1:00pm Luncheon
2.00pm Keynote: All kids can be readers!
2024–25 Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin knows firsthand what can happen if, despite all your efforts, reading doesn’t ‘click’ for a child. As a parent, author, and advocate for children’s literature, she believes strongly that all kids can be readers, if they are given the correct support.
- Putting a spotlight on the importance of literacy for school and life, and why we need to take the burden off the children and focus on changing the world around them
- Creating more understanding around learning difficulties, as well as neurodivergency in the classroom to create a much better chance of ensuring no child falls through the cracks
Sally Rippin, Australian Children's Laureate 2024 - 2025
Thank you to the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation for supporting Sally’s appearance at the conference.
2:45pm Keynote: Reading for pleasure
Megan Daley, Teacher Librarian, and published author
3:30pm Afternoon Tea
4.00pm Panel discussion: Reading for meaning IS reading for learning
- Are reading for learning and reading for meaning really different reasons for reading?
- When using reading in learning, how do we foreground particular meanings and purposes of texts?
- Which instructional practices underpin our ability to teach reading for meaning in learning?
Moderated by: Associate Professor Helen Adam, Edith Cowan University, and Director, PETAA
4:45pm PETAA Awards Presentation
4.55pm Close of Day One of Conference
5.00pm Networking drinks
6.00pm End of Day One