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Your HAR stories
At the HARs, we LOVE nothing better than to hear from teachers, students, parents, Nanas, Grandpas, Aunties and Uncles, big and little sisters and brothers-everyone who is using the books in their reading journies! So, we were thrilled to receive two fantastic emails this week. The first from a very proud Mum who wrote, “Just…
88th ABA conference in Sydney on Sunday 17th June
Another exciting update about a recent Conference and Trade Exhibition ‘Making Waves’ that Honey Ant Readers author, Margaret James attended in Sydney on Sunday 17th June. Margaret joined Juliet Rogers, Chair of the Indigenous Literacy Fund, who spoke of the wonderful work of the ILF. Margaret presented on the challenges that Australian Aboriginal students in…
Reading Book 3 together!
Play the video, listen to the audio and read along with us!
Lets read Book 1 together!
Play the video, listen to the song and the sing and read along together!
Honey Ant Readers author, Margaret James winner of QUT Outstanding Alumni Awards for Education!
We are very excited to announce that Honey Ant Readers author, Margaret James, is the QUT Education Faculty Outstanding Alumni Award Winner for 2012! These awards recognise Australian and overseas graduates of QUT and its predecessor institutions for their exceptional professional, academic or research achievements, and contributions to the community at the local, state, national…
We bin digging for Honey Ants out West!
Two wonderful Elders and a group of Western Arrernte children took Nana Honey Ant (HARs author, Margaret James) and 2 dedicated young tutors, Joe (plus camera and shovel) and Amber (plus water and food), out hunting and digging for honey ants and witchetty grubs west of Alice Springs . They were filming for Margaret’s presentation at…
New series of HARs for Mandarin speakers learning English
Dear Readers, We are delighted to share news of our new series of HARs, specifically designed to address the English language learning needs of Mandarin speakers. This new set of books is currently being developed, based on similar principles to the original series for Indigenous Australians, with vibrant colours, fun themes, songs and rhymes and…
NAPLAN results show we could do better with Indigenous students
For anyone interested in education in Australia, the release of the latest National Assessment Program, Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results on the My School Website and the launch of the corresponding report by Schools Minister Peter Garrett last week will be met with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the overall reading results of Indigenous…
Learning to read under water! Reading is COOL!
Today we had great fun beating the heat by reading in the swimming pool – under water! Diving for words. Not only did I keep cool getting splashed as the children rushed to ‘retrieve’ the words but it was exctiting to see the ‘lesson’ being so effective! For the beginner readers they just retrieve one word…