ALEA News

• 10th Feb 12 Seeking Editors for ALEA's Middle Years Journal

  EoI SHOULD BE LODGED WITH THE PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR BY MONDAY, 19 MARCH 2012.

  ALEA members interested in being part of the editorial team for Literacy Learning: the Middle Years are invited to forward an expression of interest to the Publications Director, Marion Meiers.

  The appointment of the editorial team will be confirmed by the end of March 2012. The initial two year term will begin in April 2012. 

• 1st Feb 12 Reading Comprehension

  Reading Comprehension is the latest publication from ALEA.  It presents some outcomes of a major professional learning project undertaken by ALEA Tasmania.  The project was organised to provide teachers with opportunities to design, monitor and implement research based on powerful, accessible ideas about reading comprehension in their own classrooms.

• 15th Jan 12 ALEA Research Grants

  ALEA RESEARCH GRANTS
  Applications for the 2012-13 ALEA Research Grants are now open. 
  The Australian Literacy Educators’ Association provides small grants for schools and teachers who wish to conduct research inquiries with a focus on literacy education. Each research project must have the support of an academic partner. Contingent upon available funding, grants of up to $6,000 may be awarded each year.

• 17th Jul 11 Reading and Responding

  Reading and Responding, published by ALEA in 2010, is a guidebook for teachers about finding, choosing and using literature in the primary classroom. Many kinds of texts are introduced, including picture books, novels, poetry, visual and multimodal texts and texts from a range of cultural contexts. The book offers a rich collection of practical and challenging classroom activities for all year levels.