Read about the steps school leaders can take when deciding on investing in literacy instruction training and curriculum materials, as well as what questions a parent can ask their child’s schools on the school’s literacy instruction.

Read our press release in response to the National Party’s “Literacy Guarantee” policy annoncement ahead of the 2023 Election.

Emeritus Professor James Chapman responds to the Reading Recovery ‘And + And’ “refresh”

We are concerned that the rhetoric of the Minister and the behaviour of the Ministry and ITE providers does not align in regard to the elimination of balanced literacy practices and the Minister’s firm adherence to implementing evidence-based practice

This report summarises feedback received in late 2021 from 237 teachers on the quality of teacher training they received at New Zealand universities on literacy instruction. There is a lot of room for improvement!

Read this post about what you can do to stop literacy instruction becoming a political football.

Listen in as Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at Massey University, James Chapman, provides some serious food for thought on the new Common Practice Model and some of the controversial elements of the National Party's education policy.

Our initial reaction to release of Common Practice Model by Ministry of Education.

Read about why we support the teacher strikes.

Read our submission to the Inquiry on ākonga Māori learning support

In this blog post, Professor Emeritus, James Chapman, provides his response to the Report of the Education and Workforce Committee on the Petition of Amanda Drumm: Teach reading in school through explicit and systematic phonics.

We recap over advocacy efforts over the year, including a link to our latest letter to the Associate Minister for Education setting out five key areas that need to be addressed in the Literacy Strategy. We also provide the first iteration of our ‘Report Card’ of the Government’s progress on permanently and efficiently lifting literacy for all.

Find out how structured literacy is an equalizer for students for whom English is not their primary home language.

Looking for free evidence-based resources to use at home or in the classroom? Check out our list.

Marianne Brown is a Tier 2 Reading Intervention teacher at Central Normal School. Five years ago, she made the change to structured literacy and writes about her journey here.

Around $26 million of taxpayer funding is spent on Reading Recovery every year. So is this money well spent or are we still holding onto one of the biggest myths in New Zealand education? James Chapman, Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at Massey University argues for the latter. Find out why in our latest blog.

James Chapman, Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at Massey University gives us a potted history of literacy teaching in NZ over the past 40 years to explain how we have ended up in the situation we find ourselves today, adhering to myth and not evidence.

Read what we said to MPs about reading instruction in NZ and what they can do to help.

Sometimes our agenda and what we are advocating for is mispresented in the media or just not understood. Here, Bronwyn Bayne, sets the record straight.

Hear what Rosemary, a Y8 student, thinks about the switch to structured literacy at Robertson Road School.