Posted by Unknown | 4:56 AM

I get many questions from concerned parents on this blog worrying about how fast they should push their preschool children as writers (see t...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:05 PM

Readers of this blog may recall that I provided a brief review of ' Your Baby Can Read ' (YBCR) in July last year ( here ). YBCR is ...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:07 AM

As a parent it is always difficult to know just how to support your children as they develop physically, emotionally, spiritually and intell...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:20 PM

The Minister for Education has announced funding of $800,000 for a Family-School and Community Partnership Bureau that will help develop par...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:30 PM

My colleague Brian Cambourne from the University of Wollongong has reminded me that the National Council for Teachers of English (an interna...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:31 PM

When parents ask what they can do to help their children at home, my most common first response is " Read to and with them ". Whi...

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