develop confidence with reading, encourage them to keep track with their eyes only. Finger-pointing is really for the emergent reader. 2. Assist the students when an error has been made. Allow them to blend the sounds again to read the words correctly. Encourage and model blending at all times. Ask the child to sound out the word and blend the sounds together into words. If this occurs, make sure the students re-read the sentence again to ensure the meaning of the sentence is grasped. 3. Re-read some sentences to your students to highlight fluency and expression from you as an experienced reader. After Reading: 1. Reading is for meaning: Always check the reader understands the words in the text. This is a great opportunity to develop vocabulary within context of a story. Reading is a combination of decoding and comprehension. Children need vocabulary in order to comprehend. The teacher can develop comprehension at different levels: factual, inferential etc. 2. Follow up word work, dictation or phonics activities to support reading, can be included in your rotation. Practice and more practice Reading a number of decodable texts with the same spellings will help children remember and commit new words to long-term memory. You can also ask children to re-read texts with expression or in pairs. This will develop reading fluency.

20.01.2022 Providing Feedback to Students Few practices promote student learning as effectively, as well-formed and constructive feedback.This short vignette provides tips on how to provide effective feedback to students on their writing. https://vimeo.com/345393444 Password: Litbits

20.01.2022 https://www.teachwire.net//the-best-vocabulary-advice-for-

19.01.2022 Lit Bits @ Cable Beach Unicorn Expert: Hook for Information Reports We organised an incursion with a Unicorn Expert to hook students into our new topic of information reports. Our expert showed a unicorn PowerPoint and used unicorn artifacts including gold horseshoe,a whales tooth which we claimed to be a baby unicorn horn, bottled poo and a sensor camera. We ensured that the PowerPoint debugged any tricky vocabulary that was in the new text they were focusing on. A hook into... new topics can be an experience, like nothing they have ever witnessed before or an object that fires up curiosity. A cleverly manufactured hook will not only capture their imagination, but provide students with some background knowledge about the new writing topic. https://vimeo.com/345599464 Password: Litbits

19.01.2022 Lit Bits @ CBPS: Five Sentence Stories This vignette shows students learning how to compose five sentence stories. Five sentence stories provide students with the basic framework for creating narratives. They teach the students the basic elements of setting, character, complication and resolution. They also provide students with a bank of key connectives they can utilise in their writing other than 'then'. Five sentence stories can later be expanded to create full-fledged narratives. Password to access Vimeo clip: Litbits Link: https://vimeo.com/329250853

19.01.2022 THURSDAY BACE PD: Cohesion, Tying Ideas Together Do your students write sentences which are correct but the ideas are not linked together across the writing? This BACE professional learning will provide you with practical strategies how to explicitly teach cohesion devices in writing. Cohesion relates to the flow of a text. It is the cohesive devices that run across a text and tie the ideas together. In this session we will focus on: ... maintaining tense across the text maintaining point of view using conjunctions and connectives using nouns and pronouns using word associations (synonyms and antonyms) paragraphing Date: Thursday 28th Februray (week4) Venue: Cable Beach Primary School Time: 3pm to 4pm Enrolment for this event is available at https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=25145

19.01.2022 Have you checked out our free printable Phonics Activity Pack resources? DSF Speech Pathologist Lauren Bellini gives a great explanation of how to use the resources with your children. To watch the full video go to https://dsf.net.au/home-resources

19.01.2022 I like the idea of editing flaps This image from @Mr_M_primary on twitter

18.01.2022 TDS English (3-8) Broome Schools Moderation - Narrative (Kimberley) This moderation session is suitable for teachers of Year 3 to 8 students. The focus of this session is on how to improve writing in the key area of narrative writing. Teachers will be required bring along a samples of their students narrative writing. As a group we will work together to identify where the student’s writing sits on a standard ruler. Once this has been identified we will then be able to ident...ify a list of teaching points on how to improve students writing progress. This will provide clear guidelines of teaching directions for students improvement. Enrolment for this event is available at: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=29722 Event contact for additional information: Samantha Price at [email protected] Target audience: Primary and secondary teachers and curriculum leaders Date: Monday, 28 October 2019 Time: 2.45pm to 3.45pm Where: Cable Beach Primary School, Library Cost: Nil Last enrolment date: Friday, 25 October 2019 See more

