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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Meet the Author & Illustrator: Mark Greenwood & Frané Lessac

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This is the second post in my new series on Authors and Illustrators. In each post I provide some background information, look at some of th...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Creativity: Identification, stimulation and the place of knowledge

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What is Creativity? I write regularly about developing the creativity of children on this blog. Creativity is one of the most important of...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Smartphone App Helps Students and Writers with Citations

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This post is for anyone who ever has to write a paper or publication that requires references, or who wants an easy way to save book bibliog...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

What Motivates Children to Learn?

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When my grandchildren were visiting just after Christmas they were playing with some old stamps and an inkpad. I noticed that they were usin...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Meet the Author: Catriona Hoy

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This is a new series of posts that will feature interviews with children's authors. Today we meet Catriona Hoy who will launch her lates...
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Monday, March 7, 2011

Eight Strategies to Help Children Become Better Spellers

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How do we learn to spell? Learning to spell like learning to write has often been surrounded by many misconceptions. It has been misund...
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Trevor Cairney
I am a Professor of Education at The University of Sydney, Australia. I have spent a large part of my adult life as a teacher, academic, researcher and senior university administrator. My interests are varied, including how children learn language and literacy, the nature and construction of meaning, curriculum, pedagogy, and adult learning.
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