Hands On Heads Literacy Coaching 

Dear Principals

Are you currently restructuring your literacy block in Years 3-6?

Are you and your leadership team looking at ways to transform reading and writing instruction, especially in Years 3-6?

Are you and your colleagues trying to make sense of what the research says about reading and writing instruction and apply it in practical, meaningful ways in your classrooms?

Recently, I was having a coaching conversation, and a coachee suggested the idea of creating student-friendly posters of Beck, McKeown, and Kucan's Tiered Vocabulary framework.

We as teachers and leaders know the importance of strong vocabulary in reading and the use of sophisticated vocabulary in writing, but when we talk about the pedagogical frameworks and evidence-informed models that WE understand, it can be difficult to translate and transfer that same language to students.

I've taken on the feedback from my coachee, to create student-friendly Tiered Vocabulary posters using three different visuals. If you think your teachers would be interested in a copy, please email me to receive your posters: amanda@handsonheads.au.

If you and your teams would like support in restructuring your literacy block to incorporate explicit teaching with student agency, get in touch to see how we can open the conversation with a 15-minute complimentary Level-Up Literacy phone call.

Enjoy the rest of the week.