Guides & resources

This video shares a school implementation team's experiences using a deliberate and structured approach to embed explicit instruction at their school.

This example has been created as a supporting resource for secondary school implementation teams to refer to when developing their own implementation plans.

This practice guide will help teachers and school leaders understand different paragraph types. It’s part of a suite of resources designed to support explicit writing instruction in the classroom. It can be used in conjunction with AERO’s guides on simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences and sentence combining.

This model introduces an approach to teaching writing that is explicit and systematic, and that can be used in all subject areas that require students to write. AERO’s School Writing Instruction Framework (SWIF) professional learning courses align with and support the implementation of this model.

Students' ability to write – and write well – across subjects is important for their success at school. This practice resource will help school leaders lead an approach to strengthening writing instruction at their schools, using AERO’s School Writing Instruction professional learning courses.

As part of AERO’s School Writing Instruction Framework (SWIF), this professional learning course aims to support school leaders and teachers in delivering evidence-based writing instruction across all subject areas in upper primary and secondary classrooms.

As part of AERO's School Writing Instruction Framework (SWIF), this professional learning course aims to support school leaders and teachers in delivering evidence-based writing instruction across all subject areas in upper primary and secondary classrooms.

As part of AERO's School Writing Instruction Framework (SWIF), this professional learning course aims to support school leaders in delivering evidence-based writing instruction across all subject areas in upper primary and secondary school classrooms.

This video demonstrates how teachers explain learning objectives in a range of primary and secondary classrooms.

This video demonstrates how teachers teach explicitly in a range of primary and secondary classrooms. 

This video demonstrates how teachers scaffold practice in a range of primary and secondary classrooms. 

This video demonstrates how teachers monitor progress in a range of primary and secondary classrooms.