18.01.2022 Simple and oh so practical. Thank you Upbility.net.

18.01.2022 BOOK WEEK 2020 This year at Cable Beach Primary School we celebrated Book Week early and we thought we would share some of our ideas with you. This short vignette shows the collection of activities that we used with our students this year. Book Week is great fun for staff and students. Hope your Book Week is as much fun as ours was. https://vimeo.com/433483171

17.01.2022 2020 Bookweek theme is a ripper: Curious Creatures, Wild Minds http://hakeahustler.com.au/curious-creatures-wild-minds-c/

17.01.2022 TDS Digital Tech K-10 Techy ArvoTea: Apple Products in the Classroom (Kimberley) Come along and learn how to implement these powerful Apple products in your classroom. Bring your class bank of iPads (and your own teacher iPad) and together we will set up Apple Classroom, so that you can control student iPads. Some of the tools that you will be able to use includes locking iPads, restricting iPads to certain Apps, sending documents to students and more! We will also explore th...e Apple TV and how to use it in your classroom to engage your students. Target audience: Primary and secondary teachers and curriculum leaders Date: Wednesday, 3 April 2019 Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm Where: Cable Beach Primary School, Library https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=26883 See more

16.01.2022 WebEx: TDS English (P-6) Shared Writing through Narrative (Online) This PL session will provide practical ideas on how teach the narrative genre through the shared writing process. We will look at how to explicitly teach the narrative language features writers use and then how to use these to produce a piece of shared writing with students. Throughout the PL we will unpack ways to teach characterisation and setting. Every time we expect our students to write we should be writ...ing it first. It is the explicit teaching of strategies that teachers use that make all the difference in improving students writing Target audience: Primary teachers and curriculum leaders Date: Tuesday, 29 October Time: 3.30pm to 4.30pm Where: Online, Webex Cost: Nil Last enrolment date: Friday, 25 October Enrolment for this event is available at: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=29724 Event contact for additional information: Samantha Price at [email protected]

16.01.2022 A quick video showing a simple way to teach figurative language with a focus on personification. https://vimeo.com/357458951 Password: Litbits

16.01.2022 Great theme for this year’s Book Week

16.01.2022 Here it is ... the CBCA Notables List for 2019! Congratulations to the authors, illustrators and publishers selected and a HUGE thank you to our judges for their hundreds of hours of reading and assessing. #cbca2019 https://www.cbca.org.au/notables-2019

15.01.2022 Lit Bits @CBPS : Phonological Awareness Rotations This vignette shows a pre-primary class involved in a series of phonological awareness rotations. Each child is grouped according to their current PA knowledge so learning is specifically targeted at students' needs. Our teachers have been working closely with OTs to modify our rotations to encourage a multi-sensory approach which promotes proprioceptive, vestibular and tactile senses to enable our children to focus on the learning rather than fidgeting while siting for too long. Password: Litbits https://vimeo.com/336518076

14.01.2022 TDS English K-10 Drama in the English classroom (face to face) Drama enables students to extend their understandings of the world, develop their imaginations and see things from a range of different viewpoints. This professional learning will look at a variety of drama strategies and how to use them to enhance learning in the English classroom. This session will be very hands on with plenty of practical examples of how to plan and program for drama activities in your own cla...ssroom to enhance student’s problem solving, risk taking and effective communication skills in the area of English. Enrolment for this event is available at: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=28661 Target audience: K-10 teachers and curriculum leaders Date: Thursday, 29 August 2019 Time: 3:00pm to 4:00pm Where: Cable Beach Primary School, Library Cost: Nil

14.01.2022 Interesting read

14.01.2022 BACE PD: Cohesion, Tying Ideas Together Do your students write sentences which are correct but the ideas are not linked together across the writing? This BACE professional learning will provide you with practical strategies how to explicitly teach cohesion devices in writing. Cohesion relates to the flow of a text. It is the cohesive devices that run across a text and tie the ideas together. In this session we will focus on: maintaining tense across the text ... maintaining point of view using conjunctions and connectives using nouns and pronouns using word associations (synonyms and antonyms) paragraphing Date: Thursday 28th Februray (week4) Venue: Cable Beach Primary School Time: 3pm to 4pm Enrolment for this event is available at https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=25145

