Murray Gadd writes a movement poem
31 Jan 2025

Writing A Movement Poem – A Writing Lesson for Year 3-8 Students

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In this episode of ‘Building Excitement, Motivation and Achievement in Writing with Dr Murray Gadd’, we watch Dr Murray Gadd writing a movement poem by following some vocabulary rules.  This video is primarily aimed at Year 3-8 students.  Writing a Movement Poem – Purpose: The purpose for this lesson is to describe as evocatively as … Read More

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Murray Gadd writes about Going to the Zoo
31 Jan 2025

Murray Gadd writes about Going to the Zoo

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In this episode of ‘Building Excitement, Motivation and Achievement in Writing with Dr Murray Gadd’, we watch Murray composing a range of sentences about going to the zoo.  These include simple and compound sentences with a brief mention of complex sentences, all of which need to be used proficiently by students in their own writing. … Read More

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Classroom Stories
20 Nov 2019

Stanmore Bay School: Reception Classroom

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Suzanne Francis runs a Reception class at Stanmore Bay School, Auckland and currently has 25 students in her room.  She gets a new intake of students at the beginning of each term.   In the term that her students are with her, she works hard at preparing them for the long-term literacy learning journey that they will embarking upon.  As well … Read More