In 2026, a key schoolwide literacy focus at Parkhurst State School’s is the teaching of spelling. This focus includes ongoing professional learning for staff and a weekly focus on particular aspects of spelling, including spelling rules and strategies as outlined in the mini posters below.
In Queensland state schools, reading is taught across all learning areas
of the Australian Curriculum using evidence-informed teaching practices.
Research
tells us:
•Our brains are not
pre-wired for learning to read.
•For the majo3rity of
children, reading needs to be explicitly taught in a step-by-step way over a
number of
years.
•All children need to learn the same
reading skills but
the effort required and the time it takes may differ.
Reading is taught through all learning areas and subjects of the Australian Curriculum, using evidence
informed practices. The updated curriculum provides increased clarity for teaching reading and has informed our
Position statement.
Evidence-informed practices are drawn from a vast body of multi-disciplinary research which provides an
understanding of how we learn to read, and the most effective instructional strategies to teach reading.
The Simple View of Reading
The Simple View of Reading is a theoretical framework widely supported for understanding reading.6,8,9,15
It suggests that reading comprehension, or being able to gain meaning from text, is the product of word
reading and language comprehension. The Simple View of Reading emphasises that if either component
(word reading or language comprehension) is underdeveloped, reading comprehension will be impacted