Literacy Forum

Volume 36, No 1, 2021

This Literacy Forum contains the following items:

  • From the President

  • From the Editors

  • Cartoon Tom Gauld

  • Growing learners’ spoken language capabilities: Creating optimal classroom conditions - Jannie van Hees

  • Poetry with Room 9 - Scotty Delemare

  • Digital tools to support reading and writing poetry - Andrea Robertson

  • The simple view of reading: Understanding the components that contribute to reading comprehension - Clare Spicer

  • A respite from the weight of words: the IBBY Silent Book Exhibition at the University of Waikato - Nicola Daly

  • Book Reviews - Heather Bell

  • Engaging Literate Minds - Peter H. Johnston, Kathy Champeau, Andrea Hartwig, Sarah Helmer, Merry Komar, Tara Krueger, and Laurie McCarthy, Zac McCallum

  • New Zealand Disasters - Maria Gill and Marco Ivancic

  • The House at the Edge of Magic - Amy Sparkes

  • Congratulations to Apolonia Tamata

  • News from the Councils