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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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7 months ago

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An important paper by Emeritus Professor Rhona Johnston which examines the effectiveness of synthetic phonics compared to analytic phonics. Please read and share widely. ... See MoreSee Less

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 |

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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 Leave a reply Examining the evidence on the effectiveness of synthetic phonics teaching:...
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1 years ago

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Wishing our friends and followers a wonderful 2018. We are delighted and honoured to start the year with an excellent new article by IFERI member, Sir Jim Rose. Please read and share widely as we continue to raise awareness of research-informed reading instruction wherever English is being taught... ... See MoreSee Less

‘War and Peace in Reading – Time for a Truce?’ by Sir Jim Rose |

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‘War and Peace in Reading – Time for a Truce?’ by Sir Jim Rose Leave a reply Some children we teach imprint indelible memories. One such was Raymond. He was a ‘blitz of a boy’ fashioned in the mould of Charles Causley’s, ‘Timothy Winters’. For him, school was not always a pretty sigh...
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1 years ago

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This is a MUST WATCH video for wherever English is taught for reading and writing. Please circulate.Footage from the Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee as they hear evidence on petition PE01668 Improving literacy standards in schools through r... ... See MoreSee Less

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