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- Tue Jun 02, 2015 1:12 pm
- Forum: Around the World: News and Events
- Topic: Sad news: Sam Blumenfeld dies
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14926
Sad news: Sam Blumenfeld dies
Sam Blumenfeld has made a huge contribution to the reading debate and to education particularly in America. http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/crimes-of-the-educators-author-dies/ IN MEMORIUM 'CRIMES OF THE EDUCATORS' AUTHOR DIES 'Lonely voice in the wilderness' on topic of trouble in public schools Blumenf...
- Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:34 pm
- Forum: Around the World: News and Events
- Topic: Aus: Chris Pyne commits to improving teacher-training
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8612
Re: Aus:Chris Pyne commits to improving teacher-training
You can read more about teacher-training in different parts of the world on this thread:
http://www.phonicsinternational.com/for ... .php?t=782
http://www.phonicsinternational.com/for ... .php?t=782
- Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:31 pm
- Forum: Around the World: News and Events
- Topic: Aus: Chris Pyne commits to improving teacher-training
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8612
Aus: Chris Pyne commits to improving teacher-training
Chris Pyne is known to be very pro-phonics, so hopefully this news bodes well for Australian teacher-training: https://ministers.education.gov.au/pyne/new-aitsl-board-appointed The Hon Christopher Pyne MP Minister for Education and Training Leader of the House The Minister for Education and Training...
- Sun May 31, 2015 8:18 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Unpicking the factors of 'within child' difficulties and the role of teaching
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13217
Re: Unpicking the factors of 'within child' difficulties and the role of teaching
One of my sisters was asking me about 'twin studies' recently and coincidentally, within a day or two, someone flagged up Dorothy Bishop's paper to me in which the abstract states: Abstract Developmental dyslexia runs in families, and twin studies have confirmed that there is a substantial genetic c...
- Sat May 30, 2015 1:39 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Unpicking the factors of 'within child' difficulties and the role of teaching
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13217
Re: Unpicking the factors of 'within child' difficulties and the role of teaching
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- Sat May 30, 2015 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2014 Reading Recovery study- can we believe the results?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58905
Re: 2014 Reading Recovery study- can we believe the results?
Greg Ashman writes another good post to which I've added my comments about the context of the Education Endowment Foundation in England: 'The truth about teaching methods' https://gregashman.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/the-truth-about-teaching-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Please note that Greg i...
- Sat May 30, 2015 11:35 am
- Forum: Helpful Documents & Practical Resources for Busy Teachers & Parents
- Topic: Reflecting on the Teaching and Learning Cycle
- Replies: 0
- Views: 38254
Reflecting on the Teaching and Learning Cycle
There is so much 'alphabetic code' to introduce to learners, that basic skills lessons are inevitably requiring, in the main, repetitive routines as each part of the alphabetic code is introduced (the letter/s-sound correspondences), then applied to the phonics skills for reading, spelling and handw...
- Sat May 30, 2015 11:21 am
- Forum: Helpful Documents & Practical Resources for Busy Teachers & Parents
- Topic: The three core phonics skills and their sub-skills
- Replies: 0
- Views: 41499
The three core phonics skills and their sub-skills
As a teacher-trainer in literacy basic skills, I am always trying to design diagrams which might make it easier and more memorable to assimilate information - particularly when that information involves many component parts. I have always included 'handwriting' in my description of phonics skills as...
- Sat May 30, 2015 11:09 am
- Forum: Helpful Documents & Practical Resources for Busy Teachers & Parents
- Topic: Simple View of Reading and Writing pdf
- Replies: 0
- Views: 40658
Simple View of Reading and Writing pdf
In response to a parliamentary inquiry in England in 2005, Sir Jim Rose was commissioned to conduct an independent national review of teaching reading in the UK. In his final report, Rose recommended a model of understanding the two main processes of 'being a reader' in the full sense called the 'Si...
- Sat May 30, 2015 10:43 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2014 Reading Recovery study- can we believe the results?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58905
Re: 2014 Reading Recovery study- can we believe the results?
When it comes to the intervention programme, Reading Recovery, I often use the words 'entrenched, establishment programme' and I speculate whether it is SO entrenched that, as a world, we shall never be able to stop its use and proliferation, despite the review of its research, and despite its cost ...