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MultiLit Moments December 2020
The final edition of MultiLit Moments for 2020 features: Five from Five makes progress in policy New More to Explore resource for Foundation students Meet the Illustrator: Janet Tiitinen Recent advances in reading instruction InitiaLit in Canberra Goulburn Catholic Schools, and MultiLit enters agreement with OpenLearning for PD delivery Download your free copy here.
Leading Australasian school education provider MultiLit to deliver its programs online with OpenLearning
Sydney, Australia, December 11, 2020: Education technology company OpenLearning Limited (‘OpenLearning’ or ‘the Company’) is pleased to announce that it has entered an agreement to provide it’s lifelong learning platform for MultiLit Pty Ltd (‘MultiLit’), a leading provider of effective literacy instruction in Australasia. The platform will underpin MultiLit’s future growth and ongoing engagement with …
New student resources available for InitiaLit
By popular demand, we are introducing new Handwriting Workbooks for InitiaLit–1 (NSW font only). Help your younger students consolidate correct letter formation skills alongside the structured InitiaLit–1 sequence. South Australian educators will be pleased to know that we have also introduced new Handwriting Workbooks for InitiaLit–Foundation (SA font). These Workbooks include all the handwriting worksheets from …
2021 Catalogue now available
MultiLit’s 2021 Catalogue is now available, providing a comprehensive overview of our MultiLit Learn to Read product range and professional development workshops, information on our new Positive Teaching and Learning Initiative, assessment and monitoring tools, and a sneak preview of our new releases for 2021. Download your copy here.
Retraction and apology from the University of Canberra and Dr Rachel Cunneen
MultiLit acknowledges the following retraction and apology, issued by the University of Canberra and Dr Rachel Cunneen, in relation to a presentation made by Dr Cunneen. The apology was published on the University of Canberra website.
New More to Explore resource for Foundation students
Users of our InitiaLit Readers Levels 1-9 (Series 1) with Foundation students will be excited by the release of a More to Explore student workbook to accompany this series. The full-colour, scrapbook-size More to Explore book contains fun activities for reading and writing practice, and to consolidate and extend children’s engagement with the InitiaLit Readers. …
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Retraction and apology from Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA)
MultiLit acknowledges the following retraction and apology, issued by the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) and published on its website, in relation to a presentation made by Dr Rachel Cunneen, University of Canberra. MultiLit thanks ALEA for recognising the defamatory and untrue nature of the statements made by Dr Cunneen. The Directors of MultiLit have …
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InitiaLit Highly Commended in 2020 Educational Publishing Awards
MultiLit’s three-year initial literacy instruction program, InitiaLit–Foundation, InitiaLit-1 and InitiaLit-2, was collectively Highly Commended in the category of Outstanding Primary Teaching Resource at the 2020 Educational Publishing Awards Australia, organised by the Australian Publishers’ Association. The awards, which were established in 1993, recognise excellence and innovation in Australian publishing.
Where is the WARN?
Readers of the Primary Reading Pledge, released recently by Five from Five, AUSPELD and Learning Difficulties Australia, may have seen a new MultiLit assessment tool mentioned – the WARN. The Wheldall Assessment of Reading Nonwords (WARN) is a new test that measures young children’s ability to decode nonwords, comprising three Initial Assessment Lists and ten …