This is a very important book for anyone in the field of reading instruction. Here are some tantalising excerpts from 'Reading in the Brain' by Stanislas Dehaene: http://www.penguin.com/ajax/books/excerpt/9781101152409 My purpose in this book is to share my knowledge of recent and little-known advan...

I have a great deal of empathy with this piece in the TES by Doug Lemov: Too often, the way we teach reading in schools is wrong Doug Lemov 30th March 2016 The author of Teach Like a Champion explains why he believes teachers need to reconsider the way they approach reading https://www.tes.com/us/ne...

Some snippets from the J.E.Stone's paper: Misdirected Teacher Training describes a doctrine taught to virtually all preK-3 teachers that has undermined the teaching of basic reading and math skills over the past three decades. Called “developmentally appropriate practice,” its effect has been to pre...

Thanks to Dr Kerry Hempenstall for flagging up this hugely important paper and issue via the DDOLL network. He commented, “John Lloyd’s blog Teach Effectively recently noted that John Stone has written a report for the Education Consumers Foundation Misdirected teacher training has crippled educatio...

This training for teachers in Ghana in the Systematic Synthetic Phonics teaching principles is great news - and an offshoot of Sheena Campbell's work in training hundreds of teaching in the SSP teaching principles in Ghana as part of the 'Phonics By Phone' project. http://gbcghana.com/1.8848456 E/R:...

Evaluating the four-year scale-up of Reading Recovery Robert Pondiscio March 23, 2016 http://edexcellence.net/articles/evaluating-the-four-year-scale-up-of-reading-recovery ...Big study, big results. However it’s worth noting that the study’s control group received no consistent, validated interven...

Michael Tidd provides videos for parents about the Key Stage One and Key Stage Two national tests in England (plus other free, useful resources for teachers and for any parents interested in aspects of the primary curriculum:

https://michaelt1979.wordpress.com/freeresources/

I'm linking this thread to events in Australia where Professor Kevin Wheldall has written an open letter to Education Minister Adrian Piccoli about the continued official use of Reading Recovery in New South Wales: http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=532 It is looking like the q...

This is a thread started in May 2015 featuring the questions raised about the efficacy of Reading Recovery and its continued promotion and funding by various educational and political establishments across the world:

http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22

In 2015, IFERI featured a new paper by Professor James Chapman and Professor William Tunmer reviewing the effectiveness of Reading Recovery. See here: http://www.iferi.org/a-new-paper-by-professors-james-w-chapman-and-william-e-tunmer-on-reading-recovery/ The Literacy Performance of ex-Reading Recov...