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We already know quite a lot about what works best in reading (and writing) instruction. We have had access to this body of knowledge for...

Last night Professor Pamela Snow and I ran a Bendigo Early Language and Literacy Community of Practice conversation via Zoom. We...

This year I have read and re-read Dr Jess Berentson-Shaw’s book, ‘A Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World’. She is an...

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

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

The Australian Curriculum: English It aims to ensure that students “learn to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on...

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

I had the privilege of speaking on this topic at researchED Melbourne last year. This blogpost is an updated expansion. Schools are as...

I spent the first twenty years of my life fervently Christian, then five to ten years as a furious atheist, and now five to ten years...

As evidenced in my previous blogpost, adolescent literacy skills leave a lot to be desired in Australia. Our Year 9 students perform...

This is a two-part series about adolescent literacy. Appropriately, when we talk about literacy, we tend to focus on the early years in...

When familiar with the Simple View of Reading and the cognitive science regarding effective teaching and learning, teachers and school...

A little about vocabulary Vocabulary tiers Vocabulary can be divided into three tiers. They are: Tier 1 - common in oral language, likely...

Yes but…. Don’t throw away your oral language curriculum just yet. What Timothy Shanahan is saying (according to my interpretation) is...

Over the weekend, Timothy Shanahan threw a cat among the pigeons again: https://shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/why-following-the-simple-view...