14.01.2022 Hot Seating: Reading Comprehension Strategy This short vignette shows the technique of ‘hot seating’ in an upper and then lower primary classroom. Hot seating is when an adult or child adopts a character’s persona and answers questions in role. It’s a very effective way to help children gain a deeper understanding of characters from both fiction and non-fiction. It can also be a lot of fun. Hot seating will allow students to come up with details about the text that are not ne...cessarily found in the text, but rather deduced from what they have read. https://vimeo.com/426876288 Password: Litbits

13.01.2022 The Departments new home learning packages for PP look fantastic. https://connect.det.wa.edu.au/gr/staff//community/library

13.01.2022 Great website with a variety of poems to share with students. https://poetryroundabout.com/

11.01.2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFc3NiHFHh8 Hope everyone is having a great start to 2019

10.01.2022 TDS English K-10 Reading and Writing Informational Texts PD : Online (Webex) We are surrounded by informational texts, whose primary purpose is to convey information about the natural or social world. Success in schooling, the workplace, and society depends on our ability to comprehend this material. The range and quantity of information texts students need to read and write to meet the demands of 21st century learning is expanding rapidly. This session will provide particip...ants with practical strategies and instructional approaches to teach both print and digital based informational texts within the primary classroom. Event contact for additional information: [email protected] Target audience: K-10 teachers and curriculum leaders Date: Thursday 28 March 2019 Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm Where: Online Webex Cost: Nil Last enrolment date: Monday 25 March 2019 Please use the following link to enrol: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=25142

10.01.2022 TDS English K-10 BACE: Cohesion, Tying Ideas Together (online: WebEx) Do your students write sentences which are correct but the ideas are not linked together across the writing? This BACE professional learning will provide you with practical strategies how to explicitly teach cohesion devices in writing. Cohesion relates to the flow of a text. It is the cohesive devices that run across a text that tie the ideas together. In this session we will focus on: maintaining tense... across the text, maintaining point of view, using conjunctions and connectives, using nouns and pronouns, using word associations (synonyms and antonyms), and paragraphing. Enrolmen:for this event is available at: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=26881 Teacher Development Schools Event Event contact for additional information: Sam Price at [email protected] Target audience: Primary and Secondary teachers and curriculum leaders Date: Tuesday, 28 May 2019 Time: 3:00pm - 4:15pm Where: WebEx Cost: Nil Last enrolment date: Thursday, 23 May 2019

09.01.2022 Litbits@CBPS I thought I would share a short vignette I made that shows how I create a toolkit and then use that toolkit to lead into shared short burst writing with students. Every time we expect kids to write we should be writing with them first. It’s what you do as the teacher that makes all the difference to students understanding of the writing process. Some tips when shared writing with students include: - Use two colour of pens (red to be used to focus on punctuation a...nd vocab) - Use the margin when shared writing to readdress toolkit - Use red to change words , swap vocabulary - Use a line where you want students to fill in the blanks - Never take first option children provide you with as this is an opportunity to generate words and ideas - Re-read, check and edit - Students can use mini whiteboards to write down any ideas that they have in session - Use EA or AIEO if in room to note down students ideas, which can then later be used for students to generate ideas for their own writing. https://vimeo.com/357465075 Password: Litbits

09.01.2022 This year Cable Beach celebrated book week early. I thought we would share some of our activities for inspiration for your book week this year: 1. THE AMAZING ‘READING IS MY SECRET POWER’ RACE Classes used their special powers to solve problems and be the first class to complete the circuit. Problems required classes to draw upon their powers of speed, telepathy, invisibility, endurance and strength. Classes needed to work as a team using everyone’s secret powers to complet...e these challenges. The winning classroom won themselves a pizza lunch from Dominoes. 2. GUESS TEACHER’S SECRET POWERS Throughout Book Week during library sessions students got the opportunity to match teachers to their secret powers. Clues were given by teachers throughout the week (teachers selected need to be DOTT relief teachers who saw lots of students throughout the week). Students had to use their secret powers to find the clues. Teacher 1: power of invisibility (showed students photo of family with them missing BUT told a big story about them being in the picture / also wore cloak of invisibility) Teacher 2: power of strength (teacher carried around a pretend weight for the week and continually offered to lift heavy objects) Teacher 3: power of telepathy (teacher said to class I think Miss K needs a green texta. Five minutes later Miss K walks into class and asks for green texta.. lots of examples like this throughout the week) Teacher 4: power of super sight (teacher wore googly eyes and kept referring to things she could see in distance) Teacher 5: power of hearing (teacher kept hearing things students could not hear throughout the day) 3. STORY SWAP: Classes created a story that had hidden clues woven throughout it hinting at which class has written the story. Stories were then swapped with other classes who then need to read the stories and use their secret powers of reading to work out which class wrote the story. Classes were encouraged to be inventive, to use picture clues, invisible ink, problems to solve etc. Once classes had worked out who their partner class was they joined together. Older students shared a pre-determined story together. Middle and junior primary shared their class’ favourite picture book. 4. LUNCH TIME BOOK WHIZ QUIZ Open to Year 4/5/6 students: Are you Cable Beach’s next Book Whiz Kidz? Students nominated their own teams of four. Then they Invented own team name, identified their team’s super power and got ready to challenge other teams. 5. Book Parade: Just because you cannot have book week without a parade 6. Family Campfire Night Four campfires were set up on the oval. Each campfire had a different story teller. Each storyteller used their secret powers of storytelling to entertain the community. One campfire had singing with guitar, another spooky stories, another poetry and the final fire dreamtime stories. See more

