Maureen Pollard – literacy consultant, educator and author of the Little Learners Love Literacy series – sits down with Teacher for a Q&A on decodable text.

A focus on developing student writing skills shouldn't just be confined to the English classroom - this school is using a team teaching approach across three subject areas.

Giving focused feedback has removed the fear of the unknown for one cohort of students and freed them up to become more confident writers.

Analysing student spelling errors and recognising patterns can help you identify underlying issues and come up with teaching and learning strategies.

There’s nothing quite like losing yourself in a good book. But, did you know that reading for enjoyment is also associated with higher academic achievement?

Christine Haynes reviews a robot construction kit, and discusses why robotics still appeals to tech-savvy teachers.

‘From a moral sense, we asked “what can we do better?”’ How a focus on the fundamentals of primary education rapidly transformed results at a Western Australian school.

Academics suggest adolescent nicknaming is a great topic for language analysis lessons that's likely to spark student interest.

Once a fortnight Teacher ventures down to Room 3 – the basement archives at the Australian Council for Educational Research.

Online NAPLAN tests that are tailored to ability and give a more precise measurement of where students are at in their learning look set to be introduced.