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
News and updates from the Foundation for Learning and Literacy and our Partners.
The focus for this e-newsletter is on the Advocacy work undertaken by the Foundation, and in particular:
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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The Top 7 Tips to Launch A Great School Year
From Cue Learning 21 January 2024 Click here for the top 7 literacy teaching tips to start the year in the best way possible!
NAPLAN has ‘insidious’ influence on teaching practices, new study shows
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…
Catch up on the Literacy Symposium episodes from 2023
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.
Reading and Writing for Pleasure A Framework for Practice
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 childhood is…
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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.
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