by Rosalie Martin | Apr 5, 2018 | Communicating the Heart of Literacy
Communicating – it’s the heart of literacy. Communicating back-and-forth builds language in individuals and communities – and language is the foundation for becoming literate. For the majority of people this means spoken language, but not in all cases – for people who...
by Rosalie Martin | Jan 15, 2018 | Featured
See ABCs 7.30 report on Chatter Matters’ work in prison and community. It’s worthy work toward a safer, fairer, more compassionate society.
by Rosalie Martin | Aug 29, 2017 | Chats with Helen Shield ABC 936, Featured
Helen and I talked about reading to children on 29th August. Honestly, there is hardly a better way to build everything that is worth living for! When we read and share story we are bringing language, connected relationship, practice of emotional regulation, the...
by Rosalie Martin | Aug 26, 2017 | Projects
In 2015 more than 5000 children’s books were generously and abundantly donated by the public to the No Bars on Books campaign in Tasmania. These book donations were then passed on to the prison’s wonderful, and long-standing, Books-on-CD program. In the...
by Rosalie Martin | Jul 23, 2017 | Chats with Helen Shield ABC 936
On the 28th March Helen and I talked about Open-Honest questions The broad purpose of a question is to gain information. But in western culture we often use questions in ways which are also sneakily giving information. Very often in our conversations we will ask...
