early childhood education

And so it begins — a New School Year
January 15, 2021
Teachers around Australia are already thinking about how they will organise their classrooms to maximise learning when the new school year begins at the end of January. They are as...
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Special Days and Events for Classroom Celebrations — November
October 30, 2020
It’s November already and we’re starting the countdown to the end of the year, but there are many more things to celebrate before we welcome in the new year. The...
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Interview with author Wenda Shurety
February 15, 2019
This week, it is my pleasure to introduce you to author Wenda Shurety as she discusses her new picture book Eva’s Imagination. I especially enjoy Wenda’s book for its focus...
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First week of February celebrations
February 1, 2019
In the first week of February, celebrations include World Read Aloud Day, Children’s Mental Health Week and Chinese New Year. Readilearn has lessons ready to assist you with each of...
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Wrapping up a year of books — 2018
December 14, 2018
Wrap up a book for a gift that gives more Reading and books combine to form one of life’s greatest pleasures and one of life’s best avenues for advancement and...
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readilearn: Reading the Iron Man to spark imagination, inspire writing and motivate making
October 26, 2018
One of my favourite read-aloud books is The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. The influence of poetry is obvious in this compelling modern fairy tale that begins as it might...
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readilearn: Introducing Katrin Dreiling illustrator of The World’s Worst Pirate
August 17, 2018
This week I have enormous pleasure in introducing you to Katrin Dreiling illustrator of The World’s Worst Pirate, written by Michelle Worthington. The World’s Worst Pirate is a captivating book...
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readilearn: Learning to be friends – unleash your friendship superpower
July 27, 2018
Sometimes we expect that all we have to do for children to make friends is to put them in close proximity to other children. We may see it happen at...
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readilearn: A week’s reading instruction with Bullfrog’s Billabong
July 13, 2018
The readilearn Bullfrog’s Billabong suite of cross-curricular resources can be used as the foundation for planning a week’s reading instruction including lessons with the whole class and small groups and...
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readilearn: NAIDOC Week Celebrations 2018—Because of Her, We Can
June 29, 2018
In Australia, NAIDOC Week is celebrated around the country each July. The acronym NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee. The theme of this year’s celebration, which...
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readilearn: Teaching about living things in early childhood classrooms – turtles
May 25, 2018
Teaching about living things has an important place in early childhood classrooms. In the science curriculum in their first few years of school, children learn What is a living thing...
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readilearn: Teaching phonics and letter-sound relationships in early childhood classrooms
May 11, 2018
Teaching phonics and letter-sound relationships is an important part of literacy education in early childhood classrooms. To be fluent readers and writers we need to understand the relationship that exists...
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