Technoliteracy

How can you tell if you are a literacy teacher? You get really excited when you hear that recent research has come up with a revised high frequency word list which includes words which are relevant to students today.
About the Research:

• 2007 research conducted in Australian schools.
• The 307 most frequently used words collected from over 4000 writing samples of students in their first three years of school.
• Wordlist available to ALL Australian educators.
• Supported with FREE fully customisable classroom support material.
• Gathered under the guidance of, and endorsed by, the University of Melbourne.
• Ready for use in your classroom in 2008!

The Oxford Wordlist can be found at:

www.oup.com.au/thesuccessfulteacher

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