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Professor Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Parents of children flagged as “needs additional support” on #NAPLAN don’t need platitudes and rationalisations. They need a clear, evidence-informed action plan with accountability wrapped around it. pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2025/07/napl...

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NAPLAN: Where to from here for students who “need additional support”?

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Professor Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Cogntive Load Theory doesn’t matter. New Snow Report blogpost. pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2025/07/cogn...

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Cognitive load theory doesn't matter

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Professor Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It’s not enough that #NAPLAN data is not worsening over time. It should be improving and we should be closing gaps for equity groups. This open access paper is our response to a 2024 paper by Dr Sally Larsen claiming “nothing to see here”. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major...

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Professor Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

With the proof copy marked up for final edits, our forthcoming magnum opus is a step closer.

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Professor Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

On July 23 we’ll again start our popular La Trobe online Intro to the Science of Language & Reading 4-week short course. This is fully flexible and discounts apply for schools enrolling 10 or more staff (or all staff in the case of very small schools). shortcourses.latrobe.edu.au/the-science-...

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The Science of Language and Reading - An Introduction

This specialised course covers the linguistic basis of early reading as this applies to word decoding and language comprehension.

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Professor Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A big day for the La Trobe SOLAR Lab team yesterday. We conferred an Honorary Doctorate on @ehanford.bsky.social and welcomed @smithre5.bsky.social into the PhD fold. With @tserry2504.bsky.social and Joanna Barbousas 🌻

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Zack Barnes @zbarnes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

“Results suggest that the impact of Reading Recovery on students’ ELA test scores in 3rd/4th grades is statistically sig & negative; students who participated in RR in 1st had 3rd/4th test scores that were about one-half to one full grade level below similar students who did not participate in RR”

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“Long-term impacts of Reading Recovery through 3rd and 4th Grade: a regression discontinuity study” by Henry May, Aly Blakeney, Pragya Shrestha, Mia Mazal and Nicole Kennedy (May ’23) doi.org/10.1080/1934... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A0A...

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Literacy Crisis: How Decades of Teaching Practices Left Children Behind

YouTube video by Atlanta News First

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Professor Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A thoughtful and well argued piece about ability grouping Vs differentiation in reading instruction. playberrylaser.com.au/articles/pla...

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

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Professor Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Are you a teacher interested in the @latrobe Master of Ed, Language & Literacy specialisation? If so, register to attend this online info session & learn about other specialisation streams too. Note we also have a Grad Cert (Language & Literacy) option. event.on24.com/wcc/r/491969...

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Master of Education webinar

Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (Victoria).

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Professor Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is an exciting opportunity for Australian teachers to share their views and experiences on teaching students with an intellectual disability to read. Please share in your networks so @lifeoflottie.bsky.social has a strong response rate on which to base her fundings. 👇👇👇 redcap.link/0992thw7

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Professor Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Calling Victorian schools in rural and regional areas - great opportunity to join us in the La Trobe #SOLARLab #RuralRoadsToReading Project. redcap.link/Rural_Roads_to… To express your interest/find out more, email reading@latrobe.edu.au before May 23.

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