When we interact with others, we are involved in four major exchanges: making statements, asking for information, offering something, or demanding something. The grammar for these exchanges is ‘played with’ for a range of purposes, such as asserting power, being sarcastic or being polite. In …
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Feedback: Literacy for Learning – Melbourne, December 2019
A very successful Teaching ESL students in mainstream classrooms tutor training in Melbourne this month. Thank you to Templestowe Primary School for hosting our 5 participants. They were thoroughly impressed with the quality of the materials and the delivery, and look forward to running the Teacher …
TESMC at School of the Nations
An interview with Vivek Nair, Director at School of the Nations Vivek Nair is the Director at School of the Nations. He undertook the Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms (TESMC) tutor training in 2019 and recently delivered his first Teacher Course as a certified tutor. Tell us a …
6 tips for successful close reading with young learners
Close reading is “an approach to teaching comprehension that insists students extract meaning from text by examining carefully how language is used in the passage itself” (Snow and O’Connor, 2013). This approach can be used with young children and will help develop their understanding of a …
LfL at Hume Central Secondary College
We are very excited to share a very useful resource produced by the Department of Education and Training in Victoria. The EAL Effective Practice Interactive Guide features a series of literacy-based video case studies and resources, and follows the successful implementation of Lexis Education's …
Language for expressing emotions
Effective writers and speakers are able make language choices across the text to engage their audiences, creating a sense of solidarity with them and influencing them to share their view of the world. Our students need to learn how to do this and particularly how to make their stance clear in the …