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.
“Good intervention programs can help prevent children from falling off the cliff, however quality classroom instruction is what stops them getting close to that cliff edge in the first place,” she said.
Woolooware Public School Principal, Jason Ezzy, credits his school’s improvement in NAPLAN reading and writing to the explicit approach delivered through MultiLit’s whole-class program, InitiaLit, which the school adopted in 2019.
“Now we’re seeing some great results, and the number of kids requiring intervention has definitely decreased,’’ he said. “Explicit phonics is helping students learn across the board.
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