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Engage students by focusing on their interests, encourage sharing, and provide resources for independence. Foster creativity through drawing, notice storytelling elements in mentor texts, and experiment with language. Celebrate student work, promote bravery, and...
In February 2024, Sally Rippin was officially launched as the eighth Australian Children’s Laureate. Her mission for 2024 and 2025 is ‘All kids can be readers!’ Have a listen to Sally share why this role and mission is so important. Visit the website...
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Dr. Maren Aukerman’s lecture, Toward Comprehensive, Research-Informed Literacy Instruction: Thinking With, Against, and Beyond the Science of Reading February 22, 2024. This lecture was offered by the Ithaca College Department of Education as part of the 2024...
UK Research and Innovation by Christopher Smith 26 February 2024 Drama, television and film have the power to change history and minds. One of the characteristics of great art is its capacity to change and charge the focus of our attention, to turn watching into...
Writing Competition Inspired by Gough Whitlam’s commitment to involving young people in shaping Australia’s future, the What Matters? writing competition is currently open to school students in years 5 to 12 from Australia. Responding to the simple...
Access the newsletter here Resources galore for the start of 2024!It’s been a busy start to the term, but with 287 freely available teaching resources for Australian stories – and more on the way – you can count on Reading Australia to help lighten the load!This...
teachific Posted by Sharon Calen 25 Feb 2024 EMPLOY THE ‘READING LIKE A WRITER’ PROCESS …where students see how authors craft their stories. Then students have a few short attempts at honing the technique before going on to their extended writing....
The Conversation Feb 20, 2024 by Marnee Shay, Fred Cobbo, Grace Sarra, Margaret Kettle One of the priorities of the Closing the Gap reporting is that Indigenous cultures and languages are “strong, supported and flourishing”. It also calls for Indigenous students to...
