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10 ways to get the most out of silent reading in schools

  • Written by: Margaret Kristin Merga, Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University
10 ways to get the most out of silent reading in schoolsChildren need time and space to enjoy the books they choose to read in schools.Shutterstock/wavebreakmedia

Reading aloud can help young children learn about new words and how to sound them. There’s great value too in providing opportunities for children to enjoy regular silent reading, which is sustained reading of materials they select for...

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From crime fighters to crime writers

  • Written by: Lili Pâquet, Lecturer in Writing, University of New England

In Dervla McTiernan’s book, The Scholar, published earlier this year, women are consistently used as the “fall guys” for men with high aspirations. Two young women are killed when they uncover fraud. Another female colleague is then framed for the murders.

Before writing crime fiction, McTiernan worked as a lawyer for 12 years,...

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young disabled New Zealanders on the barriers to a better life

  • Written by: Penelope Carroll, Researcher in Public Health, Massey University
young disabled New Zealanders on the barriers to a better life

Our research project explored the everyday lives of disabled young people, aged from 12 to 25 years, with mobility, vision and hearing impairments. We measured and asked them about factors that enabled or constrained their opportunities to fully participate in community life, including education, employment and recreational activities.

With...

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To go to China you have to be invited: Morrison

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Scott Morrison was frank, when quizzed at a news conference during his visit to Washington, on whether he would be seeking to travel to China in the next year.

“Well, you have to be invited to go,” he said.

With Australia-China relations at a low point – due to Australia’s foreign interference legislation, the banning of...

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  2. why don't we have electric aircraft?
  3. how ancient virtues can guide our responses to the climate crisis
  4. A shot of hope in the face of climate despair
  5. It's safest to avoid e-cigarettes altogether – unless vaping is helping you quit smoking
  6. What is the charge of concealment of birth and why is it still happening in Australia?
  7. We want to learn about climate change from weather presenters, not politicians
  8. on the ending of a friendship
  9. Ignoring young people's climate change fears is a recipe for anxiety
  10. Another stolen generation looms unless Indigenous women fleeing violence can find safe housing
  11. Why do men have nipples?
  12. putting government money where policy needs to go
  13. We don't need another inquiry into family law – we need action
  14. NBN's new price plans are too little, too late
  15. The big budget question is why the surplus wasn't big
  16. It's Newstart pay rise day. You're in line for 24 cents, which is peanuts
  17. Your brain has 'landmarks' that drive neural traffic and help you make hard decisions
  18. Morrison government solid on industrial relations reform but bootlicks One Nation on family law
  19. How rising temperatures affect our health
  20. How the Biloela Tamil family deportation case highlights the failures of our refugee system
  21. Stop calling young people apathetic. For many, volunteering and activism go hand-in-hand
  22. investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer, who led the Panama Papers tax exposé
  23. inquiry underway to determine any wrongdoing by New Zealand troops in Afghanistan
  24. the evolution of Goth subculture in sub-tropical Brisbane
  25. There's a good reason we're moderating climate change deniers: uninformed comments undermine expertise
  26. it's almost all about housing
  27. For routine breast screening, you may not need a 3D mammogram
  28. two reef scientists share their climate grief
  29. Iran wants to create chaos in the Middle East. But conflict with the US remains a limited, if worrying, possibility
  30. NZ was first to grant women the vote in 1893, but then took 26 years to let them stand for parliament
  31. 3 keys to getting the policy mix right
  32. Cable ties probably won't stop magpie attacks – here are a few things to try instead
  33. Ever wondered what our curriculum teaches kids about climate change? The answer is 'not much'
  34. Why would anyone shiver their timbers? Here’s how pirate words arrr preserving old language
  35. family loss and sorry business that invokes laughter and tears
  36. Now the senators are taking on John Setka
  37. How do you know if your child has hay fever and how should you treat it?
  38. How big is the International Space Station?
  39. sporting statues can enshrine players and also capture pivotal cultural moments
  40. Why attending a climate strike can change minds (most importantly your own)
  41. why we won't be heading into an ice age any time soon
  42. our anxiety over China's influence is hurting Chinese-Australians
  43. the nations leading and failing on climate action
  44. Jacqui Lambie mixes battler politics with populism to make her swing vote count
  45. Could managers BE any more authentic? 3 ways you can improve your leadership skills by watching Friends
  46. Robo-debt is only one way government stigmatises claimants. There's only so much a class action can do
  47. How other countries get parents to vaccinate their kids (and what Australia can learn)
  48. PayID data breaches show Australia's banks need to be more vigilant to hacking
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