“It’s too soon for us to stop talking about balanced literacy…imagine if our hospitals adopted balanced infection control.” The phenomenal Pamela Snow Science of Teaching & Learning Australia

So many Victorian educators giving up their Saturday to hear about the “oxygen of evidence and accountability” from Pamela Snow Science of Teaching & Learning Australia

The amazing Tanya Anne Serry PhD, reminding us that no-one should be happy with approx 30% of students failing to read proficiently. According to Dr. Kerry Hepenstall, cognitive science suggests we should be aiming for 95% proficiency. readingdoctor.com.au/how-should-we-… Science of Teaching & Learning Australia

If high-impact, evidence-based teaching can be done in the Kimberley, it can be done everywhere. Time on task: paying attention, thinking and practising. Great work, Dr Lorraine Hammond AM

The incredible Dr Lorraine Hammond AM reporting on the significant improvement for ACT students in the Catholic Education system resulting from patrick ellis and his CATALYST team implementing evidence-based teaching!

The Reading Pledge contains a roadmap to get us to the 95% fivefromfive.com.au/reading-pledge… Learning Difficulties Australia

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This will be an incredible conference in Gippsland. Pamela Snow Lyn Stone

Decoding is what must happen for a student to teach themselves a regularly spelled word they haven't seen before. Adults use decoding skills too, but we don't come across words we haven't seen before as often as kids do. Try using your decoding skills to read these difficult

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This is fantastic news for Victorian kids. I recently heard Ben Carroll speak at the brilliant Science of Teaching & Learning Australia event with Emily Hanford, Pamela Snow, Tanya Anne Serry PhD and Dr Lorraine Hammond AM (sotla.com.au/emilyhanford) and he sounded very sincere about implementing evidence-based reading instruction

It takes a village: Changing reading instruction in the Education State. New Snow Report blog post - pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2024/06/it-tak…

What is phonics and why is it used to teach reading? A great piece by Australian Literacy Clinic Director Saskia Kohnen (she/her/hers), Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy Director Rauno Parrila & ARC laureate professor Anne Castles theconversation.com/what-is-phonic… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Victorian schools are about to follow Department for Education SA South Australia's lead in teaching kids to read using phonics...but what exactly is phonics, and why should we use it to teach kids to read? This article by Anne Castles, Saskia Kohnen (she/her/hers) and professor Rauno Parilla provides a very

Recreating the Spelling for Life Lower and Upper Primary resources this week. I love sharing the good works of others. Take a look at this page on alphabet charts and check out Reading Doctor's offerings if you get the chance!

Always something to learn from Pamela Snow as she chats to Brendan Lee about evidence-based reading instruction & why changing teacher practice can be so challenging. learnwithlee.net/kft-pamelasnow/

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Evidence-based teaching, explicit instruction, phonics…turning around decades of poor literacy & numeracy. Not ‘old fashioned’ but a result of applying current findings from the science of learning! Sharing Best Practice⁩ Amazing work ⁦Steven Capp⁩ afr.com/politics/feder…

All schools should take the Reading Pledge, it’s an evidence-based framework for schools to dramatically reduce the number of children who finish primary school unable to read proficiently and support struggling readers in secondary school fivefromfive.com.au/reading-pledge… Learning Difficulties Australia