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Jenny Donovan discusses AERO's analysis of NAPLAN writing data and the importance of writing instruction. Originally published in The Mandarin.

This report discusses AERO’s 2022 analysis of NAPLAN student writing data – the most extensive investigation into this area ever conducted in Australia. 

This is a summary of findings from AERO’s 2022 analysis of student writing data – the most extensive investigation into this area ever conducted in Australia. 

This practice resource looks at strategies for engaging in sustained shared conversations with children aged 3 to 5 years. It uses examples of educators and teachers using moments in the day to build children’s literacy skills.

This practice guide provides evidence-based, practical advice for teachers on how to teach sentence combining in the context of their classrooms.

A writing instruction template for primary school principals and leaders. Helps users examine how the school approaches and implements the effective teaching of writing and writing assessment, and evaluate opportunities for further improvement.

See how Mastery Learning is implemented in different classrooms at Trinity College.

This report summarises available evidence on writing and writing instruction.

Mastery learning is a way of designing units of work so that each set of tasks focuses on a particular learning objective and students must master a task to move onto the next one.

This checklist is a list of practical steps teachers can take to support the adoption of the evidence-based practice mastery learning in their setting.

This example uses a Year 9 Physical Education lesson to demonstrate effective practice in different education settings.