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Read about why IFERI believes that Book Bands and Levelled Readers Should be Abandoned. Click to download and share.

Read about Dr Jennifer Buckingham’s report Focus on Phonics recommending use of an annual phonics check in Australia.

 

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Blog Posts

  • Examining the evidence on the effectiveness of synthetic phonics teaching: the Ehri et al (2001) and C.Torgerson et al (2006) meta-analyses by Rhona Johnston, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Hull
  • ‘War and Peace in Reading – Time for a Truce?’ by Sir Jim Rose
  • Reading Failure? Not On My Watch! by Jocelyn Seamer
  • A Voice Among the Nations by Jessica Stanley
  • The Optima Reading Programme by Dr Jonathan Solity: Does it Provide Optimal Results? A Paper by Dr Marlynne Grant
  • “The future doesn’t have to be like the past” by Sir Jim Rose
  • Tackling Inequality Through Teaching: A Letter to the Prime Minister by Dr Marlynne Grant
  • When Phonics Falls on Deaf Ears by Diane Philipson
  • The Dyslexia Debate and a Response by Sir Jim Rose
  • Why we use the Phonics Screening Check in Australia
  • Please Help: Get Ghana Reading with Phonics by Phone
  • The Reading Reform Foundation Conference, March 2015 *updated*
  • A New Paper by Professors James W. Chapman and William E. Tunmer on Reading Recovery
  • The Adoption and Spread of Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) in Latin America
  • Marva Collins, A True American Heroine
  • Special exam arrangements for dyslexia veering out of control
  • Reading Between the Lines
  • Dr Marlynne Grant at researchED 2014
  • Samuel Blumenfeld author of Alpha-Phonics: A Primer for Beginning Readers and The Whole Language/OBE Fraud has died.
  • ‘Why Children Fail to Read’ – a new paper by Sir Jim Rose – 1st June 2015
  • Phonics: An International Perspective

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4 months ago

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Micromanaging Matched Reading Books Webinar ... See MoreSee Less

Micromanaging Matched Reading Books Webinar

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In this relaxed one hour online webinar Literacy specialists Abigail Steel and Debbie Hepplewhite explore topical issues around the micromanagement of matchi...

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11 months ago

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Phonics International – An online Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme

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Online Phonics Programme (program) - Phonics International provides a comprehensive range of resources designed for school or home use using research-proven methods to teach reading, writing and spelling. Written by leading synthetic phonics expert, Debbie Hepplewhite.
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11 months ago

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Phonics Poor Practice and Misconceptions - Crowdcast

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Has some poor practice been caused or exacerbated by 'official' materials and guidance? Food for thought for improving phonics teaching - not only for infant provision!
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