Foundation for Learning and Literacy

September 8, 2021

Enter the 2021 Kids News Short Story Competition

Kamahl Cogdon, August 22, 2021 The Kids News Short Story Competition is back for 2021. The competition has four age groups: Kindergarten to Year 2; Years 3-4; Years 5-6 and Years 7-9. A

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August 23, 2021

5 ways to teach the link between grammar and imagination for better creative writing

Brett Healey in The Conversation August 11, 2021 Fiction authors are pretty good at writing sentences with striking images, worded just the right way. We might suppose the images are striking because

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

August 15, 2021

Modelling Effectively in the Writing Workshop

New podcast from Cue Learning Many teachers want to improve student writing but feel like they're drawing on the same routines to teach - what’s the text type, what’s the structure,

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

August 3, 2021

A Question of Balance

Education Review Issue 5 July-August 2021 Wade Zaglas interviews Beryl Exley on unpacking the importance of phonics for early readers (page 20). ...I think that we've got to remember at the heart

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August 1, 2021

The SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition returns for 2021

29 July 2021 SBS The competition aims to uncover bold new voices that reflect the diversity of contemporary Australia by inviting aspiring writers to share their stories and have their voices

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July 31, 2021

African Australian Literature Development Program

Brought to you by WestWords The African Australian Literature Development Program is an initiative to support, develop, share and celebrate the richness of the stories of African Australians within the multi-cultural

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

July 19, 2021

Quick Writes for Quick Results

Cue Learning Podcast Quick writing is a quick-to-use tool to free the writer’s mind, to help them learn how to craft writing and to give it a go, once, twice, reflect

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

July 9, 2021

POEM FOREST

From Red Room Poetry: POEM FOREST is a free nature writing prize that literally breathes life back into the natural world that sustains us. Created by Red Room Poetry, in partnership with

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

July 2, 2021

New book: A History of Literacy Education

Waves of Research and Practice Robert J. Tierney, P. David Pearson Teacher's College Press In this volume, two notable scholars trace the monumental shifts in theory, research, and practice related to reading

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

July 2, 2021

Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking

by Nan Ariel in Psyche . . ."self-talk contributes not only to motivation and emotional regulation, but also to some higher cognitive functions such as developing metacognition and reasoning". . . ."inner

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