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Literacy Legends

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1 Season

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6 Episodes

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By Print Radio Tasmania

A series from Powerd Media and Print Radio Tas - disabled storytellers' uplifting stories of Tasmanians working for better literacy.

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2024

Episodes

  1. Back view of person with arms outstretched reaching up out of foliage against a grey sky.
    1. Born to sing

    14 mins

    A music therapist speaks of singing's importance in improving literacy skills.

  2. Banner for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - showing the name with colourful steam train drawing, and Dolly at right in glasses, looking up from a book.
    2. Rick and Dolly

    12 mins

    A mission to bring Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to improve literacy in Tasmania.

  3. Plastic coloured letters on a white table. A Z, G, S backwards, and below the letters A, B, C.
    3. Screening for success

    13 mins

    A Tasmanian primary school works with specialist educators in an innovative project to improve literacy.

  4. Front view of Jordan River Learning Federation school, showing driveway, buildings and a cloudy blue skyu.
    4. Leaps and bounds

    14 mins

    A Tasmanian senior school takes action to improve reading skills.

  5. Looking down at a desk, on which is a laptop, ear buds and other tech devices - and just visible, a flowerpot.
    5. Digital literacy

    16 mins

    A Tasmanian specialist educator shows how new technology is helping students to achieve digital literacy.

  6. Interior of Hamlet Cafe, Hobart, showing staff at work and patrons seated at tables. Savoury rolls and other food seen in glass case on counter.
    6. Skills for life

    9 mins

    Innovative literacy training in a Tasmanian workplace leads to the realisation of dreams.