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		<title>Book Flood gathering momentum.</title>
		<link>http://lyntiernan.com/2012/01/17/book-flood-gathering-momentum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Called into school today and found a spare bookshelf! Yippee. Talked to our General Assistant and he has suggested I get the boss to buy the materials and he will make the shelves. He says it will be cheaper, quicker, nicer shelving and fit where we want them. Isn&#8217;t he a darling. Also bought some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyntiernan.com&amp;blog=5292262&amp;post=261&amp;subd=lyntiernan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Flood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a term used by Kelly Gallagher in Readicide that roughly corresponds to Donalyn Miller&#8217;s immersion of students in books in the classroom. As I said in my last post I&#8217;m keen to revisit &#8216;surrounding&#8217; my students with books. Gallagher teaches secondary students, as I do and has a similar view to Donalyn, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyntiernan.com&amp;blog=5292262&amp;post=258&amp;subd=lyntiernan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Book Whisperer, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://lyntiernan.com/2012/01/12/the-book-whisperer-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished The Book Whisperer and want to go back and read it again. It must be my year to revisit things I did in my first years of teaching. Like Awakening the Heart, this book reminds me of things I used to do and the passion I had for teaching reading and writing that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyntiernan.com&amp;blog=5292262&amp;post=252&amp;subd=lyntiernan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Book Whisperer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another great read. I got my copy of  The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller this week and am about half way through. The author&#8217;s commitment to creating lifelong readers is reflected in her enthusiasm and ideas for taking our love of reading into the English classroom. It confirms my own belief in the value of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyntiernan.com&amp;blog=5292262&amp;post=236&amp;subd=lyntiernan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awakening the Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished reading Awakening the Heart by poet Georgia Heard. I enjoyed it very much and I think she would be delighted that her book has re-awakened my joy in reading and writing poetry with students. Something I feel I haven&#8217;t done a lot of, over the last few years, and something I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyntiernan.com&amp;blog=5292262&amp;post=232&amp;subd=lyntiernan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Year Gold Star</title>
		<link>http://lyntiernan.com/2011/12/21/30-year-gold-star/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it&#8217;s official. I got my 30 Year certificate from the DET on Tuesday at our end of year Christmas lunch. It is a funny sensation. It actually doesn&#8217;t feel that long and I still think I have a lot to learn. Every time I work with a new group of kids or a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyntiernan.com&amp;blog=5292262&amp;post=220&amp;subd=lyntiernan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The excitement of new technologies.</title>
		<link>http://lyntiernan.com/2011/12/10/the-excitement-of-new-technologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love using Edmodo! It has created a very different learning environment for students but most of all it has pushed me out of my comfort zone and taught me something I wished I&#8217;d learnt an eon ago. When Edmodo added the Quiz feature I quickly created a quiz that reviewed the first few lessons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyntiernan.com&amp;blog=5292262&amp;post=215&amp;subd=lyntiernan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Certificate English Exam revision games, NSW</title>
		<link>http://lyntiernan.com/2011/10/23/literacy-exam-revision-nsw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we are celebrating the demise of the external exams as of 2012, we still have to get this lot through the exams for 2011.  I have been using games (mostly online freely available fun) over the last few years to keep Year 10 going when their minds are already fast forwarding to jobs, maybe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyntiernan.com&amp;blog=5292262&amp;post=207&amp;subd=lyntiernan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revising in English for the HSC</title>
		<link>http://lyntiernan.com/2011/09/08/revising-in-english-for-the-hsc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the last few weeks of school for 2011 HSC students and we have been busy writing practice essays and adding some depth to our thinking about each module and its concepts. Over the years I have worked through many ways of helping students to prepare for this exam, not least with my own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyntiernan.com&amp;blog=5292262&amp;post=202&amp;subd=lyntiernan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time Out</title>
		<link>http://lyntiernan.com/2011/08/27/time-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a bit of time out this year. I had a simple fall early this year that caused a compression fracture in my left tibia. It is taking a long time to heal and I have had time off work. I&#8217;m back now, although still on crutches. These really slow me down! First week [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyntiernan.com&amp;blog=5292262&amp;post=175&amp;subd=lyntiernan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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