At Home in the Outback by Katherine Meet the enthusiastic and passionate Jane Vaughan… co-founder, co-director and employee of Big Sky Stories, a community-based organisation in Broken Hill which wants to give children in the far west of New South Wales a love of...
The Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child first winning entry book for the Series 2 Stories by Digital Children books is now live on the web. There are two more on their way. The four winning entries from series 1 are also available via this page. Free download...
Neuroscience News.com December 1 2023 Summary: New research suggests that parents should use sing-song speech, such as nursery rhymes, with their babies, as it aids language development. Contrary to the belief that phonetic information is the foundation of language,...
The term the SoR is not new, and it does not refer to a particular theoretical approach to the teaching of reading, a particular model, program, method, or single component of instruction. The term SoR was used first to refer to text reading during...
The Guardian 15 Dec 2023 Ella Creamer A study from the University of Valencia found that print reading could boost skills by six to eight times more than digital reading. …Salmerón added that one surprising finding was that the relatively small association...
SMH Mihajla Gavin and Megan Stacey Feb 3, 2024 Teacher workload is a growing problem in Australia and internationally. When teachers are working long hours with few supports, this negatively affects their wellbeing and has an impact on their students’ learning....
teachific Posted by Sharon Callen 18 February 2024 Looking for a fun and effective way to boost your students’ vocabulary? Say hello to Personal Word Walls! These nifty tools are like personalised dictionaries designed to bring high-frequency words right into...
Education Week Feb 4, 2026 by Sarah D. Sparks Katie Collins is one of the nation’s top teachers. And not long ago, she thought of leaving the classroom. “I was on a carpet with kids, feeling alone, even though I have so much support at my school and everybody is all...
Beryl Exley February 12, 2024 School of Education & Professional Studies, Griffith University Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University All schools are legislated to follow the Australian Curriculum English, which mandates the teaching of...
Reading is a “complex, multidimensional cognitive process situated in and mediated by social and cultural practices” (Moje, 2018, p. 2), and “teaching depends on knowing what students know and can do and then determining what they need” (p. 3). We base this claim...
