By Ethan Wiseman
Education, Literacy
31 May 2022
How to teach literacy in primary schools is a question that has been asked for decades. Pedagogical ideas may change, or morph, and schools will develop their own approaches Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Company and Product Updates
16 May 2022
Hello young writers! LiteracyPlanet is excited to announce the inaugural Intrepizine Writing Competition. Open to students from years 3 to 10, the competition has been created to encourage students Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Literacy, Product Updates
2 May 2022
Introducing Storyverse The LiteracyPlanet Storyverse is the next evolution in our platform’s history. Teachers needed to expand their students’ learning experience. Students needed to be engaged in their learning in Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Company and Product Updates, Word Mania
7 April 2022
Word Mania 2022 was our biggest one yet. For participation, activity and scores! What other competition has students building over 103 MILLION words!? We have been blown away, dazzled and Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Education, UK News
15 March 2022
The power of engagement in Edtech A teacher will be the first to say that engagement is the key to getting their students focusing, enjoying and learning course content. This Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Literacy
10 February 2022
There’s a new game in town. And at LiteracyPlanet we love it! Wordle has taken the world by storm with it’s oh-so-simple interface, one primary driving concept, and a tasty Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Word Mania
1 February 2022
It’s time to sharpen those word-building skills! The planet’s biggest, funnest* online literacy competition for schools, WORD MANIA, has begun. Compete against other schools to share in $150,000 worth of Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Education
10 January 2022
Why social-emotional learning belongs in the classroom How do you manage all those emotions, relationships and events in your classroom? No matter what age group you teach, students are sure Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Education, Literacy
15 December 2021
Who out there is juggling a variety of personalities in their classroom? If you have more than one student, I’m guessing every teacher! Our backgrounds shape so much about who Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Our Customers, Product Updates
9 December 2021
And that’s a wrap! Well, almost. 2021 has been a year for the record books in many parts of life, including at LiteracyPlanet. We had almost 7 million missions completed Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Our Customers
9 December 2021
LiteracyPlanet is proud to partner with several winners of the 2021 Australian Education Awards. We congratulate the following schools for the richly deserved recognition they received as a result of Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Education, Literacy
7 December 2021
Are we thinking broadly enough about how literacy skills are taught? Literacy-based instruction is an important aspect of teaching all subjects, including Art. And when we consider the diversity in Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Company and Product Updates
1 December 2021
It was an exceptionally difficult process sifting through the hundreds of entries we received from all corners of the globe in our 2021 Educator Wall of Fame. We already knew Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Education, Our Customers
9 November 2021
Teaching can be an impossible task. Between curriculum standards, school administration, leadership, colleagues, students and parents, you’re balancing a lot of stakeholders. Varying interests. Conflicting opinions. Unending demands. And with Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Company and Product Updates
29 October 2021
It’s been a really challenging year for everyone, so we’d like to pass on our gratitude to all of our schools and Educators for being there for all students. Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Industry, Product Updates, UK News
20 October 2021
Last night, our UK Literacy Development Manager, Mark Nicholls, was a guest on the Check It Out Show, produced by the team at NetSupport. Here’s what Mark, and the hosts Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Education, Literacy, UK News
14 October 2021
A rose by any other name… it still smells as sweet, right? Generally speaking, as humans, we don’t like to be deceived. We want to know the truth, or our Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Digital Literacy, Education, Industry, UK News
13 October 2021
Are video games as useful as books when it comes to teaching or learning literacy? While the term ‘useful’ is open to interpretation, what it boils down to is having Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Product Updates, UK News
11 October 2021
The past couple of months have been spent by our development team working on some important enhancements and fun releases. Read on to learn about the new features you’ll now Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Education, Industry
5 October 2021
Maths and English. They tend to be considered two opposite sides of a teaching equation. But the truth is, when combined, they make a formidable team in developing students’ understanding Read more…
