Literacy, families and learning

Well-known Australian writer Paul Jennings was asked by a grandmother one day at a signing to write something in it for her grandson "....

Kevin Donnelly, the co-chair of the Australian Federal Government's national curriculum review has backed the use of corporal punishm...

I've done posts on travel games for children before and now seems a good time for another. In Australia most schools are closed for a sh...

I've written before about the power of poetry ( HERE ) and regularly review good poetry books on this blog. Poetry is to be read, list...

This is a reprise of a post I wrote in 2011, which was based on an idea I first devised in the 1980s. Back then I was challenging teachers t...

I've written previously on this blog about the value of Shakespeare for children of all ages, even primary school children ( HERE ). I g...

While lists of great books, let alone 'best-loved' books, are fraught with problems, they do serve to remind us of books we might ...