Literacy, families and learning

The need for 'deep' reading As I said in my previous posts in this series on ' Improving Comprehension ', we need to encoura...

Beginning of the partnership Janet and Allen Ahlberg are amongst my all time favourite author/illustrator partnerships. For almost 20 years...

This is a repeat (!) of a previous post titled 'The benefits of repeated reading of literature' which I wrote last year 1. Re-readin...

The recent debate about the ' My Schoo l ' website in Australia has reminded me that it is far too easy to narrowly define education...

Declaring my conflicts of interest I had hoped to avoid commenting on the ' My School ' website released in Australia on Friday, bec...

What makes Australia a nation? Today is Australia Day, the official national day of our nation. It commemorates the arrival of the First Fl...