Book reading is an important part of individual and social wellbeing (Image copyright: Sadami Konchi) Each year, I survey my Literacies students about their reading and writing activities. Over the…
Ingrid PillerDecember 27, 2024
Readability scores of the two selected public service information texts by the NSW Government This morning I googled “nsw corona/covid restrictions”. The top hits all refer to NSW Government websites,…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 1, 2020
My "audience" as I was recording the first online lecture for the new term Yesterday, I spent six hours pre-recording a puny little lecture of 15 minutes for the postgraduate…
Ingrid PillerJuly 27, 2020
Hamburg Central Library welcomes patrons in many languages and offers free wifi Since I was 19, I’ve often thought about a student who I’ve never met and whose name I…
Ingrid PillerAugust 4, 2019
My Grade 2 Reader and my primary Song book When I was a child, I eagerly anticipated the start of each new school year. The first week or two were…
Ingrid PillerJuly 28, 2019
In my work with multilingual families, reading in the home language raises its head on so many levels. It is viewed as a shared family activity in a way that…
Sabine LittleNovember 7, 2018
U.S. Vice President Pence ignores NASA "DO NOT TOUCH" sign. Would anyone else get away with such illiterate behavior? “Literacy” is one of those words that everyone uses as a…
Ingrid PillerAugust 7, 2017
In this library, children like to "cook the books" in the toy oven (Source: Smith, 2017) In preparation for a course on “Literacies” I’m teaching this semester, I spent the…
Ingrid PillerJuly 31, 2017
So much hot air: the character for "meeting" consists of the one for "cloud" under a roof Before my recent visit to Wuhan and Hong Kong I was planning to…
Ingrid PillerDecember 12, 2012
Yesterday, the New York Times carried a heart-breaking story about an exceptional school principal forced from her position under No-Child-Left-Behind legislation in order for the school district to obtain federal…
Ingrid PillerJuly 21, 2010
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