Prep to grade two students will learn to read using the back-to-basics phonics approach from 2025 where they will learn to 'decode' the sounds that different letters make.

Education Minister Ben Carroll announced that from next year every student in prep to grade 2 will be taught to read through a systematic synthetic phonics approach. Phonics explicitly teaches the ...

How best to teach kids to read is a worldwide conversation – underscored recently in Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, by award-winning American Public Media investigative ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. At Wheelers Hill Primary School, the science on phonics was settled years before last month’s announcement that all Victorian public ...

Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek will on Thursday announce that from this term, the state’s 45,000 Year 1 students will undertake mandatory phonics testing — a five to seven-minute test ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Teachers are threatening to rip up their memberships of the powerful education union after it opposed the Victorian government’s ...