Foundation for Learning and Literacy

October 11, 2021

Dear Nadhim Zahawi, the Tories vowed to ‘eradicate illiteracy’ years ago. What went wrong?

The Guardian 9 October 2021 by Michael Rosen You’ll know by now that children score much higher on the year 1 tests than the year 6 tests. These are of course

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

October 10, 2021

Part 1: Making Connections – The Literacy Teaching Game Changer

October 11, 2021 FREE podcast from Cue Learning After recently completing a three day literacy teaching intensive for a group of schools, Sharon Callen reveals the key insights and outcomes

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

October 5, 2021

ForwardED: Making Literacy Learning Meaningful and Memorable

Regie Routman and her long-time colleague Sandra Figueroa share critical elements for the whole of literacy instruction that engages the mind AND heart. Watch here

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

October 4, 2021

Looking for books for your classroom?

The following link takes you to some comprehensive booklists to help you put together a diverse classroom library. Explore here

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

September 27, 2021

Charlie and Lola author Lauren Child says children’s books should be taken seriously

The Guardian 21 September 2021 by Alison Flood Charlie and Lola creator Lauren Child is calling for attitudes towards children’s books to change, criticising the “lazy” assumption that “creating work with

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

September 27, 2021

Celebrating Literature With Heart

New FREE podcast from Cue Learning In this week's episode, literacy experts Sharon and Phil Callen talk about how to identify and utilise literature on complex issues to enrich student experiences. This

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

September 23, 2021

Some Unexpected Literacy Outcomes in the Crocodile Islands

Indigenous Literacy Foundation website On the island of Milingimbi, off the coast of Arnhem Land in the NT, there have been some unanticipated spin-offs as a result of the delivery of

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

September 20, 2021

The power of play and how to bring it home

15 September, 2021 Jo Pickup on the News Hub The playground may be closed with no free-roaming allowed, but small acts of play can still be achieved and are important

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

September 20, 2021

The Value Of Independent Reading with Mark Macleod

Free podcast from Cue Learning Independent reading is crucial to literacy learning but schools and teachers can still struggle to bring it to its full potential. Mark Macleod joins the show

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

September 16, 2021

Spelling does make sense!

This lesson with Peter Bowers uses the spelling of the word DOES and the tools of the matrix and word sum to make sense of how the whole English spelling

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