Educators Graham Parr, Fleur Diamond, Anne Keary and Kylie Bradfield look for some answers The recent report by the Australian Educational Research Organisation (AERO), Writing development: What does a decade of NAPLAN data reveal? , has caused quite a stir in Australian news...
From shopping lists to jokes on the fridge—learning how to be a confident and communicative writer is one of the most important skills students learn at school, report researchers Anabela Malpique, Deborah Pino Pasternak, Debora Valcan and Susan Ledger But NAPLAN results show a significant decline in...
Five quick tips to help you get your novel started and finished this year. Has the thought of pumping out the next best-selling novel been lingering in your head for a while? Former teacher and one of Australia's most popular authors (28 books and counting) Jacqueline Harvey, shares some of...
Students across Australia have started the new school year using pencils, pens and keyboards to learn to write. In workplaces, machines are also learning to write, so effectively that within a few years they may write better than humans, predicts Lucinda McKnight. Sometimes they already do,...
This year’s shortlisted words provide valuable insights into the minds of school-aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic After a disrupted school year of remote learning and virtual classrooms during the COVID-19 lockdowns, it’s not surprising that Australian students have voted for ‘virus’ as the Oxford...
Writing needs to be taught and practised. Australian schools are dropping the focus too early, report Claire Wyatt-Smith and Christine Jennifer Jackson The recently released report of the NAPLAN review — commissioned by the New South Wales, Queensland, Victorian and Australian Capital Territory education ministers —...
2020 ‘Storyathon’ event shows an uptick in social awareness amongst children in lockdown during COVID-19. Data from Oxford University Press in partnership with Storyathon, the largest story-writing event in Australia, reveals the impact COVID-19 has had on children’s vocabulary, interests and social awareness.More than 20,000 stories...
Having children can evoke a desire to tell stories, preserve memories – and write them down. So how do you go about writing a book?...
