Read3 Literacy

18/10/2025

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. At Read3 we are dedicated to supporting children with serious literacy challenges. Our vision when we first started creating the Read3 program was to find a way to help families, educators and speech pathologists better support our most at risk readers. We believe 'success' is measured not only in literacy skills, but also in a growing sense of confidence and self worth in our kids.

If the results from our latest usage survey is anything to go by, we are definitely on the right track - in the last six months we have directly supported almost 6000 children and literacy skills and confidence are both on the rise! 🎉

To all our supporters, thank you. 🙏 Thanks for choosing Read3 and thanks for helping us be part of the solution - improving outcomes for those with, or at-risk of, dyslexia.

Read3 Literacy is dedicated to improving literacy, self esteem and life opportunities for children with serious reading challenges, including dyslexia. In an effort to ensure adequate time is dedicated to building much-needed foundational literacy skills, our approach involves a 'shared' responsibil...

22/07/2025

At Read3 was a passionate about intensive, targeted support for our most vulnerable. We're excited to be sharing our passion with with curriculum leaders, wellbeing and pastoral care professionals, and learning support teachers and leaders from ISQ schools.
The focus of the day is Multi-Tiered Systems of Support with an emphasis on the need for differentiated teaching and learning opportunities. We're hoping to provide a little sneak peak of our new 'CHIPS Insight' tool which identifies appropriate tiers of literacy intervention at the click of a button. 😊 Should be fun!

19/06/2025

Jamie Olivier‘s new documentary on dyslexia - although not accessible in Oz- is certainly generating attention. ❤️.

In this little snippet about his experience as a person with dyslexia, it’s great to see a couple of really key messages being shared.

👉 the social/emotional pain of kids who are falling through the cracks
👉 the pain in parents who watching it happening!

As he says:

“There a lot of people out there who struggled at school, and whose self-esteem and self worth evaporated at a very young age - under 10 I’d say.”

Oh we hear you Jamie!

And that’s why we do what we do. 😊

“I thought it was just me but there’s hundreds of thousands of us.”Chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver reflects on his education as someone with dyslexia, and t...

17/06/2025

We were saddened to hear that the government is continuing with the six year price freeze on NDIS fees for Speech Pathology services... Then to hear that travel fees are being halved just worsens the blow. 😢 Decisions such as these mean the capacity to effectively service our most most vulnerable kids, often in their own homes, may be compromised.

To all the Speechies out there, we hope this announcement doesn't make you feel less valued by the children, families, teachers and communities you support. We are fully aware of the difference you make to the lives of millions of people every year and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. 🥰

To all our followers, we encourage everyone to sign and share this petition and help send a strong message to the Federal Government that decisions that affect our Speechies and compromise our loved ones development are not ok.

5 YEARS, 11 MONTHS, 9 DAYS: A letter from your local Speech Pathologist

04/05/2025

The latest podcast from Jocelyn Seamer Education is a great listen. Within the framework of cognitive load theory Jocelyn challenges the notion that a blanket whole class phonics lesson is indeed the best approach. For those of us working with struggling readers, who may be years behind their peers, this message certainly rings true, but it is equally true for children who are ahead of the pack. Exposure and active engagement are not the same thing! I'll leave it to Jocelyn to share her ideas for a more equitable approach.

Subscribe to the Podcast Hi there, welcome to this episode of the Structured Literacy Podcast. It's Jocelyn here, coming to you from Tasmania, t...

14/02/2025

📮Days like today truly highlight our incredible reach! Cards kits being posted to Armidale (NSW), Ulverstone (TAS), Longreach (QLD) and remote Western Australia (via Alice Springs)!!

23/01/2025

With the start of the school year just around the corner, it's time to start thinking about early literacy screening! Updates to our free CHIP Screener have just been released - see https://read3.com.au/blogs/read3/chips-updates-2025-01 for details.

CHIPS stands for Check How I Process Screener. This FREE evidence-informed screener is designed to assist with early detection of literacy challenges, including risk for developmental dyslexia.

It examines for key processing skills:
🌟 phonological awareness
🌟 letter-sound knowledge
🌟 phonological working memory
🌟 rapid automatised naming

Phonics skills are also reviewed to gauge what impact processing skills are having on reading and spelling development.

If you've ordered CHIPS in the past you should have received a personal email that includes your new download link.

If not, you can learn more about CHIPS, and order a copy here: https://read3.com.au/pages/free-literacy-screener-chips.

Happy screening everyone!

09/12/2024

Following the overwhelming response to our recent 'TOD-Talk' seminar here's Helen's top 5 reasons why the Tests of Dyslexia is fast becoming her preferred tool for dyslexia diagnosis.
https://read3.com.au/blogs/read3/tests-of-dyslexia-tod-review
If you're interested in the TOD, but wanting a little more insight from an Australian perspective, check it out!

Helen shares her top five reasons why the TOD is quickly becoming her go-to tool for dyslexia diagnosis.

22/10/2024

Our Journal Club for Speech Pathologists unpacked a 2022 Meta-analysis on RAN Screening, and what better time to reshare than during Dyslexia Awareness month!

We've pulled together some of the highlights here, but if you're after more detail, check out our blog post on the topic. https://read3.com.au/blogs/read3/research-early-ran-screening

Journal Article: Sean McWeeny, Soujin Choi, June Choe, Alexander LaTourrette, Megan Y. Roberts, Elizabeth S. Norton (2022) Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) as a Kindergarten Predictor of Future Reading in English: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Reading Research Quarterly, 57(4) pp. 1187–1211 | doi:10.1002/rrq.467