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Tag: literacy

  • Ask the Expert: Anne Bayetto

    Anne lectures in Special Education at Flinders University, South Australia, and focuses on literacy and numeracy students with learning difficulties. Anne brings her knowledge of assessment, planning and the instruction of reading and written language to classroom practitioners. As the author of the Oxford Wordlist Stage 2 Research Study Summary Report, Read Record Respond and…

  • Developing reading strategies

    Developing a broad range of reading strategies, and understanding how they may be used, supports students to become independent and successful readers. Educators need to specifically teach students how to think and talk about texts, rather than just conveying information about texts or doing the reading and thinking for their students. Following are some great…

  • Deepening awareness and understanding of Indigenous culture in the classroom

    Did you know Australia is celebrating Indigenous Literacy Day today? Indigenous Literacy Day aims to raise vital funds to put books and literacy resources into the hands of school students, babies, toddlers and mothers in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. Oxford University Press has published an Indigenous Literacy series Yarning Strong. The…

  • Ask the Expert: Robyn Steward

    Robyn is an experienced literacy education consultant. She has brought her expertise to Oxford Literacy Assess by creating rigorous levelling criteria for the assessment texts and conducting extensive classroom trialling of all 60 assessment texts. Prior to her role as a consultant for Oxford Literacy Assess, Robyn was a Regional Literacy Leader for the Victorian…