All 15 are free and accessible here Why not start with Reading Australia: what’s the big picture? Australia Reads Join Anna Burkey, Head of Australia Reads as she discusses the state of reading in Australia.
The Educator 30 Nov 2023 NAPLAN is severely inhibiting the capacity for educators to do things differently in the classroom, a new study has revealed. The research from the Australian Catholic University’s School of Education, was the culmination of interviews with 27...
From Cue Learning 21 January 2024 Click here for the top 7 literacy teaching tips to start the year in the best way possible!
The Mercers’ Company 2023 Children and young people‘s enjoyment in reading and writing is declining; UK and international studies indicate considerable cause for concern (Clark et al., 2022; Mullis, 2023). Yet research reveals that the habit of reading in...
The Expert Panel delivered its report, Improving Outcomes for All: The Report of the Independent Expert Panel’s Review to Inform a Better and Fairer Education System to all Education Ministers on 31 October 2023. The Report was published in December 2023. The report...
The Conversation January 5, 2024 by Vaughan Cruickshank, Brendon Hyndman Many people believe teaching is an easy job involving short days and long holidays. Anyone working in the profession, however, will tell you this is not the truth. They will tell you teaching is...
The Mercer’s Company 2023 Research reveals that the habit of reading in childhood is associated with academic, social and emotional outcomes and can mitigate educational disadvantages associated with gender and socio-economic status (OECD, 2021; Torppa et al.,...
Catherine Compton-Lilly, Lucy K. Spence, Paul L. Thomas, Scott L. DeckerThe Reading Teacher 2 November, 2023 This article recognises that reading is a complex and multidimensional process. It uses research to demonstrate that teaching reading must be responsive to...
Most young children love to draw and they all need to learn to write. However, despite the research over the past 30 years which identifies a strong relationship between emergent writing and drawing, in some classrooms young children are being obliged to see drawing...
Mackenzie Noella M. 2022 Draw, Talk, Write and Share (DTWS) is a pedagogical approach resulting from research conducted by the author Noella Mackenzie. In this article however, she describes how DTWS can also be used as a powerful observation process, allowing...
