Using a 'Mud Map' for Genre Planning

Wise planning really is the great secret behind successful teaching and improved outcomes! Literacy expert Sharon Callen delves into 'mud mapping' as a way to plan out the teaching of different genres, as a teacher and across a school. 

She chats further about:

What 'mud maps' are and how they work, and their importance in supporting teachers in their planningHow to make them connect to your curriculumHow to set about making oneWhat are some of the essential tools to guide your mud mappingThe incredible role of the mud map in driving unit planning, not just for writing, but for reading, thereby capitalising on the reciprocal nature of reading and writing - so we plan to teach our students about understanding the text type and writing in the text type concurrently.

and much more!

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FEATURED RESOURCES

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Mud Map plannerACARA Curriculum English planners v9. For an  'easy access' curriculum

Book Stores

Literacy Continuum by Fountas and PinnellCan Cards by Mike and Linda DumbletonBooks by Nell Duke and Beverley DerewianksDo You Wonder by  Wallace Edwards

Websites

Poetry Pizzazz by Alan WrightFirst Steps Literacy by Dept of Education WA

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