Literacy & Language

The Declining Standards of Literacy – What’s Really Happening?

Is the much-touted deterioration of literacy standards really exclusively attributable to teachers in schools? Declining literacy...

Have you noticed the decline in oral language in young children as they start school? As teachers we have been observing this decline in...

We are no longer speaking to express, we are speaking to impress There is a widespread belief in society that it is good for us to be...

Around 30 years ago, the English curriculum underwent a significant pedagogical shift into the explicit teaching of genres, most notably...

Teaching the Language of Narrative Today Today the first step in teaching any genre in a school setting, including the genre of...

Philosophic Ponderings on the Foundations of Persuasive Texts There is an almost ubiquitous belief and an accompanying, well circulated...

Speech – The Art of Speaking In our suite of articles on persuasive texts, we next move to consider the oral genres that, from an early...

Are we teaching our children to debate or to de-base each other? Formalised debate has premium value in our society with the...

The Genre of the Information Report ~ Whose Science are we Representing? The socially endorsed and ubiquitously circulated genre of...