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Barnes, Naomi – Australian Educational Researcher, 2022
This paper provides an overview of the Reading Wars as a site of discursive struggle. Using a digital sociological account of online events associated with the 2018 Phonics Debate hosted by the Australian Centre for Educational Research and the think tank the Centre for Independent Studies, this paper works to illuminate and challenge contemporary…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Phonics, Politics of Education, Foreign Countries
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Janet Scull; Damien Lyons – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
This article presents the outcomes of a study conducted in Victoria, Australia, that recognised teachers' knowledge and understanding of phonics teaching, and early literacy acquisition processes more generally. In total, 45 teachers and 220 students from the 18 focus schools who engaged in the reform initiative agreed to participate in this…
Descriptors: Phonics, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Emergent Literacy
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Mantei, Jessica; Kervin, Lisa; Jones, Pauline – Australian Educational Researcher, 2022
Australian early childhood education positions literacy learning as a set of social practices contextualised by one's unique experiences and knowledges. Despite widespread agreement about the need to teach phonics and other code-breaking practices, the ways early childhood educators integrate "constrained" skills are not well understood…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phonics, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
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Bates, Katherine – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2023
Debates about teaching reading have long been a part of educational vernacular, frequently reduced to polarised views about phonics. This attention can unnecessarily divert from the cumulative skills required for learning to read and comprehensive research, which indicates the positive influence of systematic phonics instruction on students'…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Phonics
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McLean, Emina – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Docklands Primary School opened its doors in Melbourne in January 2021. In this case study, Emina McLean, Head of English, describes how Sounds-Write was implemented in Foundation to Year 2 in the middle of the pandemic. Despite four lockdowns forcing periods of online teaching, various standardised tests show 80% of students on average meeting or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Damien Lyons; Janet Scull – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2024
Narrative inquiry has long been respected as a qualitative approach to researching the lived experiences of participants. Used widely in educational research the approach enables insights into the practices, perspectives and preferences of teachers, most often considering a small number of participants within a close circle of influence. In…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Epistemology, Phonics, Reading Instruction
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Walsh, Elias; Deke, John; Robles, Silvia; Streke, Andrei; Thal, Dan – What Works Clearinghouse, 2023
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) released a report that applies two methodological approaches new to the WWC that together aim to improve researchers' understanding of how early literacy interventions may work to improve outcomes for students in grades K-3. First, this report pilots a new taxonomy developed by early literacy experts and…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Meta Analysis, Early Intervention, Literacy
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Thwaite, Anne; Adam, Helen; Urquhart, Yvonne; Hill, Susan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Pre-service teachers (PSTs) need sound Knowledge About Language (KAL), both for their own professional communication and for their teaching practice. In the longer term, enhanced KAL will benefit our graduates in their implementation of the Australian Curriculum. This paper reports on work with First Year PSTs at one Australian university. We…
Descriptors: Phonology, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Literacy
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Nicholas, Maria; Rouse, Elizabeth – Literacy, 2021
Learning to read is a process that begins well before children commence formal schooling and well before children learn to decode print. Children's early reading skills are, first and foremost, foundationally contingent upon children's oral language and phonological awareness proficiencies -- skills that can be mapped across a continuum of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Preschool Children
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Helsloot, Angela – Research-publishing.net, 2022
In this case study, Angela Helsloot, Principal at Allambie Heights Public School, on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, uses data from standardised tests and benchmark reading assessments across the school to show the positive impact that Sounds-Write instruction has had in Kindergarten and Year 1. [For the complete volume, "Systematic Synthetic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Standardized Tests, Benchmarking, Reading Tests
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Beaven, Ana, Ed.; Comas-Quinn, Anna, Ed.; Hinton, Naomi, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Sounds-Write is a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has been successfully used to teach students to read and spell for the last two decades. This volume brings together twelve case studies -- written by practitioners -- of implementation of the Sounds-Write programme in different settings and geographical contexts (Europe, US, Australia).…
Descriptors: Phonics, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Spelling Instruction