AUTHOR OF BLOGS

LIZ SIMON, LITERACY, PEDAGOGICAL 

CONSULTANT 

Liz Simon, a literacy 

consultant has worked with teachers in the 

classroom & in workshops in Australia, 

Great Britain & USA for over 20 years. During 12 years as a Sessional teacher at Flinders University 'Literacy across the Curriculum', she self-published hard/e-book copies and audio workshops (company laspedagogy), 'Truly Guided Reading', ‘Dialogic Learning Conversations, Readers and Writers’, ‘Running Records’, ‘Write as an Expert Explicit Teaching of Genres’ and ‘You may think it is just spelling’. Current commercially published books are Literacy Activities for Small Groups (Eleanor Curtain, Vic) + Bringing Critical Thinking Alive Thinkers and Performers (Hawker Brownlow, Vic).

1994, Liz was a recipient of the Satisfac inaugral Teacher Excellence Award … a role model for other teachers and for her work and writings on literacy.

I  NOW HAVE TWO BLOGSPOTS

 

MY LATEST FROM FEBRUARY, 2022 Literacy and Pedagogy laspedagogy.blogspot.com 

This eventuated because...

a previous blogspot: lizsimonliteracyconsultant.blogspot.com 

was closed to me and I could not edit or insert additional blogs 😕. The good news is you can access it! 

Looking back, topics of the previous blogspot are: 

2011 Feb     Teaching thoughts

         Mar    What type of questions for deep thought 

         April   For parents - initiated home reading 

         May   Wordle for you 

         July    Summarizing 

         Aug    Grouping themed adjectives to make student's writing more 

                                   inspiring 

         Dec     Lively verbs and complementary grammatical phrases 

2012 Nov    Great idea for junior primary 

         Sept    On-screen reading, is deep thought possible 

         Aug     How to assist your child become independent readers and 

                                   researchers 

         June    Individual programme: Learning to spell high-frequency 

                                   words 

         April   Spelling to learn 

         Feb     A principal's observation about boys in Middle schooling 

2013 Feb     Guided Reading introduction 

2014 Dec     Apostrophes, do you use them automatically? 

         April   Guided Reading and a short piece about revising 

         Feb     Truly Guided Reading - a hard copy 

         April   Let's not forget about Reading Recovery

         Feb     Moving spoken-like writing to more abstract writing

2017 Nov     Should Synthetic Phhonics (Science of Reading) be 

                                   controversial? 

                    Should a large amount of money be spent on an 

                                   uninformative test as the phonics screening 

                                   check?

         Aug     Shared Reading and Writing - are they not fashionable 

                                    anymore?

         Jan      There is nothing in place of effective teaching

2020            Secondary classroom, teachers know what your pre-service 

                                    teacher has learnt about literacy in curriculum 

                                    studies