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These THREE components of fluency are supported by 3 Resource Manuals for Teachers and Parents: Daily Best Fluency for Comprehension, Reading Expression for Comprehension and Silent Reading to Comprehend and Learn.

The goal of these resource manuals is to provide evidence-based strategies & explicit teaching for both parents and teachers. These strategies support readers to become more fluent and experience the joys of reading and learning.

Click on the links above for more information or check out the SHOP on Designed Learning. You might want to also check out 3 MANUAL BUNDLE, for a 30% discount – 3 manuals for the price of TWO!

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The post is about the importance of a common core of knowledge that Australian students might learn throughout their school lives. Knowledge of our world and what it means to be Australian, for ALL Australians. It is this common knowledge base that makes us all Australians, no matter where we live, where we come from or what we do - this knowledge unites us all! Curriculum revisions are opportunities to make this happen, and this is happening elsewhere - my hope is that it's happening here?

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This free workshop starts with a survey about formative assessment, presents some recent evidence-based assessments and provides teachers with opportunities to discuss how they might improve their formative assessment processes. Contact me by email gailbrown@designedlearning.com.au or phone 0424163624 for a date or time, if this is of interest at your school? 

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Finding evidence-based research is the first step in applying this to meet your students' learning needs. Skimming an abstract saves time, along with checking out the method used for instruction in the research you've found. This paper discusses what's important in these steps for applying research in your classroom.

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