The Literacy Advance Research Project, a component of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria's broader Literacy Advance reform strategy, was designed as an evaluation of the implementation of the strategy and the approaches to literacy that the strategy encompasses. It began as a two-year longitudinal study (Phase One) that tracked student progress in literacy from the beginning of Year 1 to the end of Year 2. It also investigated the implementation of key elements of the Literacy Advance strategy over the two years. Phase Two of the Research Project began in February 2000. This extension was based on the following three threads: studying the implementation of Literacy Advance in schools; following the progress of the original cohort of students to Year 3 when they participated in the state-wide assessment program called the Achievement Improvement Monitor; and following the progress of a new cohort of students through Year 1. Together these sources of data provide a picture of Literacy Advance, its implementation and its links to student learning. This report focuses on Phase Two of the Literacy Advance Research Project and refers to results from Phase One. [Executive summary, ed]