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La Trobe University SOLAR Lab aims to improve reading teaching in education degrees
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Leah Daley, a primary school teacher and a literacy learning specialist, with Hamish.
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Learning to read isn t as easy as learning to talk, because it is not an innate ability it has to be taught.
At least, that s the battle cry of phonics advocates on one side of the reading wars .
If you turn the debate book over, you ll find other literacy experts who disagree and believe that reading is a natural ability.
But with student literacy levels falling across all states last year, both sides concede that it is time for a rethink on how trainee teachers are being instructed to teach Australian children to read because they are clearly struggling.