CHI.L.D. Association – Let’s Talk Parent and Professional Development Program
Let’s Talk will once again offer a wide range of Professional Development topics for teachers, teacher assistants and parents during 2014. Topics that have been very popular during the past year...
View ArticleTeaching Cursive Handwriting- Is It Essential?
Handwriting is a complex task as it requires a number of skills; including cognitive, language, auditory processing, visual processing, fine motor control, vestibular kinaesthetic and proprioceptive...
View ArticleNumicon in the Early Childhood classroom
When it comes to teaching maths, it’s difficult to know which resources to use. There are countless resources available, and many are effective teaching tools. However, recently in Early Childhood, and...
View ArticleWays to Develop Memory Skills
Memory is a foundational skill necessary for all learning. Students with poor memory skills may find it difficult to recall instructions, to recall letters/ numbers/ words as well as impacting on...
View ArticleReading fluency
A fluent reader has the ability to read smoothly, with intonation and expression, and at a similar speed you would use when talking. A nonfluent reader puts a large amount of effort into decoding...
View ArticleAdjustments for Students with Language Difficulties
The new National Curriculum specifies that adjustments for students with disabilities be made in the areas of curriculum, instructions and environment. Let’s Talk have devised an adjustment ‘rubric’...
View ArticleWorking Memory: Put information in their World!
In ‘Building Blocks for School Success’ school learning is conceptualised as a wall of bricks with the bricks being specific skills a child masters before they reach the ‘apex’ of school based...
View ArticleWhose Skull? Enquiry Based Learning in Junior School.
Below are some emails between Junior School Beetles group and QLD Museum. This was not a planned program activity, but the students just kept asking about a skull that was brought in by someone from...
View ArticleOur Kitchen Garden
Since term 2, both Junior and Middle School students have been involved in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden programme. This programme has engaged students in the planning and planting of two...
View ArticleLanguage for Letter Formation
Handwriting has long been a system to store information and communicate with others. In recent years, technology has changed the way we communicate when writing, however the skills of handwriting...
View ArticleWho’s eating our Strawberries?
Dear Toby, Something is eating the strawberry plants in our garden at the Glenleighden School. We want to find out what is eating our strawberries. We think it could be a possum, a bird, a rabbit, or 1...
View ArticleMYSTERY SOLVED: Who’s Eating our Strawberries?
Dear Toby, Using the photos from the camera you loaned to us we are pretty sure it is a possum eating our strawberries. We have protected the strawberries with some disgusting potions. We used a garlic...
View ArticleOur Special Places
“Our Special Places” What’s happened in Early Childhood during Term 4? Well, the focus for this term was a Geography unit called “Our Special Places”. The Australian Curriculum Achievement Standard...
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Webinar Event: Vocabulary Development
Vocabulary is the understanding and use of words. Having a strong vocabulary bank is essential for students to access the curriculum. Vocabulary is important for making connections and following...
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Webinar Event: Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is an essential classroom and life skill that allows students to access curriculum content and learn new vocabulary, as well as fostering imagination. In order to comprehend...
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Webinar Event: Emotion Regulation
Emotional regulation is the ability to monitor and manage one’s emotions and thoughts in ways that have positive outcomes. Dysregulation can impair cognitive processes like working memory and can...
View ArticleWebinar Event: Integrating Gross Motor Skills in the Classroom
Gross motor skills are fundamental to childhood development as they underpin functional activities, play and social interactions. Therefore, any difficulties with these specific motor skills can have...
View ArticleWebinar Event: Oral Narrative Skills
Narrative language is an important aspect of early oral language development. Narrative or story telling allows students to orally discuss their thoughts and experiences while developing an...
View ArticleWebinar Event: Higher Order Language
Higher order language comprises of a range of skills such as inferencing, predicting, reasoning, identifying cause and effect, and problem solving. As the name suggests, these skills go beyond the...
View ArticleWebinar: Building Independence
Students with a Language Disorder are often provided with a high level of support throughout their schooling years. An unintended outcome of this, is that they may develop a dependency on support from...
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