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