08.01.2022 TDS English Years K-10 Punctuation at the Sentence Level (Kimberley) Punctuation is a system of symbols to show the reader where a sentence begins and ends. It is also used to separate sentences and parts of speech, aiding to make meaning clear. Students who are struggling with simple punctuation may not understand the structure or design of a sentence. This session will provide teachers with the knowledge and practical skills to teach punctuation within daily classroom routi...nes. We will share a large range of practical activities able to be used in your classroom to build children’s understanding of how punctuation works and to developing understanding of what punctuation is needed where. Date: Tuesday, 11 June 2019 Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm Where: Cable Beach Primary School, Library Cost: Nil Please RSVP through plis or email [email protected] https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=27186

08.01.2022 Techy Afternoon Tea: Seesaw Come along and have a refresher in Seesaw, the App that we use at CBPS to document student learning, develop our students’ ICT capabilities and communicate meaningfully with families. We will revisit the process of getting studentsand families connected, the documentation and permissions required, how to use the App in both independent and explicit learning situations and trouble-shoot any questions that you may have. We will look at the Activity ...tool and the other features we now haveaccess to as a Seesaw for Schools client and how you can integrate these into your teaching and learning. When:Wednesday, Week 4 (27 February) @ 2.30PM Where:Rooms 7 & 8, Barrgana Block, Cable Beach Primary SchoolWhat to Bring: iPad/Laptop with your Seesaw account logged in (we have some available to use if you do not have one), plus any permission slips you have had signed from families) We will have light refreshments available during the session. Please RSVP your attendance. https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=26167

08.01.2022 New things are opportunities for me to learn! Sketchnote by @kwiens62 Free downloads: http://northstarpaths.com/visuals/

07.01.2022 Some great writing prompts on this website. Perfect for homeschooling and also for writing prompts in school. https://litfilmfest.com/resources/quick-fire-write-ks3-4/

07.01.2022 TDS English Years K-10 Punctuation at the Sentence Level (Online: WebEx) Punctuation is a system of symbols to show the reader where a sentence begins and ends. It is also used to separate sentences and parts of speech, aiding to make meaning clear. Students who are struggling with simple punctuation may not understand the structure or design of a sentence. This session will provide teachers with the knowledge and practical skills to teach punctuation within daily classroom r...outines. We will share a large range of practical activities able to be used in your classroom to build children’s understanding of how punctuation works and to developing understanding of what punctuation is needed where. Target audience: Teachers K-7 and curriculum leaders Date: Tuesday, 25 June 2019 Time: 3:15 - 4:30pm Where: WebEx Cost: Nil Last enrolment date: Friday, 21 June 2019 Enrolment for this event is available at: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=27378 See more

06.01.2022 Great resource free for the next few days

06.01.2022 Litbits @CBPS Punctation: Teaching Contractions This short vignette shows a lesson teaching contractions using Cooperative Learning structures. Password: Litbits https://vimeo.com/345399827

05.01.2022 Western Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies P-10 learning sequence now available in Connect There are new resources to support the teaching and learning of the Western Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies. Each set of sequenced topics is organised into four key elements with a summary of the teaching focus and content descriptions, targeted supporting resources, assessment advice and support for differentiation. This new release seems the same as those on the Digital Technologies Hub (and this is referenced in the resource) however the significant difference is the links to the WA Curriculum for Digital Technologies. http://ecm.det.wa.edu.au//view/DTP10TL001/latest/index.html Attached is a snapshot of the breadth of sequences available. Written by Carlene Thorpe

