Do what is right for Vic children: mandate the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check

Jacqui Tarquinio

By Jacqui Tarquinio
Community contribution / June 29, 2021

I’ve been that teacher who people avoid in the school staffroom because I introduce the provocative word ‘phonics’ in discussions around improving children’s literacy - systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) to be exact.

Speech is an innate process to the human being, and as a proud specialist in this method for learning language ...

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By Jacqui Tarquinio

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Jacqui was born of the whole language approach and knows first-hand what it was like to struggle to read and write as a child. She is a teacher, a mother and the founder of Jolly Phonics in Melbourne.

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