Demystifying the how-to of teaching literacy
Drawing on Pat Hipwell's extensive experience as an independent literacy consultant, logonliteracy offers a range of guides and teaching resources that aim to improve students' reading, writing and literacy skills.
Our Story
Founded by Patricia Hipwell, Logon Literacy provides practical, research-informed resources and professional development to support teachers with effective strategies that make literacy accessible across all subject areas.
Here's what our customers have to say...
How to Write What You Want to Say fills a gap in that it draws together relevant elements that comprise a thinking skill.
The real proof of the quality of the book is the almost immediate positive impact its use has had on the way in which students write.
Ellen Kean
Head of Department, English & LOTE, Toolooa State High School
I have found that the ‘Little Blue Book’ has made teaching writing a lot easier. It helps with writing criteria sheets and, when a student gets stuck for sentence starters, it is great to be able to offer a couple of options.
Rebecca Glynn
Learning and Teaching Coach
As a teacher, your book has given me the confidence to teach students how to approach key task words and allows me to develop a framework for breaking down in-class and assessment tasks. Many of my students have experience the ‘light-bulb’ moment when they read the definition of the task word and then see it in action.
Amanda Favier
Teacher
How to write what to say is a helpful book as it gives me a variety of sentences and words to choose from. Not only is the book small and understandable it does the thinking for you. I now no longer have a blank page. I can start my sentences easier thanks to the book.
Leah McAuley
Student
I am a first year university student (mature aged) and am struggling with writing academic essays for the first time in 30 years. I picked up your book and it is already dog-eared. It cuts to the chase and is, frankly, far more useful than the many resources and other 'how to write an essay' books I have come across.
Marie Dowd
University Student
These books give my students the confidence to begin to write and when they have that momentum they write with confidence and style.
Peter Cocks
Science and Maths Teacher
To be honest these books have probably given me a higher score in NAPLAN.
This book helps me a lot.
Student
My son has found this so useful in writing assignments.
It's so easy to read and follow.
Trish - Brisbane
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I am a high school teacher of English and Social Sciences. I use this book for every unit that I teach. It helps my students to be better writers and they really appreciate how easy it is to use. Fantastic resource - every student should have one.
Holly - Tasmania
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I used the book during my assignments and it really helped to improve my grades.
Bena - Australia
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We decided to purchase Hooking Students into Learning... as a toolkit of strategies for every teacher.
It’s so easy to use and relevant for beginning teachers to get started or for teachers who want to refresh their classroom strategies.
Deputy Principal
metropolitan state high school
Pat's Powerful Pedagogies
$100.00
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PAT’S POWERFUL PEDAGOGIES (PPPs) are weekly tips that will be sent to you directly via email (50 in total).
Their purpose is to put effective literacy practices at the forefront of teaching and learning. Some practices are tried and true and have been around for a long time. Some you may not have seen or used before.
Perhaps, there’ll be some that you used to use but have forgotten about. All of them are supported by what we know works.
Each week, you will receive a short pedagogical practice:
1. Read the tip and the reason we use it.
2. Think about and plan how you will use it in your classes this week.
3. Use it a few times.
4. Reflect on its use.
5. Plan to use it again with or without modifications.
There is minimal preparation associated with the practice – the idea being that it will shape an aspect of the approach to teaching and learning literacy that you use for that week.
PPPs will keep your lessons vibrant, relevant and, most importantly, purposeful. They will ensure that anything you ask your students to do or do with them is worth doing. They may weed out some of the practices we use in the mistaken belief that we are ‘doing literacy’.
Hooking Students into Learning … in all curriculum areas (E-BOOK)
$199.00
UPDATE: Hooking Students into Learning … in all curriculum areas is now available as an e-book! The link to download will be sent to you upon purchase.
Hooking Students into Learning … in all curriculum areas is a comprehensive collection of strategies for teachers to start lessons with students engaged in meaningful learning activities.
This book is the culmination of many years' work. Patricia Hipwell is renowned for her skill in tackling the “how to” of literacy teaching, and this practical resource brings many of her ideas and strategies together for teachers.
Hooking Students into Learning … in all curriculum areas was written for teachers of students from Year 4 and above in all learning areas.
Teacher’s Guide – How to write what you want to say … in the secondary years
$49.99
The best-selling, literacy book How to write what you want to say… now has an accompanying teacher’s guide and student workbook to help improve students’ literacy skills.
How to write what you want to say... in the secondary years: teacher's guide provides guidelines for the explicit teaching of a writing skill, using a four-stage process.
- Deconstructing a text
- Modelling a text
- Jointly constructing a text
- Independently constructing a text
The teacher's guide also contains the answers to the activities that students complete in their workbooks and completed graphic organisers for the examples of the writing skills in How to write what you want to say … in the secondary years.
How to write what you want to say... in the secondary years (Second Edition) is part of a set of three books:
- How to write what you want to say... in the secondary years (Second Edition)
- How to write what you want to say... in the secondary years: teacher's guide
- How to write what you want to say... in the secondary years: student workbook
These books provide parents, teachers and students with a unique tool for improving writing. They are suitable for students from the middle years of schooling to a tertiary level.
ISBN: 9780987215949
Paperback, 2020
Pages: 208
Years 6 - Tertiary