I expected ETL402 to be very practical, thinking it would give me insight into how to purchase a range of books for a school library. It has done that (McEwen, 2020, December 28) and more. It has made me think about how I can increase…
Censorship was discussed in Module 3 several weeks ago. I didn’t blog about it at the time even though it has been percolating in the back of my mind and has prompted several discussions with others. I was very intrigued by Reynold’s chapter on scary…
I’ve been thinking a lot about Assessment 2 as I’ve been reading through the modules. I’ve contacted the three Year 7 teachers at my school and asked if it would be useful for me to design a literacy kit for their Egyptian Unit and I…
Module 5 about multi-literacies was a bit of an eye-opener for me. I’ve had a general impression that kids are reading books less as they get older. Indeed, I’ve seen this in my own home as my older children have been allowed more access to…
I have to admit I have not been the ebook’s biggest fan. I’m not against them, I’ve just found that I prefer paper books. I like to see my books around the house as memories of the stories they hold. I like that I can…
“Genrefication” is the term used to describe arranging a library according to the genre as opposed to the classic organising of fiction/non-fiction according to the Dewey system. Genrefication is more like the way a book shop is organised. My initial thought when I heard about…
When I was a child I loved the Little House on the Prairie, (Wilder, 1963) book series. My mother read the series aloud to us children, I reread them myself several times through my adolescent years, devoured the TV series alongside my friends and siblings and…
I just finished my “Rational for Fiction” paper. As challenging as it was to find the time during the end of the school year to write it, I enjoyed it and learned a lot. As with all assignments, there was a word limit which meant…
I took a break from working on my “Rationale for Fiction” paper and visited Melbourne this weekend for the first time since the pandemic began. I met a friend and we visited the Linden Art Gallery’s Postcards exhibition (Linden New Art, 2020). A work…
We were asked in Module 2 to conduct a personal stocktake of our knowledge of children’s literature. I am thankful that I can say I had a childhood immersed in quality literature. To be honest, reading was less my thing and more of my mum’s….