Bruce Deitrick Price describes some historical background to 'getting meaning from print' and the 'white noise' that this concept brings to the reader: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/is_reading_about_getting_meaning_from_print.html#.VtCaG-_Dl0Q.facebook Is Reading about 'Getting Mea...

Thanks to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute for this piece by Robert Pondiscio: http://edexcellence.net/articles/how-to-fix-reading-in-the-era-of-essa?platform=hootsuite How to fix reading in the era of ESSA In the past two decades, something extraordinary has happened with very little fanfare: The re...

http://techstory.in/phonickids/

One Of The Biggest Learning Of My Entrepreneurial Journey Is That ‘Nothing Is Impossible’ – Shainaz Jussa of Phonickids.com

Now here's a turn-up for the books, David Brown HMI, has just tweeted this comment which is very pertinent to this thread - so why is the EEF ploughing millions of pounds into the area? @Jack_Marwood @HarfordSean In the north east 91% of primary schools are good or outstanding #GoodNewsUpNorth ;-). ...

This is a good article thanks to 'EdSource': http://edsource.org/2015/study-says-reading-aloud-to-children-more-than-talking-builds-literacy/82045 Study says reading aloud to children, more than talking, builds literacy By Susan Frey | July 8, 2015 Massaro said the limited vocabulary in ordinary, in...

Here is an open letter to Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State for Education, about the expected standards for Year 6 in England: One primary teacher's open letter to the government: 'The standards expected are now untenable' Emily Gazzard 24th February 2016 https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking...

With reference to a Twitter conversation about Reading Recovery, Susan Godsland drew attention to Professor Diane McGuinness's comments re a particular RR report. You have to scroll right down to see Diane's comments but, whilst reading them, I thought how relevant they are to the issues I have rais...

Here is the link direct to England's statutory 2015 Year One Phonics Screening Check - provided 'free' for others to use:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... erials.pdf

How would your class do?

Just as an aside - here is notification of the vacancy for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector!

https://publicappointments.cabinetoffic ... es-skills/

There is growing interest in this topic. I received an email yesterday from someone who captured the issue very succinctly thus: "the corporate march forwards with ‘interventions’ in the absence of ensuring that we have quality systematic synthetic phonics mainstream provision," and "...