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Reading
What happens when the science of reading fails
Yes! There’s the science of reading but there’s also the art of reading, here’s why we need both. …
What we want to say right now to Sahlberg and Goldfeld
Schools are places for all kinds of success, including academic achievement. In their recent article, “If not now, …
Proactive and preventative: Why this new fix could save reading (and more)
When our research on supporting reading, writing, and mathematics for older – struggling – students was published last week, most of the responses missed the heart of the matter. In Australia, we have always used “categories of disadvantage” to identify students who may need additional support at school and provide funding for that support. Yet …
The last blog for the night – reading, shadow education in China, time poverty among teachers, philanthropy in schools
One of our intermittent blogs during the #AARE2022 conference. If you want to cover a session at the conference, …
We all love a good story (and you can join in)
The role of story for humankind is a given: we live storied lives. Reading rich literature is always …
There are definitely better ways to teach reading
. Recent blog posts and articles in The Age have yet again stirred debates about the reading wars. …
No. There isn’t one perfect way to teach reading
Learning to read is foundational. The importance of literacy in the first years of schooling is not in …
Decodable or predictable: why reading curriculum developers must seize one
Despite the promise to ‘improve clarity’, ‘declutter’, and remove ‘ambiguous’ content, the new draft curriculum has left teachers …
A Brief History of ‘The Reading Wars’
The so-called ‘Reading Wars’ have a long history within reading education. They began as a series of competing …
The terrible truth about reading rates in Australia (and how to fix them)
One in five of all our students fail to achieve minimum levels of reading or maths. That’s shocking. What’s even more shocking is that if you look at the pool of disadvantaged students, that figure skyrockets to one in three, compared to one in ten among advantaged students. But some disadvantaged students beat the odds and …