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No editions of The Smart Word will be published in 2009. We thank our subscribers for their loyalty and hope that they will continue to enjoy the website, as well as seminars and other publications produced by the English Teacher Guru.

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A Practical Introduction to Spelling for Older Students

Seminars are being run in the following locations: Southport Sharks Football Club on Wednesday 30 November; Brisbane Technology Park on Monday 5 December; and Caboolture Golf Club on Tuesday 6 December. See Seminars above for further information.

English survival manual

Make your life easier with this practical, research based guide to creative and inspired English teaching. For more information, click on the link above. Alert: Only a few copies of Volume 2 are left. Buy your copy or miss out.

Australian Curriculum Tip

One of the models underpinning the Australian Curriculum: English is the context-text model derived from the work of systemic functional linguistics. This is evident in four of the sub-strands of Language and two sub-strands of Literacy. See more here soon.