To ensure a successful InitiaLit implementation, it is recommended that InitiaLit–2 is rolled out after InitiaLit–F and InitiaLit–1 have been embedded in the school.
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East Para Primary School in South Australia has been running InitiaLit — a whole-class literacy instruction program — since 2018 and has seen great results.
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In 2011, MultiLit launched MiniLit, our effective, evidence-based, small group intervention program, designed to support struggling readers in the initial stages of literacy up to Year 2. A decade on, it’s time to release the first major revision of the program, MiniLit Sage.
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Get to know some of the authors and illustrators behind the Wattle Series here.
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Yates Avenue Public School is a small P-6 school of 176 students, located in Western Sydney. Four years ago, the school embarked on a program of improvement based on evidence-based practice.
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For young readers, one of the most effective ways parents and carers can offer additional support at home is by spending as little as 10 minutes each day on supported book reading.
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A parent from one of our science-based literacy intervention programs recently shared this interaction with his son: “A couple of weeks ago my son had a maths test at school, so I asked how he went. ‘Good, I could read the questions’, he replied to me. It melted my heart.”
While most teachers understand the importance of positive reinforcement, research indicates that praise is more often focused on academic performance.
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Australian principals believe classroom management is the number one challenge for new teachers and that only a third of them are well prepared for managing classrooms.
As more states embrace the evidence and success of early phonics instruction this is the time to get your school ahead of the curve.
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Australian early literacy instruction has often focused on disproven theories about how children learn to read, while skills such as decoding, phonemic awareness, phonics and fluency, have been relatively neglected.
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