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TrevorHCairney

  1. Ten great books for younger readers - My latest post on some great picture books and short novels for kids 6-9 years - trevorcairney.blogspot.com/2012/05/ten-gr… half a minute ago via Tweet Button
  2. Literacy, Families & Learning NEWS is out! bit.ly/m1jCbA ▸ Top stories today via @ProfessorNana about 6 hours ago via Paper.li
  3. How to Teach Summarizing: A Critical Learning Skill for Students - This is a great post that focuses on images shar.es/q6885 about 9 hours ago via Tweet Button
  4. Smartphone as Saboteur - Great post for parents on the distractions of technology when parenting - huff.to/LnKHa5 about 9 hours ago via Tweet Button
  5. How summer increases the achievement gap - The same thing happens in northern & southern hemisphere holidays. Via @ascd bit.ly/MSkrHz about 9 hours ago via Tweet Button
  6. How to make videos your students will love - Practical post on doing videos in the YouTube generation. Via @eschoolnews eclassroomnews.com/?p=4333 about 9 hours ago via Tweet Button
  7. Literacy, Families & Learning NEWS is out! bit.ly/m1jCbA ▸ Top stories today via @alscblog @CHRasco 11:10 PM May 26th via Paper.li
  8. Literacy, Families & Learning NEWS is out! bit.ly/m1jCbA ▸ Top stories today via @BookChook @GuestXpress @bookpatrol 11:10 PM May 25th via Paper.li
  9. Literacy, Families & Learning NEWS is out! bit.ly/m1jCbA ▸ Top stories today via @AboutKidsBooks 11:10 PM May 24th via Paper.li
  10. Poor literacy tackled in schools by Welsh government - Crazy! They will become slaves to the test & lower standards! bbc.in/KnOepi 2:51 PM May 24th via Tweet Button
  11. The high stakes of standardized tests - Nothing new in them, but they are leading to strange applications schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/17/the… #cnn via @CNN 2:47 PM May 24th via Tweet Button
  12. Literacy, Families & Learning NEWS is out! bit.ly/m1jCbA ▸ Top stories today via @HowePrincipal @playbythebook @RORTexas 11:07 PM May 23rd via Paper.li
  13. Parenting And The Zen Of Roller Coaster Riding - Some truth in this metaphor, but remember we're on the ride together huff.to/LqndAM 3:53 PM May 23rd via Tweet Button
  14. Commencements, from 1642 onward | The humble beginnings of one of the world's great Universities. @harvard news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/… via 3:35 PM May 23rd via Tweet Button
  15. “Why won’t you answer me?” - An interesting post on parental roles, scaffolding, questioning, play etc at home - salon.com/2012/05/20/why… 3:21 PM May 23rd via Tweet Button
  16. Career built on creative writing - Lovely article on one writer's personal story, and the role of teachers in it - smh.com.au/national/educa… 5:44 AM May 23rd via Tweet Button
  17. @cmcka @trevorhcairney Glad you liked it. It's one of my favourite kids books. Brian is also a close friend. Try 'A Cage of Butterflies' too 5:42 AM May 23rd via web in reply to cmcka
  18. Literacy, Families & Learning NEWS is out! bit.ly/m1jCbA ▸ Top stories today via @BookChook @MrsPstorytime @Jumpstartkids 11:08 PM May 22nd via Paper.li
  19. 'To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays' - 72yrs after Stein wrote it the first illustrated version released - brainpickings.org/index.php/2012… 11:52 PM May 21st via web
  20. Literacy, Families & Learning NEWS is out! bit.ly/m1jCbA ▸ Top stories today via @CBCBook @CHRasco @AdLit 11:08 PM May 21st via Paper.li
  • Name Trevor Cairney
  • Location Sydney
  • Web http://www.trevor...
  • Bio Teacher, writer & researcher interested in how children learn, imagine, create & use language & literacy. Sharing ideas that challenge & make us think.
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