Read Australia- Teaching Children to Read & Spell Using Phonics- Phoneme Awareness

The new Read Australia head office is located in Hope Island, on the Gold Coast, SE Queensland - and managed by The Child Listener. A range of workshops and training courses are offered to children from the age of 12 months- developing phoneme awareness, and verbal intelligence. Children need to be reading and spelling as early as possible- attend our parent and teacher courses to find out how to do this as easily as possible- following the recommendations outlined within the AU Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy. It is time to stop failing so many children- and Read Australia encourages parents to become more actively involved within schools, through knowledge of how children learn to read - and why so many fail. Ask about our 'Parents Aobard' Program.

"Reading wars" has been part of the debate over reading research for the past 25 years. The unpleasantness of the conflicts among reading researchers has been moderated, if not eliminated, by the realization that all the participants are primarily interested in ensuring the well-being of young children and in promoting optimal literacy instruction. We, too, acknowledge that for the most part teachers and parents want children to succeed- however wanting it, and making it happen are not the same thing. While our approach may seem to focus on the plight of some (too many!) children who fail within schools, please be assured that we are also very aware of inspirational teaching, and that most teachers want to learn how to help all children. Our mission is to bridge the gap between what we all seem to want, and what is actually happening.
The Child Listener™ is dedicated to making sure that children who are likely to fail, are not taught by teachers without the knowledge to recognise, and meet, their individual needs. At the Early Reading Centre™ our aim is to help parents and teachers identify children who are likely to have difficulties, offer these children quality experiences as early as possible, educate their parents/ carers , and ensure that the teaching within their school meets their learning needs. There is no excuse for failing our children- and research shows that this is still happening far too frequently, even despite the Inquiry into the teaching of Literacy 2005. If you are a teacher viewing our site, please do not feel we are attacking the teaching profession- far from it- we feel that teachers are underpaid, over-worked, and expected to perform miracles. Within secondary education no one teacher would be expected to cover the whle curriculum- and yet primary teachers are? How can one person be a specialist in everything, and meet all individual needs within these crucial first few years of a child's educational life? The issue of poor literacy rates is,in our opinion, far wider. Until resolved however our focus is on the children of Australia, and we hope you will join us in our mission, and work with us to make the changes needed. Thank you.