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At Harper Perennial, where I work, we traffic in stories of all kinds. And we have a special fondness for the short story—self-contained, crystalline, newborn, perfect. This year we're celebrating the thriving art of the story by sharing a new one every w

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Welcome to From the Publisher's Office! At Penguin we know that readers have a wide variety of interests and that finding an in-depth look at a particular author or subject can be difficult, if not impossible. From the Publisher's Office makes it easy to

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Rough Cut Nepal: A Girl's Life Making room to read BY Sachi Cunningham June 07, 2007. This is the 15 min video shown at the AIS TL Conference June 2009 in Sydney.

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SL Vic, & home of the Inkys. Great YA lit blog.

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John Wood telling his story.

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We partner with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children's literature, constructing schools, and providing education to girls. We seek to int

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Symposium with Professors Peter Freebody, Scott Paris and P. David Pearson / Tuesday 14 July 2009 9.30am–4.45pm /
This symposium will be of interest to all teachers K–12, tertiary educators and educational consultants. Important topics to be covered inclu

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AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. AdLit.org is an educational initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in th

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Challenging boys to read, share, compete, and know all there is about the fun of reading. This is an initiative of the Brother Liguori Resources Centre - we're reading for life!

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Tools for Teachers: The various tools on this page offer examples and ideas for how to use such tools in the classroom. These have all been improved upon and discussed in much more detail in 50 Essential Lessons and Tools for Thought.

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This site is designed to accompany my book, Bringing the Outside In: Visual Ways of Engaging Reluctant Readers. This work is about really seeing kids, and providing ways of using out of school literacies (i.e., digitial video or podcasting) to move our mo

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Written by Foundation editors and writers, the discussion guides feature interpretive questions that support lively and extended discussion, biographical background on the author, and recommended related titles. The discussion guides can be downloaded for

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Penguin's new series of Reading Guides will enhance your reading experience and stimulate group discussions. The guides include enlightening introductions that set the works within a historical and literary context.

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smh article by Australia's assistant treasurer, Chris Bowen.

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Article from July 2008

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National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Reading Study

Follow-up to Reading at Risk links declines in reading with poorer academic and social outcomes

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For the first time in more than 25 years, American adults are reading more literature, according to a new study by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Reading habits, research and statistics

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A report released on 27.03.08 by the National Year of Reading shows a staggering 45% of teenagers have been told off by an adult for enjoying something that is not deemed to be ‘proper reading’. It is these narrow definitions of what constitutes reading t

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