The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child the best chance of success

The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child the best chance of success The Reading Guarantee How to give every child the best chance of success Jordana Hunter, Anika Stobart, and Amy Haywood February 2024 The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child the best chance of success Grattan Institute Support Grattan Institute Report No. [...] Grattan Institute 2024 3 The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child the best chance of success Recommendations Australia’s governments, and Catholic and independent school sector (b) Review existing guidance provided to schools and teachers on leaders, should commit to a 10-year ‘Reading Guarantee’ strategy, to reading instruction, and ensure advice is consistent and aligned to be reviewed eve. [...] Huge differences in the way reading is taught in classrooms All students are taught reading according to the best evidence • How students are taught to read varies significantly across the country, • Students are taught how to read using a structured literacy approach, with many students not being taught according to the best evidence. [...] Grattan Institute 2024 9 The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child the best chance of success 1.1.2 Reading under-performance is a problem for all states and sectors Figure 1.1: One in three Australian students are not proficient readers The proportion of Australian Year 3, 5, 7, and 9 students who are not The Northern Territory and Tasmania perform particularly poorly on proficient in readin. [...] Grattan Institute 2024 12 The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child the best chance of success which depend on reading to learn, and they can fall further behind in those subjects as well.25 Figure 1.4: Indigenous students, and students living in regional and remote areas, face bigger barriers to reading success Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are even more at risk of Proportion of st.