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30 Aug 2023

A Sharing Session with Year 1-2 Students

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This is a sharing session that I undertook with group of Year 1-2 students. The aim of the session was for each student to: have an opportunity to share their text with the teacher and other students get an opportunity to receive a response from others (including the teacher) about their text be encouraged to … Read More

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6 Feb 2023

Shared Writing Lesson: Sunday Chutney

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In this session of “Working With Students”, Dr Murray Gadd conducts a shared writing lesson around the book “Sunday Chutney” By Aaron Blabey. This is a shared writing lesson that I undertake with a group of Year 4 students. It has been filmed to illustrate the instructional practices that I deem to be important in … Read More

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7 Aug 2022

Shared Writing Lesson: How Do You Feel – with NE-Year 1 students

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In this session of “Working With Students”, Dr Murray Gadd conducts a shared writing lesson around the book “How Do You Feel” by Anthony Browne. This is a shared writing lesson that I undertook with a group of NE-Year 1 students. It has been filmed to illustrate the instructional practices that I deem to be … Read More

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4 Nov 2022

Shared Writing Lesson: Gorillas – Year 2 students

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This is a shared writing lesson that I undertook with a group of Year 2 students. It has been filmed to illustrate the instructional practices that I deem to be important in a shared writing lesson, especially with a group of diverse junior writers. Students in the lesson do not represent extremes of high or … Read More

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2 Nov 2022

Shared Writing Lesson: Zoo – Year 7-8 students

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In this session of “Working With Students”, Dr Murray Gadd conducts a shared writing lesson around the book “How Do You Feel” by Anthony Browne. This is a shared writing lesson that I undertook with a group of Year 7-8 students. It has been filmed to illustrate the instructional practices that I deem to be … Read More

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2 Nov 2022

Shared Writing Lesson: Our Granny – with Year 5-6 students

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In this session of “Working With Students”, Dr Murray Gadd conducts a shared writing lesson around the book “How Do You Feel” by Anthony Browne. This is a shared writing lesson that I undertook with a group of Year 5-6 students. It has been filmed to illustrate the instructional practices that I deem to be … Read More

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4 Nov 2022

Shared Writing Lesson: Pterosaurs: Writing an Informational Report

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This is a shared writing lesson that I undertook with a group of Year 7-8 students. It has been filmed to illustrate the instructional practices that I deem to be important in a shared writing lesson, particularly with older primary-age students who are fluent and enthusiastic writers. Although students in the lesson are reasonably able … Read More

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7 Aug 2022

Shared Writing Lesson: Down The Back Of The Chair – with year 3-4 students

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In this session of “Working With Students”, Dr Murray Gadd conducts a shared writing lesson around the book ‘Down The Back Of The Chair’ by Margaret Mahy This is a shared writing lesson that I undertook with a group of Year 3-4 students. It has been filmed to illustrate the instructional practices that I deem … Read More

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7 Aug 2022

Shared Writing Lesson: Diary Of A Worm – with year 5-6 students

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In this session of “Working With Students”, Dr Murray Gadd conducts a shared writing lesson around the book “Diary Of A Worm” by Doreen Cronin This is a shared writing lesson that I undertook with a group of Year 5-6 students. It has been filmed to illustrate the instructional practices that I deem to be … Read More

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9 Aug 2021

Murray Talks Making Reading Writing Links

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In this episode of “Murray Talks”, we present ‘Making Reading-Writing Links’. Dr Murray Gadd provides more detail around this subject in the narrated video below. It is supplemented by downloadable teacher notes PDF. Making reading-writing links for and with students is incredibly important in literacy. In this Murray Talk, we explore 1) What are these … Read More

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