The Foundation for Learning and Literacy is concerned with the role literacy plays in ensuring our children become compassionate, confident, competent and creative citizens in an increasingly complex world.
Our aim is to support teachers, early childhood educators, parents and caregivers with tools that empower them to work with kids to build joy and confidence in reading and writing.
Our resources are also useful to the broader community, including educational policymakers, politicians, business leaders, and the media.
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May 2026 Newsletter
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Touchstone 1: A fair and equitable society depends upon every citizen being able to speak, listen critically with confidence, read and write.
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What Matters? is now open for 2024!
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 question ‘what…
News from Reading Australia
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…
New ‘Imaginative Texts’ Writing Units
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. MODEL ‘GOOD…
‘It’s about making our children feel proud’: how schools can learn about local Indigenous language and culture
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…
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The Foundation for Learning and Literacy regularly partners with other professional associations to advocate for the importance of literature in our lives and in literacy learning.
The Foundation for Learning and Literature acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.