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Evidence suggests male writers and readers are in decline – in Australia and elsewhere. Is a male-only publishing house the solution?
US schools are going all in on phonics, but research shows that approach won’t work for every child. A blended literacy strategy can get more students reading.
The self-help category is one of the largest non-fiction book categories. However, not all self-help books are evidence-based.
The state, once ranked near the bottom of education standings, dramatically improved student literacy rates while using little money.
There are many books where characters take fiction too seriously and are driven mad.
Library reading sessions tend to be attended by families who already engage with books at home
South Africa’s mathematics achievement trends are unusual. This could point to possible ways to improve results.
Ask children about what they read that isn’t in books - magazines, recipes, messages from friends.
School can turn classic books into a chore. Rereading Eliot or Austen or Shakespeare as we grow older, we can see how we have grown as imaginative, moral beings.
Reading is where many bilingual pupils with special educational needs and disabilities fall the furthest behind.
Australian romance readers are propping up a flatlining book market, say some. Romance sales have grown by 49% for 3 years. And romance bookstores are booming, too.
New research looking at how Australians read for recreation has shaped 10 tailored tactics to help you read more based on whatever is getting in your way.
Reading and maintaining a human connection have a vital role to play as extreme events that have long served as the stuff of dystopian fiction simply become a part of everyday life.
Luca Guadagnino’s new film is as sensuous and dizzying as the rest of his back catalogue.
Reading can change the brain.
Reading rates in Australia are falling – and price might be less of a factor than we think. We look at how Australia compares internationally, and what other countries are doing to boost reading.
The generation that found comfort in the Girls in Love series as teens are likely to find the same comfort as adults in the fifth instalment.
When talking about a child’s diagnosis of dyslexia, mothers rely on metaphors. A closer look at these metaphors reveals much about how schools can better help them.
There is a book that will get every child excited to read, you just have to find it.
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Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Sessional Tutor, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Reading and Children’s Development, The Open University
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Professor Emerita of Linguistics, American University
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Chancellor's Professor, Psychology, Carleton University
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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Professional Learning and Development Facilitator in Literacy Education, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Researcher in TESOL & Literacy, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor in Department of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor in English Literatures, University of Wollongong