Primary schools dump âpredictableâ picture books as reading tools
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Clayton South Primary principal Greg Clement wasnât happy with the books his school used to teach children to read.
Filled with predictable and repetitive text, the books had matching pictures that the children could use to guess many of the words.
Clayton South Primary students Jay Rose Garcia and Sienna Thea are learning to read using systematic synthetic phonics.
Credit:Joe Armao
Though they were standard in most Victorian primary schools, Mr Clement feared the books were papering over many studentsâ literacy struggles, especially those from a non-English-speaking background.