Season 6 Episode 22 Upper Years Literacy with Kirby McDonald

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In this episode, we speak with Kirby McDonald, a primary educator, numeracy leader and instructional coach from New South Wales, about what effective literacy instruction looks like in Years 5 and 6. Kirby unpacks the ke...

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