Virtual Learning Network

A practical guide to help teachers and whānau recognise the signs of slow processing speed in children and interventions that accommodate for this at school and in the home.

Paired Reading is one of a range of collaborative learning approaches to developing reading knowledge and skills.  Based on Topping (1987), the attached resource may be used at school or at home as a guide to support the implementation of this...

A document that summarises the most effective form of feedback and the components that underpin its delivery.

One of two tasks required for the standard. L1 version of my 30995 assessment on the same topic, so useful for multi-levelled assessments. Part of a unit on Auckland. 

Task which offers topics for information reports that interest teens. 

Whole assessment task for writing a recount. Text-type specific tasks with various topics students could write on. Excellent for portfolio approach. 

Whole assessment task for writing descriptions. Text-type specific tasks with various topics students could write on. Excellent for portfolio approach. 

Based on principles of Functional Behaviour Analysis, Social Behaviour Maps are used to educate students about the chain reaction of interpersonal behaviour, emotions and consequences. Attached is a planning template and flow chart, produced by...

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles are represented in the attached diagram: Representation (presenting content in a variety of ways); Action and expression (varying the ways in which students are encouraged to respond and...

The attached image illustrates the cycle of narrative guidance and narrative construction across school and home through the medium of digital technology (adapted from Plowman et al., 1999). The attached document is a research paper...