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LitPlus Research and Professional Learning Community

Based at AUT, LitPlus is a research and professional learning community focused on literacy education for children and young people. We support literacy education that puts the pleasures of reading together and equalising differences in children’s literacy at its centre.

What we focus on within the LitPlus community

There are two aspects to the LitPlus community:

Research

Find out more about our latest research on literacy education.

Professional learning

View events and other resources to support literacy education professionals.

Our researchers in the news

Learning is fun

Ruth Boyask talks to The Panel about the Importance of children learning to read for pleasure

Read for fun

Kids do better out of the class if they are reading for pleasure, and not as a chore, research shows

Seriously reading

Learning to read for pleasure is a serious matter (John Milne, Celeste Harrington, Jayne Jackson, Ruth Boyask)

Kids who read do better

Kiwi kids who read for pleasure will do well in other ways – it’s everyone’s responsibility to encourage them (Ruth Boyask, Celeste Harrington and John Milne)

Reading is fun

Ruth Boyask cited in Greg Bruce: It’s time to make school fun again

Meet the team

Learn more about our literacy education researchers and the LitPlus community at AUT.

Our team

Our publications

Quilt of books _{Quilt by LitPlus researcher Jayne Jackson}

View the latest publications on literacy education from researchers in the LitPlus community based at AUT.

Get in touch

Find out more about LitPlus and its research.

Email litplus@aut.ac.nz