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Reading and Literacy - NSS

May 13, 2009 – 1:59 pm

National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) takes place on Wednesday 27 May at 11 am.
The children’s book, Pete the Sheep, written by Jackie French and illustrated by Bruce Whatley, will be read simultaneously at participating organisations throughout the country.
An initiative of the Australian Library and Information Association, National Simultaneous Storytime is aimed at promoting the value of […]

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Reading for pleasure

January 14, 2009 – 7:46 am

Do you read for pleasure?
The United States Census Bureau has just released a report that says for the first time since 1982, when the bureau began collecting such data, the proportion of adults 18 and older who said they had read at least one novel, short story, poem or play in the previous 12 months […]

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The decline of reading

April 13, 2008 – 4:41 pm

An article in the Weekend Australian by Stephen Matchett titled Turning the final pages spells out alarm bells for those who teach literacy and those who love reading. Matchett is commenting on a report called To Read or Not to Read in late 2007 by the US National Endowment for the Arts which showed that […]

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