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….
With a few reservations, I have a real excitement for the future of children’s literature. Part of that excitement is for the unknown. Just look at how much has changed in the last decade. Harry Potter and the iPad for example have had an impact…
‘Research in Practice’ is the second class I’ve taken in my Teacher Librarianship (TL) course. I don’t think it is a common one to take so early in the sequence but I remember hearing another student say it was one of the most valuable and…