The state announced a new program that will be delivered as part of mandatory phonics education across Victoria. Phonics is ...

These concluded that reading programs that include systematic, intensive phonics instruction work better than those that do not. By the early 1970s most schools had returned to an essentially ...

The Allan Labor Government is ensuring Victorian students remain the best performers in the country by delivering mandatory phonics in all Victorian ...

There is compelling evidence that phonics instruction, combined with love of reading are essential in ... eye contact and active listening skills alongside language development. Unlike traditional ...

When I became Victoria’s Education Minister 12 months ago, little did I know I’d be stepping into a half century-long policy ...

Scientific evidence has clearly shown, however, that many if not most children will struggle to become fluent readers unless they get systematic instruction in phonics. Now Hanford is back with ...

In response to test scores showing more than half of fourth graders couldn't read well enough to understand a basic text, Marion Joseph is appointed to a state task force charged with improving early ...

Specifically, direct and systematic phonologic awareness and phonics instruction ... Computer programs were helpful aids. The second type of instruction, remediation, was directed at the older ...

Many science of reading movement supporters call for more explicit instruction on foundational reading skills like phonics ...