Tag: Literacy
Book Week: it’s not the costume that matters, but falling in love with reading
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My phone pings and it’s a message from my brother. Do we have an old white dress my niece could borrow...
Yes, audiobooks count as ‘real reading’. Here are 3 top titles to get you started
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Audiobook listening has been called a “silent revolution” in the publishing industry over the last decade. The US audiobook market is estimated to be...
Most government information on COVID-19 is too hard for the average Australian to understand
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Almost half of Australian adults struggle with reading. Similar levels of struggling readers are reported in the United Kingdom and United States.
This does not mean all...
Now everyone’s a statistician. Here’s what armchair COVID experts are getting wrong
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If we don’t analyse statistics for a living, it’s easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics on social media,...
If you can read this headline, you can read a novel. Here’s how to ignore your phone and just do it
Fewer people are reading novels for pleasure than in the past.
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Public anxiety about the capacity of digital-age children and young adults to read...