Understanding the evidence
View this Literacy Hub webpage to learn about the evidence and research on how students learn to read. It discusses cognitive load theory, explicit instruction, a whole-school curriculum approach, the Big Six of literacy and using a systematic synthetic phonics approach to instruction.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation, Year 1, Year 2
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Topic
- Reading and viewing, Systematic Synthetic Phonics
- Audience
- Teachers, School leaders
- Format
- Webpage
- Learning area
- English
- General capabilities
- Literacy
- Publisher
Literacy Hub
- Copyright
© Australian Government Department of Education
- Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
- APST 2.1: Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area, APST 6.2: Engage in professional learning and improve practice, APST 6.4: Apply professional learning and improve student learning
- Keywords
- Big Six of Literacy, cognitive load, evidence-based research, explicit instruction
