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Media Mention: 19 February 2024

With over 35% of students in WA struggling to read, Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM says the results show schools are using approaches “that are inferior to explicit and systematic phonics teaching and leave too many children struggling, or worse, falling through the cracks.”

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Media Mention: 19 February 2024

In WA Today’s article, ‘WA’s reading problem is hiding in plain sight’, Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM writes that more must be done to ensure reforms are supported by robust evidence around what works to enhance learning and boost students’ results.

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Media Mention: 10 February 2024

Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM says too many schools are still using outdated strategies that are inferior to teaching phonics explicitly and systematically, leaving many children struggling.

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Media Mentions: 10 February 2024

Listen to Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM being interviewed for ABC radio World News Today, discussing the need to teach children to read in an explicit and systematic way, following the release of the Grattan Institute report into reading in Australian schools.

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Media Mentions: 10 February 2024

Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM comments on decodable readers and how they set up reading habits in beginning readers of working out what the words are based on their phonics knowledge, The Canberra Times, 10 February 2024.

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Media Mentions: 2 December 2023

Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM quoted in ‘Reading experts’ concern at WA Catholic schools mandating discredited Running Records assessments’ (online), and ‘Year 1 on Read Alert’ published in The West Australian on 2 December 2023.

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Media Mentions: 24 November 2023

Nicole McGrath, Deputy Head of Junior School, St Leonard’s College on Bunurong Country, Brighton East (Vic) writes on the school’s website about the decision to implement InitiaLit and the benefits for both staff and students.

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Media Mentions: 9 November 2023

Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM’s op-ed ‘Literacy inquiry may be the intervention the ACT needs to improve its grade’, was first published in The Canberra Times, 9 November 2023.

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Media Mentions: 23 October 2023

MultiLit’s Professor Kevin Wheldall AM, Dr Robyn Wheldall and Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM have joined respected reading experts as signatories to an open letter to Ministers of Education. The letter outlines why the next National School Reform Agreement (NSRA) must ensure all students learn to read and write proficiently.

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Media Mentions: 13 October 2023

Emeritus Professor Kevin Wheldall AM features in Education HQ, with an edited extract from a speech delivered upon receipt of the 2023 Eminent Researcher Award of the Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties.

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