On 21 August a group of like-minded educators came together to learn more about the Early Reading and music partnership. We focused on how, by teaching music alongside early reading in K/P-2 classrooms, student learning in both reading and music increases. We gathered at the beautiful Abbotsleigh Junior School, North…

Accredited professional learning available for schools in all aspects of teaching English and the Early reading and music partnership. Dr. Lorri Beveridge Contact Me I am an accredited NESA professional learning provider. In addition, my course, ‘The Early Reading and music Partnership’ is TQI accredited in the ACT Punctuation for…

11 May On Monday 6 May we held our first NESA accredited workshop for The Early Reading and Music partnership, at the PETAA offices, Newtown. Teachers came from around Sydney and one person travelled from Rowena (north-western NSW) which was a delightful surprise, as I began my teaching journey in…

I’ve had so much fun critiquing the CBCA short listed texts. My money is on the texts I’m holding. We will find out end- August, when the CBCA announce the winning texts from their official judges perspectives. In this blog post I overview the Childrens Book Council of Australia (CBCA)…

5 Mar The Childrens Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award Notables List was released in February. Please find below teaching ideas for some of the Notables texts that did not make the short list, which I felt were worthy of critique and useful for classroom teaching, based…

To develop automaticity, students should engage in wide reading of a range of genres, as well as deep reading where students read texts repeatedly until a level of fluency is achieved. Songs and innovations on texts are a useful means of building oral reading fluency. Fluency is supported by a…