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When it comes to reading, choosing the books your child reads, forcing them to read at certain times and asking them questions about their books are all big no nos.
Summer enrichment programs can lead to academic gains.
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Instead of expecting parents to help kids stay sharp during the summer, schools should offer more programming, a literacy instructor argues.
Children who love reading generally score higher on literacy tests than those who are ambivalent about it.
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It would be wiser to spend money on policies that allow teachers to teach in ways that nurture children’s sense of belonging and making sure children are not hungry when they are trying to learn.
Unapologetically experimental yet utterly captivating, this new type of heroine has become a reader favourite.
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Here’s to the good/bad women leading the world of fiction.
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Forget challenges, adults should be taking a leaf out of children’s books when it comes to their reading habits.
Story time.
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Sharing a book together doesn’t stop being important once a child learns to read.
Our brains evolved in a world without reading.
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Reading and writing may have evolved thanks to a natural ability of the brain’s visual cortex to process geometrical shapes.
Children still benefit from being read to after they’ve learned to read by themselves.
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Shared reading has many benefits. Among them, it can help your child develop a bigger vocabulary.
Children need to be able to see themselves in the books they read.
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Children from minority groups rarely see themselves reflected in the books they read. This can negatively impact their sense of identity and their literacy levels.
The thousand and one lives of the paper book.
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Are the stacks of books in your library still alive? Why keep them if they are not? Why does our attachment to the printed word not waver in the face of its digital counterpart?
Librarians are qualified to help struggling readers enjoy and improve at reading.
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If schools and policy-makers want to boost children’s literacy, they should invest in teacher librarians.
Families come in all shapes and sizes, and Australian picture books are starting to reflect that.
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In Australian picture books, family representation has been overwhelmingly traditional. But this may be changing.
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.
Possum Magic again, are you for real kid?!
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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.