K-6 Literacy: Setting Your Students up for Success

This course uses visual and hands-on resources allowing teachers to explore and overcome some of the challenges students face in their journey towards becoming literate.

  • 4.5 Rating

    2,691 reviews

  • Targeted to

    Relief Teachers

  • 2 Hours

    Course Duration

  • Standards

    2.1, 2.2, & 3.1

About this course

This course uses visual and hands-on resources allowing teachers to explore and overcome some of the challenges students face in their journey towards becoming literate.

Setting Your Students Up For Success focuses on the core concepts of hands-on learning and how to use them to engage, motivate and educate your students!

Topics addressed include:

  • Common reasons for disengagement from Literacy
  • Exploring the relationship between engagement and behaviour management.
  • Using hands-on resources to support writing skills.
  • Utilising hands on and visual learning in English language word structure.
  • Tactile and visual strategies that assist prompting in writing tasks.


This course is not only to help us understand hands-on literacy in our classrooms but also understanding the concepts needed to assist us in selecting engaging and effective resources and activities for our classrooms and Relief Teacher “bag of tricks”.

You will learn:

  • Creating and sourcing excellent Literacy resources
  • Teaching engaging Literacy lessons with minimal preparation
  • Building your knowledge in the Literacy subject area
Course Duration: 2 Hours

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers: 2.1, 2.2, & 3.1

NESA: K-6 Literacy – Setting your students up for success may be logged as 2 hours of NESA Elective PD. Suggested descriptors: 1.5.2, 3.4.2

💜 Reviews 💜

“Easy to follow. Great presenter. Good resources to download. Great tips to try in the classroom.” 
– Tonia G
Teacher in QLD
“Great resources, practical ideas, a reminder that hands on learning is very important. Presenter was very engaging.”
- Beth O
Teacher in NSW

Mel Lichnovsky-Klock

Expert Educator

About

Mel Lichnovsky-Klock is a primary school teacher based in Melbourne. She is an expert in all things casual teaching and offers a range of PD to beginning teachers entering casual relief teaching to those who have taken a long break and are looking to return. Mel is your go-to for ideas for your teacher toolkit and sound advice for anything casual relief teaching.