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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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  • 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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** A guest post by Debbie Hepplewite** The need to distinguish between consonant letters and vowel letters through teaching about ‘the alphabet’ compared to consonant sounds and vowel sounds through teaching about the ‘alphabetic code’ Teachers need to teach about both ‘the alphabet’ ....
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This is fantastic, important news.Code REaD were lucky to have an impromptu catch up with Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan this week, and are pleased to be able to report that he is still very much FOR the Phonics Check and getting the basics right for each child.
His government has apparently invested 10 million dollars towards the Phonics Check and are encouraging all States and Territories to implement it. ... See MoreSee Less

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