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- Sat May 30, 2015 1:39 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Unpicking the factors of 'within child' difficulties and the role of teaching
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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: 58767
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
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- Views: 37595
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
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- Views: 40861
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
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- Views: 40034
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: 58767
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 ...
- Fri May 29, 2015 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Phonics Blog: How children are short-changed by watered-down phonics
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9485
Re: Phonics Blog: How children are short-changed by watered-down phonics
Thanks for flagging up Mike's post, Susan, it's really good as always. I also highly recommend Mike's very readable book, 'Phonics and the Resistance to Reading' - well worth a read! On the same subject of schools cutting down their phonics teaching, this seems an appropriate place to provide a link...
- Thu May 28, 2015 8:32 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2014 Reading Recovery study- can we believe the results?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58767
Re: 2014 Reading Recovery study- can we believe the results?
I think it is relevant to get some parents' responses to this issue of Reading Recovery's continued promotion in schools. In England, some parents are more knowledgeable about Systematic Synthetic Phonics and the differences compared to the multi-cueing reading strategies which underpin the Reading ...
- Tue May 26, 2015 2:39 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Unpicking the factors of 'within child' difficulties and the role of teaching
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13172
Unpicking the factors of 'within child' difficulties and the role of teaching
To what extent are the 'within child' learning difficulties - and the home circumstances of the child - considered to be the main or only factors for a child's learning difficulties and weaknesses by school psychologists and teachers? This is a really key question in the long-standing debate about ...
- Sun May 24, 2015 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2014 Reading Recovery study- can we believe the results?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58767
Re: 2014 Reading Recovery study- can we believe the results?
Here is more information about the 'Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry' which I touch upon in my RRF talk mentioned in the previous email for anyone who is interested:
http://www.phonicsinternational.com/for ... .php?t=586
http://www.phonicsinternational.com/for ... .php?t=586