Welcome to our March e-newsletter. Please share widely amongst your networks and suggest they may like to become a Friend.

We are inviting, you, as a Friend of the FFLL to consider joining the General Committee
Information on our committees can be found here . The General Committee is about 10-15 in number and in 2026 will meet with the Executive Committee 3 times.  Each member of the General Committee will join one of three working groups: Advocacy and Partnerships, Operations or Communications, Social Media and Resources. These working groups will also meet separately to progress their areas of responsibility.

If you would like to join the General Committee, please send a short Expression of Interest (EOI) along with a short bio by Monday 23 March to learningandliteracy2020@gmail.com. If you would like a committee member to talk with you prior to submitting an EOI, please email us soon and we will get in touch.

In 2026 the FFLL has 5 ‘Asks’ that will shape our advocacy activity, they are:

1. Include Australian school leaders and experienced classroom educators in policymaking and decision-making about learning and literacy education for our schools and early learning centres.
2. Ensure literacy policy and professional practice is guided by peer-reviewed, extensive classroom-tested research.
3. Ensure experienced educators are represented in policy making and curriculum planning.
4. Ensure every school has a library and a Teacher Librarian and is funded equitably whether regional, remote or metropolitan.
5. Provide high quality and inclusive literature and resources for every Australian preschool and classroom.

Resources and articles to support classroom teachers and pre-service teachers at the start of the school year:

• Ewing, R. Getting started teaching poetry in primary classrooms 
• Beaumont, N E. Poetry and Motion: Rhythm, Rhyme and Embodiment as Oral Literacy Pedagogy for Young Additional Language Learners
• The Rights of the Writer poster for classrooms 
• Karaolis, O. Being with a Puppet: Literacy through Experiencing Puppetry and Drama with Young Children 
• Adoniou, M. Teaching and Assessing Spelling 
• Gardner, P. & Kuzich,S. Phonology before Phonics 

Past featured articles and resources can be accessed in the newsletter archive.

Yours in literacy,
The Executive and General Committees
Foundation for Learning and Literacy

FFLL has partnered with a large group of like-minded organisations over the past 4 years to bring you our symposia series We all like a good story. 
Plans are underway with our partners for our 2026 collaboration.

Partner Activity

• The Australian School Library Association (ASLA) is the national authority and peak body supporting school libraries, their staff, and the communities they serve across Australia. Find out more here.
• The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation has announced that Andy Griffiths is the new Australian Children’s Laureate for 2026-27. He says “I wish schools would concentrate on literacy, the pleasures and the power that comes from just reading for enjoyment, because literacy underlies all achievement, whether you’re in primary or secondary school. And I just wonder how much emphasis is given to imagination in the high school curriculum,” This article can be found in the FFLL News area ‘Literacy underlies all achievement’: popular author Andy Griffiths speaks out — EducationHQ
• In 2026-27 schools, libraries and bookshops in NSW and Qld, will participate in the pilot of LitUp, an exciting initiative of Australia Reads. They will be supported to welcome authors and illustrators into their communities. Big Sky Stories will welcome author Deb Abela to Broken Hill schools from 16-19 March as part of this project.
• ILF is launching the Great Book Swap on March 10 and Busking For Change the same day.
• CBCA-The CBCA Notables List was announced on Tuesday 24th February.
  The CBCA Shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 31st March. Shadow Judging opens for registration on Tuesday 24th February and begins on Tuesday 31st March.
  Video link to What is Shadow Judging?

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