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Building Strong Writers in Lower Primary: Structured, Explicit Instruction from Sentence to Text Level

This session showcases the highly structured approach used at Serpentine Primary School to support emergent writers in the lower primary years. With a strong focus on oral language, syntax, picture sequences, and macrostructure icons, students are guided from sentence-level writing to rudimentary narratives and information reports. Polly Anderson will share the clear, replicable instructional routines that underpin this approach, including how she differentiates for different writing abilities and gradually removes scaffolds to build independence.

Polly Anderson

Polly Anderson is a teacher at Serpentine Primary School whose classroom has become a model of high-quality instruction, with nearly 100 educators visiting over the past two years to observe her teaching in action. Her practice was filmed by the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) as part of their national instructional practice guides. A former Special Needs Education Assistant, Polly brings deep expertise in creating inclusive, structured, and highly supportive learning environments.