Deborah Abela: Online Session: Migration and Teresa A New Australian

Other sessions:

• Online Session: Sustainability, Climate Change and the Grimsdon Trilogy

  Using novels as a literature springboard to talk about sustainability. Sustainability is a key priority in the curriculum: ‘Across the Australian Curriculum, the Sustainability priority allows young Australians to develop the knowledge, skills, values and worldviews necessary for them to act in ways that contribute to more sustainable patterns of living.’ Fifteen years ago I […]

• Online Session: How to Teach Writing Like a Writer

  How do you get kids excited about creating their own stories? How do you give them the confidence to create their own stories? How do you help them have fun? Join Deborah Abela, teacher and author of over 26 books for children, in this practical, hands-on session as she takes you through a series of […]

• Online Session: Writing Workshop for Secondary Students

  Deborah aims for her workshops to be informative, interactive and fun. With her teaching and TV background, she uses images, videos and her own work to explain the writing process and help kids develop their own engaging stories, leaving them excited about books, reading and writing. She will share what she believes are the fundamentals […]

• Online Session: Spelling Bees, Flooded Cities and Surviving WW2: It’s Fun To Be a Writer

  Ever since Deborah was seven, she's been good at making trouble, so it was obvious she would grow up to be a writer. Find out how being a troublemaker led her to write over 26 books and how you can use troublemaking to create your own fantastic stories. And have lots of fun along the […]

• Online Session: Writers Are Troublemakers

  Ever since Deborah was seven, she’s been good at making trouble, so it was obvious she would grow up to be a writer. Find out how being a troublemaker led her to write over 26 books and how you can use troublemaking to create your own fantastic stories. And have lots of fun along the […]

• Wowing Them in Schools

  Schools are dynamic places where learning is interactive and hands-on. Author and illustrator talks need to be stimulating and thought provoking, leaving the students and teachers with new insights and inspiration for books, reading and writing. In this workshop, you will be given some practical ideas for presenting talks and writing workshops from Deb Abela, […]

• Adults Who’d like to Write for Kids

  Writing for children can be fun and rewarding but most of it is simply hard work and a lot of practice. Deb will take you through a practical, hands-on day of writing activities to hone the skills you need to write for kids. She will also talk about the kids’ publishing world and offer advice […]

• Author Talk

  Deborah’s author talks are informative, interactive and fun. With her teaching and TV background, she uses images, videos, storytelling and games, to explain the writing process and help kids develop their own engaging stories, leaving them excited about books, reading and writing.

• Fun Activities to Get Your Kids Writing

  As an author and trained teacher who has been speaking in schools for over 14 years, Deb will lead you through a series of challenging, fun and practical activities to get your kids excited about writing. She will address the 3 main interrelated strands of the National Curriculum: language, literature and literacy, so that students […]

• Kids Writing Workshop

  Deb leads kids through a series of fun activities to help them become better writers. They’ll explore the writing process from developing ideas, to planning outlines and creating characters and plots readers will love.