By Ethan Wiseman
Company and Product Updates, Product Updates
17 June 2016
LiteracyPlanet has released a new product update to make searching, locating and assigning exercises to students faster and easier. Quick Assign allows teachers to perform quick program wide searches to find Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Education
2 May 2016
The inclusion of an early phonics check as part of school funding conditions announced in the Federal Government’s 2016-17 Budget this week is an encouraging development for child literacy standards in Australia. Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Company and Product Updates
17 March 2016
LiteracyPlanet has published a new user guide called LiteracyPlanet & the Australian Curriculum. LiteracyPlanet’s content is developed by educators and designed to complement and support the teaching of the Australian Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Product Updates
27 February 2016
LiteracyPlanet has added its comprehension content for Years 1 to 3 to the tablet app, so students in younger year levels can now practise comprehension exercises on their iOS and Android tablets. Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Industry
29 January 2016
LiteracyPlanet and newspaper publisher News Corp Australia have launched ‘Raise A Reader’ – a national editorial-driven campaign that aims to inspire families to respond to Australia’s waning literacy levels by raising a Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Word Mania
9 December 2015
Word Monster packed his overnight bag and travelled to Alice Springs to congratulate the teachers and students of Living Waters Lutheran School, for their spectacular effort for Word Mania 2015. Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Company and Product Updates, Industry
15 November 2015
LiteracyPlanet has been named a finalist in the category for best ‘International Education Resource’ of the prestigious Bett awards. The Bett awards, which celebrate innovation in digital education and the best Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Company and Product Updates
22 October 2015
Teachers have welcomed the opportunity to incorporate a new automated digital resource into their literacy teaching, with online literacy program LiteracyPlanet adding a new student-guided mode. The new mode features Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Word Mania
13 August 2015
Children around Australia have spent 10 million minutes improving their literacy skills as part of a national competition, an achievement equivalent to more than 19 years of literacy skill development! They are using Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Education
27 July 2015
We often come across the terms ‘differentiated learning’ and ‘personalised learning’, especially when it comes to education technology. Both frameworks focus on meeting the diverse educational needs of children, but they Read more…
By Ethan Wiseman
Industry
30 November 2014
Australian parents are concerned about literacy development, and welcome online resources to boost literacy learning at home. New research shows that 86% of parents of primary school aged children are Read more…