Teaching reading has always been a subject of debate, a debate that involves a balancing act of multiple factors. Currently, the “reading wars” are best embodied by debates that are centered on the ...

Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...

Here’s the good news: Most educators have gotten the message that K-5 students need to learn the foundational reading skills outlined in the common core and other college and career-ready standards: ...

Marion Joseph died in 2022 and therefore cannot celebrate what at long last is happening in California to improve children’s abysmal levels of reading comprehension. Joseph, a renowned expert on ...

“Despite a long history of policy attention, no consistent improvement has been made in the literacy and numeracy achievement of Indigenous Australian primary school students.” This is the latest ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Every grade 1 student in the state school system next year will have their reading ability tested ...

In 2018, just 43 per cent of Year 1 students met the expected achievement level, rising to 52 per cent in 2019. This year, 63 per cent of state school students demonstrated phonics skills at the ...

Ramping up its commitment to ensure the return of phonics instruction to classrooms, the NSW government has adapted the statewide phonics screening check into an online diagnostic tool that can be ...

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More than half of schools are only partly prepared for the introduction of universal infant free school meals this September, while some four in 10 headteachers have concerns about funding the ...