Literacy, families and learning

The erosion of time for play As I wrote in a post last year, children's play is seen by psychologists, educators and paediatricians as ...

I wrote a post about getting boys into books through non-fiction recently ( here ) and thought I should do a second post in relation to fict...

How and why do we teach comprehension? Some see ‘comprehension’ as an old fashioned term that has lost its relevance in the ‘digital age’....

As a child aged 11 or 12 years I can recall looking curiously at a new series of cartoon books. The name itself was intriguing - Astérix. As...

I have written previously about the 'The Language Experience Approach' to literacy on this blog ( here ). It is a term known primari...

1. About Tohby Riddle Tohby Riddle is an award-winning Australian writer who was born in Sydney and still lives there. His early education w...