Media mention: 15 September 2024
Mentioned in The Canberra Times article ‘Nonsense’ words are helping kids learn to read’, published on 15 September 2024, St Anthony’s Parish Primary School uses InitiaLit as a part of their structured literacy approach in kindergarten to year 2.
Media mention: 14 September 2024
The ABC segment, ‘Inside Australias ‘fee free’ private schools for disadvantaged children’, published on 14 September 2024, Arethusa College is seen using MacqLit to support literacy intervention for disadvantage students.
Media mention: 26 August 2024
In The Australian’s article, ‘States dragging their heels on key step to literacy’, published on 26 August 2024, MultiLit’s Product Development Manager, Alison McMurtrie says explicit and classroom-wide instruction of core reading skills – including phonics – is the best way to teach children to read.
Media mention: 14 August 2024
Upwey South Primary School Principal, Damien Kitch, was recently interviewed by ABC on the school’s excellent NAPLAN results, which he attributes to a move to structured literacy. Upwey South partnered with MultiLit to implement InitiaLit as its initial instruction program for Prep to Year 2 in 2019. Read about Upwey South Primary School’s NAPLAN results here.
Media mention: 14 August 2024
Upwey South Primary School Principal, Damien Kitch, was interviewed on ABC Radio on the school’s excellent NAPLAN results, which he attributes to a move to structured literacy. Upwey South partnered with MultiLit to implement InitiaLit as its initial instruction program for Prep to Year 2 in 2019.
Media Mention: 25 June 2024
Supporting older primary school students struggling to progress in learning to read has long presented a conundrum for educators.
Media mention: 4 June 2024
Dr Mark Carter discusses The Academy for the Science of Instruction and its aim of training teachers in essential skills that universities generally do not cover in initial teacher education courses.
Media Mention: 5 June 2024
Dean of The Academy for the Science of Instruction, Dr Mark Carter and Academic Board Chair, Emeritus Professor Kevin Wheldall AM, discuss the need for evidence-based teaching practices to improve student achievement, in an article published in Education Review.
Media Mention: 12 June 2024
Chloe Allen, an Awabakal and Dunghutti woman who grew up in the Northern Rivers on Bundjalung Country, joined educational organisation MultiLit last year as project lead of the federal government-funded Closing the Gap program, working with Indigenous-majority schools across the country to help improve students’ English literacy outcomes.
Media Mention: 30 April 2024
In a review of series of studies examining the cognitive and academic impact of using ‘brain breaks’ in the primary classroom. Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM and Maddy Goto note, “There is mixed but weak evidence of the effect of active breaks and mindfulness breaks on academic achievement.”
Media Mention: 3 April 2024
Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM comments that “Every state and territory education minister must pledge to provide the keys to literacy to every child before they leave primary school and to do what is necessary to support those students still struggling in secondary school…”.
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.”