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    Handwriting instruction: What's the evidence?
    Emina McLean
    • Sep 25, 2020
    • 9 min

    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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    Spelling instruction: What’s the evidence?
    Emina McLean
    • Jul 23, 2020
    • 6 min

    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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    Teaching word-level reading
    Emina McLean
    • Jun 23, 2020
    • 7 min

    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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    How to teach: It is bigger than The Reading Wars
    Emina McLean
    • Jun 11, 2020
    • 8 min

    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...
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