... Twitter link: Stephen Parker @ParkerPhonics Robyn Ewing, Jo Padgham, David Hornsby, and friends have recently created the “Foundation for Learning and Literacy.” At its ...

... body of knowledge. Despite the warnings of academics such as Ewing, David Hornsby – “Absolute bloody silliness” – and Pasi Sahlberg, a third of public primary schools ...

As David Hornsby's comment is quoted in the news article above, here is a link describing worries regarding his 'understanding' of reading instruction:

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David Hornsby quoted in this piece about the Year One phonics check in Australia: Year 1 phonics check: will it help or ...

Professor Pamela Snow writes about the work of Melbourne University and David Hornsby: https://pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2019/04/whole-language-unicorns-at-home-at.html Thursday, ...

The brilliant Alison Clarke of Spelfabet responds to David Hornsby's talk:

The definition of decoding (or “glamping with David Hornsby”)

https://www.spelfabet.com.au/2018/08/th ... -decoding/

This comment has been posted via the 'comment' facility beneath the video: But what about the Australian Curriculum's National Literacy Progression points? They have plenty to say about teaching phonics explicitly as well as the reading of decodable texts, e.g: PKW3 says that the child learns "...

And then, I received this rebuttal of David Hornsby's claims. You can only imagine how long it must have taken to write this rebuttal - such is the ...

... had, they would surely stop being so critical and sarcastic! If only David Hornsby could visit my school and see the absolute joy on the faces of the Prep children actually ...

Very helpfully, attention was drawn to an article written by Sir Jim Rose, author of the world-renowned ' Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading ' in England in 2006: http://www.iferi.org/evidence/ I find it surprising that so many people still fail to understand the simple view of read...