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Back to SearchS8 E2 - 5 Early Years Practices That Deserve a Comeback: Part 2
Season 8 Episode 3
Dramatic play, screen-free singing and nursery rhymes deserve a place back in the early years classroom. Part two of this series makes that case with…
15 hours ago
S8 E2 - 5 Early Years Practices That Deserve a Comeback: Part 1
Season 8 Episode 2
With a quarter of Australian children starting school developmentally vulnerable or at risk in communication and general knowledge, Jocelyn asks whet…
1 week ago
S8 E1 - What to do After You Get Your Phonics Screening Check Results
Season 8 Episode 1
When your phonics screening check results make your stomach drop, what do you actually do next?
In this return episode of the Structured Literacy Pod…
2 weeks ago
S7 E11 - What Does It Really Take to Make School Improvement Last?
Season 7 Episode 10
This episode is a little different. Australia's national education evidence body, AERO, has just released a guidance report that puts rigorous resea…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
S7 E10 - How to Evaluate Spelling Instruction
Season 7 Episode 10
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5 months, 3 weeks ago
S7 E9 - Why We Should Keep the Early in Early Childhood
Season 7 Episode 9
In this episode, Jocelyn pushes back on all-day, scripted, tightly paced instruction in Foundation to Year 2 while defending responsive, teacher-led …
6 months, 1 week ago
S7 E8 - Why Your Spelling Approach Might Be Working Against You (Part 2)
Season 7 Episode 8
The fastest way to make spelling instruction fail is to assume every student is starting from the same place. They are not and your planning shouldn’…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
S7 E7 - Why Your Spelling Approach Might Be Working Against You (Part 1)
Season 7 Episode 7
Spelling is not a side quest. When it isn’t automatic, it quietly steals the working memory students need for ideas, sentence craft, and clear argume…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
S7 E6 - Practical Steps When Grouping for Phonics
Season 7 Episode 6
We map out a practical path to targeted phonics that lifts every learner. We define instructional precision, show how to gather the right data, and s…
7 months ago
S7 E5 - What Does the Research Actually Say About Grouping Students for Phonics?
Season 7 Episode 5
We challenge the assumption that whole-class phonics with a little extra is the most effective route and explore why targeted Tier 1 grouping often d…
7 months, 1 week ago