We have been absolutely blown away with the response to our new release, The Comprehension strategies box. While we could just tell you all about how great it is, why not find out from teachers themselves? Read on to see what The Comprehension ...

It was not expected that Australia’s results in the 2018 Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA) would be outstanding, but the fact that our students continue to slide down the ladder has sparked concerns from educators, politicians and industry groups. ...

Parents who read to their child aged one to two years daily are gearing them up for stronger literacy, language and numeracy results at school. That’s the message from new Charles Sturt University research. Study lead and post-doctoral research fellow Dr ...

How can we foster a school culture where reading isn’t seen by kids as just a chore, or something that only ‘nerds’ would enjoy? In a new research paper, teacher librarians have their say. The article, published in the Australian ...

Researchers have tracked a significant decline in reading scores among children in their early years of school. The QUT team analysed word-level reading trajectories of a group of more than 100 students from grades one to three and found children ...

Last year, instead of driving to work I started travelling by bus. No matter what time of day it was, there was one common denominator: almost every passenger is absorbed in their mobile phones. This is an age of miraculous ...

A bookish adolescent who ended school at year 9 but grew up in a home with large library is likely to be just as literate as a university graduate whose home lacked books. That’s according to a new study that ...

New research shows teenagers still enjoy the age-old practice of sitting down and reading a hard-copy book. The preliminary findings of a study from Deakin University and Murdoch University researchers found that three-quarters of 12- to 16-year-olds prefer to read paper ...

Victorian libraries want parents of youngsters to don their eyeglasses and get reading aloud. Their new campaign, 1000 Books Before School, aims for parents to recite this many tomes between childbirth and the commencement of school, to instill a love of ...