Keyword Search Results: Literature

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Berry Book Club: Engaging readers and writers

Jan Turbill, Susan McAuliffe and Brett Sutton 2015 Turbill, J. Barton, G. & Brock, C. [eds] Teaching Writing in Today's Classrooms: Looking back to look forward, pp 181-197 published by ALEA This chapter reports on how three educators set up a successful Book...

Why is reading imaginative literature is so important?

Robyn Ewing July 2021 In this short piece Robyn Ewing draws on the work of key researchers to explain why reading imaginative literature is so important for early childhood, primary and secondary classrooms. Stories, she argues, are central to our meaning-making...

Stereotypes Impact Reading Outcomes-Study

The Educator November 30, 2020 This article discusses a study carried out by Associate Professor Laura Scholes, Barbara Comber and Nerida Spina . The study challenges the belief that boys choose to read mainly non-fiction texts and that this has changed since the...