Better writing happens when students care

Litbridge is built on a simple belief: writing improves fastest when students learn to make deliberate craft choices that create emotion and reader impact.

Our Write Like an Author (WLAA) approach was created by a full-time professional author, and it makes those choices teachable – with clear modelling, guided practice, and activities that turn skills into habits.

This is a classroom-based program designed to support teachers: clearer teaching, stronger student drafts, and assessment that is easier to moderate over time.

Teacher-friendly Student engagement Clear craft language Assessment alignment Whole-school consistency
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Why this approach works in real classrooms

Litbridge keeps the focus on what matters most – student output. Lessons and activities are designed to create visible improvements in clarity, structure, character work, tension, and control, while keeping students motivated and willing to revise.

Benefits for teachers

A consistent craft language and an intentional teaching sequence that makes progress easier to see, teach, and assess.

Clear modelling Low-prep delivery Better drafts Faster feedback
Learn from a working author

Students know they’re learning how real writers work, guided by a full-time professional author.

Authenticity Confidence Aspiration Voice
Benefits for schools

A common approach across year levels that supports consistency, moderation, and a shared understanding of writing growth.

Consistency Moderation Reporting support Curriculum fit
Aligned with the Australian Curriculum

Litbridge is designed to support the core writing demands schools already assess: text structure, cohesion, vocabulary and sentence control, and deliberate author choices for audience and purpose.

The program provides a practical pathway from teaching to drafting to assessment – so the skills students practise are the same skills teachers are looking for when they mark.

Assessment made clearer

Our assessment dimensions match the craft choices taught in the program, which makes feedback more specific and growth easier to track.

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