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Every year the results of the annual NAPLAN tests are accompanied by a flurry of opinions about teachers and teaching, many of which are uninformed by research. It is reassuring that Sally Larsen’s article draws on research that shows the sky is not falling, there is...
Mackenzie Noella M. 2022 Draw, Talk, Write and Share (DTWS) is a pedagogical approach resulting from research conducted by the author Noella Mackenzie. In this article however, she describes how DTWS can also be used as a powerful observation process, allowing...
Jessica Mantei and Lisa Kervin, ALEA Practically Primary, Vol 24, No2, 2019. In this article, published in ALEA’s Practically Primary, Jessica Mantei and Lisa Kervin explore the many ways teachers can be ‘systematic’ in their assessment and teaching of phonics. They...
Jane Braunger and Jan Patricia Lewis, pages 124-128, 1997. This extract is from a book that provides a research baseline for teachers, policy makers and anyone interested in helping all children learn to read. Although it was published in 1997, and there has...
David Hornsby 2017 This two-page paper informs teachers, principals and parents about some of the issues regarding the Year 1 phonics check. The author’s many years of classroom experience, and his publications, demonstrate that he is “pro-phonics”. However, he...
Misty Adoniou The Conversation; September 2017. This article was as the Australian Coalition Government was canvassing the introduction of a phonics screening assessment for all year 1 children in Australia. Adoniou tests the claims that the then Minister for...
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