We're getting attention because we're STANDING UP for our prep children!
Our prep children deserve better.
They deserve decodable books to practise their decoding skills.
And, they deserve teachers who are trained in explicit, systematic, sequential teaching of the five key components of literacy (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension).
So, you know the drill...
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Your support is attracting local, national & international attention!
Read compelling testimonials for Decodable Books from -
- International synthetic phonics expert Debbie Hepplewhite
- National education researcher Jennifer Buckingham
- Local Victorian primary school teacher Simone Mitchell-Nolan
Debbie Hepplewhite, MBE FRSA, founding member of International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction (IFERI) -
"Think about this: it is utterly crazy to provide beginners and strugglers with reading books they are expected to read independently when they cannot lift the words off the page without constant struggle. They inevitably resort to word-guessing from clues such as looking at the picture and guessing what words would ‘make sense’ – strategies which research and practice have shown over and again to be potentially damaging to children’s short and long-term reading profiles – and also devastating to their self-esteem. Yet this is precisely what is happening in many schools to this day. Teachers, children, parents and carers need the support of publishers and schools to provide cumulative, decodable reading material when asking children to practise their own reading. This is an educational, political and moral issue and needs addressing urgently."
Jennifer Buckingham, director FIVE from FIVE reading project -
"Decodable books that have been carefully chosen to complement a phonics teaching sequence are an important part of an effective early reading program because they give new readers the opportunity to become fluent readers using their developing phonics knowledge."
Simone Mitchell-Nolan, BBSc (Psych), Grad DipEd (Primary), MSL literacy therapist -
"I have first-hand experience of witnessing the damaging consequences of my child not having access to decodable books at school. His self-esteem plummeted when day after day he struggled through non-decodable books and soon became a reluctant reader. It broke my heart to see a child who absolutely loved listening to books being read to him, to see him in tears trying to read a non-decodable reader from school. I decided to buy decodable books for him to read. He had much greater success in reading these books because he could use his decoding skills. He soon started to enjoy reading and his self-esteem dramatically improved."
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