Literacy, families and learning

This post is a follow on from my last post ' Children's Holiday Activities: 30 simple ways to stimulate learning ' ( here ), it ...

Australian school children have just commenced summer holidays. This is a time when parents can find children challenging. It is probably e...

If you read this blog regularly you will know that I place a high value on play (see all posts on play here ). I have argued previously that...

I did a post on Christmas last year as part of the 'Key Themes in Literature' series ( here ), but I thought that I'd update the...

The need for 'deep' reading As I said in my first post in this series on ' Improving Comprehension ', we need to encourage ‘...

I've written a number of posts on books for boys ( here ) but I thought I'd do one on chapter books for girls aged 6-12 years. While...