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Bronwyn Sheehan is the founder and CEO of the Pyjama Foundation and the 2009 Queenslander of the Year.

What is the Pyjama Foundation?
The Pyjama Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2004 with the vision of transforming vulnerable children’s lives through the immersion of literacy.
What prompted you to create the Pyjama Foundation?
Having 3 children of my own, I experienced first hand the benefits of reading books …

The practice of homogeneous group reading is not new. This model of reading has been a common practice in schools for many decades. So what is the difference between small group, round robin reading and guided reading?

Guided reading occurs when teachers select texts based around the instructional reading level of students and also consider how texts support and challenge particular groups of students. At the …

I recently conducted a reading workshop with a group of middle years’ teachers. When discussing comprehension strategies, one teacher noted that her students found it difficult to consider texts from perspectives other than their own. As we fleshed out the importance of connecting to and from texts, I shared a recent lesson I had conducted with a group of Year 5 students in …