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by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Tue Nov 01, 2022 3:05 pm
Forum: Around the World: News and Events
Topic: USA: Reviews Give Failing Marks to 2 Reading Programs - Fountas & Pinnell's, & Lucy Calkins' + Emily Hanford's reporting
Replies: 7
Views: 34205

Re: USA: Reviews Give Failing Marks to Two Popular Reading Programs - Fountas & Pinnell's, and Lucy Calkins'

Journalist, Emily Hanford, provides podcasts featuring the challenges faced in the USA to achieve research-informed instruction in all schools for all children: Sold a Story https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong There's an idea about how ...
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:47 pm
Forum: Research and Recommended Reading
Topic: Responses to Bowers' claim that SSP is not well-evidenced by Jennifer Buckingham + others
Replies: 5
Views: 45916

Re: Responses to Bowers' claim that SSP is not well-evidenced by Jennifer Buckingham + others

Here is a later response by Greg Ashman: Motivated Reading and other peculiarities A coda to "Structured Word Inquiry fails a key test" https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/motivated-reading-and-other-peculiarities ...Structured Word Inquiry is profoundly weird. Its proponents repeatedly ...
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Sat Oct 08, 2022 11:35 am
Forum: Around the World: News and Events
Topic: Victoria, Aus: 'Liberals $220m phonics focus aims to ‘end guesswork’ in learning to read'
Replies: 1
Views: 19002

Re: Victoria, Aus: 'Liberals $220m phonics focus aims to ‘end guesswork’ in learning to read'

Professor Pamela Snow writes a post via her excellent, research-informed blog, in response to edu-political developments in Victoria: Once more for the people at the back 8 Oct 2022 https://pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2022/10/once-more-for-people-at-back.html It’s been a busy few weeks with respect to d...
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Fri Oct 07, 2022 3:52 pm
Forum: Around the World: News and Events
Topic: Victoria, Aus: 'Liberals $220m phonics focus aims to ‘end guesswork’ in learning to read'
Replies: 1
Views: 19002

Victoria, Aus: 'Liberals $220m phonics focus aims to ‘end guesswork’ in learning to read'

Liberals $220m phonics focus aims to ‘end guesswork’ in learning to read Annika Smethurst and Adam Carey October 4, 2022 https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/liberals-220m-phonics-focus-aims-to-end-guesswork-in-learning-to-read-20221003-p5bmok.html?fbclid=IwAR0CteW0wZF-70SsmE1Yu_AiTCWw0CpZf8...
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:14 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: This is a MUST WATCH video of IFERI committee members giving evidence in Scotland - but relevant internationally
Replies: 34
Views: 456607

Re: This is a MUST WATCH video of IFERI committee members giving evidence in Scotland - but relevant internationally

This article by Dr Sarah McGeown references the status quo in Scotland - and also that the lack of research-informed reading instruction is still an international issue: We have taken systematic synthetic phonics on as a universal way to teach children to decode, all within the big five areas of tea...
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:19 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: This is a MUST WATCH video of IFERI committee members giving evidence in Scotland - but relevant internationally
Replies: 34
Views: 456607

Re: This is a MUST WATCH video of IFERI committee members giving evidence in Scotland - but relevant internationally

https://www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/general/embracing-hard-questions-over-reading-approaches-and-phonics This article in the TES by Henry Hepburn references Anne Glennie's petition. Anne is reaching a wider audience in Scotland - and must be commended for her continued efforts to inform teachers i...
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Tue Sep 13, 2022 1:15 am
Forum: Around the World: News and Events
Topic: USA: 'Tennessee trains thousands of secondary teachers in reading science'
Replies: 0
Views: 43089

USA: 'Tennessee trains thousands of secondary teachers in reading science'

Fantastic news from Tennessee described in this piece by Barbara Davidson via the Thomas Fordham Institute site! I have long since advocated that ALL teachers should be training in the reading science - not just early years and infant teachers! I constantly point out the teaching reading and spellin...
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Mon Sep 05, 2022 12:20 pm
Forum: Around the World: News and Events
Topic: Aus: 'Read the room: It's time to act on our children's literacy'
Replies: 0
Views: 41863

Aus: 'Read the room: It's time to act on our children's literacy'

Melbourne City councillor, Roshena Campbell, writes an opinion piece for The Sydney Morning Herald : Read the room: It's time to act on our children's literacy September 5, 2022 https://www.smh.com.au/education/read-the-room-it-s-time-to-act-on-our-children-s-literacy-20220904-p5bf7w.html As parents...