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Students at Victorian state schools will all be taught reading using phonics from 2025
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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6/14/2024
All Victorian state schools will embrace phonics from next year as the government tries to improve reading levels in prep to year 2 students across the state.
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It's a new approach to learning to read, and it's a real page turner.
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We're going to do our phonics now.
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Yeah!
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From next year, all state schools will be expected to teach a system called synthetic phonics
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to help students simplify and decode words.
00:19
And it's already proving popular at some schools.
00:23
We do see that growth of our students really quickly.
00:25
Say lamb.
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Lamb.
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Without L, what's left?
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L.
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Phonics will be taught from prep through to grade 2 for at least 25 minutes per day
00:36
and aims to prevent vulnerable children falling behind.
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Say cat.
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Cat.
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A strong focus of the system is on sounds and letters,
00:46
where words are broken down to their individual components
00:50
rather than learning through immersion.
00:52
When schools move away from that to a more structured, explicit approach,
00:56
then we see a significant uplift in children's reading and spelling performance
01:02
and also, in many cases, in student wellbeing.
01:05
There is only one clear approach, and that is to put phonics at the heart of your reading program.
01:12
It comes after more than a quarter of Victoria's students
01:16
failed to hit new NAPLAN proficiency standards for literacy last year.
01:20
It is simply unacceptable that it has taken a decade for the Labor government
01:25
to introduce phonics, evidence-based learning and explicit instructions in our classrooms.
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Some principals are worried the explicit model could hurt students' love of literature.
01:36
The emotions are there.
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People have some very, very strong belief around what they are doing is working,
01:42
but this is trying to get a greater balance.
01:44
Parents over time are going to see that there's going to be less need
01:47
for them to be paying for expensive intervention and tutoring services.
01:54
Teachers are hoping the change will spell out a brighter reading future.
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