Literacy, families and learning

Standardised testing is a hot topic amongst teachers. Why? Because teachers know that tests only offer one measure of ability and progress...

Introduction Why a post on comprehension? First, because there is no more important literacy topic than helping children to understand and ...

1. The many purposes of literature As I have argued in previous posts ( here & here ), we learn a great deal from literature. Litera...

I feel unqualified to review this book, but after reviewing ' The Dangerous Book for Boy s' (see my previous post here ), I thought ...

The Australian Federal Government has funded a longitudinal research study of children from birth to eleven years of age. The project is ca...

I commented in a previous post (" Boys and reading success ") that: Boys, because they are boys (and are different) will enjoy boo...

A new grandchild! My daughter Louise and her husband Jonathan had their second child this week, a little girl who they have named Evelyne Ad...