Victorian schools are still being left to decide their own literacy teaching strategy, while NSW, South Australia and Queensland are moving ahead with phonics.
The reading standards of Victorian students could noticeably decline unless the state government adopts a consistent teaching approach to the key learning skill, experts have warned.
The Victorian government said schools were doing an “outstanding job” at teaching students literacy, as evidenced by the highest year 3 students reading scores in the country in this year’s NAPLAN assessments. “Because we’ve devolved autonomy down to individual schools, we’re tolerating high levels of variability,” she said. “We don’t tolerate high levels of variability in health.
“In our experience, when we were teaching whole language/balanced literacy with fidelity our results were poor and we had high levels of students with dysregulated behaviour,” she said. “Our shift to aligning our practice with science of reading research is what improved our academic results and student engagement.”
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