Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): A point of order Madam Chair. Can I just ask how long the Minister has got left to speak? CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jenny Salesa): He has just over four minutes left.ERICA STANFORD: Four minutes—OK thank you. I want to go back to the literacy conversation we were having with the Minister around the common practice model. The whole point of the literacy document that was put out earlier this year the Literacy & Communication and Maths Strategy and then the action plan was to put in place a common practice model. The common practice model as it was explained was to make sure that across the board teachers were teaching the common practice. Now the Minister today has continually told us that there won't be a common practice—we will not tell teachers how to teach. In fact we will allow teachers to use whichever model they think is best for their class and their students. If that is the case what is the point in having a common practice model and what is going to be in it? If everything is in the common practice model then why have a common practice model because that's pretty much what we already have which is everything is available to everyone. What was the point in spending all of the money time and resources on these groups to set up what is a common practice model that in reality will mean absolutely nothing?My question to the Minister is: has he backed down? Has he bowed to the sector after what happened on the weekend where the Associate Minister clearly laid out what I thought were some really great insightful comments around the use of structured literacy and made it sound like that was going to be the common practice model. We've been failing children—and it's not a political thing; we've been failing children in reading for decades. We know from international studies we know from the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement data we know from our own internal data that things are going backwards at a great rate of knots and the Literacy & Communication and Maths Strategy when it came out—which didn't say a lot; we were waiting for the Minister to say what it actually meant and finally we got something from her on the weekend which was very much in favour of structured literacy. Now the Minister has told us today that he's going to be providing lots of resources and that's all very well and good—lots of resources for teachers so that they can pick and choose. Great an increase in resources but that's a very different thing than a common practice model. What is a common practice model if it's just a model that includes absolutely everything that a teacher can choose from? How is that going to shift the dial?Chris Penk: How is that common?ERICA STANFORD: You know it's not common at all. Well I suppose it's very common because there's everything. Look I really want the Minister to be really clear: what is a common practice model going to include because at the moment it sounds like we were just about to get there with Jan Tinetti's comments on the weekend and now this feels like a massive U-turn away from what she said away from the evidence and back to Well we'll just let everybody choose whatever they want to do." which is the thing that has been failing us for so many decades because we've ignored the science of reading. So please Minister tell us what the intention is for a common practice model without telling us about resources because that's a separate thing. What is a common practice model and what will be included in it? Will it just be one way? Will it be two ways? Will it be three ways? Will it include the three-cueing system especially—because that's the bone of contention that lots of other countries around the world have gotten rid of because of the evidence that it doesn't work. So please Minister you need to explain to us the difference between a common practice model and your comments around "We will not dictate to teachers how they should teach kids to read." Those two things don't sit together and I just want some clarification on what a common practice model is and what it will include."