Seminar 2 – Deep Dive into Systematic Synthetic Phonics

Five from Five presents Seminar 2 in its Professional Learning Seminar Series: a deep dive into systematic synthetic phonics (SSP), delivered by Maddy Goto as a 90-minute online session for teachers and school-based professionals. Five from Five, launched in 2016 by Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM and now part of The Academy for the Science of Instruction, has become one of Australia's most trusted resources for evidence-based literacy education, with over 300,000 active users accessing its resources annually. This seminar provides participants with a thorough understanding of the alphabetic code and evidence-based instruction in automatic word reading. Systematic synthetic phonics is increasingly recognised as the gold standard approach to teaching reading in the early years, supported by decades of research including the National Reading Panel, the Rose Review, and Australia's own National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy. Participants gain practical insight into how SSP works in the classroom, how to select and evaluate phonics programs, and how to ensure instruction is truly systematic and explicit. This seminar is ideal for classroom teachers, literacy leaders, and school leaders seeking to strengthen their school's approach to foundational reading instruction.