Explicit Instruction at its best: Here’s Kimberley School’s Coach Nikki demonstrating how to teach Tier2 vocab to children at Bayulu RCS. Our talented coaches demonstrate, design lessons and work shoulder to shoulder with teachers to improve student achievement.

✏️✨The Writing Revolution 2.0 is here! ✨✏️The second edition dives deeper into the Hochman Method—an explicit approach to teaching writing. New outlines, updated activities, and more. Transforming writing instruction across all subjects and grades! Learn more about The Writing

"Build it & they will come: responses to the provision of online science of language & reading professional learning". #OpenAccess. Nearly 1K participants reflect on La Trobe University online short courses. Snow, Tanya Anne Serry PhD, Eamon Charles , Joanna Barbousas tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

My new paper titled “the brain and learning: new attempts to integrate cognitive science into Australian education” for Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition. I’d be interested to hear perspectives - I suspect they could go in both directions! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

Great discussion of how explicit teaching techniques like ‘Cold calling' builds better participation including for kids with language difficulties. From Eamon Charles buff.ly/4bEATL5

Sentence Repetition as a Diagnostic Tool for Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research pubs.asha.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

SYLLABLES A thread 🧵  An exceptionally important study by Devin Kearns offers evidence suggesting syllable-based pedagogies don't work.  ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rr…

If you’re not one of the 150,000 who have read Reid Smith’s paper - bookmark it now!

Great summary of relevant research in the #Catalyst Knowledge Pack by Catholic Education Canberra and Goulburn All the goodies here Catalyst-Knowledge-Pack-1.0.pdf (cg.catholic.edu.au)

A little 'how to' piece on paired fluency reading. Free resources and links inside :) nathanielswain.com/cognitoriumblo…

RURAL ROADS TO READING: Victorian primary school leaders – do you want to be part of a research study exploring instructional approaches to reading in rural and regional VIC schools? See link for details La Trobe University #SchoolofEducation led by Tanya Anne Serry PhD redcap.link/Rural_Roads_to…

Small group tuition is an evidence-based way to help students struggling with literacy and numeracy but only if specific critical conditions for identification, dosage, instructional intensity and design, and progress monitoring are met. This valuable report by Trisha Jha

📣Shape the future of #DevLangDis research in #Australia! People with #DLD and supporters (family, professionals) can rank priorities for Australian DLD research here: tinyurl.com/59wtpvjt This online ranking task will take ~30 minutes. Curtin HREC approved HRE2023-0196

People who are interested in reading instruction tend to eventually find themselves wanting learn more about language more generally and it's study (i.e. linguistics). Here are a few really accessible books that I recommend on this subject. 🪡🧵

Congratulations Annie Unger on a fabulous PhD confirmation 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Vic school leaders – would you like to be part of a research study that brings the science of learning into your school OR to help other schools adopt the approach? Info available here: redcap.link/Momentum_Schoo… DM researchers Melissa Barnes or Tanya Anne Serry PhD to find out more.

NEW EPISODE In this chat, Charlotte Peverett (she/her) 💉💉🦠 💉💉🦠💉 unpacks why we need to have high expectations for all students including diverse learners. She also discusses how structure & routines creates a safe & consistent learning environment. Listen here👇 learnwithlee.net/kft-charlottep…

Word learning by children with developmental language disorder: Identifying gaps in our understanding of spaced retrieval effects dlvr.it/TCjSjS

How to teach reading comprehension: What you NEED TO KNOW! You won't want to miss this episode all about The Reading Comprehension Blueprint. 🔨 🧰 🎧 literacypodcast.com/podcast

The tremendous School of Education at La Trobe University is doing an exciting research project called Momentum: Supporting schools to align practice with the science of learning for Victorian schools. Tanya Anne Serry PhD Melissa Barnes Simone Cutting Fill in the EOI here redcap.latrobe.edu.au/redcap/surveys…