The Textbook Collection includes non-fiction books and school-level textbooks.
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School Readers are designed to support early reading development through a Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) approach. SSP explicitly teaches the relationship between letters (graphemes) and their corresponding sounds (phonemes), helping students decode and encode words with confidence.
As a core component of a comprehensive reading program, SSP is complemented by the explicit teaching of oral language, vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehension. Evidence from Victorian schools and leading research organisations, including the Australian Education Research Organisation and the Grattan Institute, consistently shows that explicit teaching is the most effective method for improving literacy outcomes, particularly for students who might be at risk of falling behind.
The Education Curriculum Collection has a range of individual school readers in the Textbook collection on Level 1 North of the Giblin Eunson Library.
The readers can all be located under the call number 428.6 for easy browsing.
You can also search the catalogue using the subject headings:
Sets of readers available in the Kit collections, including InitiaLit Foundation Readers, which are packaged together by level for ease of use.
References
State Government of Victoria. (2025). Victorian teaching and learning information for parents and carers: Excellence in every classroom, in every corner of the state. https://www.vic.gov.au/victorian-teaching-and-learning-information-parents
Cramer, G. (2024). Making best practice common practice in the education state [Media Release]. https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/making-best-practice-common-practice-education-state
Arc. (n.d.). Phonics Plus scope and sequence: A structured progression of grapheme-phoneme correspondences using a systematic synthetic phonics approach. Department of Education. https://arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au/learning/sites/lesson-plans-guidance/1805/Phonics-Plus-scope-and-sequence