After teaching 42 years in both Primary and Secondary, plus 10 years as a Principal, I was appalled at the Literacy samples I encountered when doing Relief Teaching in my region. As a practising classroom teacher, I did Written Expression twice a week. Monday was always "Weekend Review" which was marked and returned to each child personally going over mistakes, good points etc etc. On Wednesday, it was story time and the same follow up procedures were adhered to. Prior to both sessions,…