Archive - Insights

A Memory Marvel

One of my colleagues has a collection of some exceptional children’s books. Very recently, he brought Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox to…

Apr 19 •

June 2022

What mushrooms can teach us

Musings from a writing workshop

Jun 3, 2022 •

August 2021

A tiny little crack

Reading-related research

Aug 11, 2021 •

March 2021

Short Fiction Contest

Making invisibility shine

Mar 31, 2021 •

Wrecked Writing

What if your child struggles with writing

Mar 6, 2021 •

February 2021

How to assess your kutti (little) reader

Valerie Yule's experiment revisited

Feb 13, 2021 •

January 2021

What if your child has reading-related difficulties

If your child has entered preschool, then it's a moment of great celebration since it is the first fledgeling step towards what eventually will become…

Jan 31, 2021 •

Materials Matter

Why reading age-appropriate materials are critical

Jan 26, 2021 •

September 2020

Reclaim the lost art of reading

As the years go by, my encounter with people who don't read keeps climbing. No. This isn't an arbitrary attribution I am pulling out of thin air. As an…

Sep 20, 2020 •

July 2020

Ready early, read well...

Why are some writers more interesting to read than others? Why is one piece of writing easy to understand and another on the same subject difficult? The…

Jul 26, 2020 •

Words that heal the world

Every once in awhile, you will come across something beautiful, poignant and articulate, that your heart will begin to bleed for it. The 'something' in…

Jul 9, 2020 •

Benchmark your writing

5 ways to cut to the chase

Jul 3, 2020 •

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