Welcome to Murray Gadd Literacy

Murray is a Literacy expert
Dr Murray Gadd

I am an independent literacy facilitator, teacher and researcher and I work across New Zealand and around the world with school leaders, teachers and research colleagues on a wide range of literacy-related topics.

Although my particular research interest is in the teaching of writing, I hold a strong commitment to fostering all teacher actions that generate engagement, progress and achievement amongst diverse students as developing readers and writers.

I have developed this website to share my work with the wider literacy world and to promote further connections across that world. I hope you enjoy reading it.

Within the website, you will be able to read:

  • About me, both as a professional and a person. Read also about the highlights of my career so far as a literacy facilitator, teacher and researcher.
  • About the Services I can offer schools and other educational institutions. This section includes in-depth illustrations of some professional learning and development projects I have recently undertaken within schools, across schools and internationally.
  • Some Testimonials of my school-based and/or research work, submitted principally by school and literacy leaders I have worked closely with.
  • My ongoing Blog – which is primarily about literacy projects I am currently undertaking and literacy-related events that are coming up. Based on a belief that effective teachers of reading and writing should be interested in the art of reading and writing, I also include comments on books (mainly novels) that I am reading and theatre and movies I am attending.

Of further interest may be the resources developed by me that are available in my ShopMany of these are available free-of-charge; some are for purchase. Note that this section will be continually added to.

Finally, If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please do get in touch via the Contact me page

Best Wishes
Murray Gadd