Lighting the Literacy Pathway
Monday 25 - Wednesday 27th September, Invercargill, Southland
On Saturday 7th of September young Waikato writers and illustrators, aged between 9 and 13, have an opportunity to attend the 2019 Young Authors Conference. This biennial event has a fabulous cast of 12 talented authors, illustrators (and entertainers) from near and afar- including some New Zealand favourites: Des Hunt,…
Storying for Drama and Storytelling “I’ve always been a believer of magic - not the trick kind but the sort that suddenly makes visible what you couldn’t see and delights you in the process”— Tanya Batt
Boys make up the majority of the reluctant and underachieving writers in our schools. This majority lag behind girls in written language; they engage in a variety of behaviours to avoid fully participating in the writing process. This presentation will look at some of the reasons for these behaviours and…
Come along to try out some STEAM workshop ideas that can be run in your library - linked to books/ literacy tasks
Jane van der Zeyden is the author of the Oral Language Toolkit. Join her and unpack the English Language Learning Progressions (ELLP's).
50 delicately gift-wrapped children's books kindly donated by Scholastic will be gifted to the Te Awamutu Birthing Centre where they will each be distributed by the amazing centre staff to the mothers of any babies born in the up and coming days or weeks. We like to foster children's love…
