Outhouse Legends offers a range of professional development seminars and workshops around the country. Sessions can be tailored to suit your school needs with full-day, half-day and after school sessions available. Please contact us to discuss your school's needs.
General Literacy Workshops
Oral Language
- Building a Balanced Literacy Program
- Poetry - Reading, Writing and Appreciating the Poem
Oral Language
- Creating Confident Speakers
- Supporting Oral Language Development
- The Magic of Puppets
Reading
- Reciprocal Teaching
- Comprehension (also offered as individual components - predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarising, relating to self, visualising, forming opinions and inferring)
- Comprehending Non-fiction Texts
- Guided Reading
- The Importance of Independent Reading
- Shared Reading
- Modelled Reading
- Encouraging Disengaged Readers
- Using Fiction Across the Curriculum
- Every Subject is a Reading Lesson!
- Early Childhood Reading Foundations
- The Magic of Picture Books
Writing
- The Basics of a Great Writing Program
- Creative Ways to Teach Character, Plot and Setting
- Early Childhood Writing Foundations
- Guided Writing
- Shared Writing
- Modelled Writing
- Student Authors - Building Confident Writers
- Teaching Ideas for Building a Rich Vocabulary