Dr Julia Solomon has enjoyed a career in which she has taught toddlers to tertiary students. Her legacy has been her multifaceted model for early childhood education, pictured above in schematic art form, which founded the training of many teachers in Western Australia. Her later work as a practising clinical psychologist led to her interest in the causes of reading failure. The result, set out in this small text, is a rationale for an evidence- based alternative to current methods for teaching reading. On the controversy surrounding opposing instruction ideologies, she concludes: It needs only the realisation that these two approaches are not mutually exclusive but can be differentiated on the basis of the timing in which to instruct in them.(p103).
Dr Solomon's current work is in directing a centre for the application of her theory and in making it accessible to teachers through nationally accredited training.
This text is provided for free to trainees who enrol in the Certificate IV in Literacy Education.