alayton9Oct 23, 20201 min readBlog RollCheck out these blogs that I follow! https://electricliterature.com/?gi=455119adacee https://lithub.com/ https://themillions.com/...
alayton9Oct 18, 20204 min readNot so 'popular' popular cultureThis post takes as its starting point a comment from Jack Thomson’s seminal text, which, even though it was published all the way back in...
alayton9Oct 18, 20203 min readGround Zero: Incorporating popular music into the poetry classroomIt’s all well and good to say that we as educators should incorporate popular culture into our classrooms, but what is the actual reality...
alayton9Oct 18, 20203 min readA Report Card: The English Prescribed Text ListGiven the fact Queensland is in the midst of implementing the first two-year cycle of the new English syllabus for Senior students and...
alayton9Oct 18, 20202 min readCreating digital platforms to promote reading for pleasureOne of the most common lamentations I have heard from my fellow colleagues is about why our adolescent students don’t read for pleasure...