This article appeared in the first hard copy edition of the very popular researchED movement's 'newsletter' - and now it is published online:
https://researched.org.uk/the-fight-for ... s-reading/
Dr Jennifer Buckingham is an outstanding pioneer for evidence-informed reading instruction - a prolific writer and campaigner. Australia is lucky to have her fighting the corner for teachers and children.The fight for phonics in early years reading
One of the most important things a child will do at school is learn to read, but there are few battlefields in educational discourse as contested as how to best teach it. Here, Jennifer Buckingham outlines the evidence base for systematic synthetic phonics as the most reliable method we have – and also why so many find it hard to accept.
Jennifer is a member of IFERI's Advisory Group:
http://www.iferi.org/advisory-group/