“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” – Roger Ebert
Sometimes a story can express so much about how we feel…
Step by Step Blog
Two things we’ve learnt from NAPLAN 2018
Every year, our Seven Steps creator and CEO Jen McVeity sits the NAPLAN writing test – in pretty much the same conditions Australian students face. And every year she finds it hard. As an author, it’s obviously not the actual writing that’s a challenge. In fact, Jen feels that the NAP Marking Criteria truly values…
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Informative Writing – More Than Just Facts
The Writer’s Game
Picture Your Story
Turning Around Hearts, Minds and Writing Results
A remarkable school in Northern Queensland has taken tremendous strides in improving student writing. Since implementing the Seven Steps at the end of 2014, principal Claudine Moncur-White and the teachers of Rasmussen State School have transformed their school from one of the worst performing Queensland schools to significantly outperforming the state in writing improvement between…
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Write Like a Witness
Stepping Up Student Ideas
Teachers often tell us that one great pain they wish to change is how little their students have to say. Students’ writing, they tell us, is often curtailed by limited experience and a lack of observation, or by unformed opinions. We understand why teachers say this, but we don’t think it’s the whole story. Every…
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