Australian Reading Hour – Love2Read – Spring is Time 2 Start
The Australian Reading Hour takes place each spring, a time for rebirth, refreshment and renewal and this year it is scheduled for Thursday, September 14, 2017
Literacy
[Untitled] Stonnington Literary Festival – Think, Talk, Read
[Untitled] – Stonnington Literary Festival, November 16 – 23, 2016, Melbourne, will expand people’s experiences of literacy, through a myriad of inventive ways
The Reading Hour – 6PM, August 16 – Reading A Book with Kids
Dependent on age, 6pm August 16, 2016, is one day this year you can pledge an hour to read a book to a child or with a child, reading aloud aids their literacy
Books and on Being a Bibliophile – Heartbreak and Happiness
Being a bibliophile is not only about heartbreak, but also happiness too and spending a rainy day reading in bed or on the sofa is certainly my idea of luxury
Love2Read 2014 – Australia’s Read Aloud National Event
Nationally on Tuesday August 19 people with children in their care are invited to observe The Reading Hour 6 – 7pm, when they undertake to read aloud to a child
Enid Blyton with Helena Bonham Carter, Fantasy not Reality
Helena Bonham Carter is definitely a character actor par excellence. In a BBC production for television she plays the indomitable author Enid Blyton, who clearly lived in a world of fantasy the one she created for other children, but not in any sort of world of reality with her own.
Reading a Book or a Tablet – Creating the Future of Learning
Reading aloud or silently and helping to boost the literacy of children and adults is vitally important to our life’s journey. Words are how the world works
The Child – Nature vs Nurture an Epic Struggle for Supremacy
Do people react more to ways they are taught or according to genetic predisposition – what is the importance of conditioning and thought on human development?
Literacy and Cultural Development
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declares that literacy is a human right, a tool of personal empowerment and a means for cultural development. It has drafted the following definition: “Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials…