Current Literacy issues across practice, policy and research
Literacy Today No. 65, December 2010
Comment
Features
Literacy’s un-level playing field
Graham Frater on children’s family background as the biggest influence on their educational attainment.
Reading by six
Christine Gilbert, HMCI on how to teach children to read by six.
Back to Classics
Cathy France reviews Thought and Language by Lev Vygotsky.
Lessons the Army can teach Civvy Street
Martin Rose reports on how the Army is gearing up for Functional Skills Teaching
Lifelong Literacy: In, out and beyond work
Carol Taylor on the NIACE Inquiry into Adult Literacy
National Literacy Trust
Viewpoint
Jonathan Douglas discusses the NLT’s priorities under the new government in light of the forthcoming Spending Review
Rising to the Challenge: Conservative Party Conference
The national Literacy Trust events in September and October at the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative party conferences.
Reference
Document Reviews
We review Learning to Improve the Lives and Aspirations of Young People in Scotland from HMIe, Reading by Six: How the best schools do it and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Review from Ofsted.
Document Digest
Research
CUSANZ
We report on the latest research and policy news from Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand.
Research digest
Ongoing research, article abstracts and article titles of research from education and science journals.
General
Parliament
We report on debates in the House of Lords on funding of public libraries and on lifelong learning. The Northern Ireland Assembly debated speech and language therapy. There were written questions on literacy from the House of Commons, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly.