Presenter:
Anthea Markowiak Are you seeking to improve your NAPLAN results? Are your students struggling at the whole text level? This course will help! The ability to produce a range of texts is crucial to academic success. 'Good',coherent, cohesive writng that conforms to conventions can be taught. However writing is a creative act, texts can be stylish or awkward, clear or ambiguous. This course will enable you to help your students develop effective whole texts. We will analyse 'good' and 'awkward' texts to explore different grammatical principles. This course is aimed at all teachers, Years 5-8 and beyond, looking to help their students understand and apply the structures and features of language appropriate to purpose, audience and context. Participants need basic grammar understandings.
What to bring:Participants need a reasonable level of grammar understandings
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  | Very informative and helpful. Anthea is passionate and well informed - making her very engaging. |
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  | Useful, practical ideas for lessiona. Interesting. |
| Very impressive presentation. The small group format really works. We were able to discuss so many ideas and the presenter was accessible. |
| Thank you for the booklet or resources - greatly appreciated!! |
| Very helpful, lots of good content and opportunities for questions and comments - Anthea's optimism and wisdom is inspirational. |
| This was very interesting - very professionally presented. The content was relevant to NAPLAN, references most useful. |
| Useful information and strategies. Enjoyed the application to 'whole text'. Good suggestion of resources. |
| Great theory and experience presented as well as practical application. |
