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What my students taught me about reading: old books hold new insights for the digital generation
Last year, 2019, saw the first cohort of students who were born in or beyond 2000 – the so-called digital…
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Teacher's Desk
Old white men dominate school English booklists. It’s time more Australian schools taught Australian books
Concerns grow amid revelations Sydney University has withdrawn funding from its Chair of Australian Literature – the nation’s first.
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News
Why every child needs explicit phonics instruction to learn to read
40% of children manage to learn to read without explicit and systematic phonics instruction due to a confluence of biological…
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Industry voices
Back to basics: students to focus on maths, English and science
The NSW school curriculum is set for its first major shakeup in over a generation, with a renewed focus on…
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Events
Book it in: Australian Reading Hour has arrived
Stanton’s author talk is among more than 140 events happening across the country involving more than 50 authors.
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Polls and fun
Who wrote Australia’s first published novel?
And three other influential first figures in Aussie literature for book enthusiasts during Book Week.
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For fun
Are you more Miss Trunchbull or Albus Dumbledore?
It's coming up to World Book Day, so let's find out. Somehow, the nuanced human experience of a teacher slides…
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News
Awesome Aussie women to teach kids about on #InternationalWomensDay
Today marks International Women's Day, so here's some groundbreaking, history-making Australian heroines that could slot right into your lesson plan...
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