Language and Learning

20/11/2025

A formal apology to our Australian SLP community

We are sorry providing clear explanations of the most up to date research to equip SLPs to support reading, reading comprehension and writing skill, for freely sharing pdf resources that are practical and easily put into clinical practice and providing opportunities to chat via zoom or message when ever you need support to best support your clients. We recognize the inconvenience this has caused.

Many of you have reported shocking side effects, including:
- feeling increasingly confident supporting school age clients with language and literacy difficulties in both primary and high school
- Colleagues demanding to know why your preparation and planning time has decreased
- A dramatic boost in confidence with assessment and report writing
- And the most devastating of all... feeling like supporting reading, reading comprehension and writing skills is a clinical area you enjoy and are good at
No one should have to endure the pressure of becoming the designated “school age language and literacy expert” at their workplace.. Therefore, we sincerely apologize for all the on demand training in video or podcast format, handouts, research and resources we have unintentionally (no, it was intentional actually) brought into your professional lives.

We will, regrettably, continue to share more easy to implement and practical training and ready made resources because the damage is already done

To begin making amends, we’re continuing the Tier 3 Toolkit SALE SEASON [aka Black Friday] discounts running from now until December 1 2025. We apologies for allowing you to stretch your PD budget further by offering a 30% discount [$198] off the annual member price

Warmest regards (and absolutely no regrets),

Kathryn | Language and Learning | www.languageandlearning.com.au

20/11/2025

12/11/2025

🎁 Do you prefer to give presents or receive them? 🎁

Here at Language and Learning, our Tier 3 Toolkit members are about to receive some new practical resources to add to their intervention toolkit.

Why? Because while theory is essential, so are the resources to make intervention a success.

Last month members gained access to reading comprehension resources aligned to the Stage 4 History Topic of Ancient Civilisations [Ancient Egypt, Rome & Greece], which can also be used for Question Answering, Sentence combining, sentence writing, and a range of summarisation and extended response writing tasks.

In November and December, members will receive access to

1. A new series of narrative pictures to support writing skills focusing on more abstract concepts like resilience, persistence and compassion

2. A series of reading and written retell resources that embed a focus higher level language skills using Aesops Fables

3. An expansion to the curriculum aligned resources with reading, reading comprehension and writing tasks linked to Stage 4 Geography and Science [Biomes & Food Webs]

4. The Tier 3 Toolkit Useful Book which collates many of the scope and sequence / order of instruction for language skills related to writing, Text Structure features and scaffolding tools for supporting text comprehension, sentence level skills, sentence combining, summarisation and extended response writing.

And as an added bonus if you join as a new member before December 1, 2025 you can get 12 months access to everything coming in 2026 as well as the entire back catalogue for $349 instead of the usual $495 [including GST]

That is less than $ a day!! Find out more www.languageandlearning.com.au

🎄and you just never know, perhaps there will be time to add in a few more extras🎄

04/11/2025

Have you tried Cascade Reading? A free tool to simplify text complexity by breaking it into phrases and supporting students who struggle with reading fluency and reading comprehension. You can find it here https://cascadereading.com

02/11/2025

📚NEW 📚
https://www.shankerinstitute.org/sites/default/files/documents/elbow-room-report.pdf

31/10/2025

FREE Practical Reading Passages for navigating real life situations when your client is working beyond Decodable text

📗Kids
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/

📕Teens
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/

📘Adults
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/

31/10/2025

Happy World Teachers’ Day 2025
Did you know in Australia we celebrate World Teachers’ day on October 31! 🇦🇺📚
From all of use who have benefited from the tireless work of the most amazing teachers over the years - Thank you!! ☕️💐