Thursday, May 23, 2013

Helping Children to Spell: Eight Strategies That Work!

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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 misu...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Why Re-creation Matters for Learning: Some age appropriate examples

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Sam (age 7) holding his 'Swiss Family Robinson' game Imaginative recreation is an essential part of learning. By re-creation I m...
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Monday, May 6, 2013

Appreciating Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories*

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An Introduction for non-Australians   Emily Gap N.T. Indigenous Australians were the original inhabitants of the continent we know ...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

An exciting new author & illustrator: Charlotte Lance

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Charlotte Lance is the author and illustrator of a delightful new picture book call ' A Really Super Hero ' published by Allen ...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Developing Craft & Stamina in Young Writers

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There are many good reasons to implement daily writing workshops classrooms. Probably most important amongst these is that they offer t...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

CBCA Children's Literature Shortlist Announced

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The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) shortlist has been announced, as has the list of ' Notable ' books. The awa...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

The Childhood Writing of Dickens, Austen, Ruskin, Bruce & Others: What can we learn from it?

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An interest in Juvenilia As I have written already on this blog ( here ), children can begin to write from a very young age. While th...