Literacy Forum

Volume 38, No 1, 2023

This Literacy Forum contains the following items:

  • From the President – Kay Hancock

  • From the Editors – Steph Dix

  • Entanglements between literacy development, social-economic development and learning lives - Peter Johnston

  • Our students’ literacy decline: How strong is the case for a phonics start in children’s reading? - Warwick Elley

  • Children as writers: The nature and types of children’s awareness of emotive language while writing - Moira Newton and Rebecca Jesson

  • The first step is always a story - Ben Brown, Reading Ambassador

  • I have a story to tell-  Charlotte Gibbs

  • Celebrating Literacy: An interview with Dr Libby Limbrick -  Stephanie Dix

  • Book Review: Teaching Readers (Not Reading):Moving beyond skills and strategies to reader focused instruction - Review by Heather Bell

  • Book reviews

  • Council Reports