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Foundation for Learning and Literacy
14/04/2025

Phonics Plus: does the new Victorian approach to reading miss differentiation and meaning-making?

EduResearch Matters Appril 14, 2025 Naomi Nelson While Phonics Plus aims to support early literacy, its lesson plans reveal concerning gaps in differentiation and comprehension development. Victoria’s reading reforms must balance
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Foundation for Learning and Literacy
08/12/2024

‘Evidence-based teaching’ –  the term is everywhere at the moment.

Centre for Professional Learning 5 December, 2024 by Misty Adoniou The Federal government committed $34.6 million in the 2024 Budget ‘to make evidence-based curriculum and student wellbeing support and professional development
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Foundation for Learning and Literacy
06/11/2024

Study finds phonics tests made little impact on reading achievement in UK

RNZ 5 November, 2024 John Gerritsen Just months before the government introduces regular phonics testing in primary schools, a UK study claims similar tests in England made little difference to children's
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Foundation for Learning and Literacy
14/10/2024

The media say we have a reading crisis now . Do we?

Recently the debates around the best ways to teach reading have been reignited. The media coverage has been fierce, and is often led by people who have little or no
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Foundation for Learning and Literacy
14/08/2024

Phonics isn’t working – for children’s reading to improve, they need to learn to love stories

The Conversation April 10, 2024 Willem Hollmann, Cathie Wallace Gee Macrory... And we know from a study that has examined the findings of many research papers that a phonics-led approach is
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Foundation for Learning and Literacy
18/07/2024

Part 2: Teaching Reading in the first year of school

Literacy expert Diane Snowball discusses the importance of developing a rich language and vocabulary foundation in the first year of school. Continue
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Foundation for Learning and Literacy
28/04/2024

Explicit teaching mandate – a pushback now is critical

EduResearch Matters April 29, 2024 by Jill Brown Today, NSW teachers will spend  their professional learning session focused on explicit teaching, also known as explicit instruction.  The NSW Education Department Secretary Murat
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Foundation for Learning and Literacy
10/04/2024

Phonics isn’t working – for children’s reading to improve, they need to learn to love stories

The Conversation April 10, 2024 by Wilem Hollman, Catherine Wallace, Gee Macroy Government data has shown that in 2022-23, 30% of five-year-olds in England were not meeting the expected standard for
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Foundation for Learning and Literacy
15/02/2024

Not teaching phonics is not an option in Australian schools

Beryl Exley February 12, 2024 School of Education & Professional Studies, Griffith University Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University All schools are legislated to follow the Australian Curriculum English, which mandates the
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Foundation for Learning and Literacy
01/11/2023

P. David Pearson talks about various literacy issues, including Reading as a Meaning-Making Process

doctorsam7 blog P. David Pearson talks about various literacy issues, including Reading as a Meaning-Making Process and the educational implications of that view, PART TWO.  An Interview by Dr. Sam Bommarito Click
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