Back to posting school work, oy god. Well, at least I'm back to using this blog for something. I've generally been blogging on my tumblr. It is good, and regularly updatable due to the wonder that is reblogging. Anyway, onto the websites for literacy promotion!
Fiction uncovered promotes
contemporary British fiction. Each year a panel of judges selects eight fiction
books written by British authors and makes them a part of a major promotion
supported by retailers, as well as making them the centre of a major publicity
and marketing campaign.
The Children’s Book Council of
Australia is a non-profit organisation that promotes children’s and young adult
literature. To accomplish this, the Council runs various competitions, reading
programs and runs a book week. The Council also has a panel of judges that
select various books of the year for older readers, younger readers, early
childhood, and picture books.
The Big Book Club, Inc. was
established in 2003 to promote reading, literature, and Australian authors and
illustrators. It has two major projects, The Big Book Club (for adults) and The
Little Big Book Club (for parents of children aged 0-5), and runs events around
Australia to promote literacy.
The Indigenous Literacy
Foundation is an organisation that aims to improve the literacy of
Indigenous Australians. To achieve this,
the foundation provides books and support to Indigenous parents, assists in the
writing and publishing of books in the child’s first language as well as
English, and encourages links between the book trade, schools and libraries to
ensure that there is a supply of books in remote Indigenous communities.
The Asia Literacy Teachers
Association of Australia is a non-profit organisation that aims to advance
education, and raise awareness of Asia literacy through grassroots networks in
schools. The reason it aims to do this is because of the rising importance of
Asian countries in Australian business, trade, employment, sources of
immigration and social integration, making an understanding of Asian cultures
invaluable.
The Australian Literacy
Educators’ Association is an independent association dedicated to literacy
development from early childhood through all stages of schooling and tertiary
education. ALEA works with the AATE (Australian Association for the Teaching of
English) and PETAA (Primary English Teachers Association Australia) to create
the units for the Australian Curriculum:
English. It also works with bodies such as the Australian Government,
UNESCO, the International Reading Association and other similar organisations on
various projects and literacy promotion activities.
The South Australian Council for
Adult Literacy works towards the promotion and advocacy for a literate society.
It brings together all those interested in adult literacy, such as
universities, industries and training organisations.
Love2Read is a collaborative
project that joins public libraries, government, community groups, media and
commercial partners, and the public to promote literacy with various programs
and events such as the National Year of Reading.
The Australian Council for Adult
Literacy promotes adult literacy and numeracy. To accomplish this, they provide
various services, such as a forum for debates on issues surrounding adult
literacy and numeracy practises in Australia, information on current policies
and services, promoting awareness of the adult literacy and numeracy issues,
among numerous others.
Learning Difficulties Australia
is an organisation that aims to help people with learning difficulties. This
page on the website is aimed at helping improve language and literacy skills
despite any learning difficulties that the person may have by providing links
to other websites that have information and research on the subject.
Paths to Literacy is a website
that caters to blind and visually impaired students. It aims to help blind and
visually impaired people advance their literacy skills, and provides a plethora
of information about how to do so.
The Aboriginal Literacy
Foundation is an organisation that aims to close the literacy and numeracy gap
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people. To do this, the foundation
provides weekly one-on-one sessions with Indigenous Australians that are
struggling to make literacy gains, as well as providing camps to fast track
literacy and numeracy learning for students that are significantly
disadvantaged.
Scholastic is a market leading
Australian book publishing company. As a market leader, Scholastic is one of
the most well-known publishing brands in the country, and it takes advantage of
its reputation by promoting books and literacy in schools. It accomplishes this
through programs such as book clubs and book fairs.
Read2Remember is an initiative
designed to promote the wellbeing of young people in schools by teaching them
the importance of Remembrance Day through literature. It does this in the hopes
that children will be able to learn and understand the characteristics found in
the servicemen and women of Australia can be found in them too, in order to
help them be the best that they can be.
Good Reading magazine is a monthly magazine and website that
is dedicated to books and reading. It aims to help people find new books that
they may be interested in reading, and to encourage readers to try reading
books from new or different authors, or genres that they may not typically
read.
very comprehensive Ash - well done!
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