Welcome to Literacy Voices, where our experts share instructional strategies with teachers.
You'll find practical classroom tips from real educators, personal stories, and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice, and tools you can use immediately.
Welcome to Literacy Voices, where our experts share instructional strategies with teachers. You'll find practical classroom tips from real educators, personal stories and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice, and tools you can use immediately.
Talking about the letters and sounds that make up words helps improve reading and writing skills. On a recent visit to a foundation-level classrooom, author and...
The importance of reading aloud to children from birth has been well established by research. Recalling a surprising encounter with teenagers enjoying a read-al...
Finding the right name for a character in narrative texts is a challenge for published authors as well as for students. Author and teacher Jenny Feely shares a ...
Children’s reading fluency is improved when they can automatically recognise high-frequency words. Literacy consultant Lyn Reggett discusses a guided reading ...
To get students hooked on a new book, teachers need to have conversations with students as they guide them into the book. Whether reading narrative or informati...
Writing a journal is a familiar literacy experience for many students in the classroom. Reflecting on the sometimes uninspired efforts of students and her own e...
Recalling her personal experience of losing meaning while reading and the strategies she used to get it back, literacy researcher Alison Davis argues that stude...
What are the similarities and differences between reading traditional books and multimodal books and games on iPads? The iPad educational apps of levelled books...
A recent survey into young children’s media use in the United States found that 20 years after the birth of the World Wide Web and a year or so after the firs...
