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20.01.2022 Celebrating Five from Five’s birthday with Five years of publications on the Scienentific Evidence for Effective Teaching of Reading, teacher education, phonics, the Phonics Check, Reading Recovery and more https://fivefromfive.com.au/publications/

19.01.2022 Worth reading. Many schools continue to use outdated teaching methods and programs that leave too many children failing to learn to read.

18.01.2022 The sooner we implement intervention programs for struggling readers, the better the long-term outcome. This post highlights some of the signs to look for in preschoolers. https://www.edutopia.org//recognizing-signs-potential-lear

12.01.2022 Over the holidays we talked to some of our awesome young people about their dyslexia journeys, the upsides and challenges, and what helps them to thrive and succeed. Their bravery to raise awareness and improve educational and life outcomes for ALL children who struggle to learn to read, write and spell is inspiring. Please share far & wide! #DyslexiaAwareness #GoRedforDyslexia #GoRedMNC #UntilEveryoneCanRead #BeTheChange #ownit #PrimaryReadingPledge Special thanks to The Westport Club for their generous support

11.01.2022 The Speech Sounds of English and How they are Made - A Practical Guide. There are 44 (or thereabouts) sounds of spoken English. What are they? How are they made? What are consonants? vowels? diphthongs? What are voice / voiceless pairs? These questions and more will be answered. This event presented by speech pathologist Carol Baker will last from somewhere between 60 - 90 minutes. It will be a practical exploration of the speech sounds of English. It is intended for pare...nts, teachers, ESL speakers, and anyone else curious about speech. There will be time for questions and answers. If you want to help children who are having difficulty pronouncing words help children read with phonics, speak more clearly yourself reduce your accent, study phonetics or if you are just curious about how we form speech sounds, then this might be of interest to you Date: Thursday 18th March 2021 Time: 6pm until about 7 or 7.30pm Venue: Rotary Community Hall, Port Macquarie Cost: $27.46 ($25 + Eventbrite fee)

05.01.2022 Teachers will be our greatest weapon in the literacy battle Thank you Nessy and @dyslexiavictoriasupport for the shout out xx #untileveryonecanread #dyslexia #teachers #educators #ourbestdefence #scienceofreading #SoR #literacy #literacymatters

05.01.2022 " ... by deliberately directing children’s attention to the sound structure of language, we can optimize patterns of activity in those regions. That means that they start to integrate the sounds in spoken words with the letter patterns they seeand they rewire their brains to keep working that way." Powerful! This instruction is best practice for all children but is crucial for struggling readers and children with dyslexia. Does your school employ explicit systematic phonics instruction in the classroom? And what intervention program are they using to close the gaps?