Yvonne Meyer is on the founding committee of the International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction. Yvonne was involved personally in the 2005 Australian inquiry into research-informed reading instruction. She has responded to Tina's article with an analysis of current obstacles to research...

I feel the need over and again to point out that this battle over reading instruction methods and content has been going on for, literally, decades - in fact, well over half a century. Rudolf Flesch wrote a book in 1955 exposing the need for phonics - at the time his original book was a best seller:...

Researcher Tina Daniel suggests that 'lack of phonics' is the problem of reading instruction - not 'Dud Teachers': Dud teachers? In Victoria, it's the lack of phonics that's the problem [/quote https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/dud-teachers-in-victoria-it-s-the-lack-of-phonics-that-s-the-p...

See Scott Evans' site for a wealth of recommended children's books at-a-glance from Nursery to Year 6:

https://www.thereaderteacher.com

Update: Gordon Askew received a Queen's Birthday Honours MBE award for his literacy services to education in 2017. He has now retired and resigned from the IFERI committee - and, sadly, he has withdrawn his excellent phonics blog. We cannot thank Gordon enough for his decades of commitment and hard ...

Further criticism of the Right to Read report has appeared in the letter section of the Ottawa Citizen : Today's letters: 'Right to read' inquiry recommendations miss the mark https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/todays-letters-right-to-read-inquiry-recommendations-miss-the-mark Here is Dr Linda Siegel...

Here is a statement by Dr Linda Siegel responding to CBC's story covering the criticism of the Right to Read Report by Diane Collier purportedly representing a 'group of literacy professors': Don’t Confuse Me with the Facts: The Truth about the Ontario Human Rights Commission Right to Read Report Th...

Here is the video footage streamed live on 28 Feb 2022 of the:

Right to Read inquiry report release

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_12Z3Lg8F-U

I've cross-referenced this thread with the Research and Recommended Reading forum as it is a very important development:

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I've flagged up this important query via the forum: Around the World News and Events. It is very important and so I'm also adding it to this Research and Recommended Reading forum:

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