Building Skilled Readers: Best Practice in Reading Instruction
Presented by Learning Difficulties Australia
This four-session online course, grounded in Scarborough's Reading Rope (2001), equips primary and secondary educators with evidence-based strategies for developing skilled readers. The program addresses both pillars of reading—word recognition and comprehension—through expert-led presentations covering the science of reading foundations, systematic decoding and decodable text instruction, multi-tiered reading intervention in secondary settings, multicomponent literacy interventions for older struggling readers, and the effective use of standardised and formative assessment tools within MTSS and RTI frameworks. Featuring leading researchers and practitioners including Dr Jennifer Buckingham, Lisa Bellman Ansell, Sarah Collins, Stasha Demosthenous, Christine D'Arcy, Melinda de Haan, and Jacinta Conway, the course connects decades of reading science to actionable classroom and intervention practice.
Key Takeaways
Evidence base: Based on Scarborough's Reading Rope (2001) and decades of peer-reviewed reading science research; draws on MTSS and RTI evidence-based frameworks
Presenter
Dr Jennifer Buckingham, Lisa Bellman Ansell, Sarah Collins, Stasha Demosthenous, Christine D'Arcy, Melinda de Haan, Jacinta Conway
Dr Jennifer Buckingham is a leading Australian reading researcher and advocate for evidence-based literacy instruction. Lisa Bellman Ansell and Sarah Collins are specialists in decodable text and systematic phonics instruction. Stasha Demosthenous and Christine D'Arcy lead reading improvement at Parafield Gardens High School using MTSS frameworks. Melinda de Haan specialises in multicomponent literacy interventions for older struggling readers. Jacinta Conway is an expert in reading assessment and progress monitoring.
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