Three literacy and learning organisations are urging education ministers and heads of public school systems across the country to ensure students finish their primary years with the skills to read. On Thursday Five from Five; AUSPELD, the Australian federation of ...

Reading instruction, perhaps more than any other teaching practice, has always been fiercely contested, with the ‘war’ between phonics and whole language instruction reaching right back to the 1800s. In recent times, however, a lot of evidence-based research has underscored ...