About

My name is Josephine, and I’ve been a teacher and literacy interventionist for around a decade.

I work mostly with secondary age children and young adults who have extremely low literacy skills, and in the beginning I found it really hard to find age-appropriate, meaningful material to cater to these students. Most things pitched at low-literacy kids were plastered with jolly anthropomorphised animals, motorbikes or both. What I could find for teens often didn’t have much depth beyond word searches and matching games, and very little of it was flexible enough to cater to a range of literacy needs across one group.

So I started researching and creating my own. After a few years I’d filled a hard drive, and by the end of last year I’d filled another.

Nowadays, I’m lucky enough to work across a number of schools, and initially I created this little blog as a means of sharing resources with them, but when I mentioned it to other teacher friends, they wanted in as well!

So here you go: some age-appropriate, curriculum-appropriate material geared around creating personalised spelling, reading and grammar programs for students in secondary schools. And I promise there isn’t a word search or a jolly anthropomorphised animal in sight.

I am providing these materials free of charge and (eventually) a creative commons license, but please do not post them anywhere else online without my permission.