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“That everyone should have the right to free access to literacy, at any time, in any way that may help them, regardless of distance or disadvantages or ability to pay.”

Short index

A  Can adults read?  An ultimate test of comprehension- adultread.htm
B - Books worth reading - and add your own
Babl card game for learning Latin and Greek roots and how to work out the meaning of long words
C - Classroom barriers to literacy: /litbar.html
Comprehension in reading - an ultimate test - adultread.htm
Reading Cribs to help learners read stories, using a Dictionary Key
"What it helps to know" - Colored Picture Checklist - /v22colorchecklist.htm
Black-and-white Checklist for easy fotocopying.
D - Spelling guides in children's dictionaries, literacy DVD
D - Dyslexia. A quick test for dyslexia - /dyslexiatest.htm, and some sources of help
E - Encyclopedia . An art treasure not to lose - Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia
F- Free help for reading and spelling - News about online website ozreadandspell and DVD
I - International Literacy Day - September 8. See these ozideas pages on literacy, education and spelling
L - Learning styles of older failing learners: /lernstyl.htm
- Literacy Innovations - litinovations.html
- Lessons - a set of 21 simple lessons. See index below.
O Online overview of what it helps to know www.ozreadandspell.com.au
P -Paired reading - HOW TO really help learners by the way you read with them - /lpaired.htm

- Print. Making print more interesting and helpful - /lprinth.htm - Illustrated by a calendar of the months showing ways to make print itself more interesting and give
clues to reading

P - Preschool, preparing to read through play
Plastic letters as an early literacy aid

R - Reading Cribs to help learners read stories, using the dictionary key
S - More about Spelling and how it could be improved
Self-help aid for literacy - www.ozreadandspell.com.au
T - Test then Teach 
A quick test for dyslexia  
An ultimate comprehension test  adultread.htm
V - Vocabulary. Finding the meaning through Latin and Greek roots.
The game of Babl to learn vocabulary clues /babl.htm
W - Writing systems of the world and their reforms

Alternative covers for literacy DVD

http://www.ozreadandspell.com.au/playtoread.htm

Children learning ABC letters - developmental stages
in free play http://www.ozreadandspell.com.au/abcplay.htm

See submission 144 to the Australian government's Nelson Inquiry into Reading .PDF at
http://www.dest.gov.au/nitl/submissions/141-160.htm

This submission focuses on some neglected factors in teaching and learning how to read books: identifying barriers to literacy in classrooms; preventing barriers to literacy in homes; barriers to literacy in books for children; why so many teachers and learners hate phonics and what can be done; improving teacher-training; self-help in learning for beginners and for failing learners; multimedia in the classroom; assessing reading and innovative tests that teach; and, lastly, research that is needed. The writer is a clinical child psychologist, school psychologist, academic, and teacher.