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 ...

Phonics is a cornerstone skill, both in the context of the Science of Reading as well as across curricula. If students do not have the basic ability to read words on a page, any other instruction a ...

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

Step 3: Word-level decoding practice (4 minutes). This is where students get lots of opportunities to work with the target ...

Phonics doesn’t have to be dull drills—multisensory strategies are transforming early literacy into an active, joyful experience. From tactile letter tracing to movement games, these approaches engage ...

Decoding means to break down new words into sounds that are easier to recognise. The s, a, t, p sounds Help the wizards to make words and captions with s, a, t and p in this fun Stage 1 Phonics guide ...

Of all the debates in education, none are quite as absurd as the reading wars. On the one hand there are those who advocate for a phonics-based approach to reading instruction in the early years – ...

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 ...