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...

I've been informed that a critique of the i3 Scale Up Study, by James Chapman and William Tunmer, to be published in the Journal Reading Psychology, is now available online. See details below: Is Reading Recovery an Effective Intervention for Students with Reading Difficulties? A Critique of the i3 ...

I've now left a further comment on the youtube Ofsted video footage but I've copied it here in case it gets deleted. I've done this because the six people who tried to do something about the 'Literacy: a non-negotiable' videos spent a very long time entailing lots of hard work and effort to raise th...

Here is the paper Elizabeth Nonweiler submitted as part of our collective challenge about the Ofsted videos:

http://www.syntheticphonics.com/EN_Repo ... ilms_4.pdf

Details of concerns about the films on the Ofsted website
with the title, “Literacy: a non-negotiable

Here is an interesting development following my comments re the title of the Ofsted video clip - a 'tweet' this morning from Ofsted states that the title will be changed: See our short video http://ow.ly/ZQXeG about reading in the early years. Apologies: incorrect title of phonics will be changed! W...

John Walker of Sounds-Write has just tweeted these fantastic spelling results:

Have just analysed spelling results for Y2 at St George's PS. Test taken Sept: Av SA 25 mths ahead of CA. No child below CA: 20M 9F, 68%fsm

Please note that fsm means 'free school meals'.

Someone just flagged up to me the most extraordinary footage via youtube entitled 'phonics in the early years' and it beggars belief. Mark Lindfield on phonics in the early years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaD-LK6BMVw&index=11&list=PLLq-zBnUkspPS0T9_ZnPUviGtIRdSfk36 I felt compelled - r...