A Nal'ibali World Read Aloud Day in Soweto, South Africa.
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Parents often see reading as “school business” - something that teachers are responsible for.
Two adversarial approaches have dominated debates about teaching reading for decades.
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Reading involves more than decoding letter-sound relationships and making meaning from isolated texts.
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How books can help veterans overcome physical and mental trauma.
It makes sense for children in the early stages of learning to read to be given decodable books.
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Children in the early stages of learning to read should be given decodable books to practise and generalise their developing alphabetic skills.
As we look to improve the reading outcomes of our young children, more music education in our preschools and primary schools could be the answer.
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Learning music in the early years of schooling can help children learn to read.
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Children need the same information repeated to encode it permanently.
Children with access to books reach higher levels of education.
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The Victorian opposition has pledged funding for “decodable readers” which focus only on sounds. But kids prefer to read rich texts.
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Kids in the UK grow up with some of the highest levels of educational inequality.
Boys typically read less frequently and perform worse on national and international reading assessments than girls.
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Girls are encouraged more often to read, despite performing better in reading assessments nationally and internationally. Here’s how parents and educators can help connect boys with books.
Sending text-message reminders and tips to parents can help boost their children’s reading skills.
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Providing text-message tips to parents on how to make their children stronger readers can make a difference, but only if parents don’t get too many or too few text messages, researchers find.
The current debate about comparability would be more concerning if 2018 results showed radically different trends compared to previous years, but they don’t.
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The current debate about comparability would be more concerning if 2018 results showed radically different trends compared to previous years, but they don’t.
SAT reading scores in 2016 were the lowest they’ve ever been.
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In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day for pleasure. By 2016, only 16 percent did.
Stories take children on imaginary adventures.
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Reading styles vary in effectiveness. Here are six things you can do, based on research, to help your child get the most out of shared reading.
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Is the belief in art’s healing power just wishful thinking, or is there something to it?
Australian book clubs are overwhelmingly white, middle-aged, middle-class and female.
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Most book clubs are white and middle-class. Even today, books and reading can presume a divide between Indigenous oral story-telling and non-Indigenous literacy.
Whenever you get a chance, even if it’s only ten minutes, engage in shared reading activities.
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Early shared reading is linked to a number of benefits for children, including better performance in NAPLAN, reading, writing, spelling, grammar and mathematics.
An illustration of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Brave Little Tailor.
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Fairy stories come alive in the telling — and the retelling.
Reading is a crucial skill, and several strategies can help children improve their reading.
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Initiatives to tackle South Africa’s reading crisis must take the country’s realities into account.
Reading aloud to children can encourage a love of reading.
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Finding time to read to your children can be hard, but there are several ways you can make sure your child gets the most out of time for reading aloud.
Even when teachers are supporting specific learning difficulties (such as dyslexia), it’s important to expand boys’ repertoire of positive reading experiences.
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Moving away from direct instruction and teaching to the test and towards making sure boys enjoy reading will improve outcomes.