04.01.2022 Checkout the new Christmas inspired Reading Comprehension Vipers in the Christmas Shed. https://www.literacyshed.com/the-christmas-shed.html

04.01.2022 Litbits @CBPS: Short Burst Setting Writing (top/middle/bottom) A simple way of how to teach students structure of setting description that relates to the picture. Top, middle, bottom: Teach students to order their descriptions. First describe what you can see at the top, then the middle and finally the bottom of the page. This would usually take three sentences Password: Litbits https://vimeo.com/329032418

04.01.2022 Broome Schools Moderation Session Year 3 to 8 This moderation session is suitable for teachers of Year 3 to 8 students. Moderation should not just be about writing reports, formative assessment should drive our teaching, planning cycle. The focus of this session is on how to improve writing in the key area of persuasive writing. Teachers will be required bring along a samples of their students persuasive wriitng. As a group we will work together to identify where the studen...t’s writing sits on a standard ruler. Once this has been identified we will then be able to identify a list of teaching points on how to improve students writing progress. This will provide clear guidelines of teaching directions for students improvement. We will then get together again in 6 months time to access the same genre to see if improvements have been made. Event contact for additional information: [email protected] Target audience: Primary and secondary teachers and curriculum leaders Date: Tuesday 19 February Time: 3:00pm- 4:00pm Where: Cable Beach Primary School, Library Cost: Nil Enrolment for this event is available at https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=25180

04.01.2022 Breathe In Experience and Breathe Out Poetry (WebEx: online) This professional learning sessions seeks to show how poetry can be taught in an inspiring, creative and most importantly enjoyable way. We will explore how to teach descriptive techniques and play with language to make poetry exciting in the classroom. The links between written and spoken word are many and we will examine how performance poetry can lead to better drafting, editing and improving techniques. Poems g...enerally encourage the reader to think past the literal and move onto the figurative. We will investigate how poems can be used as a device to help children describe in a figurative or abstract way. This hands on session will look at how language can be used, through poetry, to enhance students' literary skills orally and in the written voice. Children write best when they enjoy words and have something worth writing about. Teachers will walk away with a bank of ideas that can inspire and provide a source of creative writing that children will relish. Target audience: Teachers Years 3-10 and curriculum leaders Date: Tuesday, 6 August 2019 Time: 3:30pm to 4;45pm Where: Online using Webex Cost: Nil Last enrolment date: Friday, 2 August 2019 Enrolment for this event is available at: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=28664

03.01.2022 It's amazing what you can do with plastic eggs! More ideas here: https://www.weareteachers.com/easter-egg-activities/

03.01.2022 TDS Digital Technologies (K-10) Techy Afternoon - Teacher Tools (Kimberley) In this session we will unpack the included Apple tools and how they can be used to make busy teacher’s lives a little easier! Learn how to set up your DOE email account, use the calendar function effectively and use the Reminders tool to get your to-do lists in order. We will also learn how to connect your files App to your iCloud data storage such as DropBox or OneDrive so that you can easily access... all of your files at any time. Finally, we will look at the Office 365 suite we have access to as a DOE employee, and how to use these on your device Target audience: Teachers K-10 and curriculum leaders Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2019 Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm Where: Cable Beach Primary School, Room 7 Cost: Nil Last enrolment date: Monday, 6 May 2019 Enrolment for this event is available at: https://plis.det.wa.edu.au/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=27377

02.01.2022 https://education.nsw.gov.au//effective-reading-i/phonics

02.01.2022 This is a fun idea

02.01.2022 Litbits: One Story, Two Ways This short vignette shows how to explicitly teach dialectal differences using bi dialectal storytelling. Beyond the animated storytellers and the engaged students you can see some explicit targeted teaching happening. During this read we are teaching the children the differences between Aboriginal English and Standard Australian English third person pronouns. Through this explicit teaching we are facilitating our Aboriginal English speaking students' acquisition of Standard Australian English. This is a vignette or early language acquisition specialists from Waardi who work with our students and coach our teachers weekly. Password: Litbits https://vimeo.com/357474442