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Making a Difference in Learning Through Arts and Pedagogy

Ewing, R. 2018 Australian Council for Educational Research Conference This brief article highlights the role drama can play in enhancing learners’ social and emotional well-being as well as English and literacy outcomes. Making art through drama and literature enables...

Evidence of Agency Among Student Writers

Alan J Wright In this short piece for his blog Living Life Twice, Alan J Wright; teacher, consultant and writer, writes about classroom environments where students love to write. He describes classrooms where a genuine sense of the writer’s agency is...

Literacy Leadership Brief: Teaching and Assessing Spelling

Spelling involves the successful conversion of the spoken word into the written word. However, many descriptions of the spelling process reduce it to simply mapping sounds onto letters. This is it is an inadequate description of the skill set required for effective...

Little People’s Literacy Learning

The Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) has developed a series of modules to support parents and carers with activities that can be shared with children. The activities have been designed with an emphasis on learning through collaborative play and shared...

Reading with your child at home

The NSW Government Education Department has developed a useful ‘Reading with your child at home’ guide. It provides ideas for parents/carers to help their young children with reading are available in many languages. Click here to find out more.

PETAA’s Respectful Relationships Parents and Carers Guide

The Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) has developed a Respectful Relationships Parents and Carers Guide. It supports families to help children develop empathy, communication skills, and positive social behaviours through shared reading and...

Let’s Read!

Let’s Read is an open access website that was developed by the Centre for Community Child Health at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and The Royal Children’s Hospital. The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and The Smith Family (TSF) now work...