Five from Five blog

The Year 1 Phonics Screening Check was introduced in all English primary schools in 2012. Since then, there have been substantial improvements in Year 1

The latest report from Julie Sonneman and Peter Goss at the Grattan Institute was published on Monday. The Grattan report didn’t get a lot of

At the start of last year, 17,000 ­­12- and 13-year-olds walked into high school classrooms all across the country unable to read even at a

The ‘Flexible Learning for Remote Primary Schools’ (FLRPS) program was funded by the Australian Government in 2014 for the implementation of Direct Instruction (DI) and

Jeffrey Bowers has been arguing for some time that systematic phonics instruction does not have a strong evidence base in its favour, via seminar and

The earth has revolved around the sun three times since the last set of results from the OECD’s international student assessments known as PISA –

NAPLAN has been in the political cross-hairs since it was introduced in 2008. It becomes big news at least four times year – when the

Adult, skilled readers often underestimate the complexity of learning to read. A few children seem to acquire reading spontaneously and with apparent ease, but most