Christine Topfer

Very informative website!

@nellkduke Fantastic website. Will be extremely helpful.

Put together a new website, finally. Hoping it will be easier to navigate and more useful. I posted links to the two videos I have shot so far about early literacy instruction at a distance, along with a bunch of other mostly free resources.🤞it's helpful. nellkduke.org

I've posted a video about how to engage young children in word work at a distance. I focus on phonological awareness, phonics, interactive writing, & vocabulary instruction. The video includes slides and demos, including with children. It's ~40 mins long. youtu.be/PFsKu7rf8_I

Putting these up today - Affix Mobiles. Great conversations about words that are not in the dictionary - are they really words? We think yes if they have a meaning and we can use them in a sentence. Hoping this will be a resource for my ELL Ss too. #swi #orthographicinquiry

“Motivation and emotion are the gate keepers of learning” @helentimperley1 @DGACTEducation @JoPadgham @Meg_Brighton @DebDebeee @edukate_S @ACTEducation

@TeacherLyndall @ACTEducation Priceless!

I get all kinds of treasures left for me on my desk. Here is just one of them. Great spelling attempt of my name and the purple full stop cracks me up! My Southern Cross kids know me well!!! @ACTEducation

Never send a test to do a curriculum's job. - @PDavidPearson

Jo Padgham from the Canberra ACT discussing the value of learning walks and talks for school improvement around literacy. #englit2018

Per Jo Padgham, principles of effective learning walks & talks: Trust, collaboration, a culture of sharing practice, a learning culture, voluntary participation, teacher agency, time & support, all teachers are leaders #englit2018 in action by @CTopfer @sbarker125 @suejnorton

What’s Essential? with Nell Duke today at ALEA conference in Perth @suejnorton @sbarker125 @DGACTEducation @Meg_Brighton @Hux1975 @AlexBreen1 @JoPadgham @CTopfer @TeacherLyndall @Judithahamilton

Team from Girraween Primary School presenting on the importance of meaning when it comes to spelling. Sharing the work of Misty Adoniou and the fabulous @CTopfer #wordconciousclassrooms #makingmeaning #EngLit2018

Teaching literacy without teaching science, social studies, & the arts is like teaching cooking without ingredients.

3 Literacy Practices That Work edut.to/2zBSo11

Finally on our way home after fabulous ILA conference.

@KristinZiemke really enjoyed your session yesterday!