Literacy, families and learning

I announced back in April that I was going to do a series on key educational quotes. I managed just one, then got distracted. The format was...

I wrote a post on how to listen to children reading last year ( here ), but I've been inspired to write a second post on the subject by ...

Many children love to solve problems. Children's authors are smart enough to work this out and tap into this interest as one of many wa...

The awards have now been announced - Read my full review HERE The Children's Book Council of Australia ( CBCA ) has announced its shortl...

As I said in my first post in this series on ‘ The Power of Literature ’ that I grew up in a working class home where there were few books. ...

This is my second post on the 'Power of Literature'. In my last post ( here ) I argued that literature can teach many things - how ...

1. An introduction D.W. Harding (1972) suggested that “ reading, like daydreaming and gossiping is a means to offer or be offered symbolic r...