Effective literacy instruction

Sep 25, 20209 min read

Handwriting instruction: What's the evidence?

Everyone teaches handwriting, but like with other aspects of literacy, there is enormous variability in how educators go about it and how...

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Jul 23, 20206 min read

Spelling instruction: What’s the evidence?

Every teacher teaches spelling, but like with word-level reading instruction, what is taught and how it is taught are highly variable...

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Jun 23, 20207 min read

Teaching word-level reading

Two significant papers were published in the last fortnight. They were: Buckingham, J. (2020). Systematic phonics instruction belongs in...

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Jun 11, 20208 min read

How to teach: It is bigger than The Reading Wars

What are The Reading Wars? A quick Google will tell you that most major newspapers have written about The Reading Wars here in Australia...