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Direct linkMerga, Margaret K. – English in Australia, 2020
Although teacher librarians play a role as literacy and literature educators in schools, little research attention is given to this role. In addition, the use of book discussion in school libraries to enhance reading engagement is not often closely considered as an educative practice. This paper draws on qualitative research findings from…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Learner Engagement, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Merga, Margaret; Gardiner, Veronica – English in Australia, 2018
The Australian Curriculum positions literacy as a general capability to be taught across all subject areas. While schools may design agreements and policies to formalise the position of literacy as a whole-school priority, there is relatively limited research guiding the structure and content of these planning documents. We contend that reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Educational Policy, Reading Instruction
Merga, Margaret K. – English in Education, 2015
The emphasis on schools' providing reading materials for students at home is very much on the primary school years, when the skill of reading is being acquired. Little consideration has been given to the impact of curtailing school-mediated access to books beyond this point. Regular recreational reading offers a wide range of benefit, and is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Family Environment, Recreational Reading, Books
Merga, Margaret K. – English in Education, 2016
The benefits of regular recreational reading for literacy development have been widely acknowledged, and as such, encouraging children to be life-long readers is an educational imperative. Teachers who are models of keen recreational reading can play an important role in fostering a keen love of reading in children, so that they regularly engage…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods
Download full textScholastic Inc., 2015
In late 2015, Scholastic, in conjunction with YouGov, conducted a survey to explore family attitudes and behaviours in Australia around reading books for fun. The key findings of this research, based on a nationally representative sample of 1,748 parents and children, including 358 parents of children aged 0-5; 695 parents of children aged 6-17;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Attitudes, Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading
Barratt-Pugh, Caroline; Allen, Nola – Australian Library Journal, 2011
Since 2005, "Better Beginnings", an early intervention, statewide family literacy programme developed by The State Library of Western Australia, has provided thousands of families with strategies and resources to promote and support book-sharing from birth. This paper reports on the key findings of an independent longitudinal evaluation…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Reading Attitudes, Government Libraries, Foreign Countries
