Reading and Literacy - useful links
General Literacy | Literature Circles | Book Review sites | Book Awards
A quite eclectic selection of Literacy links!
EdNA - a great one-stop shop aimed at educators across the curriculum.
- Literacy & Numeracy
- Reading & Viewing
- For English Teachers
- For Teacher Librarians (including Ideas for Book Week, book raps, Readers Cup etc)
Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers http://www.teachingideas.co.uk [Click on Time-fillers, and you will see that Rebus, plus heaps of other good stuff, will be there]
Achievement in Literacy and Numeracy by Australian 14-Year Olds, 1975-1998. This Longitudinal Survey (LSAY) Research Report from ACER examines student achievement scores on tests of reading comprehension and mathematics from five studies conducted between 1975 and 1998... http://www.acer.edu.au/research/vocational/lsay/reports/lsay29.pdf
Boys demonstrate literacy in ways the current curriculum doesn't assess. By Heather Blair and Kathy Sanford On Line Opinion 2000 ISSN 1442-8458 Canada http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/2003/Feb03/Blair&Sanford.htm
"We came to recognize literacy as a dominant social practice through which the boys in our study shaped their identities and developed and maintained close personal relationships.... Five themes arose repeatedly in their comments: 1. personal interest; 2. action; 3. success; 4. fun; and 5. purpose."
James Moloney http://www.home.gil.com.au/~cbcqld/jamesfaq3.htm
Ian Lillico's' website: http://www.boysforward.com
Glyn Parry's talk on boys & literacy for WASLA: http://www.apea.asn.au/~wasla/
Rosemary Horton's links (excellent as always):
- Boy's education http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/teaching/boys.htm
- Boys are People Too: Boys and Reading html version http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/teaching/boyreadp.htm
- Books and Authors for Boys http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/teaching/bksboys.htm
- Literacy Across The Curriculum http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/teaching/literacy.htm
Visual Literacy Collection http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/resources.htm
Literature Circles
Thanks to Pat Pledger for these, posted to oztlnet, July 2003:
The CMIS site, WA Department of Education and Training has a resource page on Literature Circles http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/fiction/classroom/class3.htm
There is also an AskERIC page: http://www.askeric.org/cgi-bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/Subjects/Language_Arts/Literature/literature_circle.html
Jennie Bales, Charles Sturt University has published her research which involved literature circles in the electronic environment. You may like to contact her. Email: jbales@csu.edu.au
Book Review sites for junior students
Posted to oztlnet, 22 Oct 2003
YABBA (Young Australian's Best Book Awards) the Victorian Based Children's Choice Book awards has a reviews section on its website at www.vicnet.net.au/~yabba Students are invited to submit their reviews of Australian stories they have read for inclusion on the website.
Aussie reviews by Sally Murphy http://www.aussiereviews.com/
Which book? http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/fiction/whichbook/index.htm
http://www.thechildrensbookshop.com.au
Book Awards : General lists | Australian lists | UK Book Awards
General lists
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature. A comprehensive and international database. © 2003 Lisa R. Bartle http://www.dawcl.com/
Book Awards A-Z A most useful site with sections on books made into films, study guides, author biographies etc. http://www.literature-awards.com/bookawards.htm
Children's Book Awards A guide to fictional kids books and novels that have won awards in the past. Awards include the Young Reader's Choice Award, Hans Christian Andersen Medals and more. American bias. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/awards.html
Award Winning Books - USA Awards such as the National Book Awards, Nobel Prize, Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal and Pulitzer Prize. http://www.alibris.com/ articles_features/ features/ awards/ awards-home.cfm
Pulitzer Prize: http://www.pulitzer.org/navigation/index.html
Children's Literature awards http://www.bookawards.bizland.com/childrens_literature.htm
Literature Awards http://www.literature-awards.com/awards.htm
Australian lists
Western Australia Premier's Book Awards Lists the winners of the past year and provides information about prize money, entrance guidelines and categories. http://www.liswa.wa.gov.au/pba.html
Young Australian Readers' Awards (YARA) National, online students choice awards. Includes student written reviews, latest titles, and favourites. http://www.yara-online.org/
The BILBY Awards (Children's Choice) http://www.home.gil.com.au/~cbcqld/bilby.htm
Royal Blind Society - Talking Book of the Year Award Annual award offered by the Royal Blind Society, highlighting the importance of talking books for readers with print disabilities. http://www.rbs.org.au/
Vision Australia Foundation - Braille Book of the Year 2001 http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ dir104/ visionsite.nsf/ pages/ read_braillebook01
Online Book Lists http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/fiction/whichbook/which2.htm#data
UK Book Awards
Guardians First Book Award http://www.guardian.co.uk/firstbook/
Whitbread Book Awards The Whitbread is one of the longest-running and most prestigious book awards in the UK http://www.whitbread-bookawards.co.uk/
Booker Prize http://www.bookerprize.co.uk/home.asp
Orange prize http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/
Posted to oztlnet by Jon Noble. Toronto HS, NSW; July 2003
If you really want to go overboard on Awards there is a huge list here (mostly sf or fantasy but still many others) http://www.dpsinfo.com/awardweb/index.html
Posted to oztlnet by Kerrie Smith, EdNA; July 2003
Just out of interest, the Dublin Award, the richest of literary awards, is at: http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/index.htm