Demystifying the how-to of teaching literacy
At logonliteracy, we provide practical, proven resources that make it easier to teach and learn literacy across all subjects.
Created by leading literacy consultant Pat Hipwell, our tools are designed to improve students’ reading, writing, and literacy skills while helping every educator teach with clarity and confidence.
Our Story
logonliteracy was founded by literacy consultant Pat Hipwell to make it easier for teachers, students, and parents to teach and learn literacy with confidence.
At the heart of our work is a simple belief: every child deserves the chance to access learning through strong literacy and every educator deserves the tools to make that possible.
With over 40 years of experience in education, Pat specialises in supporting Years 4–12 literacy development—particularly helping subject teachers embed literacy into their practice. Through professional development, books, and classroom resources, logonliteracy provides clear, practical tools to help you teach, learn, or support stronger reading, writing, and literacy skills across every subject.
Here's what our customers have to say...
How to Write What You Want to Say fills a gap in that it draws together relevant elements that comprise a thinking skill.
The real proof of the quality of the book is the almost immediate positive impact its use has had on the way in which students write.
Ellen Kean
Head of Department, English & LOTE, Toolooa State High School
I have found that the ‘Little Blue Book’ has made teaching writing a lot easier. It helps with writing criteria sheets and, when a student gets stuck for sentence starters, it is great to be able to offer a couple of options.
Rebecca Glynn
Learning and Teaching Coach
As a teacher, your book has given me the confidence to teach students how to approach key task words and allows me to develop a framework for breaking down in-class and assessment tasks. Many of my students have experience the ‘light-bulb’ moment when they read the definition of the task word and then see it in action.
Amanda Favier
Teacher
How to write what to say is a helpful book as it gives me a variety of sentences and words to choose from. Not only is the book small and understandable it does the thinking for you. I now no longer have a blank page. I can start my sentences easier thanks to the book.
Leah McAuley
Student
I am a first year university student (mature aged) and am struggling with writing academic essays for the first time in 30 years. I picked up your book and it is already dog-eared. It cuts to the chase and is, frankly, far more useful than the many resources and other 'how to write an essay' books I have come across.
Marie Dowd
University Student
These books give my students the confidence to begin to write and when they have that momentum they write with confidence and style.
Peter Cocks
Science and Maths Teacher
To be honest these books have probably given me a higher score in NAPLAN.
This book helps me a lot.
Student
My son has found this so useful in writing assignments.
It's so easy to read and follow.
Trish - Brisbane
via Booktopia
I am a high school teacher of English and Social Sciences. I use this book for every unit that I teach. It helps my students to be better writers and they really appreciate how easy it is to use. Fantastic resource - every student should have one.
Holly - Tasmania
via Booktopia
I used the book during my assignments and it really helped to improve my grades.
Bena - Australia
via Booktopia
We decided to purchase Hooking Students into Learning... as a toolkit of strategies for every teacher.
It’s so easy to use and relevant for beginning teachers to get started or for teachers who want to refresh their classroom strategies.
Deputy Principal
metropolitan state high school
Hooking Students into Learning … in all curriculum areas (E-BOOK)
$199.00
(Now available as a digital e-book)
Hooking Students into Learning … in all curriculum areasis a practical resource designed to help teachers create strong, purposeful lesson beginnings that spark curiosity and support deeper learning.
It features over 60 ready-to-use lesson starters, examples, and adaptable ideas that can be applied across subject areas. These help students settle quickly, connect with content, and stay engaged from the very start.
Previously available only in print, this updated digital edition makes it easier than ever for busy teachers to access, implement, and adapt these proven strategies in the classroom.
With instant download and easy access across devices, you can now carry this powerful toolkit with you everywhere, whether you’re planning at school, at home, or on the go.
This E-BOOK is filled with techniques and examples that help you:
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Design clear, intentional lesson openings that support student focus
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Connect learning to prior knowledge and real-world relevance
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Build momentum and motivation at the start of each lesson
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Reinforce key literacy and thinking skills through structured engagement
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Save time with ready-to-use strategies that work across subject areas
Whether you’re teaching in a content-heavy secondary classroom or supporting younger students with foundational literacy, this book will help you make every lesson start count.
Pat's Powerful Pedagogies
$100.00
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PAT’S POWERFUL PEDAGOGIES (PPPs) are weekly tips that will be sent to you directly via email (50 in total).
Their purpose is to put effective literacy practices at the forefront of teaching and learning. Some practices are tried and true and have been around for a long time. Some you may not have seen or used before.
Perhaps, there’ll be some that you used to use but have forgotten about. All of them are supported by what we know works.
Each week, you will receive a short pedagogical practice:
1. Read the tip and the reason we use it.
2. Think about and plan how you will use it in your classes this week.
3. Use it a few times.
4. Reflect on its use.
5. Plan to use it again with or without modifications.
There is minimal preparation associated with the practice – the idea being that it will shape an aspect of the approach to teaching and learning literacy that you use for that week.
PPPs will keep your lessons vibrant, relevant and, most importantly, purposeful. They will ensure that anything you ask your students to do or do with them is worth doing. They may weed out some of the practices we use in the mistaken belief that we are ‘doing literacy’.
Teacher’s Guide – How to write what you want to say … in the secondary years
$49.99
The best-selling, literacy book How to write what you want to say… now has an accompanying teacher’s guide and student workbook to help improve students’ literacy skills.
How to write what you want to say... in the secondary years: teacher's guide provides guidelines for the explicit teaching of a writing skill, using a four-stage process.
- Deconstructing a text
- Modelling a text
- Jointly constructing a text
- Independently constructing a text
The teacher's guide also contains the answers to the activities that students complete in their workbooks and completed graphic organisers for the examples of the writing skills in How to write what you want to say … in the secondary years.
How to write what you want to say... in the secondary years (Second Edition) is part of a set of three books:
- How to write what you want to say... in the secondary years (Second Edition)
- How to write what you want to say... in the secondary years: teacher's guide
- How to write what you want to say... in the secondary years: student workbook
These books provide parents, teachers and students with a unique tool for improving writing. They are suitable for students from the middle years of schooling to a tertiary level.
ISBN: 9780987215949
Paperback, 2020
Pages: 208
Years 6 - Tertiary
Graphic Organisers Pack
$550.00
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FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS $49+
This pack of 36 graphic organisers offers students a range of planning templates to demonstrate higher order thinking skills, or cognitive verbs, in their writing.
Each graphic organiser features space for students to plan their writing, as well as prompt questions and sentence starters. Templates are designed to be printed out and given to students, so they can write their plan directly into the graphic organiser. Students can then use the sentence starters to help them draft their plan into sentences and paragraphs.
Suitable for Years 7 - 12, the graphic organisers complement Pat's Posters and help teachers explicitly teach the cognitive verbs used in the new Queensland senior syllabus.
The Graphic Organisers Pack supports the explicit teaching of:▪️ analysing ▪️ generalising
▪️ arguing/persuading
▪️ inferring/interpreting
▪️ classifying
▪️ listing
▪️ comparing/contrasting
▪️ justifying
▪️ concluding/decision making
▪️ making recommendations
▪️ describing
▪️ sequencing
▪️ elaborating
▪️ solving problems
▪️ evaluating
▪️ summarising
▪️ explaining
▪️ synthesising