The Honey Ant Readers Blog - Literacy Issues for Australian Indigenous Children

Thank You to Elder Valerie Foster and Linguist Amee Glass!

Sep 3, 2014

A huge thank you to Elder, Valerie Foster, from Wanarn, WA, for so expertly reading the Ngaanyatjarra Honey Ant Readers at the Impaarja Studios today: ‘Kaparlilu Tjawara’; ‘Kaparlilu Parna Tjitirn-tjitirnpangka Tjawara’ and ‘Ngari Pirnipurlka’. Thank you to Linguist, Amee Glass, for being there to support us! The recordings will accompany our Ngaanyatjarra editions which will…

New HAR Boxes!

Sep 2, 2014

We’re SO excited about our new Counter box and Board Games box. The board games will mean that busy teachers no longer have to laminate the games from the Activity books – they are done for you! Thanks to our talented graphic designer, Kathy Mason, Kelani Design for her great work!

Beehive Industries in Perth

Sep 1, 2014

The terrific team of workers at are packing all the HAR resources into our new, bright, red boxes this week!

Friday’s ‘Centralian Advocate’ Editorial about the HARs.

Aug 30, 2014

IT Team

Aug 28, 2014

Analysing the stats on the Honey Ant Readers’ webpage with our terrific team of IT boffins! Thanks to Timothy Butler for managing it all!

Nana Dig

Aug 26, 2014

Digging for honey ants west of Alice Springs, NT, with traditional land owners, Jennifer Inkamala and Dulcie Sharpe.

HAR at AILA

Aug 25, 2014

More wonderful, long-suffering friends weighing in to help thread red string through the new Honey Ant Readers 1 to 10 card bags for remote schools. Thank you!

HAR Invited to Speak at AILA World Congress 2014

Aug 22, 2014

The Honey Ant Readers were invited to deliver a workshop entitled ‘Applying linguistic and SLA theory to teaching in remote multilingual settings – Honey Ant Readers’ at the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) World Congress held in Brisbane’s Convention Centre from 10 – 15th August. Timothy Butler representing HARs.

Print Run Busyness

Aug 20, 2014

Marg and printing manager, Colin, having a close look at the ‘HAR red’ on the proofs. We are very fussy about the exact red on our borders! The printers show us our new HAR box! Bright, bold and VERY exciting!