Blog posts for ‘Literacy’ 
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What the Dickens?
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Categories: Education, Literacy, Media Influence
On the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, his biographer, Claire Tomalin, claims that, “Today’s children have very short attention spans because they are being raised on dreadful TV programmes”. There ARE some dreadful television programmes today, as there were in the 1970s as I grew up, but there are some brilliant ones too. I wonder how many young people saw the excellent adaptation of ‘Great Expectations’ at Christmas, and were encouraged to try reading the novel...
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